new York Times sundaY crossword
Across 1 Government
policy chief 5 Assented
12 Not empirical
19 Not natural-looking 21 Sometimes hard-tofind shirt opening 22 Drunkard
23 Onetime co-host of
“TheView,”informally 24 Contest once hosted
by Bob Barker 25 Makes reference (to) 26 Catastrophic event that can be caused by a gigantic earthquake 28 “Fer sher”
29 Folds, as a business 30 Headed for
34 Abbr. on mil. mail 36 French painter of ballerinas 40 Injunction
42 How Hercule Poirot likes to address Hastings 43 Money in Malmö 45 Headstone inits. 46 Stag
48 Ones in rocking chairs, stereotypically 50 Smartphone feature
53 Cherry variety 54 Start to many bumper stickers 55 Response to pointing out a resemblance between two people 56 Hollywood labor groups
59 See 71-Down 60 Plant stalk 62 Crank (up) 63 Chipotle choice 65 Nitwit
66 180s
67 2015 hit spinoff of “Despicable Me” 68 How someone in awe might describe himself 70 Pretty cool, in slang 73 One of the Big Four accounting firms 74 Deft touch 75 Place-holder letters 78 Better now 80 Trivia fodder
81 All ____
83 Rough shelter 84 Hannah who coined the phrase “the banality of evil” 86 Largest city in the Baltics 87 Planets like ours, in sci-fi
88 Hue lighter than lime 91 Per ____ (yearly) 92 Vintage-film channel 93 Goody
95 Like St. Augustine, amongallU.S.cities 97 College, to a Brit 98 Amérique 101 Immigrants’class, for short
102 Onlywordsonthe front of the Great Seal of the United States 104 Really fresh
106 ItshubatJ.F.K. was designed by Eero Saarinen 108 Hubbub
110 Artistic, chatty
sorts, it’s said
113 Draft
117 Testify
119 “I got the check” 120 Ancient, undeciphered writing system
121 Towel fabric
122 Relatives of
asters
123 Tony who won a Tony for “Angels inAmerica”
124 “It’s a deal!”
Down
1 E.M.T.’s training 2 Speed along 3 Print ad come-on 4 Sit on the throne 5 International conglomerate whose name means “three stars” 6 Cable-news host Melber 7 Gchats, e.g. 8 SomeA.L.players 9 Response to a surprising claim 10 “That’s something ____!” 11 Voyager 12 Medieval Spanish kingdom
13 Sport last played in the Olympics in 1936 14 Was awesome 15 Occupied 16 Funny 17 Riddle-me-____ 18 Qtrly. check recipient, maybe
20 “Stars above!” 27 “____ soon?” 31 Smear
32 Writing in a window? 33 Paranoid sorts, in slang 35 Pushes back 37 “Mamma Mia!” setting
38 In a light manner 39 Outbreaks 40 Anthropomorphic king of Celesteville 41 “Still ____” (Julianne Moore film) 43 Rios, e.g. 44 Decisive assessment
47 Intl. Rescue Committee,e.g. 49 R.&B. singer with the hits “So Sick” and“Mad” 51 Tempe sch. 52 Things in restaurant windows 57 Sac-fly result 58 Outlay that cannot be recovered 59 Some corsage wearers
61 Grand Lodge group 64 Ready ... or red, maybe
65 “Let’s keep this between us” 67 Wasn’t kidding about 68 Stunt at the end of a powerful performance 69 Informal assent 70 Go back on one’s word?
71 With 59-Across, some works of Tennessee Williams
72 Big ____
(the drug industry) 74 Biter 75 Moment of liftoff 76 Dangerous toy 77 “Same here” 79 Legal vowelless Scrabble play 80 Herculean act 82 Bit of art pottery 85 Preface to a heart-to-heart conversation 89 End of a George Washington address? 90 Safer alternative to paintball 91 If you’re lucky 94 Candy brand owned by Hershey 96 Word before and after“no” 99 Salt-N-Pepa and Ben Folds Five 100 Branch of Islam 102 Rakes in
103 Not taken
seriously?
105 Tiniest change 107 Popular gaming console that sounds like two pronouns 109 It’s a long story 110 “Keep movin’!” 111 Info for a chauffeur, perhaps 112 Yahoo alternative 114 “Yuck!”
115 Grp. of connected computers 116 1/100 of a 43-Across 118 Manhattan part ... or a suburb near Manhattan