NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD ANSWERS
Jim Hilger, of Amarillo, Texas, is a retired computer analyst and educator. Besides making crosswords, he enjoys collecting 45 r.p.m. records (he has more than 10,000 of them), cartooning and watercolor painting. “Most of my paintings end up looking like cartoons, however,” he says. The starting point of this puzzle was 38-Across. Jim apologizes in advance to the maker of every product he has “misplaced” herein. — W.S.
ACROSS
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 U.C.L.A.?
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
DOWN
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 M.L.B .’er
113 Stressed, in a way: Abbr.
114 Multiple of tetra
116 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!’’