NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

INITIAL DESCRIPTION

ACROSS 1 Ascribes, with “up” 7 Title film character played by Tyler Perry 12 Hails 19 Showy gymnastics maneuver 20 Togalike

Roman cloak 22 In an attentive

manner 23 SWAN 26 Crunchy green

vegetable 27 Profitable 28 Sportscaster

Johnson 29 Show up 31 Wet blanket? 33 They contain

libidos 34 MARS 43 Largest city

of Yemen 44 French region now part of the Grand Est 45 Ally (with) 46 Hershey product similar to a Heath bar 47 Part of a

domain name 49 Gists 51 Foreboding

atmosphere 55 ATLAS 60 Fixed fee 63 Spa sound 64 “Once in Love

With ____” 65 Objectivist Rand 66 Fat-substitute

brand 67 Pride-parade

letters 69 Self-referential 71 Fifth-century pope dubbed “the Great” 73 An evergreen 74 Martinique,

par exemple 75 Exist 76 Musical instruments that lie flat 78 TRIO 84 Jose ____

(tequila brand) 85 ____ the

Explorer 86 Chapel Hill sch. 87 It’s a long story 91 Squealed 93 Really bothers 96 Drew useful

material from 97 OKAY 101 Fiery end? 103 ____ es Salaam 104 Of a heart chamber 105 Direct 108 Stop, in sailor’s

lingo 112 Shudder of

emotion 117 WASP 120 Opening letters? 121 One of the

Wahlbergs 122 One way

to pay 123 Introversion 124 Idol worshiper 125 Yoga poses DOWN 1 Musical Mama 2 Cut 3 Something

delivered by a diva 4 Droopy 5 Capital of Uganda 6 Nearly out? 7 Gullet 8 Second first lady 9 Foolish oldsters 10 K thru 12 11 King who spoke at Kennedy’s inaugural ball 12 Lugs 13 Samuel Adams, e.g. 14 Rich supply 15 Natl. Guard

counterpart 16 Small, as Beanie

Babies 17 1961 title role for

Charlton Heston 18 A comic called

Wanda 21 Burglar frightener 24 ____ Nui (Easter

Island) 25 Mooers’ mouthfuls 30 Muse of lyric

poetry 32 Flight of fancy 34 Publisher’s

pile: Abbr. 35 ____ Park, Ill. 36 Commercial

lead-in to Caps 37 “____ Boom-DeAy” 38 Certain house ...

or house dressing 39 Land next to Peru:

Abbr. 40 Obligation 41 Drop a line, say 42 Raise 47 Banned insecticide 48 Desdemona’s

husband, in opera 50 Candidate’s goal 52 Bobby of the Black

Panthers 53 Stephenie who wrote the “Twilight” series 54 Periodic table figs. 56 Actor Holm 57 Where cultures

thrive? 58 Horse bit 59 Wonder Woman

is one 60 City, but not

county, leader? 61 Yale of Yale

University 62 La ____ (notre

planète) 68 Neuter 69 Med. scan 70 Poetic time 71 Stop: Abbr. 72 That life evolves,

to Darwin 74 Pressed 75 Apothegm 77 Global sports

org. 79 German for “first” 80 Cole Porter’s “Well,

Did You ____?” 81 Actress Anderson 82 They may match presidential administrations 83 Train 88 Nonspecific

amount 89 Mild exclamation 90 Supplemental

work for actors 92 Golden ____ (General Mills cereal) 94 Winter Olympics

activity 95 Willa Cather’s

“My ____” 96 Bad-mouths 97 Writer who coined the term “banana republic” (1904) 98 Drab

songbird 99 Airport amenity 100 Realm chronicled

by C. S. Lewis 101 ____ expected

(predictably) 102 1991 Wimbledon

champ Michael 106 Ghostbuster

Spengler 107 ____ Préval, two-time president of Haiti 109 Say further 110 Brandy grade,

briefly 111 Volcano at the meeting point of the African and Eurasian plates 113 Pet-protection

agcy. 114 White House spokesman Spicer 115 Greek peak 116 Some

degrees 118 Bad start? 119 Col.’s

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