Puzzle alert
The New York Times Crossword Puzzle can be found today on
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1 ‘‘Everyone who’s anyone is attending!’’ 8 Shoot for the moon 13 Much-anthologized Frank R. Stockton short story 20 Herald, as a new year 21 Mitchell heroine 22 One calling it quits 23 Is a rat 24 Chimes, e.g. 25 Short thing for
a diva 26 Big ___ 27 Rarely 29 Long John Silver,
for one 31 Not standard: Abbr. 32 Word with coffee or water 34 Bird that’s also the name of an Irish river 35 Sped 36 Canon competitor 38 Cookies with a ‘‘Golden’’ variety 39 Slowing, in music: Abbr. 40 Audible pauses 41 Knot again 42 Miranda warning receiver, informally 43 Remote button with ‘‘+’’ and ‘‘–’’ 45 Govt. construction overseer 46 Founded, on city signs 47 Word before ‘‘I didn’t know that!’’ 49 Heavy metal band? 51 Some fraternity men 54 Proverbial matter of perspective 59 John who played Harold in the ‘‘Harold & Kumar’’ films 60 Question asked in classic 1970s ads 66 Jeopardized 67 Ask 69 Greek goddess of vengeance 70 Like Lake Mead or Lake Powell 71 Strunk and White topic 72 They’re of no concern to cougars 73 ‘‘M*A*S*H’’ role 75 Cry from a damsel in distress 77 Part of I.M.F.: Abbr. 79 Stickup line 83 Just 86 Laughed harshly 88 Overstress 89 Foe of Mr. Fantastic in the comics 91 Reception vessel 92 Some samples 94 Figure skater Midori 95 ‘‘Now it makes sense!’’ 97 Mop & ___ 98 Frontier sheriff’s badge 100 In the style of 102 Whistleblower’s
target? 104 ‘‘Bye for now,’’
in textspeak 105 Rummage (through) 107 No longer hungry 109 D.C. club 110 Indian music 111 Langston Hughes
poem 112 William ___, British general in the Revolutionary War 113 Assist, as an outlaw 114 Colored like ink in ‘‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’’ 115 Song by the Clash on Rolling Stone’s ‘‘500 Greatest Songs of All Time’’ list 119 Material for many
a ski lodge 120 Part of an
Adirondack chair 121 ___ Conference 122 Command to Fido 123 Before 124 Tech grad: Abbr. 125 Gets fixed 126 Parisian possessive 127 ‘‘Maid in Manhattan’’ star, informally 128 Rx signers 129 General ___ chicken
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1 Dot on a transit map 2 — 3 Cartoonist who wrote the caption ‘‘Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?’’ 4 Titter sound 5 Backspaces, say 6 Incense 7 Eve who wrote ‘‘The Vagina Monologues’’ 8 Mounted 9 — 10 Test ___ 11 Beginning of an attorney’s ending 12 Like four of the eight planets 13 Subjects of apprenticeships 14 Superman, e.g. 15 — 16 Rough position? 17 Ones in the oil field? 18 Historic filer for bankruptcy in 2013 19 Was lovesick, say 28 Blather 30 ___ Exchange 33 Cut (off) 37 April second? 44 Center of activity 45 Physicist Ohm 47 Virgil, for Dante 48 Queen of mystery 50 Flightless bird 52 Org. with the motto ‘‘Not for self but for country’’ 53 Battle of the Alamo, e.g. 54 ‘‘For ___’’ (store sign around Father’s Day) 55 California’s Santa ___ River 56 I.C.U. worker 57 — 58 Most feeble 61 — 62 Map part 63 ‘‘Life ___
Highway’’ 64 One given the velvet-rope treatment, for short 65 Sigmoid shape 67 Get in line 68 Kind of question 74 Kernel keepers 76 Prefix with -form 77 Crabby 78 Female with a beard 80 — 81 Stone who co-created ‘‘South Park’’ 82 Cousins of clarinets 84 Little houses on the prairie 85 Indie band whose name means, literally, ‘‘I have it’’ 86 Brace 87 Anaïs Nin and Franz Kafka, notably 89 Straight shooters? 90 Family members 93 Please, to a Puritan 96 Sommelier 99 Angles 100 Baseball family
name 101 Pompom wielder’s
cries 103 Sulking 106 Things found
in a pyramid 108 Sacred symbol 116 ___ Library (Austin,
Tex., attraction) 117 Atl. Coast state 118 —