New York Times Crossword
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1 Mannerly 6 Philippine currency 10 Just open 14 Second socks, say
19 Offer a judgment 20 Thing with tags 21 Fruit-salad fruit 22 Sound of exertion 23 Huge celebration after L.A.’s football team wins the Super Bowl?
26 Nice nicety 27 Great shakes 28 Oldest tech sch. in the U.S., founded in 1824 29 Bygone royalty 31 Oodles and
oodles 32 Besmirch
33 Big fuss
35 With 1-Down, address ender 37 Schlep 38 Reason that the prestigious scientific journal refuses articles from President Herbert’s relatives? 45 Power symbol? 46 Senate support 47 ____ gras 48 Restorative
indulgence 50 Kind of bookstore 51 Oil-field sight 53 It’s symbolized by an elephant, for short 55 Theater seating option
56 Japanese honorific 57 Apology from a musician to the other band members? 64 Best Picture winner that was banned in Vietnam 66 Lena of “Chocolat” 67 1957 Jimmy Dorsey hit 68 “Lonely Boy” singer, 1959 69 Stiff 71 Morally uncompromised 72 Many a summer position
74 Like writing about how to write 75 Epitome of herd mentality 79 Volunteered at a nursery? 83 General practice? 84 Idle of Monty Python
85 ____ Lou Who of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” 86 Elton John or Mick Jagger 87 District on Hawaii’s west coast 88 Volcanic substance 91 Person fluent in Quechua
94 Et ____ (footnote abbr.) 96 Fool 97 Adding a historic ship as a deal sweetener? 101 Campaign guru 102 Super Bowl played in 2020
103 Past
104 Get hold of 105 Dry 107 Hiker’s snack 110 Article from UCLA? 112 Vatican ambassador 115 Small versions 117 Story about a drinking binge? 121 Frost lines? 122 Awards feat, for short 123 Puccini piece 124 Really lift
125 Ed of “Elf” 126 Movement based on deliberate irrationality 127 Be really impressive, informally 128 Procrastinate
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1 See 35-Across 2 Uber and Lyft had theirs in 2019, for short 3 Tarzan’s transport 4 Didn’t just request 5 Is dismissed, as a class
6 On a Seder plate, it represents the arrival of springtime 7 Port. is part of it 8 State symbol 9 Sound from a marching band 10 Pseudonym lead-in 11 Ditch at the last moment 12 Leatherwork tools 13 Largest city on the Arabian Peninsula
14 “Lionized” studio 15 Neighborhood 16 Gift in “The 12 Days of Christmas” 17 Push
18 Trap, of a sort 24 Sheikh’s peer 25 Free from 30 Aussie animals 34 Medal above plata 36 One-up
38 ____ cavity 39 Bowl, e.g. 40 Prefix with nautical 41 One temporarily entrusting property to another
42 Ink
43 Units in the life span of a galaxy 44 Ad ____ tax 45 Brink of transition 49 Folksy possessive 52 Wilt 54 Magazine whose crossword is always accompanied by a photograph 57 Rigged card game 58 Hooked up, as oxen 59 Wolfs (down) 60 Supergiant in Orion
61 Hall of Fame quarterback for the Colts 62 More balanced 63 In ____ way 65 Rail container for liquids 70 Bakery buy 72 Cloth woven from flax fiber 73 So last year
76 “You can’t make me!” 77 Female goat 78 Gloomy, weather-wise 79 Place to surf 80 Haydn’s “The Creation” and others
81 Step on a ladder 82 The Berenstain Bears live in one 87 “A merry old soul,” in a nursery rhyme 89 Crack up, in textspeak
90 Bit of kindling 92 U.S. counterpart to Britain’s MI6 93 ____-Norman French 95 Common call on a 3rd-and-1 96 Not black-andwhite 98 Sticker worn in November 99 How some practical jokes go 100 Burden 101 Prairie east of the Andes 106 Two-fifths of one quarter 108 Sitar selection 109 Move laboriously 111 Houston MLB’er 113 Stressed, in a way: Abbr. 114 Multiple of tetra116 Union member of the 20th century, for short 118 Concern for one catching a connection, briefly 119 Sound from a drunk 120 “Stop right there!”