THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 ____ Page, the Queen of Pinups 7 Flavorful meat coating 15 End-of-week cry 19 O.K. to play, in a way 20 Obsession with a single subject 22 Country’s McEntire 23 ”We can’t play that game - I can’t reach it on our shelf!”

25 Operating system developed at Bell Labs 26 Onetime White House family 27 Corroded 28 Sunken-ship sites 30 Travel option for Birthright trips 31 Natural-gas component 34 Dress (up) 35 Standout 36 Turning point in history 38 ”My sincerest apologies, but that game is off the table” 43 Unearth

46 Bills

47 Many a Snapchat posting

48 Suit that’s hard to get into

51 Old Buick 53 What’s plucked in “she loves me, she loves me not”

54 ”We can’t play that game unless we borrow someone else’s” 56 Laughs and laughs 57 French city grid 58 People vis-à-vis gods 59 It’s a trek

60 “It ____” (“Who’s there?” reply) 61 Show overuse, as a sofa

62 They may have attachments 63 Strand 65 Hammarskjöld once of the U.N. 68 Provisions

70 ____ school 71 Bone connection with convex and concave fittings 73 ____ Mode, woman in “The Incredibles” 75 Word repeated in the openings of “Star Wars” movies

76 ”I’m begging you, let’s not play that game!” 77 Antinuclear treaty topic 79 Pop-up site 80 Daniel who wrote “Flowers for Algernon” 81 Island greetings 82 Take over

83 Info in dating profiles 85 ”No, that game would be over in a flash” 88 One of 26 for Walt Disney 91 Common filler words 92 Common filler words 93 “If you are always trying to be ____, you will never know how amazing you can be”: Maya Angelou 96 Praise for a picador 98 Frida Kahlo, por ejemplo

100Novelist McEwan 101 Grammy winner Mary J. ____ 102 Cosmonaut Gagarin 103 ”I’ve finally decided! I’m ...”

109 Small matter 110 “Looking to go somewhere?” 111 Densest natural element

112 Bead source 113 Officials in ancient Rome

114 They vary from past to present

Down

1 Isolated hill 2 Surround with light 3 1996 Robert De Niro/Wesley Snipes psychological thriller

4 Bird in a holiday song

5 “Black ____,” Georgia O’Keeffe painting at the Met

6 Ewoks or Jawas, in brief

7 One of academia’s Seven Sisters 8 Impersonate

9 It might result in a defensive TD 10 Aviary sound

11 Full of broodiness, say 12 Cheerleader’s cheer 13 Synchronized states 14 Narcissist’s quality 15 Who you really are 16 M?F?M, e.g. 17 One of the first birds released by Noah after the flood, in legend

18 Kind of number not much seen nowadays

21 “Of course!” 24 Krazy ____ of the comics

29 More villainous 31 Hosp. readout 32 Penalties for illegal bowls in cricket 33 Largest active Antarctic volcano 34 Little ‘un 37 Vessels seen in 2004’s “Troy” 39 Like albino alligators 40 General ____ chicken 41 Work (up) 42 Things needed in passing? 44 Supervillain in DC Comics

45 More smoky, as Scotch

48 Goals

49 Bird named for a Titan

50 Polling calculations 52 Spill coffee on, maybe 53 Blandishment 55 Actor’s honor, informally

56 Rigid 59 Attacked 60 They’re shared among friends 63 Whiz

64 Classic work whose “shorter” version comes in two vols.

66 Image on the ceiling of la chapelle Sixtine 67 Classic Pontiacs 69 He’s often pictured carrying an hourglass 71 Apply haphazardly 72 It comes just before a period 73 List-ending abbr. 74 Scale site

75 Fleet

76 When doubled, dismiss out of hand 78 Low voices 79 Turn’s partner 82 Secondary loan signer

84 D.C. insider 86 Get-go

87 Old vacuum tube 89 Suspect statements?

90 Fix, as a model plane 94 ____-nest 95 Aesop’s “The ____ and the Grasshopper”

97 Is for all intents and purposes 98 Taurus or Touareg 99 ____ Marino

101 Big name in speakers

102 Go on and on 104 Tyrant Amin 105 Catch 106 “Despicable Me” protagonist 107 Ominous sight at a beach

108 Go bad