Chicago Sun-Times

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

THE MAGIC SHOW

- | BY ERIC BERLIN | EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

ACROSS

1 Bit of a Bollywood soundtrack 5 Hawaiian giveaway 8 Home of van Gogh’s “The Starry Night,” informally 12 Walgreens competitor 19 Greek warrior of myth 20 Person from Calgary or Edmonton 22 Source of material for a baseball bat 23 Magic trick performed at 78- Down 25 Company accountant’s responsibi­lity 26 Concern for wheat farmers 27 Nickname for an Oxford university 29 Puzzle- loving group 30 Sugar found in beer 34 Mouselike rodents 36 Sometimess­tinky pair 39 Adds to 43 Agcy. that cares what airs 46 Mauna ____ 47 Magic trick performed at 119- Across and 104- Down 49 Burden for Jack and Jill 50 Female org. since the 1850s 52 Lee of Marvel Comics 53 Pals around ( with) 54 Coca- Cola brand 55 ____ duck ( Chinese entree) 57 “Carmina Burana” composer Carl 59 Grant- making org. 60 Like most doors 61 Followed closely, as a set of rules 63 Zest source 65 Feudal vassal 67 Magic trick performed at 123- and 124- Across 71 Word repeated before “everywhere” 72 Online “Very funny!” 73 Basic gymnastics flips 76 Comic Aziz of “Master of None” 79 “Is that true about me?” 81 Movies with big budgets and no audience 83 At the proper moment 84 Simple percussion instrument 85 Greenish- blue hues 87 Musical based on Fellini’s “8 1/ 2” 89 Ready to take part 90 Escape maker 91 Magic trick performed at 55- Across 94 Blue, on some maps: Abbr. 95 Onetime White House nickname 96 Apt anagram of IS A CHARM 97 Eight- line poems 99 Hullabaloo 100 Four- string instrument 102 Kind of jar 105 Crisp fabric 109 Tequila source 113 “Whenever you want” 115 Magic trick performed at 15-, 16- and 17- Down 119 Skinny sort 120 Hydrogen has one 121 Architect Saarinen 122 Swiss and others 123 First name in jazz 124 Bad: Prefix 125 Prohibitio­nists

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1 Go gaga 2 Not quite closed 3 Bunch of friends 4 Truisms 5 ____- di- dah 6 QB Manning 7 Arabic for “son of ” 8 Advertisin­g icon who wears a single earring 9 Missouri River native 10 Hurt badly 11 Latin years 12 Output of N. W. A or DMX 13 “This ____ test” 14 Herbs related to mints 15 English lengths 16 Baseball’s Hank 17 Physicist Bohr 18 Crème ____ crème 21 They can be inflated or shattered 24 Lesley of “60 Minutes” 28 Manipulati­ve type 31 Lane in Metropolis 32 12: 50 33 Schindler of “Schindler’s List” 35 Officers below capts. 36 Relief carving 37 Shout of pain 38 Talkative birds 40 “Yuk!” 41 Relative of pop? 42 Place from which to withdraw deposits 43 Long tooth 44 Give as an example 45 Wearing, with “in” 48 Prefix with structure 49 Décor of many dens 51 Onetime honor for cable TV shows 54 Mozart title character 56 Part of P. E. I. 58 Some dental work 60 Titter 62 South American monkey 64 Old war zone, briefly 66 Tangled up 68 Ill- defined situation 69 Offspring 70 Front 74 Director of 1957’ s “12 Angry Men” 75 Looks like 76 Name on some boxes of film 77 Neophyte, informally 78 Provide part of a coverage policy for 80 ____- pedi 82 “Mirabile ____!” (“Wonderful to state!”) 85 Reproves 86 Dweller in a virtual “City” 88 Great Lakes city 91 Greek X 92 J. Crew competitor 93 New York archbishop Timothy 96 Furs from rabbits 98 Got a move on, with “it” 99 “I would ____ surprised” 101 Stand- up comic Williams 102 Like the Spanish nouns “gato” ( cat) and “perro” ( dog): Abbr. 103 Literary collection: Abbr. 104 Vaccine holder 106 Run away 107 Tumbled 108 Stuntman Knievel 110 The New World: Abbr. 111 Be inconsiste­nt 112 Book of Mormon book 114 Fannie or Ginnie follower 116 Suffix with dull 117 Small dog 118 Entrances

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