New York Times Crossword Puzzle
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GHOSTED By Alison Ohringer and Erik Agard / Edited by Will Shortz ACROSS 1 Word repeated in “Mi ____ es su ____” 5 Skipped town 9 Good name for a botanist? 14 Certain vacuum tube 20 Taiwan-based electronics giant 21 Per item 22 Shred 23 Make airtight 24 Caterer’s platter 26 Off 27 Director of “Eat Drink Man Woman,” 1994 28 Morticia, to Fester, in 1960s TV 29 Expecting help? 31 Beat generation figure? 33 Tidy 35 ____ Muhammad, mentor to Malcolm X 37 “Mm-hmm” 38 Reagan-era scandal 42 Old Germanic tribe 44 Passes out 48 Oral examination? 50 Initiations have them 52 Dish made from a fermented root 53 Grace’s surname on “Will & Grace” 54 Neutron’s home 56 Jazz singer who acted in the “Roots” miniseries 59 Whopper maker 60 Hematite, e.g. 62 Like 100% inflation 63 ____ Kippur 64 Sorbet-like dessert originally from Sicily 65 ____ port 68 Wrist watch? 69 Like this puzzle’s circled letters vis-à-vis their Across answers 73 Brewer’s need 76 Long ____ 77 “Nuh-uh!” 78 “Horrible!” 81 Reaches 84 Nearest country to Cape Verde 85 Grammy winner Erykah ____ 86 Talkative sort 90 Competitor of Rugby 91 “Li’l” fellow 92 “I’m with ____” 93 Hell, informally 95 It might take only seven digits 97 Sampled 100 Be rumple-free 102 Leaves for baggage claim, say 103 Star followers 105 Vitamin B3 107 Prefix with normal 108 Cause of a tossed joystick, maybe 112 Block from getting close to the basket 115 Gridiron gains 118 Comic ____ Nancherla 119 Stage in getting a Ph.D. 121 Some rustproof rails 123 Chasms 124 Newsroom fixture 125 Frozen breakfast brand 126 “Let’s do it!” 127 Risks a ticket 128 “Siddhartha” novelist 129 In case 130 Washington team, familiarly DOWN 1 ____ Crunch 2 Smoothie flavor 3 Tennis star’s feat 4 Place for exhibitions 5 Word with noodle or nurse 6 Viscount’s superior 7 Big scholarship awarder, for short 8 Mint-family herb 9 “Down goes ____!” (1973 sports line) 10 Mojito ingredient 11 Nail-polish brand 12 When jams are produced 13 Place for an altar 14 Long line in Russia 15 Let 16 “Amen to that” 17 Earthen pot 18 What it takes two to do 19 One-on-one Olympics event 25 Chuck in the air 30 Not mainstream, briefly 32 Separations at weddings? 34 Body work, in brief 36 Lead-in to boy or girl 38 Birthplace of the Renaissance 39 RCA component 40 Put claw marks in 41 Sharer of Russia’s western border 43 Setting for many G.I. stories 45 Much of Aries’ span 46 Postgraduation stressors, for some 47 Lengthy attack 49 Refining, as muscles 51 Lead-in to cone 55“You only live once,” for one 57 Baked-beans flavor 58 Mötley ____ 60 Schedule-keeping org. 61 Team scream 64 “10-4” 65 Longest American north-south rte. 66 “Fiddler on the Roof” setting 67 In spades 69 Future attorney’s hurdle, for short 70 Memphis-to-Nashville dir. 71 2018 World Cup champs 72 Prayer ending? 73 Workplace for a cabin boy 74 Antiquated anesthetic 75 Pong creator 78 All-female group with the 1986 No. 1 hit “Venus” 79 One-named singer whose last name is Adkins 80 Pitches 82 Albany is its capital: Abbr. 83 Gorsuch’s predecessor on the bench 84 Two of diamonds? 85 Trusted news source in the Mideast 87 Friend of Descartes … or, in English, question pondered by Descartes? 88 “What chutzpah!” 89 Early record holder 91 Puts to rest 94 Pricey-sounding apparel brand? 96 Tinder, e.g. 98 Surface 99 “Well, I’ll be” follower 101 B’way buys 104 It covers a lot of ground 106 Recognition for a scientist 108 Comic’s offerings 109 Per item 110 Stud finder? 111 One wearing black eyeliner and ripped jeans, say 113 Desire 114 Makes out? 116 Cause of some insomnia 117 Application figs. 120 Dummkopf 122 Boozehound