New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Toy on a racetrack 8 Soccer star who has won a record eight Ballon d’Or awards

13 Like “t,” “k” and “p,” in phonetics 20 What Hemingway claimed he did to the ending of “A Farewell to Arms” 39 times 21 Dartmouth and Penn, e.g.

22 Fled 23 Mnemonic start 24 Actor Leary 25 Flowerlike sea creature 26 Massive victory ... or a high score in 113-Across? 29 Really enjoys oneself 31 Doofuses 34 Wetland 35 Objections

36 Be part of an uprising 37 Lowercase letter that resembles an “n” 39 Las Vegas resort with a musicinspired name 41 But

42 Resort amenity 45 Medical procedure, for short 46 Overabundance 47 Vodka drink, informally 49 Tremble 52 Contaminating trace 53 Chemicalsolution strength 54 “Yeshiva boy” played by Barbra Streisand

55 Author who penned the line “Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart” 56 Climate issue addressed in the Montreal Protocol 58 Approach something with gusto 60 What’s the matter? 61 Sunder 62 Shapes of many carrot slices 64 Currency worth a little more than dollars 66 Spreadsheet command 67 Spot for a loft 68 Muesli bit 70 Make a pile, perhaps 72 Rentable transportation options 76 Fracas 78 Music’s Little ____ 83 Used TurboTax, say 84 Journalist’s accessory 86 Knuckle-headed act? 87 Biblical man who lost his birthright 88 2017 musical retelling of the stories of Henry VIII’s wives 89 Symbol for torque, in physics 91 Many a viral post 92 Point of no return?

95 Ace

98 Coast 101 Ellipsis element 104 Aviator’s maneuver in a crosswind landing 108 Proportional

DOWN

1 Many prom attendees: Abbr. 2 Niihau neckwear 3 Symbol of wisdom 4 Lock 5 Mountebank 6 “Nice work, little fella!” 7 Dreamy state 8 Skirts that go below the knee 9 Giant slalom at the Olympics, e.g. 10 Choir director’s command 11 Tremor

12 Put out 13 Make perfect, maybe 14 Frustrating highway driver 15 Short tennis session 16 Gregor ____, Franz Kafka character 17 ____ Jima 18 Small band transport

109 “The Last Supper,” for one

111 Spot on an afternoon schedule? 112 Doofuses 113 Game represented visually in this puzzle

116 Talks like Tom Waits 117 Justice Kagan 118 Try for a seat in the Capitol 119 Fifth-century pope dubbed “the Great” 120 Constant nuisance

121 Like some postage and parking spaces 122 Fish whose juveniles can climb walls

19 Image at the top of the pyramid on the back of a dollar bill

27 “____ la vista, baby!” 28 Insertion mark 29 Put on a pedestal, say 30 Jennifer of “The Morning Show” 32 “White Noise” author Don 33 What a shock! 34 11,111 vis-à-vis 123,454,321 38 Swear (to) 40 Tweak, say 42 Ejects forcefully 43 Primitive camera feature

44 Like a winner of a mountain marathon, in two senses

46 First name of Julius Caesar 48 Unrefined mined find

50 Finish line for the first stage of the first Tour de France 51 Giant name in Giants history 52 Cinemax competitor

57 It’s facedown on a poker table 58 Negroni spirit 59 [I’m SO mad!] 60 Cotton fabric often used in bandages 63 Hosp. areas 65 Gondola propeller 67 Honey

69 Verb sometimes abbreviated to its central letter 71 Prefix with tourist or hotel 72 Series finale 73 Counterfactual starters, in logic

74 Karachi-based carrier 75 Certain urban nightlife 76 Military hiding spot 77 Place that’s cramped and squalid 79 Something a presidential candidate often wins 80 Gray, say

81 Part of a hoop 82 It may be repeated after “fiddle” 84 Oregon-based athletic brand 85 Podium 88 Items in a hardware store bin 90 Acting as one 93 Capital in the Himalayas 94 Company originally known as Control Video Corp. 96 Shelley’s “____ to the West Wind” 97 Converges on 98 Source of a sleeper hit, perhaps 99 ____ Holmes, Netflix character played by Millie Bobby Brown 100 Pitkin County ski town

101 Old Venetian money

102 Give a keynote, say 103 Performer with lions 105 Cotton fabric often used in hosiery

106 Urge

107 Some dinero 109 Part of a lion 110 Ear piece 114 Bottom line? 115 Container component