THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 What a deadline increases 9 Dental brand 14 Neaten (up)

19 Jet routes

20 First name in flying history

21 “____ the Doughnut,” children’s book series

22 Classic saying originated by John Donne

24 Like oxfords, but not slippers

25 Really put one’s foot down

26 Shaded

27 ____ O’s (breakfast cereal)

28 Love, love, love 29 Population grouping, informally

31 Aid for making a tikibar cocktail

34 Isn’t attending solo, say 38 Bouncer’s requests, for short 39 Beethoven title woman (whose identity is unknown) 40 Supreme Egyptian deity 41 Standing on the street 44 Carpenter ____ 45 Pin number? 48 “Glad to have you back, dear!” 52 Actor/tv host Joel 55 To take this, paradoxically, might signify taking a stand 56 Wedding exchange 57 The D-backs, on scoreboards

58 Quack doctor’s offering 59 London neighborhood west of Covent Garden 62 Most expensive block 64 Kirghizia or Byelorussia: Abbr. 67 Quick hit

69 Word in the Declaration of Independence but not the Constitution 70 ____ Rachel Wood of “Westworld” 71 “Can’t you ____?” 72 Post-interruption question

75 Plant used in making biofuel

77 ____ Schomburg, Harlem Renaissance figure

78 Haiti’s ____ de la Tortue

79 Like some coffee and sprains 82 Heedless 86 “Fantabulous!” 87 First ruler of a united Hawaii

91 Boot attachment 92 ____ Pre√

94 Loan option, briefly 95 Like a narrow baseball win

96 Fixture whose name translates to “small horse”

99 Result of the ‘64 Clay/

Liston fight

101 Hitting the ground

heavily

103 Relatively light

foundry product

108 Wash. neighbor

109 Lavishes affection

(on)

110 Super-quality

111 “This one’s all mine!”

113 Like about 97 percent

of U.S. land

117 Óscar ____, 1987 Peace Nobelist from Costa Rica 118 Potful in some Italian kitchens

121 Given (to) 122 Stock-exchange worker

123 Makes Don nod? 124 Things that can be closed with a zip 125 Brains

126 Least spicy

Down

1 Trashes

2 ____ shield 3 Bombeck who wrote “At Wit’s End” 4 Participates in a mosh pit

5 Los Angeles port district

6 Sea urchin, at a sushi bar

7 Took another take 8 Isaac’s firstborn 9 Meditation sounds 10 Click the circular arrow button, say 11 Aids for sleepyheads 12 Top part of an I.R.S. form

13 Red morning sky, to sailors

14 Part of an Italian sub 15 Some pricey handbags 16 Things Wyoming and Nevada lack

17 Guy who hosts “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” 18 Overnighting option 20 It’s been performed more than 1,000 times at the Met 23 Kan. neighbor 30 Title for a lady 32 Be outta sight? 33 Alice in Chains genre 34 Atlanta hoopster 35 Repeated word in Hozier’s 2014 hit “Take Me to Church” 36 Base of an arch 37 Video call annoyance 42 Falling-out 43 Mammal’s head and heart? 44 “Pokémon” cartoon genre 46 High-ranking 47 Chutzpah

49 Call to mind

50 Like Parmesan and pecorino

51 “You do it ____ will” 53 Stick (to)

54 That guy

60 Cheri of old “S.N.L.” 61 “With what frequency?” 62 “The Masque of the Red Death” writer 63 Duck

64 Tries for a fly

65 Film character who says “That’ll do, Donkey. That’ll do” 66 Payback 68 Christensen of “Parenthood”

69 Grammy winner Stefani

73 Classic work by Karel Capek 74 Whitney for whom a Connecticut museum is named

76 Certain security

officer

79 Prez No. 34

80 Quick pick-me-up?

81 Send forth

83 Atmospheric prefix

84 Ostracize

85 Be left undecided

88 Watered-down rum

89 Common lecture

length

90 Giant in fairy tales?

93 Queen Anne’s royal

family

97 “Let me clarify ... “

98 Trashes

99 Yellow-brick-road

traveler

100 Folds and stretches

102 Backpacker’s

lodging

103 Make lemonade from

lemons, so to speak

104 Peter of “Casablanca”

105 “The Dick Van Dyke

Show” co-star

106 Wood stain has a

strong one

107 Tiny ____

112 Hurtful remark

114 Ploy

115 Pocket rockets, in

poker

116 In the event that

119 Symbol on a Junction

Ahead sign

120 Future zygotes