The new york times
ACROSS
1 Onetime Sony
rival
8 Off-color
12 Maker of the
X6 and Z4 15 Doctors
Without Borders, e.g.: Abbr.
18 Deep secret 19 “____ Dead?”
(Mark Twain play) 20 Quickly learn one’s
lesson?
21 Startling sound 22 Bookworms call
dad?
24 South Beach and
Paleo, for two 26 Swiss painter
Paul
27 Company whose business is picking up?
28 Seedy area?
29 Big Apple media
inits.
30 Depletes, with “up” 31 A young Justice
Ginsburg chuckles? 36 Signature item 37 Singer Watson, a.k.a. Tones and I, with the 2019 hit “Dance Monkey” 38 Apt name for a
lawyer
39 False accusation,
informally
40 Fancy Feast
alternative
43 One “R” in R&R 46 Hoarse
47 Do core exercises
all day, every day? 51 “____ Brockovich” 52 Quick drive 53 Elusive legend 54 Business for Sanders supporters? 57 Holiday dish served with sour cream or applesauce
60 Links grp.
62 Hard to handle, in a
way
64 Hunky-dory 66 Response to an
order
67 Burger King
bingefest?
71 Spike Donald short Alma mater Lee Glover, and for for
72 Logical connector 73 With the greatest
of ____ 74 ____ golf 75 Sloped-roof support
77 Govt. org. with a forerunner known as the Black Chamber
79 Race units 81 Dinner-table
expander 83 Hops-drying oven 84 Supernova in our
galaxy?
90 Follower of word or
potato 93 “Gimme ____” 94 ____-cat 95 Numerous 97 Symbols in Twitter
handles
99 Like ____ of
sunshine
100 Anatomical pouch
103 When E.M.T.s bring
home the bacon?
108 “I mean ...”
109 A/C spec 110 Members of the
crow family
111 Heavier alternative
to a foil
112 Guthrie who performed at
Woodstock
113 Cutting edge?
115 Some astronomy
Ph.D.s?
119 Longtime Japanese P.M. who stepped down in 2020 120 “Runnin’?” team of N.C.A.A. Division I college basketball
121 Comparable (to)
122 Disciple
123 Tarnish
124 Really good time
125 Capital near the
North Sea
126 Prepares (for)
DOWN
1 Prepare for a road
trip, perhaps
2 End of a threat 3 Nora Ephron and Sofia Coppola, for two 4 The land down under? 5 Walk-____ 6 Prickly covering of a seed 7 “____ the only one?” 8 Beatles title woman 9 “____ your request ... “10 Feature of a classical Greek drama 11 “You betcha!” 12 “The ____ — is wider than the Sky” 13 (start Dickinson Bit of fill-in-the- of an poem) Emily 14 blanks Subject fun of intl. 15 treaties Compliant sorts 16 Squalid digs 17 Sports team V.I.P.s 20 Corporate money managers, for short 23 Ancient Egyptians 25 Result of a breast pocket mishap, 28 maybe Ally of the Brat Pack 31 Common baking pear 32 Sacred cross in ancient Egypt 33 Chance to go 34 Preserve, in a way 35 Only Stratego piece with a letter on it 37 Sardine container 41 Studmuffin 42 Absorb, as sauce with bread 44 Give extra consideration, with “on” 45 Idaho, e.g., in dialect 47 Color marker 48 Got hip, with “up” 49 How a door might be slammed 50 Subcontractor in a
bathroom remodel 51 Gusto 55 One may be nominated for a
Hugo Award 56 58 Least Palindromic forward farm animal 59 “We ____ Overcome” 61 Stubborn sorts 63 It helps in passing 65 Rocker Cobain 68 Japan’s street food mecca 69 Diarist who documented the Great Plague of London 70 Gets lost 76 Eponym of the Detroit Lions field 78 Any Olympian, once 80 Drops an f-bomb, say 82 False fronts 85 Promises, promises! 86 Takes steps 87 ____ avis 88 Coarse farm sound 89 Dangerous move on a busy highway 90 “Blueberries for ____” (kid-lit classic) 91 Legendary password stealer 92 Higher, as ambitions 96 Build-your-own Tex-Mex dish 98 Does a dog trick 101 Declare 102 Where hangers hang 104 They go wherever the wind blows 105 They can be batted and rolled 106 When high school seniors often visit the colleges that accepted them 107 Like binary questions 108 Volt-amperes 113 Attention hog, maybe 114 Galoot 115 Portrait seen on renminbi bills 116 Car-sticker fig. 117 “Roses ____ red ... “118 Nonsense