Antelope Valley Press

NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD

- By Scott Hogan and Katie Hale / Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Favors

5 Slathered in sauce, in restaurant-speak 8 Letters on security camera footage

12 Big flings

18 “Pet” you wouldn’t take to the vet 19 Cosecant’s reciprocal 20 Cookie with its name on it

21 One of four on a diamond

22 I visited the cardiologi­st,

who ...

25 Bull-headed?

26 Club assistant

27 Apt letters that complete

this word: P__RPO__ __ 28 Nailed

30 Partner of Hoda on

“Today”

31 I visited the

dermatolog­ist, who ... 35 “The greatest as well as the most elegant of Roman philosophe­rs,” per Voltaire

38 Rob in Hollywood 39 Fashion something

fashionabl­e, maybe 40 Uninspired 41 Revealing word

45 Like a money-back

guarantee

47 I visited a dentist and

now I ...

51 Otis of elevator fame 55 Set forth

56 Prattle

57 Sorry ass? 61 Equivalent of 32,000

ounces

62 Pinches

64 Scenario before a tworun home run, say 65 Lived (in)

67 Alternativ­e to foil or

saber

69 I visited the anesthesio­logist and now I’ve ... 73 Bitter brews

74 Gets in shape?

76 Home of the 123-story

Lotte World Tower 77 Natural decoration­s on

some bookshelve­s 79 Pique

80 Hunt

82 Lovelace of early computer programmin­g 84 California wine valley 87 One with a landlord 89 I visited a sleep

specialist, who ... 92 Double-wide, as a

garage

96 Profession­al who

works a lot

97 Skin

98 Soul seller

100 Change positions, as in

volleyball

102 Takes the blame for 105 I visited the radiologis­t,

who ... 110 Rude ... or, without its first two letters, rude person

111 ____ beer (nonalcohol­ic beverage)

112 MSNBC competitor 113 Slowly cook, in a way 118 Prenatal tests, in brief 120 I visited the podiatrist

and now I ...

123 Call

124 Filled, folded food 125 Female French friend 126 O, in hangman

127 Meager

128 Part of most musical notes 129 Cribbage marker 130 Mathematic­ian Noether

DOWN

1 Rock band with a slash (but not Slash) 2 Like much of Iran 3 Sue Monk ____, author of “The Secret Life of Bees” 4 Castle material, maybe 5 GameCube successor 6 Result

7 Actress Thompson of “Creed”

8 It’s totally corny 9 Step in origami 10 Educationa­l forum 11 Gave a thumbs-down 12 “Whaddya mean?” 13 Kind of keyboard 14 Setting for some postrun refreshmen­ts? 15 ____ Barbarino, John Travolta’s role on “Welcome Back, Kotter” 16 Heretofore

17 Car that Brits call a

“saloon”

19 Mascara mishap 23 Proctor’s pronouncem­ent 24 ____ Lingus

29 The “Do” in “Do-Re-Mi” 32 Went under

33 Asia’s disappeari­ng

____ Sea

34 Old yeller? 35 Bamboozles

36 Having two equal sides 37 Behaved like the lion

in Oz

40 Caribbean musical

genre

42 Long quest

43 Roth ____

44 It’s involved in kissing

and telling

46 Wheelless vehicle 48 Hint to the number of

ingredient­s in Triscuits 49 Webpage code 50 Allowed to be borrowed 52 Puts the pedal to the

metal

53 Spanish salutation 54 They might come out of

the woodwork

58 U.S. fair-hiring inits. 59 “We doin’ this?” 60 Eleven, in El Salvador 63 It might be a stretch 64 Olive ____ of “Popeye” 66 Pack of dogs?

67 Man’s name that becomes a distance if you move the first letter to the end 68 Sponge feature 70 Ridiculous­ly 71 Bean variety

72 Have over

75 Erupt

78 [Forehead palm smack] 81 Corp. shuffle

82 ____ Max, singer of the 2018 hit “Sweet but Psycho”

83 Neighbor of Md. 85 Non-stereo

86 Button on social media 88 Leo, for one

90 Swear

91 Do some engraving 93 “SportsCent­er” anchor

Linda

94 Swears

95 Knocking onomatopoe­ia 98 Like a comeuppanc­e,

perhaps

99 “Lemme, lemme!” 101 Ancient Greek area

north of Thessaly 103 Color-blending

technique

104 Title for a French priest 105 Lasting bad memories,

so to speak

106 Got tagged

107 Anxiety condition, for

short

108 Open, as a toothpaste

tube

109 Garden statuette 114 Long

115 Express-lane unit 116 Quilter’s line

117 Current event?

119 ____ vs. ____ (Mad

strip)

121 Paul ou Paulette 122 Fix

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