THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 “Hooked on Classics” company
5 Christina of “Monster” 10 Skins, so to speak
15 Silent
18 Last Supper item
20 Case study in many business ethics classes 21 Call on
22 “The Simpsons” character who holds a PH.D. in computer science
23 Low singers, short on money, draw idly
26 Place for a beer pump 27 Reaches a climax 28 High-class person? 29 Served in a certain cream sauce
31 Fleet runner: Abbr.
32 Boston’s Liberty Tree, e.g. 34 Tennis player with a record 377 cumulative weeks ranked No. 1
36 First-rate 37 Works as an accountant for a Swedish aerospace company
44 “Pearly Shells” singer
45 Like a llano 46 Put a stop to 49 Mlle., across the Pyrénées 50 Tangle
51 Airy areas of hotels
52 Urban intersectors: Abbr. 53 People who share an apartment with a Jordanian royal
58 Rival of Havoline
61 Pec pic, say 62 1980s auto imports based on the Fiat 63 Turkish coin 64 Speed skater who won five golds at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics 66 Not doff 69 Politico Liz 71 Unusual 72 Pocahontas’s husband John 73 50,000-watt clear-channel radio station in Iowa for which Ronald Reagan was once a sportscaster 74 Sends to the canvas, for short 75 Designer Mizrahi shouts like a cowboy in a nonchalant way
82 Citi Field player
83 Listens attentively
84 Man’s name that becomes another man’s name when a “C” is put in front 85 Life ____ (timesaving trick)
89 Events for special customers
91 Smooth and lustrous
93 Asian metropolis of 28+ million 94 Headline after an adolescent at a pool competition is made fun of
97 Mughal emperor of India known as “the Great” 99 Nephew of Cain
100 Feminine side
101 Bit
102 Meteorological phenomenon 105 Mourning person, perhaps 109 Like triangles governed by the Pythagorean theorem
111 Stir
112 Matriculated students appear to be timid
116 Couldn’t stand?
117 John who invented a steel plow
118 Poles, e.g. 119 California mission founder Junípero 120 What’s up? 121 More logical 122 Brownish gray
123 Fit together like matryoshka dolls
DOWN
1 Yuri Andropov headed it for 15 years, in brief 2 Opening in the theater, maybe 3 Legal grant to cross over someone else’s land 4 ____ Genova, author of “Still Alice”
5 Rapper MC ____, formerly of N.W.A 6 Travel-guide listings
7 One of the 11 official languages of Canada’s Northwest Territories
8 Either brother who co-wrote “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” 9 Plants that yield a blue dye 10 Antonín who composed “Carnival Overture” 11 Host of the Olympics where golf returned after a 112-year hiatus 12 National School Lunch Program org. 13 Pepper dispenser 14 Cinematographic innovation of the 1970s 15 Raising Cain 16 Overturn 17 Unpleasantly humid
19 Thus 24 Mallorca o Menorca, por ejemplo 25 Socially awkward 30 Hearst-like film character 31 Interjects 33 It’s more attractive the closer you are to it 35 Adorn 38 N.B.A. nickname until 2011 39 Something white rice lacks 40 Hay there! 41 Where the Nobel Peace Prize winner is announced 42 Money for a grand tour 43 Stiffly formal 47 Like binaural audio 48 Parts of college applications 50 Bean on the silver screen 51 Ship of mythology
54 Pac-12 player 55 Cry of dismay 56 Bemoan 57 Hoppy drink 58 Food item often prepared with lemon and garlic
59 Promo 60 Snack-food brand that sounds like buried treasure
65 It may be a deal breaker:
Abbr.
66 Gander 67 Some pipe joints
68 New York Titans’ org. of old 69 Jackie of “Rush Hour” 70 Question that isn’t a “wh-” question
72 Ned who composed “Air Music”
73 Sound heard at Churchill Downs 76 Alternatives to sleeper sofas 77 Quiet
78 The Collegiate School, today 79 Actress Sommer
80 50-50
81 Molt
86 Not out to lunch
87 Crib users 88 Captain played twice in film by Charles Laughton 90 Equine : horse :: cygnine : ____ 91 Pub perch 92 “That’s what you should do” 93 Jeans 95 Playwright Eve
96 Land on the Celtic Sea
97 Run up 98 Company that’s had its moments
103 Draft classification
104 Small songbird
106 Composer Bartók
107 Biblical birthright seller 108 Send one’s regrets, say 110 F.B.I. guys 113 Underground band 114 Direction from Belg. to Bulg.
115 “Krazy ____”