NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
THE CALLOFTHE RACE By Samuel A. Donaldson | Edited byWill Shortz | Solution on E3
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1 Shopping lines? 4 Without warranty 8 Collision 14 Rolls out the green carpet? 18 Most balanced 20 Band member with a long neck 21 Curriculum component 22 “And they’re off! Ace Detective has the ___!” 23 On fire 24 The titular scarlet letter 25 Pennsylvania N.L.’ers 26 Dennis who fronted the 1960s-’70s Classics IV 28 “Looks as if Setting Sun is ___!” 30 Purina product line 32 Scarf (down) 34 Fissures 35 “It’s Pariah ___!” 40 Associate 42 Tool made to scale 43 Ink containers for squids 44 Public venues 45 All alternative 48 Sleep: Prefix 49 Part of a Derby garland 50 Some peers 52 Abbr. after many a general’s name 53 Skill tested by Zener cards 54 Rag 56 “Chiropractor heads into the ___!” 58 Fixate (on) 60 N.Z. neighbor 61 Sound you can’t make in your sleep 62 Maven 64 “Here’s where Mississippi Delta often ___!” 69 They tend to brood 70 Tara’s owner 72 Locale of Ada and Enid: Abbr. 73 Spelling practice? 75 “Now Carrier Pigeon takes the ___!” 79 Invasive Southern plant 80 Child’s medicine dose, often: Abbr. 83 Tax 84 Essential amino acid 85 Leafy vegetable 86 Words after“tough row” 88 Feedbag grain 89 Verb with“vous” 90 Hobbes’s favorite food in“Calvin and Hobbes” 91 Evidence of one’s upbringing 92 Calculator that doesn’t shut off 95“But wait! Amex Card ___!” 97 Show one’s disapproval 99 Rockies ski resort 100 Hershey brand 101 “Almost there, and E Pluribus Unum will be ___!” 104 River islands 107 “Twelfth Night” woman 111 Remedy for a 59Down 112 Moon of Uranus 114 “But the winner is . . . Inseam ___!” 116 Where Luang Prabang is 117 The“little blue pill” 118 Noted Moscow opening of 1990 119 Part of GPS: Abbr. 120 Stationary 121 Member of the 600 home run club 122 His or her, to Henri
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1 Deseret, today 2 Gilpin of“Frasier” 3 Dirty Harry’s surname 4 Have a bug, maybe 5 “Bye for now” 6 Aoki of the World Golf Hall of Fame 7 Regs. 8 Supermarket chain 9 Smother, as sound 10 Rice dish cooked in broth 11 Barely 12 Sleeveless undergarment, for short 13 Penetrating 14 One in the pipeline? 15 In succession 16 Carried out, biblically 17 Top-three finishes and total earnings, in horse racing 18 Patriot Day’s mo. 19 Ones having a rough spell? 27 How the careful think 29 Mop & ____ 31 “Annabel Lee”poet 33 Takes too much, briefly 35 Seine tributary 36 Sgts. and cpls. 37 Cracker Jack prizes that leave a mark 38 2005 South African drama that won a Best Foreign Film Oscar 39 Pageant accessory 40 It’s often at the end of a bottleneck 41 Suit in a Spanish card deck 44 De ____ (actual) 46 Intel mission 47 Eldest of the Three Musketeers 49 Bonheur who painted “The Horse Fair” 50 Arab city whose name is an anagram of ARABS 51 Mrs., in Madrid 55 Race segment 56 Base brass 57 Foxtrot preceder 59 Scald, e.g. 60 Words on a docent’s badge 62 Reached 63 Kirk’s partner in a groundbreaking 1968 interracial kiss 65 Middays 66 Anatomical danglers 67 Anatomical mass 68 Bagel shop amt. 71 C.I.O. partner 74 Thick-walled pot 76 1971 top 20 hit with no English lyrics 77 VW forerunners? 78 Rushes 79 He died at Xanadu 81 Record number? 82 NFL coach Carroll 85 Ollie’s partner on old children’s TV 87 Simple wind instruments 90 Skater Babilonia 91 Comics“Oh no!” 93 Bidding 94 Bad“Wheel of Fortune”buy for SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY 95 Key presenters 96 Syrian ruling family 97 Apothecary items 98 Bit of dental repair 99 Brink 102 Life lines? 103 At hand 105 Some old PCs 106 Mattel subsidiary that got its start in model trains 108 Creepy look 109 Old Fords 110 Checkup sounds 113 “The Confessions of ____ Turner”(1967 Pulitzer-winning novel) 115 Long, on Lanai