NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS 1 Bedbug, e. g. 5 “Police Line — Do Not Cross” material 9 Gay ____ 14 Blemish for a straight- A student 19 R. p. m. indicator 20 Having gone tit for tat 21 Florida city whose name ends with two state postal abbreviations 22 Humiliate 23 Makes eye contact before undressing? 26 Hoosier hoopster 27 Expatriate 28 Wide- eyed type 29 “What ____ thou?” 31 One of five permanent members of the U. N. Security Council 32 One reading up on infant care, maybe 34 Equilibrium 36 Minor setback 38 Butts 39 Parent wearing your Superman costume? 42 Year abroad 43 The sun, for one 44 “Party Up ( Up in Here)” rapper, 2000 45 Bugs’s cartoon pursuer 46 Org. with evening meetings 47 Book after Jonah 49 “Get ____” 51 Root beer brand since 1937 54 Script suggestion about starting the fight scene? 60 A. F. L. partner 61 The “A” of I. P. A. 62 Ocean buildup 63 Willa who wrote “My Ántonia” 65 Mean- spirited sort 68 Richard Gere title role 69 Eat a little here, a little there 70 Greek god of sleep 72 Take for granted 76 Early Chinese dynasty 77 Black ____ 78 Ballet choreography? 84 Sport 86 RR ____ 87 Widening of the mouth? 88 Broody genre 89 Racy film 91 FEMA offering 94 Cartoonist Thomas 95 Beaut 96 Was harder for the bronco buster to hold on to? 101 High flier 102 Firstborn 103 University of Illinois city 104 Lumbering, say 106 In days of yore 107 “Same with me” 109 Subjects of an apartment restriction 111 Actresses Field and Hawkins 113 Rarity in a Polish name? 115 Like the digit “0” in 2018? 118 Iowa senator elected in 2014 119 “… but I could be wrong” 120 Reynolds of “Deadpool” 121 James who was nominated for a 1967 Grammy for “Tell Mama” 122 Hives, e. g. 123 Forte’s opposite 124 Old flames 125 Balance DOWN 1 All- too- common V. A. diagnosis 2 Corroded 3 Fall guy 4 Loses intentionally 5 What the classics stand 6 “Selma” director DuVernay 7 Southernmost Ivy 8 Hyphen’s longer cousin 9 Agricultural locale that’s weed- friendly? 10 Down’s counterpart: Abbr. 11 Trail mix bit 12 Title city in a 1960 # 1 song 13 “Don’t panic” 14 Event for Jesus described in Matthew 3: 13- 17 15 Kegler’s org. 16 Popular Mexican folk song 17 Depletes 18 It’s a wrap 24 “Uhh …” 25 Positioned 30 Lambaste 33 Auto- repair chain 35 Boxcars half 37 Looped in, in a way 38 Skipper, informally 40 Places for conductors 41 Kind of tide 43 Breakfast order at a diner 48 Giggle syllable 49 The New Yorker cartoonist Chast 50 Tip of the tongue? 52 Number between nueve and once 53 Put out 55 Make 56 Politician inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame 57 Trunk 58 Tally, in Britain 59 Vituperated 64 Orbitz booking 65 Grub 66 Build up 67 Fickleness of life 71 Demeaners of the # MeToo movement, say 72 Part of a stockyard 73 Dungeons & Dragons, e. g., for short 74 T- shirt size: Abbr. 75 First name on the Supreme Court 76 Monsoons 79 Draws 80 Treeless plain 81 Put on an act? 82 February birthstones 83 1899 gold rush destination 85 Be absolutely awesome 90 Makes potable, in a way 91 Wall St. worker 92 Probably will 93 Supergiant in Cygnus 96 A state of rapture 97 Notable whose name is an anagram of GALORE 98 Some arm bones 99 Journalist Fallaci 100 Emotionally developed 101 ____ whale 105 Bacon runoff 108 Cockeyed 110 Boundary between the earth and the underworld, in myth 112 R. B. I. or H. R. s 114 The “e” of i. e. 116 III or IV, maybe 117 When doubled, a 2010s dance craze