NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

AUDUBON SOCIETY BY BRIAN HERRICK AND CHRISTOPHER ADAMS Across

1 Part of L.G.B.T., for short 6 Like wine, but not grape juice 10 Chances 14 Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore 19 “The Jungle Book” bear 20 Part of a theater? 21 Do for a few months? 22 “Lovergirl” singer Marie 23 *“Soak Up the Sun” singer, 2002 25 *Fictional protagonist who attends elementary school in Maycomb County 27 Smooth over 28 Onetime “Come hungry. Leave happy” sloganeer 29 Tolkien trilogy, for short 30 Hawk 31 Pick up from school 33 Nat ____ (documentary channel, for short) 35 Gentle attentiongetter 36 Divert 38 *Actress in “Alien” and “Avatar” 42 Farthest orbital point from the moon 44 ____ smear 45 Patois 48 Grace’s partner on Netflix 49 Symbolic item 51 Avoids attention for now 53 Ingredient in bananas Foster 54 Cease 55 Completely lost 56 Speck in la mer 57 Ivanovic who won the 2008 French Open 58 Lend a hand when one shouldn’t 60 “Cool your jets!” 62 Directs 64 Really, really hope 65 Aqib ____, fivetime Pro Bowl cornerback 67 #carpediem 69 Kitchen timer sound 70 Labors 71 Iowa college city that isn’t Iowa City 73 Corrida combatants 75 One of the Spice Girls 76 Swedish vodka brand 79 Tease relentlessly 80 Hamilton and Burr, e.g. 83 “Nice job, dude!” 84 Poker-faced 85 You might gain knowledge through this 86 Direction from Tampa to Orlando, for short 87 “Don’t include me in this!” 89 Dipsomaniacs 91 Bronze 92 Costco competitor, informally 94 Italian wine region 95 Bottom of Britain? 96 Some square-dance participants 97 Bill passers, briefly 99 Some woolen blankets 103 Peter or Paul (but not Mary) 105 Ballerina’s balancing aid 107 Exhibition mounter 109 Anne with the Pulitzer-winning novel “Breathing Lessons” 112 *First Africanamerican U.S. poet laureate 114 Uraeus, in ancient Egypt 115 2017 film nominated for Best Picture … or a hint to the answers to the eight starred clues 117 Northern race 118 President whose veep was Dick 119 Lone female Argonaut 120 “Copacabana” hitmaker, 1978 121 ____ St. James, first female Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year 122 Comes to light

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1 Amt. of cooking oil 2 Bobby in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America 3 Advil alternative 4 “Because I felt like it” 5 Makeup of some meat substitutes 6 Prefix with conservative 7 Ignore orders 8 Romeo or Juliet 9 Mountain ____ 10 Covert ____ 11 Render harmless, so to speak 12 Wasn’t stiff 13 N.S.F.W. stuff 14 Antismuggling grp. 15 Idle periods 16 Elaine on “Seinfeld” 17 Cry from the defeated 18 Jokester Mort 24 Trattoria dish 26 Labors 32 Rainer Maria ____, writer of “Letters to a Young Poet” 34 Baked, in a way 35 Herman Melville’s first book 37 Fracas 39 “Eventually …” 40 Vittles 41 Sick 42 Island whose name rhymes with a popular thing to do there 43 *Portrayer of Fallon Carrington Colby on “Dynasty” 46 *“The Silence of the Lambs” protagonist 47 Like the Vietnamese language 48 Kegger locale 49 *Singer with the most American Music Awards of all time (29) 50 *Janet Leigh played her in “Psycho” 52 How, with “the” 59 Asian island divided between two countries 61 One on a bender, perhaps 63 Young ____ 64 Arroz accompanier, often 66 In the hold 68 Keynote, say 69 R2-D2 or C-3PO 70 Overflows (with) 72 “For example …?” 74 Bigheadedness 75 Weapon with a lock, stock and barrel 76 Passing judgments? 77 ____ fide 78 M.M.A. stats, for short 80 Mob bosses 81 Money in the Mideast 82 1040 figures, for short 88 Gawked 90 “The Little Mermaid” villain 93 Certain clouds 96 Stonewall Inn, e.g. 98 Make it to the podium 100 App with an envelope icon 101 Kind of voice or dog 102 Wood that’s good for matchmaking 104 Word with house or high 105 Hat part 106 Hit musical with music by Elton John 107 Swear 108 ____ in three (chess challenge) 110 The Father of Art Deco 111 Nutrition figs. 113 Guadalajara gold 116 Horse’s female parent

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