N.Y. Times Crossword Puzzle
Across
1 “That guy?”
4 Not in gear
8 Soccer kickoff?
11 Cheese used in spanakopita
15 Antidiscrimination measure of 1990, in brief
16 Signified
18 “Hang loose” hand sign
21 Sonicare competitor
23 Before midnight: Sloth, e.g.
25 Before midnight: One with major influence
27 Like about 60 percent of the world’s population
28 Sloth, e.g.
29 When to see the 86-Down
30 Blanche’s sister in “A Streetcar Named Desire”
32 Reality star Theresa of “Long Island Medium”
34 Blond or brown quaff
35 ____ Lingus
36 After midnight: Ointments infused with cottonwood or calendula, e.g.
38 Fleece
40 After midnight: Journey’s “Open Arms” and Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain,” e.g.
42 See 71-Down
45 TikTok post, informally
46 Prepared, as a report
49 Actress Lindsay
52 Chai, for one
55Cedar Rapids
college
56 “Despicable Me” supervillain
58 Hookup that might get kinky?
59 Big acronym in purifying filters
60 “What hath ____ to do with sleep?”: Milton
62 Before midnight: Devices with warm water and massaging rollers
64 Kind of rock .?.?. or where to see it
66 Bygone Palm smartphone
67 Saint ____ (Caribbean nation)
68 Before midnight: Some household expenses
70 Branch offices, e.g.
75 Journalist Couric
76 Wagering sites that closed in N.Y.C. in 2010, in brief
77 After midnight: Event for Cowboys or Broncos
78 “Can’t win ‘em all”
82 Some adobe abodes
83 Clarified-butter variety
84 Fourth ingredient in a classic three-ingredient sandwich
85 After midnight: Synchronized swimming
86 Forbid
87 Before midnight: Surpass
90 Run up, as debts
92 Mexican shawls
95 Beam
96 Ice-cream name
97 ____ Spring (2010s protests)
99 Drag queen and TV personality Bianca ____ Rio
100 Potter’s pal at Hogwarts
103 ESE or NNW
105 Conjunction used in logic
107 Eddie Bauer competitor
109 After midnight: Totally lose it
113 “Ack! All these options sound great!”
116 Middle name for musician Sean Lennon
118 Unacquainted with
119 Where to see the 86-Down
120 Star sign?
122 Final image in a preschooler’s book, maybe
123 Toledan title
124 Japanese crispy cutlet
125 Vexation
126 Rapid transit?
127 Pranks with rolls, informally
128 Bring (in)
129 Start to make fiction fact?
Down
1 Laughs
2 Latin expression that’s almost always abbreviated
3 Condo-organizing Kondo
4 Romantic profession
5 App coder, for short
6 Home to the Wat Xieng Thong temple
7 Physicist Fermi
8 College athletics channel
9 Device placed under a tongue
10 Snore, idiomatically
11 “Seriously?”
12 Greek god whose name is an anagram of a flower
13 Try
14 Aspirin alternative
17 Sublet offerer
19 It’s got all the answers
20 BART part
22 ____ Rabbit
24 Event for Cinderella
26 Foot part
31 Fighting
33 Title roles for Norman Bates and Patrick Bateman
37 Phishing targets
39 Evacuation survival pack
41 Qatar’s capital
42 “Balderdash!”
43 Word with space or rock
44 Lab tube with a bulb
47 Mary Jane
48 Computer circuitry components
50 Wildfire debris
51 Duck Hunt console, in brief
53 Sugar source
54 Transported, as some emergency goods
57 Gas, e.g.: Abbr.
61 Cosmetic goop
62 Bike-ride mishaps
63 Great time
65 Holy chambers in Judaism
69 Wad (up)
70 “Same for us!”
71 With 42-Across, “Lust for Life” singer
72 Chevy S.U.V.
73 Make edits to 74 Like some dives or jams
78 “I didn’t need to know all that!”
79 Largest ethnic group of China
80 Bart Simpson catchphrase
81 Go all over
82 A mushroom’s is called a pileus
86 End-of-December tradition depicted five times in this puzzle
88 Umpire’s call
89 Giving a onceover
91 Subjects to a tirade
93 Hinging (on)
94 Form of algae also known as rockweed
98 Physiques, for short
101 Like most award shows
102 Belgian river in a W.W. I battle
103 Spacey sort
104 Less welcoming
106 Nonelective courses: Abbr.
108 Brewskis
110 “The father of American literature,” per Faulkner
111 Geek Squad specialist, informally
112 TV and radio host Andy
114 Brand owned by Hasbro
115 Pool accessory
117 Mathematician Neugebauer
121 Spanish bear