New York Times

TRICKY TRIOS

ACROSS

1 Temporarily stops running 7 Sport-____ (some vehicles) 11 Contain, as a spewing oil well 14 Military bigwigs 19 “Pick me!” 20 Light bite 21 Excitement 22 GPS suggestion 23 Breakfast trio 26 Classic song 27 ____-backward 28 Smuggler’s unit 29 Record label for Pink and Pitbull 30 Lets off the hook? 32 Otello, in “Otello” 33 Even

34 Act as a go-between 35 “You can skip me” 38 Puppet-show trio

41 Fall guy? 43 “That’s rough!”

44 Some Canadian natives

45 In the tradition of 48 ____ Aldridge, pioneering Shakespearean actor 49 Lost-baggage helpers 52 Ad-biz awards 54 Producer of public radio’s “Radiolab” 55 Spanish seasoning that’s a letter short of its English counterpart 56 Youngest daughter on “black-ish” 57 Hold tightly 58 Dangerous injection 59 Capital city with more than 300 islands 61 Sergey of Google 62 “Nobody’s here but me” 64 Sailing trio 67 Surrounded by 69 “Little Latin ____ Lu” (1960s hit) 70 Effervescent citrus beverage 73 Old Ford vehicles, for short 74 Open 76 Skyrockets 77 Open ____ 78 Strip pokers? 79 Fumes 80 Some skin art 81 Place for RNs 82 Subj. of “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”

83 “lol” alternative 84 Unnecessary extra

85 Gilda of “Saturday Night Live” 87 Folk trio 92 Rap artist Flo ____ 93 Dinero 95 Throw 96 State a case 98 Director Taika ____ 99 “Star Wars” nickname 100 Pronoun in Dixie 101 Philosopher ____-tzu

104 105 Fortune Survivor company an avian 500 of symbol with an all-out brawl … or a hint to 23-, 38-, 64and 87-Across 110 111 Battle Something Leningrad, of e.g. ratable by number of Pinocchios 112 Long transmission of folklore, say 113 Charlotte Motor Speedway org.

114 115 Camera Underworld with a mirror, in brief

116 117 Hail Trash on a bridge

DOWN

1 Sammy on a 1998 cover of Newsweek 2 Heaps 3 Good crosswords provide lots of them 4 Chop (off) 5 John who wrote “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” 6 Arts-and-crafts kit trendy in the 1970s-’80s 7 Open, as a bottle of wine 8 “TiK ____” (Kesha hit) 9 Class for some immigrants, for short 10 Foe of Robin Hood 11 Geographically largest member of NATO

14 12 13 Interject In Upholsterer’s view? fabric 15 Certain expensive watch, in slang 16 Autobahn autos 17 Michael of R.E.M. 18 Goes with 24 Jesus on the diamond

25 Big name in laptops 31 Digits ending many prices 32 Baking meas. 33 Eponymous New Mexico tribe

35 Do email scamming 36 Radiant emanations 37 “Huh, you know him, too?!” 39 Stadium section 40 Police procedural beginning in 2003 42 News 45 Words before a year

46 City on the Rhône 47 Zenith

50 Flee

51 Have ____ with 52 Ernest who wrote “Ready Player One” 53 Tall and thin 54 Joins 57 Classic horror-film locale 58 Actress/singer Hudgens 60 Matches up

66 65 63 61 Makes Huffed Southern Nursing fuzzy and facility? puffed university whose team is the Phoenix 67 ____ Clooney, Barbara Walters’ “most fascinating person” of 2014 68 71 Litter Chopped sounds up 72 BMW competitor 76 75 Letter Swerve that, surprisingly, is not the end of the Greek alphabet 80 79 Campus Assail building 83 Spirals 84 Charlize Theron’s role in 2015’s “Mad Max” reboot

86 Dr. ____ 87 Thick soup 88 Sci-fi stunner 89 One who cries “Uncle!”? 90 Contradict 91 “Nuts!” 93 Underworld 94 Three sheets to the wind 97 Things near funny bones 98 Load of laundry 101 Pet peeves? 102 Med. school course 103 Fearsome figure 106 Suffer 107 “Forget about it!” 108 Freudian area of study 109 Cable alternative