THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 What can fall off a shelf

8 Host of MSNBC’S ‘‘Politicsnation’’ beginning in 2011

16 Be profane 20 Something never seen at night 21 Beckoning words 22 For ____ amount of time

23 Nobody but the guy gettin’ married on his feet?

25 Put up with 26 Captures

27 House vote 28 Gettysburg general George

29 Like screwball comedies

33 Pig food

34 Gish ____, novelist of ‘‘The Resisters’’ and ‘‘Typical American’’ 35 Sickly-looking 36 Olympic equipment weighing less than 770 grams each

38 Winter item you’ll be wearin’ for years? 42 Statistic tracked at census .gov/popclock 44 ‘‘Mixed Marriage’’ playwright St. John Greer ____

45 Reduced in rank 46 Receiver of an allpoints bulletin 48 Longtime Yankees first baseman Mark 50 Simile’s center 51 Row

52 God who becomes a goddess when an ‘‘r’’ is removed

53 Spam sender 54 James of ‘‘The Godfather’’

58 Danger when walkin’ in a silo?

61 One who delivers 62 Mansfield of old Hollywood

63 ‘‘Er, uh, that is …’’ 64 Dada pioneer 65 ____ Paulo 66 Rock singers? 67 Hedge fund titan nicknamed ‘‘The Palindrome’’

68 ‘‘Sorry, am ____ your way?’’

69 Drivin’ around the lot with pop-pop? 71 Overhead expenses? 72 Private Twitter transmissions, for short 73 ‘‘Absofruitalicious’’ cereal, in ads

74 Sponge alternative 75 Slangy possessive 76 What a pro bono lawyer provides

78 Very observant person

80 Shoulder blade 84 Pickup truck capacity, maybe

86 Detects

87 Sayin’ ‘‘Look, here’s the thing about dry land …’’?

90 To-dos

91 Batting ninth

92 The Children’s Defense Fund, e.g., in brief

93 Medical breakthrough

95 ‘‘Ish’’

96 Boiling mad

97 West Bank grp. 98 Realize

101 Kind

102 What was causin’ the doctor to check for joint pain?

108 Very consequential 109 The North Pole vis-à-vis the South Pole, e.g.

110 Go as low as 111 French/belgian river

112 Apollo and others 113 ‘‘Understood’’

DOWN

1 Online exchange, in brief

2 Animal feared by an ailurophobe

3 ‘‘What’s your ____?’’ (question to a guest en route)

4 Recycling container 5 Michael who wrote ‘‘The Neverending Story’’

6 Restricts, with ‘‘in’’ 7 Washing machine setting

8 Windshield clearer 9 Certain earring 10 Singer Tori 11 ‘‘What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?’’ band

12 Call of the wild? 13 One trading dollars for quarters

14 Paris suburb 15 French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars 16 Camila with the 2018 No. 1 hit ‘‘Havana’’ 17 Employ with regularity

18 Bird also known as a little auk

19 Scattered (about) 24 Blue Muppet with a pink nose

28 Obsidian, once 29 Aquarium creature with black-and-white stripes

30 Capital in the South Pacific

31 Teasing words when someone starts listing the digits of pi, say 32 Mythical creature seen on old Bhutanese stamps

34 Rock’s Joplin 35 Hägar the Horrible’s dog

37 Sure winners 39 Cross-country camping expedition, maybe

40 Treat as a bed

41 Hit the nail on the head, e.g.

43 Meager

47 Pope Francis’ homeland: Abbr.

49 Modern library borrowing

52 Bring in

54 Longtime media columnist David

55 Mate’s reply 56 Basketball Hall-offamer who was the first woman to sign an N.B.A. contract 57 Single-serving coffee brand

59 Landlocked Asian country

60 ____ Gorbachev, former first lady of the Soviet Union

61 His tombstone reads ‘‘Workers of all lands unite’’

62 Moves like Jell-o 65 Told

66 Hiccups 68 Coming-out announcement 69 Buttinsky

70 Certain nest egg, for short 72 Blue-and-white earthenware pottery 73 Dramatic ballroom dance

76 Two-time Best Ac- tress winner Rainer 77 Eva of ‘‘Desperate Housewives’’ 78 Ho-hum feelings 79 Opposite of exo80 Soft and wet

81 ____ oxide (red compound) 82 Egg-carton spec 83 Special dinner order 85 Boo-boos

88 Home past curfew 89 Like the Met Gala 94 Online notice for a party

97 Phnom ____, Cambodia

98 ‘‘____ to tyrants, and my country’s friend’’ (words of Cato in ‘‘Julius Caesar’’) 99 Naval officer: Abbr. 100 Grandson of Eve 102 Budgetary excess 103 Make a decision 104 ‘‘There but for the grace of God ____’’ 105 Intel missions 106 Western native 107 About one inch of a foot