New York Times Crossword

LENGTH-ENING

ACROSS

1 Opportunities for

singles

7 Marbled savory

snack from China 13 A boatload 17 “Keep Ya Head Up”

rapper, informally 20 Home of the

WNBA’s Wings 21 Talk and talk and

talk and talk

22 On the deep 23 Poorly

24 Why the party’s about to get less hip?

26 Maker of the

Switch console 28 Cremation

receptacles 29 Service that’s not

good?

30 “The ____ Company” (Frans Hals portrait) 32 Pie-crust

ingredient

33 Army award

attribute 35 Realtor’s exclamation about a primary bathroom? 39 Actress Moriarty

of “The Boys” 40 “My package

arrived!” 42 Landing info, in brief

43 Sorrowful sound 44 “Not gonna ____ ...”

45 Other: Sp. 46 Structure on the

continental shelf 48 Take (down) 49 How Shamu acknowledged the crowd’s appreciation? 52 Go from 60 to 0,

say

54 Grp. regulating global commerce 57 Got by just fine 58 Some NFL

linemen, in brief 60 Where someone might fiddle with your dance moves? 62 Flat-topped

military hat 64 Ocean State sch. 66 Takes the stage 69 Man’s name that spells a fruit backward 70 “Prepare for a sword fight, McKellen, Fleming and all other namesakes out there!”? 75 Uncurbed

enthusiasm 76 Injury from a

fistfight 77 Byproduct of

burning tobacco 78 Bread maker? 79 Casino do-overs 81 Like many

lifeguards 83 Crews 86 Neurodegenerative

disease, for short 87 1990s fitness fad 90 Dish cooked to smooth things over after a fight? 95 Cable channel with the comedy/ drama “Sistas” 96 TV that’s trash,

e.g.

98 Pops

99 High point of a

trip to Europe? 100 The old you? 102 It’s full of hot air

103 One small bite 105 Word with bus or

whistle

106 What students in a karate class are often doing? 109 Spiny sea creatures 111 Flatbread made with atta

112 Charge for a tutor 113 Business-card abbr.

115 Hang ominously 116 Place for a lamp 118 Challenge for a court jester? 123 “That’s ____” (“You may proceed”) 124 ____ film

125 North African stew, or the dish it’s cooked in 126 Intimidating in a cool way

127 Flavor enhancer, for short

128 Counterpart of -ful 129 Wears down 130 Contents of a corn maze

DOWN

1 Freeware

annoyances 2 Where you might order nopales or esquites

3 Less clear, as a

memory 4 Support group with a hyphen in its name

5 Ankle bones 6 About 5 o’clock,

compass-wise 7 Daly of “Cagney &

Lacey” 8 Singer-actress

Kitt

9 “Yo te ____”

10 The Tasmanian one has been extinct since the 19th century 11 “Capisce?”

12 Like wind power vis-à-vis natural gas

13 Something a parent might tell you to watch 14 God who was said to be in love with his sister while still in the womb(!) 15 Core position 16 Took a load off 17 Thing to bash at a

bash

18 Buzz about space?

19 Thickheads 25 State symbol of

Massachusetts 27 “Middlemarch”

novelist, 1871 31 Showing signs of

life 33 Commanding

position 34 Located, to a builder 36 Herman Melville’s

second novel 37 “That’s odd” 38 Act

unprofessionally? 41 Channel

45 How you might walk after getting great news 47 “Hey, I had it first!” 48 Comedian-actor Ken of “The Hangover” films 50 Skewer

51 Pinkish-red shade 53 It moves one step

at a time

54 “Ain’t I a ____?” (Sojourner Truth speech) 55 Between, poetically 56 Lead-in to a sale

price

59 Lacking emotional

toughness 61 Remove from

Zillow, say 62 Show submission,

in a way 63 “Jumpin’

Jehoshaphat!” 65 Still competing 67 Tour de France

stage

68 Envelops 70 Pound who wrote “In a Station of the Metro”

71 C sharp equivalent 72 Slowly move (in) 73 Sends unwanted

texts to, maybe 74 Utterances of

agreement 80 Totally loved

82 Present at birth 84 What’s so flippin’

easy to cook with? 85 Dinner at which

“Dayenu” is sung 88 Fried pastries popular in New Orleans 89 Baby that rarely

sleeps at night 91 Kind of high-fat,

low-carb diet 92 Unlike π 93 Business magnate who is a Stanford University dropout 94 Actor Omar 95 Electronic toy with

a blue “pull” handle 97 “On Juneteenth” author ____ Gordon-Reed 100 Some beachwear

101 Show-off

102 Mournful peals 104 Play opener 105 Rhimes with an eponymous production company 106 Pummel

107 Infuse (with) 108 Joy of TV

110 Sole connector? 114 Potato peeler targets

117 Patella neighbor, in brief

119 One may get in the way of a collaboration 120 Purge (of) 121 Abbr. in a birth announcement 122 Site used by NASA, in brief