New York Times Crossword Puzzle
STUDY BREAKS
By Priyanka Sethy and Matthew Stock Edited by Will Shortz ACROSS
1 Ones with big heads
around the office? 6 With 27-Down, island
nation near Indonesia 10 What OPEC and NATO
are both in?
14 E, in Morse code 17 Inauguration Day
activity 19 Five-times-a-day
Islamic prayer 20 Word with earth or
muscle
21 Function whose output is 45º when applied to 1
22 German : Freundin ::
Spanish : ____ 23 Google search info 24 Some whiskeys
25 Piece of work 26 Premium membership
designation
28 End ____
30 Small row
32 Sashimi selection 33 Holds
36 Language of the
18th-century poet Mir Taqi Mir
38 (0,0), in math
41 Put on an unhappy face 42 It lets you see the sites 46 Rice dish
47 Mess up
48 Hebrew name meaning
‘‘ascent’’
49 Walks (on)
53 Talk, talk, talk
55 ‘‘How ____!’’ 57 Contents of some banks 59 Hyphenated beverage
brand
60 Holders of multiple
passports
65 Transcript fig.
66 Give a hoot?
67 Values highly 68 Trouble
69 Soothe
71 [Ignore that edit] 72 Honey ____ (Special K
flavor)
74 First openly lesbian anchor to host a major prime-time news program
77 Pond fish
78 Not looking good at all 80 Follow closely
81 Goth relative
82 ‘‘What in the ... !’’
85 $$$ for old age
87 ____ soap
88 Brutes
92 Ones fighting for
change
97 Reindeer in ‘‘Frozen’’ 99 Start of a rendezvous
request
100 2019 jukebox musical featuring the song ‘‘Proud Mary’’ 101 Sun-kissed, say
102 Funny business? 104 Zip
106 ‘‘____ a Crime’’ (2016 Trevor Noah memoir)
108 Hempseed product 111 Property claim
113 One might be good
or evil
117 Michael ___ of ‘‘Ugly
Betty’’
118 End of an era?
119 Bringing up the rear 121 Tops
122 Kind of syrup that’s an
alternative to honey 123 Homeland of many
Paiute and Shoshone 124 Grate expectations? 125 ‘‘Spy Kids’’ actress
Hatcher
126 ‘‘So true!’’
127 One of two poles
DOWN
1 ‘‘May God bless and keep the ____ ... far away from us!’’ (‘‘Fiddler on the Roof’’ line)
2 Bad way to go
3 Winans with 12
Grammys 4 Panko-breaded chicken
dish
5 Sp. title
6 Fence line?
7 A long time
8 Drops in water 9 Purchase for Wile E.
Coyote
10 Sleeveless undergarment, informally 11 Settled (on)
12 Event with a crowning
moment
13 Store
14 Pull out all the stops 15 Not sharp, perhaps 16 Thompson of ‘‘Sorry to
Bother You’’ 18 Summer ____
19 Soda cracker, by
another name 20 Choice words?
26 Pull in
27 See 6-Across 29 Microsoft’s answer to
the iPad
31 ‘‘I’m so sorry for you!’’ 33 Trendy
34 Alex and ____
(jewelry chain)
35 Mo. metropolis
37 Early development
sites 39 Extended-wear
manicure options 40 Added bonus,
metaphorically 43 Aerie baby
44 Celia known as the
‘‘Queen of Salsa’’ 45 Words of admission 50 Stop ____ (sign) 51 Muralist Rivera
52 Goof (around)
54 Kind of data distribution with two peaks
56 Finish with
58 Tometi who co-founded Black Lives Matter 60 Newsroom sights 61 ‘‘So are we!’’
62 Used Grubhub or
Postmates, say 63 ____ Ing-wen, first female president of Taiwan
64 Alleged
66 Traditional attire for
some martial artists 70 Ornate tea vessel 73 Overdone
75 ‘‘Howdy!’’
76 Put in a seat, perhaps 79 Lakeside city that’s at
one end of I-79 83 Result of pulling the
goalie
84 Jane of ‘‘9 to 5’’ 86 ‘‘Don’t misbehave!’’ 89 Q followers
90 Letter that rhymes with
three other letters 91 Phishing target, for
short
93 Encroach
94 Human rights lawyer
Clooney
95 Like the Dalai Lama 96 Part of the joke 97 Gawps
98 Go away
102 Take a dive, perhaps 103 W.W. II threat
105 Ringing in the new
day?
107 Katie of ESPN
109 Brown or blacken 110 ‘‘Duh!’’ in modern slang 112 [Nodding]
114 Japanese soup
ingredient
115 Children’s author
Blyton
116 Bird with a
reduplicative name 119 J.F.K. alternative
120 Dallas and Houston
are in it, in brief