THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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1 Era of ignorance 9 Elevators in an office building? 14 Houston squad, casually 19 Eaglelike 20 Mississippi River bottom feeder 21 “Wouldn’t that be nice!” 22 Satchel for a homicide detective? 24 Joe of “GoodFellas” 25 Something found at the top of many a Google search page 26 Manufactured 27 Baking soda has many of these 29 Tush

30 Danny Ocean’s exwife in “Ocean’s Eleven” 31 Unseasonal wear on a winter vacation?

34 Map 36 Parisian waters 37 Jewish mourning period

38 Zoom, e.g. 39 Baseball stats sometimes called 39-Down

42 Jerk

46 Static

48 Swiss canton that was home to William Tell 49 Variety of stud poker, familiarly 50 Berry with two diacritics in its name

51 “Get ____!” 52 Late-morning meal for a TV family? 58 Dorm overseers, for short

59 Sports event with two diacritics in its name

60 Cry after “Company” 61 Who wrote, “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king”

64 One way to buy mustard cheaply? 67 Like the number i, mathematically 68 Burns writing 69 Strong bond

70 A pillar of Islam 71 Emails such as “Click this link to become an Apollo astronaut”?

77 Erie Canal city 80 ____ Spiegel, cofounder of Snapchat 81 “Darling, won’t you ____ my worried mind” (“Layla” lyric) 82 Peter’s chief of staff on “The Good Wife” 83 Down-on-their-luck sorts

84 Hit the hide off the baseball 86 Beauts 87 Backgrounds in theater 88 Tempur-Pedic rival 90 Seawater compound 92 Neophytes 93 Collection of Yulecentric posts? 98 Boxing venue 99 Nagy of Hungarian history

100Wooded valley 101 Bird on Walden Pond in “Walden”

102 Like services covered by a health insurer

105 Drops

107 Utensil for eating some cured meat? 110 Link with 111 Brainpower

112 See to it

113 When a happy hour might start 114 Haven 115 Seizure cause

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1 Deaden acoustically 2 Blue shade 3 Kingdom in “The Prisoner of Zenda” 4 Leg-pullers

5 Div. for the Red 106-Down 6 Secures with a band 7 S.A.S.E., e.g.: Abbr. 8 They require stitches

9 What the rotator cuff rotates

10 School extension? 11 Neutral shades 12 Word from the Latin for “noose”

13 One caught by a 12-Down

14 Nurse 15 Can-can dancing? 16 Formula for slope in math

17 Costa Rican president who won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize 18 Stuffed ____ 20 Clay and oil, for artists

23 “For heaven ____” 28 Some ways on Waze: Abbr.

32 Split personality? 33 Branch of Islam 34 Appurtenance for a cartoon Neanderthal 35 Mannheim mister 39 Delmonico steak cuts 40 Document listing technical specifications 41 TV network with a science-y name 43 Prefix with puncture

44 More sensible 45 One is roughly the mass of a speck of dust 47 Festoons with Charmin, for short 49 Charged up 53 Laura of “Big Little Lies” 54 Confucian philosopher ____ Hsi 55 Really trendy

56 Hit just beyond the infield 57 Hightail it, saltily 62 Ocean froth 63 “The Simpsons” bar 64 Asian fruits used in Western alternative medicine 65 Norwegian king near the end of the first millennium 66 Non-____ (food label) 67 Western powwow held every year or so 70 “Come again?” 72 Limit

73 “Fancy that!” 74 People like you 75 Orfeo in Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice,” e.g.

76 Not catch 78 Crescent-shaped Italian pastries 79 Piedmont wine town 85 Alternatives to gelcaps 86 Semiliquid stuff

87 Neural junction 89 So-so filler? 91 Lunkheads 92 Holiday glitter 93 Flora and fauna 94 Plaster for painting 95 Animal used to guard sheep and goats 96 Spanish crockery 97 Munchkin 98 “____-Tikki-Tavi” 103 Misreckons

104 “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is ____”: Churchill

106 See 5-Down 108 Numerical prefix 109 Much Top 40 music now