THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Per

7 Per ____ 11 Feature on the back of some pajamas 15 Conversation interrupter in a car, at times 18 Cured salmon 19 Jazzy Anita 20 Top-shelf

21 Go bad 22 Lists about a port on the Black Sea

24 Guaranteed to succeed 26 Auspice 27 Referring to this clue within this clue, e.g. 28 Neighborhoods surrounded by crime

30 1970s-’90s chess champion 33 Fill-in

35 ____ Store 36 Laura of “ER” 37 Provide cover for, say 39 Fad dance move of 2015 40 Blue-green hue 42 Style of Radio City Music Hall, informally

43 Metal pin stuck in parts of sinks

47 Figure skater Sonja 49 Shout after seeing Godzilla 50 Motorsports vehicle 51 ____ ammoniac 52 Good times 54 Capital of the world’s happiest country, per a 2017 U.N. survey 55 QB’s cry 56 Unpleasant

58 The dark side 59 One of the principal deities in Hinduism

61 Sliding item on a car 64 Carne ____ (taco option) 67 ____ Dimas, Calif. 68 Flourishes around monsoon events

71 Sample-collecting org.

73 Lush

75 React to a haymaker 76 Slack-jawed

78 Pot note 79 Heaters 80 Major investors in start-up cos.

82 Its filling contained lard until 1997 83 Dangerous vipers 86 Ka-boom! 87 1972 No. 1 hit with the lyric “No one’s ever gonna keep me down again” 89 Regret 90 Ranger’s wear 92 Fear among underground workers 95 It goes downhill 97 First name in 1950s comedy 98 Actor John of the “Harold & Kumar” films 99 Nordstrom competitor

100Shades of tan 102 “Pimp My Ride” network 103 Curry of the N.B.A. 105 Moves, as a plant 109 Coming up in vetoes 112 Got 100 on

114 “I’ll get this done” 115 Licorice-flavored extract 116 Crew found inside again and again 120 Spy novelist Deighton 121 Poet ____ St. Vincent Millay 122 Kook 123 “Fawlty Towers” or “The Vicar of Dibley” 124 Need a lift? 125 Looking up 126 And others, for short

127 Gets fresh with

Down

1 Nose of a wine 2 Single-____ (like a certain health care system) 3 Does his name ring a bell?

4 Pipe joint 5 “Cool” sort 6 Reason to pull an all-nighter 7 Partner of a crossed “t” 8 Creative sort 9 Something pressed against a conch

10 Game predecessor of Riven 11 Certain spa treatment 12 Baker’s container 13 The “I” of

“The King and I” 14 ____ dish

15 Bad puns 16 Song with verses by four or more rappers 17 Mounties’ hats 18 Understand 23 “Go” preceder 25 Give for a while 29 Hindu exercise system

31 “Do as I say!” 32 Climbing plant in the pea family 34 Broadcaster of many Ken Burns documentaries 38 Something to work through with a therapist 41 Benghazi native 43 Waste 44 Actress Phylicia of “Creed” 45 “Fighting” collegiate team

46 Stella ____ (beer) 48 Another name for Dido 51 Hybrid activewear 53 Santa ____ winds 56 Tailor’s measure 57 See 74-Down 60 Take in

62 Blood type of a “universal donor” 63 Ardent

65 “Oh, heavens!” 66 Take off an invisibility cloak 69 Lit a fire under 70 Annual event viewed live by hundreds of millions of people, with “the” 72 Big stretches 74 With 57-Down, something filling fills 77 Graceful losers, e.g. 81 Besmirch 83 Magazine places 84 Don Quixote’s unseen beloved 85 Sign with an antlered pictogram 86 Award won by “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” 88 Speedboat follower 91 Continues 92 Hosts, for short 93 Words of empathy

94 “You shouldn’t’ve done that”

96 The Blues Brothers and others 101 Emulate Snidely Whiplash

104 Hack down 106 Chilled

107 Costa Ricans, in slang 108 Modern education acronym 110 Brouhaha

111 Lid irritant

113 “I call that!” 117 Very in 118 Second Amendment org.

119 U.S.O. audience