New York Times Crossword
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ACROSS
1 What a drawbridge
may bridge
5 In that case
9 Control-tower
installation
14 Pass
19 ‘‘That one’s ____’’
(‘‘My bad’’)
20 Amelia Bedelia, e.g.
21 ‘‘Go me!’’
22 Member of a noble
family
23 2004 film about a group of MALIGNERS
25 It might be put on for
stage PAGEANTRIES
27 Annual film festival where ‘‘Saw’’ and ‘‘Get Out’’ premiered
28 ‘‘____ La La’’ (1964
hit)
29 Senator, e.g., for short
30 Avoids a bogey,
perhaps
31 Being
33 Be hopping mad
34 Cool one
37 W.W. II hero,
informally
39 Muletas are waved at
them
40 Canon camera
41 Branch of Islam
42 You might be MARVELING AT this as it whizzes by
46 Sort of SCHEMATIC for Christian education
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49 City nicknamed the
Old Pueblo
51 French city near the
Belgian border
52 Prefix with colonial
53 Tightfitting
55 Toni Morrison title
heroine
56 Annual British acting
award
58 Series of questions,
maybe
60 Counterpart of elles
62 Opposite of never
64 Many relationships are INSTIGATED on one
68 Healthy eaters may give this A WIDE BERTH
72 Disrupt an online
meeting, in a way
74 Mauna ____
75 Grp. that hasn’t yet found what it’s looking for
76 Wonder Woman and
others
79 Valuable load for a
mule
81 Influence
84 Pioneering gangsta
rap group
85 Burdened
86 Just
88 Preferring one’s own
company, perhaps
90 They can be NOISELESS while stalking prey
93 Explorers of the
UNTRAVERSED
95 Burden
96 Old cable-TV inits. 97 Fill in
98 Word repeated in ‘‘I ____, I ____, it’s off to work I go’’
99 Lick, say
100 ‘‘____ merci!’’
(French cry)
101 ‘‘On it, captain!’’
103 ‘‘No need to make
me a plate’’
106 Five-letter word that replaces a fourletter word?
107 1980s gaming inits.
108 Not even
111 Writing done
GRAPHICALLY
115 The Trojans lacked the FORESIGHT to turn this down
116 It’s multilayered
117 You should always bring it to a competition
118 Children’s author
Blyton
119 Be taken aback
120 One way to cook a
116-Across
121 Unenthusiastic
122 They know the drill:
Abbr.
123 Word after hard or
before short
DOWN
1 ‘‘My Two ____’’ (2015 Claudia Harrington children’s book)
2 Top
3 Appliance brand since
1934
4 Pea shooters?
5 ‘‘Sign me up!’’
6 Complete travesty 7
Feature of many
British accents Binges too much, for
short
9 As if orchestrated
10 Indexed data
structures Directly
Fourth person to walk
on the moon
Do a double take?
Boot
Almost
What makes Shrek
shriek?
17 One side in a debate
18 It may be blown
24 They may be blown
26 House Republican
V.I.P. Stefanik
28 Star in Canis Major
32 Just so
34 Hot-dog topper
35 Airline passenger
request
36 Lion ____
38 ‘‘Dear ____ Hansen’’ (2017 Tony-winning musical)
41 Responds to br-r-r-isk
weather?
42 Like zebras and lions
43 Voice with an Echo
44 Rub it in
45 ‘‘It is what it is’’ and
others
Mike Krzyzewski, to
Duke basketball fans Rise
Hot-dog topper
A little too silky,
maybe
Justin Trudeau, by
birth 8 11 12
13 14 15 16 46
47 50 54
56 57 Don’t believe it!
59 Aftmost masts on
ships
61 Gives fuel to
63 Gets a move on,
quaintly
65 Who can hear you
scream in space
66 Ending with poly
67 Title meaning
‘‘commander’’
69 ‘‘____ Meenie’’ (2010
hit)
70 Battling
71 Rings up 73 Showing the effects of
an all-nighter, say
76 Give one’s blessing to
77 It has more coastline than California, surprisingly
78 Score after seven
points, maybe
80 Certain radio format
82 Apropos of
83 ‘‘Like that’ll ever
happen!’’
86 ‘‘Appetizers’’ or ‘‘Desserts,’’ at a diner 87 International cosmetics company ____ Rocher
89 Content people?
91 Larsson who wrote ‘‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’’
92 Pooh-pooh
94 Common April
activity, nowadays
97 Vietnamese sandwich
100 Group trying to sack
a QB 102 Make over, as a ship
104 A crowd, they say
105 It has 104-Down legs
106 Obscure, with ‘‘out’’
109 They may be set by
industry grps.
110 Girl in ‘‘The Old
Curiosity Shop’’
111 sin/tan
112 Major Japanese
carrier
113 ‘‘Kill Bill’’ co-star
114 You can chew on it
115 Some appliances