The Sunday New York Times Crossword
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1 One to take a complaint to: Abbr. 4 It can get the blood flowing 9 Like calves at a rodeo 16 Crush, e.g. 19 Some soft words 20 Lost deliberately 21 Wave receiver 22 Card game with stakes 23 Subject of three Oliver Stone films, informally 24 Fixed-term agreement 25 Marseille mothers who are not goddesses? 27 Half-court game? 29 Sailing 31 Barber’s challenge 32 Hawaiian coffees 33 Back-to-school purchase 35 Sense 37 Hot ___ 38 “Easy” 40 Working on one’s biceps and triceps in Toulon? 43 On the up and up 44 Soldier under Braxton Bragg, for short 45 Female suffix 46 Org. with badges 48 Country whose name means “he that strives with God” 50 [That’s awful!] 52 Quality that produces taste 57 Stinging insect 59 Cowardly end in Cannes? 62 Innocent one 63 Issue (from) 64 Tiara component 65 It may contain traces of lead 66 Tony winner Schreiber 67 Less refined 69 Like an infant’s fingers, typically 71 Matisse masterpiece 73 Actress Bosworth 74 Pathetic group 76 The limbo, once 78 Turkey’s third-largest city 79 John Maynard Keynes’s alma mater 80 Bordeaux bear cub? 82 Indians’ shoes 83 “Phooey!” 85 Fiji competitor 86 Cosa ___ 88 Nevada county 89 Spy, at times 91 With 98-Down, “Mad Money” host 92 First capital of Alaska 94 Online feline in Lyon? 100 Who said “I owe the public nothing” 103 Dead ringers? 104 ___ Inn 106 Home of Gannon Univ. 107 Short-tailed weasel 108 Crib side part 110 First college frat to charter a chapter in all 50 states 112 Environmental portmanteau 113 Nine to five, generally, in Grenoble? 116 Certain work of subway art 118 Word with salad or roll 119 Mauna ___ Observatory 120 Surround with shrubbery 121 Rocks for Jocks, most likely 122 Eleanor Roosevelt ___ Roosevelt 123 Take a wrong turn 124 “What’s it gonna be?” 125 What to wear 126 Healy who created the Three Stooges
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1 QB Donovan 2 Net guard 3 Prizefighter in a Parisian novel? 4 The Rams, on sports tickers 5 Expert at brewing oolong in Orléans? 6 Q.E.D. part 7 Mysterious Scottish figure, informally 8 Many an “iCarly” fan 9 Hasty flight 10 Weakness 11 Layers of clouds 12 On TV, say 13 “Got a Hold ___” (1984 top 10 hit) 14 “Lux” composer Brian 15 Lost time? 16 Two-dimensional 17 “De-e-eluxe!” 18 Entourages 26 Indiana Jones venue 28 ___ fixe 30 Comic Dave 34 Ramjets, e.g. 36 Populous area 37 Country music channel 39 Paper size: Abbr. 41 Some foam toys 42 Area close to home 44 Put on the job again 46 Large fern 47 Toothed 49 58-Down 29-Across 50 “Star Trek” villains 51 Not present at 53 Flaming 54 Overseeing of a Bayonne bakery? 55 Issue for Michelle Obama 56 R in a car 58 Go-ahead 60 Showed, as a seat 61 Org. for big shots? 64 Family nickname 68 That, to Tomás 70 Tucson school, briefly 72 Eye surgeon’s instrument 75 Was concerned (with) 77 Cretin 81 QB legend nicknamed “the Golden Arm” 82 French-speaking country where illegal activity runs rampant? 84 Elastic 87 It’s more than a pinch: Abbr. 90 Interview seg. 91 What a photocopier light may indicate 93 “American Idol” winner Allen 94 Relief for plantar fasciitis 95 Against 96 Outside of walking distance, say 97 Actor Morales 98 See 91-Across 99 Millinery item 100 Operating system between Puma and Panther 101 Most distant point 102 Rode hard 105 Nickel-and-___ 108 E.P.A. issuances: Abbr. 109 Kind of brick 111 The language Gàidhlig 114 Shoe width 115 ___-Seal (leather protector) 117 ___ Palmas, Spain
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