new York Times sunday crossword
Across
1 Picnic annoyance
8 Cold quarters
13 Racetrack informant
20 Like okapis and giraffes
21 Sit pensively
22 Cry from a survivor
23 Conversation over a few whiskeys?
25 Wear
26 Pose
27 Mario Vargas Llosa’s country
28 Strummed instrument, for short
29 Where butter and cheese are produced
30 ____ buddies
31 Moreover
32 Org. for drivers
33 Return to base
36 2015 Verizon purchase
38 Filth covering pecans and such?
45 Borodin opera prince
46 Fasten, in a way, with“in”
48 Asian holiday
49 Tush
50 Venison spread?
53 Relics, to Brits
55 “You betcha!”
56 Very beginning?
58 Give a leg up ... or a hand
59 Lose one’s coat
60 Casting need
61 Notwithstanding
63 Brings on
64 Sprayed in the face
67 Hardly a dolt? 68 Powerful scents
69 Made up
70 Virus fighters
71 Director Wenders
72 Unnamed character in Camus’s “The Stranger”
73 Ground cover?
74 Connections
75 Buds come in them
80 Office’s counterpart
83 Avoid a jerk?
85 Mozart’s Don Alfonso and Leporello
86 Shout with an accent
88 Gathered intelligence (on)
89 It has lots on the internet
90 Break up with an “unbreakable” El lie Kemper character?
93 “Black-ish”network
94 Part of a kit
95 It may be found next to a spade
96 Sashimi option
98 Ready for battle
100 DNA building block
105 Restroom sign
106 “What’s Going On”
singer, 1971
107 Tampa Bay N.F.L.’er 110 Beats in the race 111 Puts a stop to
sentimentality?
114 Term for a word that isn’t the dictionary but maybe should be
115 Subject of
una serenata
116 Subject of the 2006 documentary “When the Levees Broke”
117 Promenades
118 Rehab program
119 Plug
Down
1 Cake with rum
2 Hovering craft
3 Understand
4 Industry, for short
5 Treat on a stick
6 Stuns, in a way
7 Intruded (on)
8 Watson’s company 9 Cavity filler
10 Be a witness
11 Exude
12 Loving verse?
13 Some pageant wear
14 Brought charges against
15 Daddy
16 Criticize severely
17 Part of a makeshift swing
18 ____ after
19 Depend
24 “Just pretend
I’m right”
29 Singer of high notes
30 Scottish accents
33 Dusted off, say
34 James who won a posthumous Pulitzer
35 Says, informally
37 “When the Levees Broke”director
39 High ____
40 Publisher in a robe, familiarly
41 Algonquian Indians
42 Open, as a bottle
43 Prince and others
44 Some drink garnishes
46 Fish whose name sounds like the past tense of
46-Across?
47 Greets silently
51 Begets
52 Take back
54 3-3, e.g.
57 Site of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
61 Professional fixer, for short
62 Uses Gchat, e.g.
63 Scornful sound
64 H.G. Wellsvillain
65 Four-time Australian Open winner
66 Picasso, e.g.
67 Recent arrival
68 Personalized music gift
69 Backyard shindig, informally
70 Perfect score, or half of a score
71 Smart remarks
73 Zooey of Fox’s “New Girl”
75 Long, narrow pieces of luggage
76 Modify 77 Where Hemingway wrote“The
Old Man and the Sea”
78 Old Chrysler
79 ____ terrier
81 Parties
82 Pastor role in “There Will Be Blood”
84 Keeper of the books, for short
87 Japanese appetizer
91 Lifts
92 Everything
94 Appear that way
97 101 course
99 “... I’ll eat ____!”
100 Order (around)
101 May or Bee
102 Prevent from
clumping, say
103 In conclusion
104 Sway
107 Random
data point
108 ____ Reader
109 Powerful politico
111&112 Coupled
113 “Collage With Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance” artist