THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS By Howard Barkin and Victor Barocas Puzzles Edited by Will Shortz

1 What helicopter rotors do

5 “____ to Psyche” 8 Bartók and Lugosi

13 Seven Sisters school that went coed in 1969 19 Famous feature of the Florence Cathedral 20 Romulus, exempli gratia

21 It goes up with alcohol consumption

23 Cereal mascot since 1933 24 N.y.c.-based dance troupe 25 [PREVIOUS] Memoirist 26 Psalm 63 opening

28 Unable to choose

30 Blood drive worker

31 On the way 32 Many 34 Tactless 36 Marsh flora 38 Rapper Lil ____ X

39 [NEXT] Journalist and author 42 Maui setting: Abbr. 44 Downwind 45 Mimic 46 Quarry, e.g. 47 Raise one’s spirits

49 Weighed on 51 Gangster’s gun 52 Large print source

54 Org. for the Demon Deacons and Blue Devils 55 [PREVIOUS] Sci-fi author 58 Observance on Yom Kippur or during Ramadan 61 H.S. class for future engineers, say

62 Spoke with a forked tongue 63 Guides of a sort

64 “From where I sit,” briefly

65 Increases 66 Word appearing on only one current U.S. coin (the nickel)

67 Bit

68 Yonder 72 Medium on display at Brickworld

73 [NEXT] Famed rights advocate

75 Agcy. that supports entrepreneurs

77 Many a middle schooler 78 Sounds during a strep test

79 1976 hit whose title is sung just before the line “Take it easy”

84 Buenos ____ 85 Sis’s sib

86 Isn’t in the black 87 Information on a game box

88 The so-called “winter blues,” for short 89 [PREVIOUS] Noted politician and orator 93 “Honor”-able org.

95 Gush

97 Largest cell in the human body 98 Got by 99 Yeats’s homeland

101 Brings up 103 Award for Best Moment, e.g. 105 The “1” of 10-1, say

106 [NEXT] American composer and lyricist

109 Canyon maker

111 Kissers

113 “I can’t understand this at all”

114 Half of a blackjack

115 Hideout 116 Star of the “Taken” film series 117 Wind ____ 118 “Erie Canal” mule

119 Certain IDS

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1 MS. units

2 Site of the first Ironman race (1978)

3 Words accompanying “Uh-oh!”

4 Moved, as in a greenhouse

5 ____ pro nobis 6 Factor affecting a bond’s rating 7 Took by threat 8 Actor on Time’s list of the 100 most important people of the 20th century 9 California’s ____ River 10 Reclined 11 Hex’d 12 Playing on both sides

13 “I ____” (sticker message) 14 “I’ll take that as ____”

15 Parts of a portfolio: Abbr. 16 Iconic environmental book 17 Maker of the classic Radarange 18 Concludes one’s case 22 “Ghosts” playwright

27 Forest mother 29 River through Dortmund 32 Model of vengeful obsession

33 Part of a Swiss bank account 35 One good at reading emotions 37 Boating hazard 40 Something a house might be built on 41 Epigrammatic 43 Brand in the dessert aisle 47 Clue collectors, for short

48 Grow a fondness for

50 Grub

51 Assoc. 52 Includes surreptitiously 53 Melds

55 Left on board 56 High percentage of criminals? 57 No longer green, say 58 Popular sansserif typeface 59 Truism based on a line by Gertrude Stein 60 Major source of coffee beans 61 Mass-produced response? 63 Inspiration for a horror movie? 64 Nobelist Pavlov 66 Hammer feature

68 U.K. honours 69 Choreographer Twyla

70 Trio often heard in December 71 Northern borders?

74 Can’t do without

75 Runners support it

76 Place of security

79 What causes a will-o’the-wisp

80 Ann and Andy, notably

81 The King of Latin Pop 82 Popular sports news website 83 Exxonmobil abroad

85 Promise 86 Heavy responsibility 89 Comment following an unrepentant admission

90 Symbolic socioeconomic divider

91 Less bumpy 92 Suffix with sex or text

93 Get the show on the road 94 Número de Maravillas del Mundo Antiguo 96 Get one’s hair just right

100 Bits of work 102 Something a cobbler may hold

104 “It’s fun to stay at the ____” (1978 hit lyric) 107 Miracle-____ 108 Org. for docs 110 Bit of animation

112 About onequarter of a high school: Abbr.