New York Times Crossword
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1 Fish-tank buildup
6 Bog product
10 P.M. times
14 Suisse peak
18 Disney film with a
titular heroine
19 Pricing word
20 Christmas color for
Elvis
21 Pork cut
22 Mechanic’s go-to
parenting phrase?
26 Painter whose motifs include ants and eggs
27 Give the nod
28 ‘‘Check it out for
yourself’’
29 Mauna ____
31 French liver
33 Some remote power
sources
35 Up to 11 meters for a
pterodactyl
37 Personal trainer’s go-to parenting phrase?
43 Like some restrictions
44 Stephen King’s first
published novel
45 Your and my relative?
46 Roof overhang
48 Horror star Chaney
49 In the past
50 Affectionate greeting
51 Arid 52 Small building block
55 Conductor’s go-to
parenting phrase?
63 Liquor in tiramisù
64 TV drama with spinoffs set in Hawaii and New Orleans
65 Cornerstone abbr.
66 Eightfold
69 Animal working in the D.M.V. in ‘‘Zootopia’’
72 Texas politician Beto
74 It’s a drag
75 Singer James
77 Share
accommodations
79 Mathematician’s go-to
parenting phrase?
86 Emmy-winning Ward
87 Lemon ____
88 Insult
89 Hosp. area
90 Clean Air Act org.
92 ‘‘Star Wars’’ order
93 Word seen at the end of many Jean-Luc Godard movies
94 From where
97 From the get-go
100 Air traffic controller’s go-to parenting phrase?
103 Accepts the facts
105 Her pronoun partner
106 Farmyard mamas
107 2003 Will Ferrell
movie
108 Spooky
110 Lacking the
resources 113 Not out of the
running
117 Librarian’s go-to
parenting phrase?
121 Google ____ (Zoom
alternative)
122 Chemical suffixes
123 Backless shoe
124 Maybe one, maybe
both
125 GPS calculations, in
brief
126 ‘‘I did it!’’
127 Jabbers
128 Jen ____, 2021-22 White House press secretary
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1 Surrounded by
2 Tragic showgirl of song
3 Chutzpah
4 Like PETA
5 ____ de vie
6 Gift for writing
7 Noshes
8 Feel that gym session
9 What something might appear out of or disappear into
10 Epitome of simplicity
11 Guam’s features a sailboat and palm tree
12 ‘‘The Burden of
Proof’’ author
13 Like many resorts
14 Ingredient in homemade hand sanitizer
15 Reed of the Velvet
Underground 16
Sellers franchise, with
‘‘The’’
Charm
Poker option
Solo
Baroque painter
Guido
____ port in a storm Nail-polish brand with a ‘‘Tickle My France-y’’ shade Part of a homemade
Halloween costume Animal that turns
white in the winter Large number
‘‘I am not what I am’’
speaker Pioneering sci-fi film that was snubbed for the Best Visual Effects Oscar for its use of computers Road-trip
determination
41 Decade in which many in Gen Z were born
42 Main ingredient in poi
47 Kind of diagram
50 In this matter
51 Arose
53 City on the Irtysh
River
54 Parcel (out)
56 Elementary particle named for a Greek letter
57 Called a strike, say
58 Like some potato
chips and language
59 Part of NATO: Abbr.
17 23 24 25
30 32
34 36
37 38
39 40 60 Jardins d’enfants, par
exemple
61 Tech-and-culture
magazine since 1993
62 Has left the office, e.g.
66 Jay-Z and Kanye West song that samples ‘‘Try a Little Tenderness’’
67 Pigeon coop
68 What a bad dancer is
said to have
70 Large number 71 ____ Ledbetter, a.k.a.
Lead Belly
73 Newswire co.
76 A4 automaker
78 ‘‘____ it!’’ (informal
challenge)
80 Rock used to make
ultramarine
81 Pretentious
82 Snack cakes with
creamy swirls
83 It might be changed
or made up
84 ‘‘Look!’’ in Latin 85 Took to court 102 Counts (on)
91 Miscreant’s record, 104 Tropical vine maybe
109 ‘‘Brown ____ Girl’’
92 Like a clear night
93 Rival you kind of like 111
Pool shade
94 ‘‘That’s amazing!’’ 112 Kind of discount
95 Color classification 114 Nothin’
96 Naval Academy grads 115 Words of reassurance 97 Basic personal 116 Actress Garr information
118 Hot spot in England?
98 ‘‘Spill it!’’
99 Flow slowly 119 Airport inits.
101 ‘‘Not gonna 120 Dance with a
happen!’’ paradiddle step