New York Times Crossword Puzzle
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1 Top 5 Wears 10 Pioneer in computer chess 13 Channel setting on many airport TVs 16 Gets cheeky with? 18 Act on a sudden itch to be hitched 19 Fit for service 20 It may be seeded 21 Even (with) 22 Roger who battled 13-Across 23 Utter 25 Cut, Paste and Print 27 Degree in math? 28 Mountain ____ 29 Copse makeup 30 Title character in a 1943 French novella [6] 35 Zap 37 Pedagogic org. 39 Vote for 40 Pacific capital 41 N.F.L.’s Jaguars, on scoreboards 42 Sugar suffix 43 1990 Literature Nobelist Octavio ____ 44 Toner-cartridge contents 46 Is from ancient Rome? 47 The Big Pineapple [4] 50 Rhyme scheme ending a villanelle 52 French word between two surnames 53 Intl. commerce grp. 54 Banded gemstones 55 Bert who sang “If I Only Had the Nerve” 57 Poor People’s Campaign organizer, for short 59 Frequent Bosch setting 60 Capital accumulation 61 Dance craze of the 2010s 63 “____ and animals are free” (party slogan in “1984”) 65 “____ Mine” (George Harrison book) 66 Like some lawyers’ work [4] 67 Musical talent 68 Cartographer 71 Try to sink one’s teeth into 72 Cheap cooking implement 76 Like, forever 77 Steely Dan’s best-selling album 78 Naval noncoms 80 E’erlasting 81_ ___ one-eighty 82 Bleeping governmentorg.? 84 Trophy figure 86 “Why are you looking at me?” [4] 88 Where It. is 89 Inverse trig function 91 Agcy. that oversaw plants 92 Ones “from Mars” 93 Inits. in some parlors 94 American-born Jordanian queen 95 “Shoo!” 98 Org. behind the Human Genome Project 99 Lewis ____, 1848 Democratic candidate for president 100 11th-century campaign [4] 103 Put in stitches 105 Like the Salt Lake Bees baseball team 106 Decoration for an R.A.F. pilot 107 “Will you let me have a taste?” 112 Clothing associated with Hillary Clinton 115 “Same here” 116 Like many pools and highways 117 Cooperation 118 They begin trading, for short 119 Frankincense, e.g. 120 Singer of a famous bath-time song 121 Crooked 122 Barack Obama’s mother 123 Sturm und ____ 124 Garner
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1 Like some radios 2 “Born Sinner” rapper J. ____ 3 17,000+-foot peak near the Equator [4] 4 Guarantee 5 Make airtight, in a way [4] 6 Others of ancient Rome? 7 Band member’s time to shine 8 In public 9 Monster’s moniker 10 Healthy [4] 11 “Don’t ____ hero!” 12 Nightshade family member [5] 13 Prized possession [5] 14 Home of the Gallatin Sch. of Individualized Study 15 Take home 17 Unit around one foot? 19 Spending 23 Mich. neighbor 24 Mater ____ 26 One doing routine office work, informally [5] 31 “Wasn’t that fantastic?!” 32 Long 33 Move to protect the king, say 34 Praises highly 35 At all, in dialect 36 Me.-to-Fla. route 38 Color of el mar 45 Butt 48 Flowers native to damp woods 49 “Please, I’ll handle it” 50 Totally LOL-worthy 51 Dave of jazz [4] 56 Supermodel Lima 58 Certain fire sign 59 Like the Greek god
Pan 62 Flip out 63 One leading the exercises, for short? [4] 64 Singer Bonnie 66 Sandwich inits. 68 Having as ingredients 69 Guinea-pig relative 70 Fruity spirit [6] 73 Vain, temperamental sort [7] 74 Long range 75 Bright lights 77 Band member’s main squeeze? [4] 79 ____ song 82 1940 Disney release [3] 83 Swamp swimmer 85 Woman who took a “roll in ze hay” in “Young Frankenstein” 87 Pulling off bank jobs [5] 90 Teddy Roosevelt targets 96 Much-swiped item 97 Short trailer 99 Borgia who was an illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI 101 Took a breather 102 Message from the marooned 104 Noah of “ER” 108 Grp. with a mission 109 “Sure, sign me up!” 110 Predecessor of Rabin 111 What’s lost in “Paradise Lost” 112 Rabbit’s foot 113 It’s inspired 114 Original “Veronica Mars” channel