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The New York Times Crossword

UH? OH By Dory Mintz / Edited by Will Shortz

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Dory Mintz of the Bronx is a software engineer for Wunderkind. He likes to bowl and calls himself “a passionate albeit subpar Scrabble player. This is his first Sunday puzzle.

ACROSS

1 Sliver

4 Politician with the campaign slogan 30-Across 9 Word with poetry or proportion­s 13 Something you might click to open

16 Elicits a “Whoa’’ from, say 18 Trimmed (down) 19 Wrestling star John 20 Tailor

22 Beams of one’s dreams? 25 Food served in an omakase meal

26 Having very little mental energy left 27 Moonfish 28 Swimmers in kelp forests 30 See 4-Across

33 Visit a museum to see a Rembrandt exhibit? 35 One prone to looking down 36 His tomb is in Red Square 37 Diamondbac­ks, on scoreboard­s

38 Face cards? 41 Destinatio­n for oenophiles 43 Sicily’s Parco dell’____ 45 Bug-spray ingredient 49 Bird of prey that’s gently petted?

53 Popular pops

55 Kind of attack 56 Longtime hockey star Kovalchuk

57 To read: Sp.

59 Gross

60 Error, in totspeak

62 Buys in

65 Look down on

67 Actor Justin sitting poolside?

71 Adds insult to injury 73 Santa-tracking org. 74 River across the New York/ New Jersey border 77 Some rideshare info 78 Exploit 81 Award-winning film set in Tehran

83 Bishop’s headgear 84 Hang up the cleats, so to speak

86 Make fun of small orange fruits? 90 Something rectangula­r that might have more than four sides 91 Two-player card game 92 TV character who said “Time to hit the hay ... oh, I forgot, I ate it!’’

93 Old auto with its founder’s monogram

94 Storage spot 97 Opposite of “avant’’

99 Reason to reschedule 102 Mashed potatoes, on a Thanksgivi­ng plate?

107 Instrument heard in Spanish folk music

111 Vinyl collection 112 Food brand whose sales boomed after the premiere of “Stranger Things’’

114 “When We Were Young’’ singer

115 Sharp 116 Fourth-quarter meltdown at an N.B.A. game in Oklahoma City?

120 Made out 121 Take home 122 Lather gatherer 123 Remained in bed, e.g. 124 Something to shoot for 125 “... sting like ____’’ 126 Clubs 127 ____ Bleus, nickname for France’s soccer team DOWN

1 Boardwalk treat 2 Plugged in, so to speak 3 Actor Leary 4 Missions, for short 5 ____ State, nickname for Massachuse­tts

6 Basis for an insurance investigat­ion

7 “Build ____ Buttercup’’ (1969 hit by the Foundation­s)

8 Spot for a perfume sample in a magazine, maybe 9 Green prefix

10 Staff

11 Lead-in to com or net, but not org 12 Wrinkly-skinned fruit 13 Largest object in the Kuiper belt

14 And the following, in footnotes

15 His birthday is celebrated as “Children’s Day’’ in India 17 Worries anxiously 20 Mounted on

21 Angry reaction

23 Main port of Yemen 24 They’re banned in many classrooms nowadays 29 Thing seen in the foreground of “Washington Crossing the Delaware’’ 31 N.Y. neighbor 32 Calculator­s of old 34 Partner of starts 36 Speaking part?

38 “In that case ... ”

39 Paul of “Little Miss Sunshine’’

40 Didn’t hear the alarm, say 42 Where fruit bat soup is eaten as a delicacy 44 Orange follower 46 Widespread 47 Nonstop flight?

48 Maori for “image’’ 50 Redeems at a casino

51 Sooners, by another name 52 Have a home-cooked meal 53 Like some obligation­s 54 Dict. listing

58 Setting for Mets games: Abbr.

61 Gradually diminish 63 Residentia­l suffix with Angel 64 High-priced violin, informally 66 All-knowing sort

68 It’s represente­d by a dot in the top-left corner, in Braille

69 Mideast palace parts 70 Son of Gloucester in “King Lear’’

71 & 72 A pop

75 ____ Alonso, Mets slugger with the most home runs by a rookie in M.L.B. history (53)

76 “... ish’’

79 People people, for short 80 Exit

82 “What’s ____, Doc?’’ (old Bugs Bunny short)

85 Grapefruit descriptor 87 Kelly of “Live’’ 88 Remark after losing 89 Nutritiona­l figs. 95 “____ be an honor!’’ 96 Snapple competitor 98 “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific’’ writer, 1880 100 Leaning right: Abbr. 101 Four-time U.S. Open champ 102 Four-time Australian Open champ

103 It has its highlights 104 Maker of the MDX, NSX and TLX

105 Bloc party?

106 Fix up again

107 Brown hue

108 Home of many Sherpas 109 ____ Hughes, name of main roles in “Westworld’’ and “Downton Abbey’’ 110 Decade after the aughts 113 Blossom 117 Taipei-to-Seoul dir. 118 Frequently

119 ____ Palmas

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