New York Times Crossword Puzzle
FILM ADAPTATIONS ACROSS
1 Flowers that Tiny Tim ‘‘tiptoed through’’ in a 1968 hit
7 High-altitude grazer
13 Jazz pianist ____ Jamal
18 With 23-Across, second film to win all five major Academy Awards (1975)
20 Disappear unexpectedly
21 Like ships at harbor
23 See 18-Across
25 Land united by Theseus
26 Word before likely or wanted
27 Labors away at
29 Districts in N.Y.C. and London
33 Spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission
38 Long of Hollywood
39 Tolkien’s Treebeard, for example
40 ‘‘That’s my cue!’’
41 Blockbuster sequel with an iconic plot twist (1980)
46 Ultimate medical breakthrough
48 What an opener precedes
49 A praying mantis has just one,
found on its stomach(!)
50 Animated dinosaur film that spawned 13 sequels (1988)
52 Midwest metropolis: Abbr.
53 Heavy bass?
56 Oil holder, maybe
57 ‘‘____ nothing’’
58 Like many Instagram influencers
61 Rocket-shaped candy
64 Yogi Bear wears one, despite
having no shirt
65 Arles article
66 Boozehound
67 Romantic dramedy directed by
Sofia Coppola (2003)
72 Certain chess piece
75 Livid state
76 Name that’s also a state abbreviation
77 Iceberg and others
81 It might leave you smooth ... or rattled
84 ‘‘OMG, enough already!’’
86 ____ acid 87 Artfully nimble
88 ‘‘The Simpsons’’ grandpa
89 Coen brothers farce involving the C.I.A. (2008)
92 Verbally hesitate
94 Ones agreeing silently
96 Started off gently
97 Crime thriller that takes some liberties with its namesake legal concept (1999)
101 Salacious
102 Down’s counterpart: Abbr.
103 Driving aid
104 Nail-polish brand
105 Precursor to Windows
106 Practiced hypergamy
110 German title
113 Gets good and hot at the beach
114 With an unseen portion of
128-Across, Oscar-winning martial-arts film (2000)
123 Moved confidently
124 Caterpillars, e.g. 125 Prix fixe offering
126 ‘‘Dónde ____?’’ (‘‘Where are you?’’)
127 Home visits?
128 Deliberately procrastinate
DOWN
1 Tyke
2 Granite State campus, in brief
3 Spike of cinema
4 ‘‘Portlandia’’ airer
5 Fruits that are 87% water
6 Dry, like some Rioja wine
7 Past
8 Part of 108-Down
9 Opposite of a rave
10 Leave gobsmacked
11 Subject of sticker shock
12 Lead-in to cumulus
13 Tampa’s ____ Arena
14 Warm offering at a sushi bar
15 Line of Android smartphones
16 Semiauto-biographical film set in rural Montana (1992)
17 Dressed, so to speak
19 Cal. units
22 Pub diversion
24 Plains tribe
28 Put into effect
29 Enjoy a cuppa
30 Native Americans of Nebraska
31 ‘‘You can believe it!’’
32 At the ready
34 Send, as payment
35 Certain religious leaders
36 Mayberry character
37 Author Anaïs
41 Like many fourth graders
42 Held
43 Actress Brosnahan of ‘‘The
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’’ 44 Bounce back
45 ‘‘Must be something ____’’
47 Dietary measure
51 Much of a waiter’s income,
typically
54 H.S. class
55 Do something
58 Locale for an orchestra 59 ‘‘Right away, boss!’’
60 Digital location markers
62 Some golf scores
63 Like many outstretched catches
64 They deal with a lot of baggage, for short
68 Entertainment at many a wedding
69 Lucille Clifton’s ‘‘Homage to My Hips,’’ for one
70 ‘‘Put ____ on it!’’
71 Book after Leviticus
72 Early alphabet trio
73 Paris’s ____ de la Cité
74 Dark comedy about a
carnivorous plant (1960, 1986)
78 Madrid or Barcelona, por ejemplo
79 Physicist Fermi
80 Bono and Liston
82 Part of a dance
83 Beyoncé’s ‘‘If I Were ____’’
84 Univ. of Maryland athletes
85 Longtime N.B.A. executive ____
Ujiri
89 Classic cars
90 ‘‘The Hurt Locker’’ danger, for
short
91 Horse’s vote?
93 Roald Dahl heroine 95 ‘‘____-lish!’’
97 Door parts
98 Cousin of euchre
99 Possessive preceding Pieces and
Puffs
100 A.P.R. reducer, potentially
105 Many shelter pups
107 Uproar
108 Bruins’ home, in brief
109 Idiot, in Britspeak
111 I.C.U. workers
112 Pulitzer Prize winner for ‘‘A
Death in the Family’’
115 Poet’s planet
116 A.C.C. school
117 Garfield or Sylvester
118 Garfield and Sylvester
119 Global economic org.
120 ‘‘Well, fancy that!’’
121 WSW’s opposite
122 Boring routine