NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

OF COURSE! By Jack Mowat and Jeff Chen / Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Big inits. in news 4 Place to visit in a

suit 10 Sign of winter’s

end 16 Purchase that often

costs 99¢ 19 Something picked at

with a pickax 20 Comic Jones

formerly of “S.N.L.” 21 Fleet 22 Low-____ 23 Duffer’s approach shots that barely go anywhere? 25 Like kids, but not

mom or dad? 26 Gaza grp. 27 Bad position for a

server 28 Pick up 30 CD follower 31 Flair 32 Post-Mao Chinese

leader 33 Duffer’s putt that

just misses? 37 Goes on a

tweetstorm 39 ____ Reader 40 Tiny insects in a

swarm 41 Founder of

WikiLeaks 44 Common skirt

feature 45 Preparatory time 46 Nickname for a duffer who can’t hit straight? 49 “____ on!” 51 Yapped like a dog 55 Make (out) 56 Pauses 57 King Midas’s

downfall 59 Sport 60 Showing signs of

neglect 62 Orphan girl in

Byron’s “Don Juan” 64 Lodgers 66 Result of spectators’

heckling a duffer? 71 Rope holding down

a bowsprit 73 Course that’s free of

obstacles? 74 It was “a no-go” in Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” 77 “Such is life!” 78 Foaming at the

mouth 81 Certain insurance

coverage 84 Line on a map: Abbr. 85 Protection 87 Rapper Lil ____ X 88 Duffer’s problems with an angled club? 90 Scale starter, per “The Sound of Music” 92 Attach to the end of 94 On the button 95 “I’m listening” 98 Physician Jonas 99 Actress Davis 100 Duffer’s reasons to

choose a wood? 104 Turntable rates, in

brief 108 Letter-shaped

fastener 109 ____ order 110 Wolf (down) 111 Button on a DVD

player 112 Cool, in an uncool

way 113 Something consumed with a cracker? 115 Like the duffer in

this puzzle? 118 Palindrome in

poetry 119 Box up 120 Cause of fatigue 121 VW predecessors? 122 New York city on

Long Island Sound 123 Like the “Mona

Lisa” in 1911 124 Civics and Accords 125 School of thought

DOWN

1 Wanderer 2 ____ Parade, annual June celebration 3 Intel producer 4 Scads 5 Part of the upper

bod 6 “Or so” 7 V.I.P. rosters 8 More yellow, but

not yet brown, say 9 Like a question for which “maybe” is not an option 10 Capital of French

Polynesia 11 Off the internet, to

internet users 12 Blue toon in a white

dress 13 Chocolate

substitute 14 Japanese soybean

appetizer 15 Nickname that can be either masculine or feminine 16 Standard outlet

connection 17 Grand dwelling 18 Carelessly drops 24 Ankle-biter 29 Move stealthily 31 Weapon sought by

Voldemort 33 Woman with a well-known internet “list” 34 Cardiologist’s tool 35 Like some

personalities 36 Go full ____ (throw a world-class hissy fit) 38 Certain employee at ESPN or JPMorgan Chase 41 Vanquishers of

kings? 42 Drink in a little cup 43 Piece of training equipment in boxing 44 Put forth, as a

theory 47 Dance that men

often do shirtless 48 Europe-based grp. with no European members 50 Org. that employs

radio telescopes 52 Principle of

harmonious design 53 Absorb, as a loss 54 Ones practicing:

Abbr. 57 ____ Purchase, 1853 land deal with Mexico 58 Actor Patel 61 Thorn in a dictator’s

side 63 Grassy field 65 Kind of rating 67 Road crew’s supply 68 House speaker

before Pelosi 69 Went green,

perhaps? 70 Called up 71 Call to a shepherd 72 Stadium cry 75 Milk sources 76 Disintegrate, in a way, as cells in the body 79 SOS in

Gotham City 80 Biblical figure with a tomb in the Cave of the Patriarchs 82 Simple shelter 83 Spanish winds 86 Convinced 88 No longer sleeping 89 “Marriage Story”

co-star, to fans 91 Simple and

ingenious 93 Sparkle 95 Have trouble

deciding 96 Headstrong 97 Spot coverage? 99 Like a wunderkind 101 Edie of “The

Sopranos” 102 Spoilers,

of a sort 103 Witch 105 “Catch That ____ Spirit” (old ad slogan) 106 Exams for some bio

majors 107 Pull some strings? 111 Guesses by GPSes 113 Director Craven 114 Play with 116 Thurman of “Pulp

Fiction” 117 Word with rolling or

bowling