NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Picnic annoyance 8 Cold quarters 13 Racetrack informant

20 Like okapis and giraffes

21 Sit pensively

22 Cry from a survivor 23 Conversation over a few whiskeys? 25 Wear

26 Pose

27 Mario Vargas

Llosa’s country 28 Strummed instrument, for short

29 Where butter and cheese are produced

30 ____ buddies 31 Moreover

32 Org. for drivers 33 Return to base 36 2015 Verizon purchase

38 Filth covering pecans and such? 45 Borodin opera prince 46 Fasten, in a way, with “in”

48 Asian holiday 49 Tush 50 Venison spread? 53 Relics, to Brits 55 “You betcha!” 56 Very beginning? 58 Give a leg up … or a hand

59 Lose one’s coat 60 Casting need 61 Notwithstanding 63 Brings on 64 Sprayed in the face 67 Hardly a dolt? 68 Powerful scents 69 Made up

70 Virus fighters 71 Director Wenders 72 Unnamed character in Camus’s “The Stranger” 73 Ground cover? 74 Connections 75 Buds come in them 80 Office’s counterpart 83 Avoid a jerk? 85 Mozart’s Don Alfonso and Leporello 86 Shout with an accent 88 Gathered intelligence (on) 89 It has lots on the internet

90 Break up with an “unbreakable” Ellie Kemper character? 93 “Black-ish” network

94 Part of a kit

95 It may be found next to a spade 96 Sashimi option 98 Ready for battle 100 DNA building block 105 Restroom sign 106 “What’s Going On”

singer, 1971 107 Tampa Bay

N.F.L.’er

110 Beats in the race 111 Puts a stop to

sentimentality? 114 Term for a word that isn’t the dictionary but maybe should be 115 Subject of una

serenata

116 Subject of the 2006 documentary “When the Levees Broke”

117 Promenades 118 Rehab program 119 Plug

Down

1 Cake with rum 2 Hovering craft 3 Understand 4 Industry, for short 5 Treat on a stick 6 Stuns, in a way 7 Intruded (on) 8 Watson’s company 9 Cavity filler

10 Be a witness 11 Exude 12 Loving verse? 13 Some pageant wear 14 Brought charges against 15 Daddy 16 Criticize severely 17 Part of a makeshift swing

18 ____ after 19 Depend

24 “Just pretend I’m right”

29 Singer of high notes 30 Scottish accents 33 Dusted off, say 34 James who won a posthumous Pulitzer

35 Says, informally 37 “When the Levees Broke” director 39 High ____ 40 Publisher in a robe, familiarly 41 Algonquian Indians 42 Open, as a bottle 43 Prince and others 44 Some drink garnishes

46 Fish whose name sounds like the past tense of 46-Across? 47 Greets silently 51 Begets

52 Take back

54 3-3, e.g.

57 Site of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 61 Professional fixer, for short

62 Uses Gchat, e.g. 63 Scornful sound 64 H.G. Wells villain 65 Four-time Australian Open winner 66 Picasso, e.g. 67 Recent arrival 68 Personalized music gift 69 Backyard shindig, informally 70 Perfect score, or half of a score 71 Smart remarks 73 Zooey of Fox’s “New Girl” 75 Long, narrow pieces of luggage 76 Modify 77 Where Hemingway wrote “The Old Man and the Sea” 78 Old Chrysler 79 ____ terrier 81 Parties 82 Pastor role in “There Will Be Blood” 84 Keeper of the books, for short 87 Japanese appetizer 91 Lifts

92 Everything 94 Appear that way 97 101 course

99 “… I’ll eat ____!” 100 Order (around) 101 May or Bee

102 Prevent from

clumping, say 103 In conclusion 104 Sway

107 Random data point 108 ____ Reader 109 Powerful politico 111 & 112 Coupled 113 “Collage With Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance” artist