NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD

Across

1 Word repeated in

“Mi ____ es su ____” 5 Skipped town

9 Good name for

a botanist? 14 Certain vacuum tube 20 Taiwan-based

electronics giant 21 Per item

22 Shred

23 Make airtight 24 Caterer’s platter 26 Off

27 Director of “Eat Drink

ManWoman,”1994 28 Morticia, to Fester,

in 1960s TV 29 Expecting help? 31 Beat generation

figure?

33 Tidy

35 ____ Muhammad,

mentor to Malcolm X 37 “Mm-hmm” 38 Reagan-era scandal 42 Old Germanic tribe 44 Passes out

48 Oral examination? 50 Initiations have them 52 Dish made from a

fermented root 53 Grace’s surname on

“Will & Grace” 54 Neutron’s home 56 Jazz singer who acted in the “Roots” miniseries 59 Whopper maker 60 Hematite, e.g. 62 Like 100% inflation 63 ____ Kippur 64 Sorbet-like dessert originally from Sicily 65 ____ port

68 Wrist watch? 69 Like this puzzle’s circled letters vis-à-vis their Across answers 73 Brewer’s need 76 Long ____ 77 “Nuh-uh!” 78 “Horrible!” 81 Reaches 84 Nearest country to Cape Verde 85 Grammy winner Erykah ____ 86 Talkative sort 90 Competitor of Rugby 91 “Li’l”fellow

92 “I’m with ____” 93 Hell, informally 95 It might take only seven digits 97 Sampled

100 Be rumple-free 102 Leaves for baggage

claim, say

103 Star followers

105 Vitamin B3

107 Prefix with normal 108 Cause of a tossed joystick, maybe 112 Block from getting close to the basket 115 Gridiron gains 118 Comic ____ Nancherla 119 Stage in getting a Ph.D.

121 Some rustproof rails 123 Chasms

124 Newsroom fixture 125 Frozen breakfast

brand

126 “Let’s do it!”

127 Risks a ticket

128 “Siddhartha” novelist 129 In case

130 Washington team,

familiarly

Down

1 ____ Crunch 2 Smoothie flavor 3 Tennis star’s feat 4 Place for exhibitions 5 Word with noodle or nurse 6 Viscount’s superior 7 Big scholarship awarder, for short 8 Mint-family herb 9 “Down goes ____!” (1973 sports line) 10 Mojito ingredient 11 Nail-polish brand 12 When jams are produced 13 Place for an altar 14 Long line in Russia 15 Let

16 “Amen to that” 17 Earthen pot 18 What it takes two to do 19 One-on-one Olympics event 25 Chuck in the air 30 Not mainstream, briefly 32 Separations at weddings? 34 Body work, in brief 36 Lead-in to boy or girl 38 Birthplace of the Renaissance 39 RCA component 40 Put claw marks in 41 Sharer of Russia’s western border 43 Setting for many G.I. stories 45 MuchofAries’span 46 Postgraduation stressors, for some 47 Lengthy attack 49 Refining, as muscles 51 Lead-in to cone 55 “You only live once,” for one 57 Baked-beans flavor 58 Mötley ____ 60 Schedule-keeping org.

61 Team scream 64 “10-4” 65 Longest American north-south rte. 66 “Fiddler on the Roof” setting

67 In spades 69 Future attorney’s hurdle, for short 70 Memphis-toNashville dir. 71 2018 World Cup champs 72 Prayer ending? 73 Workplace for a cabin boy 74 Antiquated anesthetic 75 Pong creator 78 All-female group with the 1986 No. 1 hit“Venus” 79 One-named singer whose last name is Adkins 80 Pitches 82 Albany is its capital: Abbr. 83 Gorsuch’s predecessor on the bench

84 Two of diamonds? 85 Trusted news source in the Mideast 87 Friend of Descartes ... or, in English, question pondered by Descartes? 88 “What chutzpah!” 89 Early record holder

91 Puts to rest 94 Pricey-sounding apparel brand? 96 Tinder, e.g. 98 Surface 99 “Well, I’ll be” follower

101 B’way buys 104 It covers a lot of

ground

106 Recognition for

a scientist 108 Comic’s

offerings

109 Per item

110 Stud finder? 111 One wearing black eyeliner and ripped jeans, say 113 Desire 114 Makes out? 116 Cause of some insomnia

117 Application figs. 120 Dummkopf 122 Boozehound