NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD: TRICKY TRIOS

ACROSS

1 Temporarily

stops running 7 Sport-____

(some vehicles) 11 Contain, as a

spewing oil well 14 Military bigwigs

19 “Pick me!”

20 Light bite

21 Excitement

22 GPS suggestion 23 Breakfast trio

26 Classic song 27 ____-backwards 28 Smuggler's unit 29 Record label for

Pink and Pitbull

30 Lets off the hook? 32 Otello, in “Otello” 33 Even

34 Act as a go-between 35 “You can skip me” 38 Puppet-show trio

41 Fall guy?

43 “That's rough!”

44 Some Canadian natives 45 In the tradition of 48 ____ Aldridge, pioneering Shakespearean actor 49 Lost-baggage helpers 52 Ad-biz awards 54 Producer of public

radio's “Radiolab” 55 Spanish seasoning that's a letter short of its English counterpart 56 Youngest daughter

on “black-ish”

57 Hold tightly 58 Dangerous injection 59 Capital city with more

than 300 islands 61 Sergey of Google 62 “Nobody's here but me” 64 Sailing trio 67 Surrounded by

69 “Little Latin ____ Lu”

(1960s hit) 70 Effervescent citrus

beverage 73 Old Ford vehicles,

for short

74 Open

76 Skyrockets

77 Open ____

78 Strip pokers?

79 Fumes

80 Some skin art

81 Place for R.N.s

82 Subj. of “The Electric

Kool-Aid Acid Test” 83 “lol” alternative 84 Unnecessary extra 85 Gilda of

“Saturday Night Live” 87 Folk trio

92 Rap artist Flo ____ 93 Dinero

95 Throw

96 State a case

98 Director Taika ____ 99 “Star Wars” nickname 100 Pronoun in Dixie 101 Philosopher ____-tzu 104 Fortune 500 company

with an avian symbol 105 Survivor of an all-out brawl ... or a hint to 23-, 38-, 64- and 87-Across 110 Battle of Leningrad, e.g. 111 Something ratable by

number of Pinocchios 112 Long transmission

of folklore, say

113 Charlotte Motor

Speedway org.

114 Underworld

115 Camera with a mirror,

in brief

116 Hail on a bridge

117 Trash

DOWN

1 Sammy on a 1998

cover of Newsweek 2 Heaps

3 Good crosswords

provide lots of them 4 Chop (off)

5 John who wrote “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” 6 Arts-and-crafts kit trendy in the 1970s-'80s

7 Open, as a bottle

of wine

8 “TiK ____” (Kesha hit) 9 Class for some

immigrants, for short 10 Foe of Robin Hood 11 Geographically largest

member of NATO 12 Interject

13 In view? 14 Upholsterer's fabric 15 Certain expensive

watch, in slang 16 Autobahn autos 17 Michael of R.E.M. 18 Goes with

24 Jesus on the diamond 25 Big name in laptops 31 Digits ending many

prices

32 Baking meas. 33 Eponymous New

Mexico tribe

35 Do email scamming 36 Radiant

emanations

37 “Huh, you know

him, too?!”

39 Stadium section 40 Police procedural

beginning in 2003 42 News

45 Words before a year 46 City on the Rhône 47 Zenith

50 Flee

51 Have ____ with 52 Ernest who wrote

“Ready Player One” 53 Tall and thin

54 Joins

57 Classic horror-film

locale 58 Actress/singer

Hudgens

60 Matches up

61 Makes fuzzy 63 Nursing facility? 65 Huffed and puffed 66 Southern university whose team is the Phoenix

67 ____ Clooney, Barbara Walters's “most fascinating person” of 2014

68 Litter sounds 71 Chopped up

72 BMW competitor 75 Swerve 76 Letter that, surprisingly, is not the end of the Greek alphabet 79 Assail

80 Campus

building

83 Spirals

84 Charlize Theron's role in 2015's “Mad Max” reboot

86 Dr. ____ 87 Thick soup 88 Sci-fi stunner 89 One who cries

“Uncle!”? 90 Contradict 91 “Nuts!” 93 Underworld 94 Three sheets

to the wind 97 Things near

funny bones

98 Load of laundry 101 Pet peeves? 102 Med. school

course

103 Fearsome

figure

106 Suffer

107 “Forget about it!” 108 Freudian area

of study

109 Cable alternative