NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW BY ROSS TRUDEAU AND LINDSEY HOBBS
Across
1 Rackets
6 Spruce or fir 15 Japanese city that shares its name with a dog breed
20 Home to the Ho Chi
Minh Mausoleum 21 Homemade headgear
for pretend pirates 22 Conducted, as a
campaign
23 Undo, legally
24 Highly specialized
knowledge
25 Color whose name is derived from“lapis lazuli”
26 Frequent comics collaborator with Jack Kirby
28 Belief
29 Hubbubs
31 “See? I knew what I
was talking about!” 32 Gives an edge 33 Indignant denial 34 Bozo
35 “I 30-Down the fool!”
speaker
37 GPS suggestion: Abbr. 38 What might follow you 39 1966 Donovan hit 43 Sinatra, to fans 47 Band whose “Gold: Greatest Hits” has sold over 30 million copies
50 Raised a false alarm 52 Tennis’s Nadal,
informally
56 Fruit with crimsoncolored flesh
59 Guest feature? 60 Popular folk-rock duo 62 Place for a canal or a
kernel
63 1968 self-titled folk
album
65 A.L. West team, on
scoreboards
66 Rubik with a cube 68 Ice cream holder 69 Cal’s game-winning kickoff return against Stanford in 1982, familiarly
71 World’s deepest river 73 Little tasks that crop
up
75 Wood-shop item 77 Investigate, à la
Sherlock Holmes 79 Wunderkinder 82 Implement for an
Amish driver 86 Features of classic
cars
87 It’s covered in paint in the Sherwin-williams logo
89 Oscar-winning song from“slumdog Millionaire” 90 “Likewise”
91 Media watchdog agcy. 92 “Strange Magic”
band, for short 93 Medium for Kehinde Wiley’s“president Barack Obama” 94 Took a load off
95 Mars
100 Harmful bits of
sunlight
105 Remove calcium
deposits from
106 Sharp shooter, for
short?
108 Harder to grasp
109 Changes by degrees 111 Whole bunch
112 You might cry if you
slice it
115 Word rhymed with “ami” by Lafayette in “Hamilton”
116 Like Merriamwebster’s inclusion of the word “irregardless,” originally
119 College admissions
fig.
120 Delta hub, on luggage
tags
121 Birth-control option,
briefly
122 In the blink of ____
123 Deli or bar order
124 Stags or bucks
125 Biblical possessive 126 Alcoholic’s affliction,
briefly 127 Complicated, as a
relationship
128 Retired flier, for short 129 Explosivestuff
Down
1 California-based softdrink company 2 Divisions of long
poems
3 Historical records 4 Place for a pitcher
5 “I’m such a dummy!” 6 Olympic poker? 7 Military hospitals,
briefly
8 Period of history 9 Back in
10 Fresh, in a sense
11 A one and a two 12 Bursts in on
13 And the rest, for short
14 Twin in Genesis 15 Prizewinner 16 Instrument often played for comedic effect
17 Tennessee Williams’s “The Night of the ____”
18 Babysitter’s handful
19 “____ Fideles”
27 ____ Simmons, real name of the late rapper DMX
30 See 35-Across 36 Affectionate
attention, briefly 37 One enforcing
traveling rules
39 Kind of jacket
40 “Ish”
41 Xbox 360
competitor 42 Chicken
43 Total domination, in
gamer-speak 44 Whole bunch
45 Racy
46 Polite form of address
similar to“mr.”or“ms.” 47 Criminally aid 48 Yawn-inducing 49 Make yawn
51 Campus leader 53 With the bow,
musically 54 Bungle
55 Vipers with upturned
snouts
57 Part of a religious title that means “ocean”
58 Southern California
county
60 “Mood ____”(Duke
Ellington classic) 61 Quit drinking 64 Golf’s ____ Ko, youngest golfer to be ranked No. 1
67 In draft form 70 High degrees, for
short
71 Setting for many a Super Mario Bros. level
72 Temporarily out
74 Pesach observers 76 Most peaceful 78 Groups of bees? 79 “You can’t expect me
to believe that!” 80 Laughable
81 Typical way to take a
multivitamin
83 Is legally entitled 84 “It’s a possibility for
me”
85 Family members that
get talked down to? 88 Kind of massage
89 Travels
96 ____ River, part of the Texas/oklahoma border 97 Even-tempered 98 Skedaddled
99 They might be made
after a fight
101 Runs again
102 Withoutfail 103 State flower of Illinois or New Jersey
104 ____ Faire (event with
jousting, for short) 107 Is mad about
109 Source of the milk for
chèvre cheese
110 The“r”of R.B.G.
113 Ready
for business
114 Condé ____
117 What might make a
ewe turn
118 Spanish monarch