New York Times Crossword Puzzle
No. 0301
ACROSS
1 Feeling of hopelessness 8 Julius Erving, to fans 11 Calendar abbr. that’s
also a French number 15 “Your choice — him
____”
19 Early online
encyclopedia 20 “____-hoo!”
21 The Powerpuff Girls,
e.g.
22 Fantasy author Gaiman 23 Going my way? 24 What’s up?
25 Wagner opus
27 “Stop rolling sevens!”? 30 Southeast Asian ethnic
group
31 Princess in a galaxy far,
far away
32 Lady bird
33 Org. in charge of Tokyo
2020
34 Suffix with expert 36 “Oy ____!”
37 Bay window
39 Home of Mount
Rushmore: Abbr. 40 Bobby of the Black
Panthers
42 Spew out
45 Build rapport like a presidential candidate?
50 “Livin’ la ____ Loca” 51 Celery unit
52 “Hmm, that’s odd!” 53 Dance craze of the
early 2010s
54 Right on
56 Spot for a laundromat? 58 Color akin to cyan 60 Anger
61 Word with pop or crop 63 Subject of gossip 65 Dance-class garments 67 Matter of survival 70 Hate getting ready to
move?
74 ____-di-dah 75 Children’s book made into a 2012 3-D animated film 77 Singer Bareilles 78 Grunts
80 Tempo
81 Ran
83 Fancy rides
86 Cy Young Award
winner Hernandez 90 Requite
92 Board pick
94 Kind of scholarship 96 Dunce cap, basically 97 Makes friends while
working retail?
100 Accepts responsibility
for
101 “More or less” 102 Model and TV host
Banks
103 Billionaire Carl
105 Trickster
107 Understood
108 Today, to José
109 Train-schedule abbr. 110 Dutch cheese town 113 This may be at the end
of one’s rope
115 Event planner’s
post-banquet task? 120 Winter athlete, not a
summer one
122 Turnabout
123 Where first tracks are
found
124 Wrinkled fruit
125 “To Live and Die
____”
126 Wichita-to-Omaha dir. 127 Christie’s event
128 Start of a Guinness
record
129 Rough talk?
130 Our sun
131 Cheer on
DOWN
1 Pullers of Artemis’s
chariot
2 Georgia of “The Mary
Tyler Moore Show” 3 Extent
4 Antiterrorism law 5 Unpaid debt
6 “Indeed”
7 Bad records to have 8 Company that makes
products that suck 9 Streaming-media device 10 Thrill-seeker’s action 11 Utterly failed 12 Prince in “The Little
Mermaid”
13 Like medium-rare steak 14 Dress (up)
15 Ending with pseud- or
syn16 Young woman to call when your data gets deleted?
17 Pooh creator
18 Formal lament
26 Miser, colloquially 28 Berate
29 Reluctant (to)
35 Baby plant
38 Letters before “.gov” 39 Island neighbor of
Guadeloupe
41 ____ Ingalls Wilder, author of “Little House on the Prairie” 42 Second person?
43 Be sociable
44 State in both the Mountain and Pacific time zones: abbr. 46 Locke who was called “the Father of the Harlem Renaissance” 47 Brexit exiter
48 Actress Swinton 49 “Ooh, that’s bad!” 55 Runner in Pamplona 57 One side of Mount
Everest
59 What many Latin
plurals end in 62 “Bull’s-eye!”
64 Relative of a
xylophone 66 End-of-the-week
expression
67 For face value 68 Whitney Houston hit
“____ Nothing” 69 Places to swim during
school?
71 ____ soda
72 Suits
73 Brief glimpse of a star 76 Slow, musically 79 Runner-up
82 Car with faulty brakes,
e.g.
84 Study of birds: Abbr. 85 Star of “Your Show of
Shows” of 1950s TV 87 Way down
88 Travel stop
89 Deletes, with “out” 91 Canyons
93 “The joke’s ____!” 95 Screening org. 98 Subject of the 2006 documentary “When the Levees Broke” 99 Rehearsals
104 Move in the direction
of
105 “Overall …”
106 Home planet of Ming
the Merciless
109 Gird (oneself)
111 “Half ____ is better …” 112 ____ Park, home of
114 “M*A*S*H” actress
Loretta
116 Wrigglers
117 Spanish youngster 118 Neophyte: Var.
119 Visionary
121 Cassis cocktail