THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
FOUR BY FOUR No: 0928
Across
1 Bygone potentate 9 Ottoman inns 16 Web starter 20 Kind of steroid 21 Small thing to burn 22 “Fancy meeting you here!” 23 1975 Tonynominated play about an extended affair 25 Spanish province 26 Rehnquist’s successor on the high bench 27 New home loan deal, in short 28 Exclaimed 30 “Guardians of the Galaxy” title characters, informally 31 Org. implementing the Protect America Act 33 Audacity 35 Chief justice during the Civil War 36 Relationships 37 Skateboard jump 39 Private parts 43 Clear-minded 46 The Crossroads of the West 51 Fields 53 Early-millennium year 54 Undermine 55 Prop on “The Bachelor” 56 What a bachelor might do 57 ___ Watts, English hymnist who wrote “Joy
to the World” 60 Uncontested basketball attempts 62 Swarms 64 Rockefeller Center statue 66 Go after 67 Irons, say 69 Encourage 71 Like a good-size estate, maybe 75 “Wait, you can’t possibly think. ... ” 77 Writer painted by Velázquez 79 Pre-Bill Hillary 80 Historic figure with a reputation at stake? 84 Shelfmate of Bartlett’s, maybe 86 Onion relative 87 Go cheek-to-cheek with 88 Lingo 90 Good source of iron? 91 Exxon Valdez, e.g. 92 Warm way to welcome someone 97 Millennials, informally 98 Unflinching 99 Be profligate, say 100 Radio host John 102 Throat problem 106 Team of oxen 107 “Say what?” 108 Brother 111 Not now 114 Stats for Aaron and Gehrig 116 Deeds 118 Goddess of marriage 119 Common slogan for a music radio station 123 Kind of cavity 124 Vatican City vis-à-vis Rome 125 “CSI: Miami” actress 126 Take in some views? 127 Some farms 128 Unpredictable one
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1 Pool stroke 2 Put on ___ 3 Gaza group 4 Biblical brother 5 Corkscrew-shaped pasta 6 George Orwell and George Eliot 7 Parsons of “The Big Bang Theory” 8 Taiwanese computer giant 9 Flowing glacial feature 10 Mandible’s counterpart 11 Not the main rte. 12 The natural in “The Natural” 13 Build 14 Sparkly topper 15 Relative of a canary 16 “Don’t be ashamed” 17 Vincent van Gogh’s brother 18 G 19 Pub order 24 Haggle 29 Hard to grasp 32 “Ditto” 34 Valley girl’s filler 36 Reagan’s challenge to Gorbachev 38 Architect Saarinen 40 Langston Hughes poem with the lines “They send me to eat in the kitchen / When company comes” 41 Earliest-born member of the Cartoon Hall of Fame 42 “___ Mine, All Mine” (1920s tune) 43 Goldman’s banking partner 44 “___ of One’s Own” (Woolf essay) 45 Intro to science? 47 ___ Leslie, threetime W.N.B.A. M.V.P. 48 Get by 49 Driver’s lic., e.g. 50 Like overtime periods vis-à-vis regulation play 52 Prefix with - scope 58 Bit of seaweed 59 Cav or Mav 61 Brand with a red arrow through its logo 63 Synagogue instrument 65 Middlin’ 68 Some smug comments 70 Bum 72 It has almost 4,000 miles of coastline 73 Lustrous black 74 It might be at your fingertips 76 Work units 78 One picked out of a lineup, informally 80 Classic movie shot on Martha’s Vineyard 81 Dead reckoning? 82 Prefix with correct 83 Sights at 127Across 85 Baby ___ 89 Bar jarful 93 Pituitary gland output, briefly 94 Corrupt 95 Activates, in
computer lingo 96 No one can drive in this 101 Protect 103 All worked up 104 Justice Kagan 105 Oscar-winning actor whose name is Italian for “fishes” 108 Trees and shrubs 109 Come back 110 Posed 111 2007 purchaser of Applebee’s 112 Nephew of Caligula 113 Asia’s ___ Sea 115 Duck that nests in tree hollows 117 Gillette brand name 120 Olympus OM-2, e.g. 121 ___ chi 122 Egg: Prefix