NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD

Across

1 Take ____ on the

wild side

6 Cartoonist Silverstein 10 Before you can say

Jack Robinson 18 Academy Awardwinning Marisa 19 Hip-hop’s ____ Kweli 21 Crisis connections 22 Boo-boos

23 Brings up 25 “Batman” actress,

1967-68

26 A-list topper 28 Nine-time Pro

Bowler John 30 Curriculum ____ 31 “Traffic” actor, 2000 32 Winter Olympics

event 34 ____-de-France

35 Sat ____

(GPS, to a Brit) 36 “Super Mario Bros.”

actor, 1993 40 Comic-book

onomatopoeia 43 Irish form of Mary 46 Figure on a

foam finger

47 ____ contendere 48 School that lent its

name to a collar 50 Like many

laundromats

52 Seat of Penobscot

County

54 “Bride of Frankenstein” actress, 1935 56 Traditional Filipino dish marinated in vinegar and soy sauce

59 Turn up

60 Bring into harmony 63 Yves’s evening

64 Like many write-in

candidates: Abbr. 65 “Training Day”

actor, 2001

71 Old C.I.A. foe 72 Where people get off 74 Growing art form? 75 “A ____ From

St. Nicholas” 77 Roadside establishment much seen in the Southwest 80 “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” actress, 2000 85 Connive 86 Shaman, e.g. 87 When tripled, a “Seinfeld” catchphrase 88 Eastern European capital

89 Simple top

91 Cell exchanges 93 Deteriorate 94 “Crash” actor, 2004 97 Scottish form of John 99 Operate

101 Deliverance person 102 “Frost/Nixon”

actor, 2008

106 Kidney-related 109 Dame modifier

110 Bear claws and such 112 What eight actors took on for this puzzle?

115 Written deeply

117 “Mea ____”

118 Daughter of Oedipus 119 Kama ____

120 Hermione’s Patronus, in the Harry Potter books

121 Lure in Vegas

122 Leader wearing the

Great Imperial Crown 123 10 cc’s and others

Down

1 Thing whose size is measured in picometers 2 Floored

3 Pal 4 Country singer Womack 5 What might show participants going neck and neck? 6 Cop

7 Le ____ (French port) 8 “Mr. Blue Sky” band, for short 9 This way 10 “Gotcha”

11 Word implied on Opposite Day 12 Ultimate degree 13 Name of five Norwegian kings 14 Word with torch or bar 15 Ab ____

(from the beginning) 16 Genre for

Black Sabbath 17 Lauder of cosmetics

20 Hotel attendant 24 Proust protagonist 27 L.G.B.T. magazine since 1967

29 State as fact 33 Mosque tower 36 Primatologist Goodall

37 Crash, with “out” 38 Pond growth 39 Emotional states 40 N, seen from the side 41 Where I-20, I-65 and I-85 all meet 42 Some advanced researchers, for short 44 Particle named by Faraday

45 Most caloric 49 Catch 51 Face-to-face challenges

52 Pot holder

53 1947, for

Jackie Robinson 55 Stripling 56 Depress 57 Ruckus 58 Sphere

61 J.F.K.’s former ____ Terminal

62 “Je ____” (French words of affection) 64 Suffix with novel or Nobel 66 Standout hoopsters 67 City planners’ designation 68 Undoing 69 Leaves a lot on the table? 70 Nothing 73 Chocolate-coated snack stick

76 Like some winks 78 Branch of Islam 79 Any of the Ninja Turtles 81 “Must’ve been something ____” 82 The Browns, on a scoreboard 83 Bad spell

84 See 102-Down 86 Vertical landing spots 89 Program saver 90 Like SEALs 92 Cured and dried fish 94 Have as a tenant 95 “Dear Evan ____,” Best Musical of 2017 96 Like florists’ flowers that are already in vases

98 Best-selling Japanese

manga series

99 ____ Outfitters

(retailer)

100 Where Javert drowned in

“Les Misérables” 102 With 84-Down,

bit of black attire 103 Real-time tool for

meteorologists 104 Isn’t level

105 Where one might raise a flap about a reservation?

107 So quiet you can

hear ____ drop

108 Isn’t up to date

111 Early 2000s outbreak, for short

113 Old résident at Versailles 114 “Star Trek” spinoff, to fans

116 Elevs.