THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Stuffs with bacon, say 6 Convention handouts 10 Second of the 10 biblical plagues
15 Mission-driven org. 19 Underway
20 Congress person
21 Ancient neighbor of Lydia 22 Intl. group founded in 1960 with five members
23 “We can’t hear you in the back, Johannes!”?
26 Winter leaf covering 27 “Oops, my bad!”
28 Fixtures at most airport lounges nowadays
29 Boston ____ (Sam Adams offering)
30 Place to fill up in Canada 31 Not just -er
32 Canal trouble
35 Triage sites, briefly
36 Brown in a Food Network kitchen
37 Not leave alone
38 Put on a production of a classic Sondheim musical? 41 Subjects of “birds and bees” talks
44 Knowledgeable about 45 Pirate’s chant
46 Scottish cap
47 What composers do when they add the finishing touches? 50 Lets out
52 Put away, as a sword 53 “What’s the ____?”
54 Place to park at the bar 55 Police, informally 56 Comedian Andre with a selfnamed Adult Swim show 59 Russian assembly 61 Super-duper
65 Western Hemisphere grp. 66 What workers at the sticker factory do?
70 ____ Royal Highness 71 Words before “Remember” and “Forget” in song titles 73 Shooter of arrows
74 Code part
75 Brown in the kitchen 76 Scarfs (down)
79 Do some pogoing
81 French France
83 Jackson nicknamed the “Queen of Gospel”
86 Shorten words like “forecastle” and “boatswain”?
89 Equal
90 Stretching muscle 92 Certain yearling
93 What a private detective
might photograph
94 Ignore what you have in reserve while taking inventory? 97 Morn’s counterpart 98 Assignment that might have a page limit
99 #MeToo ____
100 Underground places with bats
102 Anti-bullying spot, for short
105 Toiling away
106 Computing pioneer Lovelace
107 Side dish with kalua pig
108 Betrays a sibling, say 110 Statistician’s worry
111 Encouragement at an N.B.A. mixer?
115 Irish novelist O’Brien 116 Pull
117 Lake near London
118 Country ruled only by kings named Tupou since 1845 119 Obstacle to overcome 120 Loses sleep (over)
121 Hinge (on)
122 Made a choice
DOWN
1 Mental slip-up
2 Hairstyles for Pam Grier and Angela Davis
3 Take a break from flying, say 4 Martial-arts center 5 Audiophile’s purchase 6 Nymph pursuer
7 Drag wear
8 Soccer phenom Freddy
9 Be nominated
10 Some scuba gear 11 Overcharge ridiculously 12 In the world
13 Samoa salesperson
14 Worth heeding
15 Utterly useless 16 Nonbeliever, now
17 Not always available 18 NASCAR and FIFA, e.g. 24 Ibex’s perch
25 Brinks
33 Google Play buys
34 Big snapper, informally 35 Book of Mormon book 36 Ready for romance
37 Trim, in a way
39 Spectacle
40 “I totally forgot!”
41 End result
42 Take up again, as a case 43 Like foods said to be good for hangovers and bad for skin complexion 44 In ____ (not yet delivered) 48 Singer who was in 2018’s “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again”
49 Has as a mount 51 Right-angled joint
54 “Quién ____?” (Spanish “Who knows?”)
57 Fateful day in 44 B.C.
58 No purebred
60 Cosmo, e.g.
62 What’s the big idea? 63 Dimensions
64 Something you don’t want to be under
66 Noodle, for example 67 Colleague
68 Put on the books
69 Giving up time
72 Carrier until 2001 75 Rudder’s place
77 Place
78 Dispersed, as a search party 80 Retro Chrysler 82 Corroborates
83 Did some gambling 84 Former Haitian leader JeanBertrand
85 Defenders in the Battle of
Trenton
86 ____ Nostra
87 Film director Nicolas 88 Tangent introducer 91 Funny
95 Watched a kitty
96 Target of an air freshener 97 Series finale abbr.
101 Baseball’s Chase
102 Confederate in an audience
103 Ridged fabric
104 Syrian strongman 106 Doesn’t just sit
107 Writers might click them 109 Sporty roof feature 112 Solemn statement 113 Poetic “before”
114 Feel bad