Across THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
1 Company often cited in business studies about disruptive innovation 6 Barbecue applications 10 Center of an ear 13 Authorized 18 Superman, for one 19 Bit of Q.E.D. 20 Brian who created the Windows 95 start-up sound 21 Time-machine option
22 Binary, as some questions 23 Settled on 25 “Here’s the thing ...” 26 Make heads or tails of a situation ... or an alternative title for this puzzle
29 Like a pigsty 31 What an aglet is for a shoelace 32 Some pain relievers 35 Sharer’s word 36 ____ parm
39 Give a talking-to 41 Bit of letter-shaped hardware
42 Food catcher
43 Got misty-eyed, with “up”
45 Tricksy maneuver 48 Bearded beast 49 Satellite signal receiver 51 Orange County’s ____ Beach 54 Whistle-blower in 2013 news 57 Donkey Kong and others 59 Dresses’ upper sections
61 Cherry, for one
63 College town in Iowa
65 Units in linguistics
67 Selfish sort
68 Home to the
Alhambra
70 Confused
72 The invaders in Space Invaders, in brief
73 Things held up to the ear
77 Nobel and Pulitzer winner Morrison 78 Part of a mission 80 Unfavorable 82 Some coolers 84 Surgeon’s tool 86 Slowpokes
88 “30 for 30” network 90 Lab noise?
91 Lazy ____
93 Relied on no one else 95 [That knocked the wind out of me!] 97 Free offering from a cafe
99 Certain colors in printing 102 Beyoncé’s role in 2019’s “The Lion King”
103 Having as a hobby
104 No-goodnik
107 ____-Tiki
108 One fighting against
Thanos
110 Kind of visual puzzle ... or what to do with each line in this puzzle’s two shaded areas 115 Location in the Beach Boys’ “Kokomo”
117 Dog days of winter? 118 House-elf in the Harry Potter books 121 Any one of the Magi, to Jesus 122 Cousin of Inc. 123 Mount ____, much hiked peak in Yosemite
124 Not hide one’s feelings 125 Applesauce brand 126 Drano component 127 Site for handmade goods 128 Introduction
Down
1 2 Kick World start? Cup cry 3 2007 Shia Labeouf thriller or a 2008 No. 1 hit by Rihanna 4 Hero of a Virgil epic 5 Bit of raised land 6 Someone with all the desired qualities 7 Craving
8 “Eww, gross” 9 “Leave it be” 10 ____ the Entertainer (actor and comedian) 11 In addition to 12 [Out of nowhere!] 13 Nintendo character with a green cap 14 Summer complaint 15 State-of-the-art 16 Fuming state
17 X
21 Word before phone or book
24 Little salamanders 27 Word in the corner of a TV news broadcast
28 Paris’s Musée ____ (art museum) 29 No-goodnik 30 Pounds 33 Brooks & ____ (country duo) 34 Man’s nickname found in consecutive letters of the alphabet
37 Like about half of the OPEC countries 38 Danish tourist attraction since 1968 40 Tone down 43 Society at large 44 ____ ranch 46 Promoter of gender equality, for short 47 Like some tennis shots and most push-ups 50 No-frills
52 Strike out 53 Expert 55 Humdingers
56 The circled letters in the first shaded area 58 Title for many a W.H. aspirant 60 Substance discharged
62 The circled letters in the second shaded area
64 Ink container 66 Went unused 68 Manage to heave the ball before time expires 69 Dispense (with) 71 Hopeless from the start, slangily
Job in Egg Long brief seekers’ maker stretches needs, 74 75 76 79 81 83 The of Conf. the Golden Mid-american Flashes
Jazz’s Cartoon who Krusty works Fitzgerald Krab character at the
84 85 Vim Article that’s and an of vigor anagram apparel of apparel other articles of
87 Length between of noons time
89 90 Point Cries of out
disappointment
92 With full disclosure
94 Roof part
96 Supporting
98 Somewhat
100 “That didn’t work!”
101 Foul mood
103 Earnings
105 Sights in the
Jerusalem skyline
106 One of six in
Subaru’s logo
109 Over
111 Bit of raised land
112 Direction in a film
script
113 ____ bro
114 Long stretches
115 Comic book
onomatopoeia 116 Big whoop 119 A/C spec
120 Even so