New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Star of four Spike Lee films 8 Exercised on a track 14 Longtime Ed Asner role 18 Birds at a ballpark 19 1954 film septet 20 White: Fr. 21 Away, in a way 22 Gustav Holst septet 23 Barista’s offering 24 Cable alternative 25 [typo not fixed] 26 Star of a 1981 Broadway revue subtitled “The Lady and Her Music” 27 Add one’s

views 29 Style 31 Second-incommand: Abbr. 32 41-Across athlete 34 How his-andhers towels are sold 35 “Gossip well told,” per Elbert Hubbard 37 Comebacks 39 Bud 40 Hydrocarbon

ending 41 See 32-Across 42 Electrical unit, old-style 45 Webster’s second? 47 Quick punch 50 Author Janowitz 52 Bud’s place 53 Strike turf before the ball, in golf 54 Bye line? 56 Olympic venues 58 It may extend for many minutes 59 Thoughtful exercise 60 Overseas market 62 Tease 63 Unspecified

degrees 65 Comic strip cries 67 Waltzed through 69 ___ de carne asada 70 Burj Khalifa locale 72 Joint 76 Fashion label ___-Picone 78 Prickly sticker 79 Letter with a limited amount of space 81 Savvy 82 Radar reading 84 Steel giant,

formerly 85 Chug 87 End of an argument 88 Singer at Obama’s 2009 inauguration 89 Baseball All-Star who was also a football Pro Bowler 90 Edamame source 92 Cross-state rival of CIN 93 Arizona’s ___ Cienegas National Conservation Area 94 Hot prospects, say 97 Home base for

many a mission 99 Like Victorian streets 102 Honorarium 103 Nirvana’s “Come as You ___” 104 Paid to play 107 It has 135°

angles 109 Proust title

character 111 See 115-Across 112 Campers’ letters 114 ___ by chocolate (popular dessert) 115 Certain 111-Across specification 117 Ghostly sound 119 First film Tarzan 120 White Russian,

e.g. 121 1918’s Battle of

the ___ Forest 122 Formula

One units 123 “The Terminator” co-star 124 Neighbor of

Archie Bunker

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1 “I ___ it!” (Skelton catchphrase) 2 Bond villain ___ Stavro Blofeld 3 Popular snack brand 4 Actress/screenwriter Kazan 5 Stretchiness 6 Assesses 7 “Be right there!” 8 Heap 9 Poet Khayyám 10 Artillery

crewman 11 Founder of The New York Tribune 12 Have something 13 Tiddlywink, e.g. 14 Peruvian pack 15 Warren of “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” 16 Free 17 Rapper who feuded with Ja Rule and Nas 19 Round figure 20 Second-tier,

among celebs 28 Women’s rooms? 30 Actress Belafonte 31 & 33 Skeptic’s advice ... or a “noteworthy” hint to seven Across answers in this puzzle 36 Colorful songbird 38 Brazilian greeting 39 Pop/rock group with a 2002 hit co-written with Mick Jagger 42 Story coloring? 43 1980s British band 44 Big deliveries? 45 Paganini or Rachmaninoff 46 “He makes no friend who never made ___”: Tennyson 47 Schooner sail 48 Health org. since 1847 49 Dickens pen name 51 Raiding grp. 53 Polish the old-fashioned way 55 Air safety org. 57 ___-rock 61 Apotheosizes 64 Uncle ___ 66 Wrap (up) 68 Hollow 71 Homemade bomb, for short 73 Website heading 74 Before, in verse 75 Sanguine 77 Recently 80 Met, as a challenge 83 “USA” is part of one 86 Ended up? 91 Acronym for the hearingimpaired 92 Louis Armstrong instrument 94 “___ Republic” 95 Celebratory gesture 96 Alaska town that is mile 0 of the Iditarod Trail 97 Does a

surfboard stunt 98 1913 Literature Nobelist from India 99 Douglas Hofstadter’s “___, Escher, Bach” 100 Amtrak bullet

train 101 Sign of approval 105 Scratching (out) 106 “Meditation

XVII” writer 108 NRA piece?:

Abbr. 110 Vegas casino with a musical name 111 Newsweek, e.g., now 113 “Terrible” toddler time 116 Auden’s “___ Walked Out One Evening” 118 Often-partnered

conjunction