THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Summation symbol in math 6 Baseball team’s leading hitter 12 Gotham police procedural 18 “Your ___ …” 19 Body of water on the Uzbek border 21 Post-1968 tennis 22 Silly 23 Magic, once 24 Rear guard? 25 CVS competitor 27 What a faker may put on 28 Gotham-bound luggage letters 30 Estuary, e.g. 31 Like a walk in the park 32 Group with the monster 1994 album “Monster” 34 Like the dish kimchi 36 Followers of 1-Acrosses 38 “Aida” figure 41 Preserve, as fodder 43 It’s good for what ails you 45 Cool people 48 Sugar suffix 49 What a raised hand may signal 50 Nuts 51 Show tune with the lyric “Here am I, your special island” 53 Cosine reciprocal 55 1960s-’70s drama set in San Francisco 58 Allow 60 Egg choice 61 Go up against 62 Heart 64 Bitmap image 65 Thor’s domain 67 1968 movie directed by Paul Newman 70 Forerun 74 Chaney of “Of Mice and Men” 75 Beast that killed Adonis 76 Way off 80 Actor Quinn 81 “Heavens to Betsy!” 84 What many op-art designs appear to do 86 Fictional Indiana town where “Parks and Recreation” is set 88 Upside-down container 90 Space effect, for short 91 Word from Hamlet while holding a skull 92 Pince-___ 94 Tony-nominated play made into an Oscar-nominated movie 97 Paper size: Abbr. 98 Dance in 3/4 time 100 China and environs 101 It might come out in
the wash 103 Lacking scruples 105 B&O and others 106 Silent interval 110 1945 Pacific battle
site, informally 111 Catch 112 Abe 114 Relatively
inexpensive wrap 116 Had a senior
moment 119 Work from a folder 122 Island SW of
Majorca 123 Some paneling 124 Old North State
native 125 Piece of the past 126 Co-founder of Death
Row Records 127 Some ocean debris 128 Pastime for Barack Obama at Camp David DOWN 1 English division 2 Coastal Anatolian region 3 Barbecue annoyances 4 Miss at the movies? 5 Region 6 Twaddle 7 Tax law subj. 8 Big do 9 There’s no escaping this 10 Request that one attend 11 Certain joint 12 Apple core, briefly 13 Unruffled 14 Prefix with red 15 One of the usual suspects? 16 Org. with an eagle in its logo 17 Piehole 20 “Blues in the Night” composer Harold 21 Certain sultan’s subjects 26 Country with a supreme leader 29 Petroleum distillate 33 Source of the line “What’s done is done” 35 Ginger feature 37 Drunkard 39 Angry cat’s sound 40 1/24 of un giorno 42 “___ Miz” 44 Better suited 45 Careered 46 Split part of a reindeer 47 Rank below group captain 49 Car radio button 50 Top 52 ’90s-’00s Britcom 54 Month after Av 56 Microsoft Surface competitor 57 Uncertain 59 Tom Cruise’s character in “Mission: Impossible” 63 Hägar’s wife in the funnies 66 Round up 67 ___ Laënnec, inventor of the stethoscope 68 Pursue 69 Certain bid, informally 70 Kind of court or cross 71 Bridge dividing the San Marco and San Polo districts 72 Early 20th century, in British history 73 Pink-slips 76 Answer man? 77 Old West casino game 78 Oceans 79 Pump option: Abbr. 82 Itch cause 83 It brightens up a performance 85 Yom Kippur War weaponry 87 Record producer Brian 89 Gray shade 93 Twisty-horned creatures 95 “Halloween,” e.g. 96 Opportunity creator 98 Go-between 99 Sci-fi staple 102 Partner of operated 104 Blazing 107 Submit an online
return 108 “___ Q” (Creedence Clearwater Revival hit) 109 Plot 113 Dundee denials 115 Cocktails with
crème de cassis 116 Letters on briefs 117 Celtic water deity 118 Poet’s “before” 120 Post-1858 rule 121 “Give ___ break!”