N.Y. Times Crossword Puzzle
DOUBLE QUOTE
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1 Onetime Scandinavian automaker (containing the first part of the “double quote”) 5 Music’s Prince of Soul 9 Precious Australian exports 14 Abandon détente 19 Victimizes 21 Like pets but not strays 22 2015 Oscar winner Morricone 23 Solitary sort 24 Dream of many Koreans 26 Youngest “Brady Bunch” daughter 27 “No, no, it’s my treat!” 29 “____ Fideles” 30 Senatorial vote 31 “Key Largo” gangster Johnny 33 Church group 35 Break 36 Time periods in a polo match 39 U people? 41 Authoritarian announcements 44 Catch something 47 In the doldrums 50 Golden calf’s maker 51 Birds with throat pouches 54 Comp-sci acronym 56 Steep 57 Sitcom whose title character was Fran Fine For any three answers, call from a touch-tone phone: 1-900-285-5656, $1.49 each minute; or, with a credit card, 1-800-814-5554. 59 Perfumery oils 60 ____-Cat 61 First secretary of homeland security 62 Tank tops? 64 Make noise while asleep 66 Corresponding expense? 67 First-chair violinist, perhaps 68 Person with an account 71 Political org. dating to 1854 74 Bear witness 75 Painkiller first sold in 1950 76 Unable to continue 77 Nameless network user 78 Some dumps 80 Image Awards org. 81 Hall of announcing 82 Pan’s home, in myth 84 Minority branch of Islam 86 Longtime Texas politico Phil 87 Free throws, e.g. 91 ____ horn 94 Judges to be 97 Use as a bed 98 Mom-to-aunt term 101 Actress Mason 103 Journalist/columnist Carl 105 France : madame :: Italy : ____ 107 Request for permission 109 Showing few lights, as cities during W.W.II 112 Follow 113 Beeper from “a long time ago,” informally 114 Speaker of this puzzle’s “double quote” 115 Have another crack at 116 Long 117 Humorist Bombeck 118 Spotted (containing the last part of the “double quote”) 1 Like vindaloo 2 Golfer Palmer, to fans 3 Health care giant 4 Disputed North Pole visitor 5 Sir, in Surrey 6 Emulate 7 Head guy in “Hamlet”? 8 Draw in 9 Difficult duty 10 Market problem 11 Technology eschewers 12 Not secured, as a gate 13 Reagan-era program, in brief 14 Went over 15 Crosses the sill 16 Pernod flavoring 17 Crowd scenes? 18 “Woman With a Parasol” painter 20 Kikkoman product 25 “Oliver!” director Reed 28 “____ any drop to drink”: Coleridge 31 Repent of 32 Consents to 34 “Bearded” flower 36 Celebrate gloatingly 37 Grown-up pullet 38 Deceptive police op
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40 Freight-train component 41 Delicately applies 42 Be deserving of 43 Treated with a preservative, as telephone poles 45 Teen spots 46 Michael’s wife in “The Godfather” 47 One who seems responsible but isn’t 48 Faux sophistication 49 Slam 51 Reform Party founder 52 “Idylls of the King” woman 53 Shaver 55 Without a date 57 Explicitly 58 Med. care options 59 ____ Villa (English football club) 61 Like major generals 62 Pushes 63 Nonhuman 1930s film star 65 Draft picks 66 Gun full of blanks, maybe 67 Shirt ornament 68 Fanta competitor 69 Quarters 70 Record label owned by Sony 72 As soon as 73 Fires (up) 74 “We are always the same ____ inside”: Gertrude Stein 75 Nth degree? 76 Place for a throne 78 It’s all downhill from here 79 “I feel that way, too” 80 Hairsplitter’s objection 83 Storm shower? 84 “Homeland” network, for short 85 Darling 86 Take a turn for the worse 88 High rollers? 89 Add color to, in a way 90 Lead-in to -itis 91 It may contain bugs 92 Football Hall-ofFamer Bobby 93 Private meeting 95 Mazda two-seater 96 Fully enjoy 98 [Bo-o-oring!] 99 Harden 100 Underworld figure 102 Vietnam War copter 104 “____ Flux” (1990s animated series) 105 Cotillion attendee 106 Horatian collection 108 Put 110 “Gone With the Wind” studio 111 Verdi’s “O patria ____”