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SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

NOW WEIGHT JUST A SECOND

- By Tom McCoy /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Short strokes 6 Myriad

10 Habit

14 Pieces of work?

18 End of oyster season

19 Roof part

20 “____ Burr, Sir” (“Hamilton” song)

21 Vault

22 Cruise that specialize­s in baked alaska, e.g.?

25 Bona ____

26 Kim to Kourtney, or Kourtney to Khloé

27 Alma mater of George Orwell and Henry Fielding

28 Friend ____ friend

29 Quickly go through the seasons, say

30 Tiffany lampshade, e.g.

33 Like ambitious scientists?

37 Basic skate trick

38 “Yikes!”

40 Brewing one’s morning coffee, e.g.

41 Verano, across the Pyrénées

42 Art ____

45 Cause of a shocking Amazon charge?

47 ____-V (“paste” on a PC)

48 Go wrong

49 How everyone on this floor is feeling?

55 Lead-in to -ville in children’s literature

56 Beer, slangily

57 Trim, with “down”

58 Protected, as feet

59 “I saw ____ duck” (classic ambiguous sentence)

60 Long hikes

62 Refuse to admit

64 “My word!”

68 “Our lab studies regular dance moves rather than high-kicking”?

74 Architect Lin

75 Bankroll

76 Fire man?

77 “I see it now”

78 Lean

82 Garden plots

84 Indian title

85 The second “p” in p.p.m.

86 Summary of an easy negotiatio­n?

91 Musician Brian

92 Option in an Edit menu

93 Loire filler

94 Coin in the Pottervers­e

95 Branch

96 Central region of the Roman Empire

99 Last in a series, perhaps

101 Terse summons

105 What a truck driver puts on before a date?

108 Massive weapon of sci-fi

111 The Oligocene, e.g., in geology

112 Big Apple airport code

113 Several of them could be used in a row

114 Dear

115 “____ nobis pacem” (“Grant us peace”: Lat.)

116 The main food served at Walden Pond?

122 End ____

123 Alnico or chromel

124 ____ Minor

125 5x5 crosswords,

e.g.

126 Pops up in

France?

127 Co. heads

128 Rough amts.

129 Seize (from)

DOWN

1 What one does not do when sent to jail

2 Kind of battle

3 Like some customs

4 Word of advice 5 ____-mo

6 Quarrel

7 Capital of Punjab 8 State of stability 9 Tie the knot 10 Flavoring for snack peas

11 Galena, e.g.

12 “... ____ a lender be”

13 Purchase for Wile E. Coyote 14 Diminutive 15 Package deliverers of the present day?

16 Fancy gizmos

17 75+ person? 20 Regarding

23 Not many

24 The Phanerozoi­c, e.g., in geology 29 Words on an invoice

31 Faction

32 Apparently does 34 Mark indelibly

35 Old strings

36 Habitat for a mallow

39 Not go bad

43 & 44 Judge’s mandate 46 Imperfect cube

49 Angle symbol in geometry

50 Having a long face, say

51 Request from

52 Fuss

53 Rough housing 54 Comics character often kicked off a table

55 Impulse

61 Diver’s accouterme­nts 63 Thirst (for) 65 Hogwarts potions professor

66 Was sore

67 MIX, for one

69 Voice role for Beyoncé in 2019’s “The Lion King” 70 Had down

71 Serving at a pancake house 72 French dialect 73 Hastily

79 Shout from a lottery winner 80 Look after

81 ____ pool

83 Check out

86 Resting

87 One without a title

88 Do a star turn 89 “Great” place to be

90 GPS suggestion­s: Abbr.

91 Became less severe

97 Some brick houses

98 On the warpath

100 Leader in yellow journalism and an inspiratio­n for “Citizen Kane”

102 Simple hydrocarbo­n

103 Native New Zealanders

104 ____ Rutherford, a.k.a. the Father of Nuclear Physics 106 Words to a dejected friend

107 Down

109 Domains

110 Airport grp.

116 The banker in the Beatles’ “Penny Lane” never wears one in the pouring rain (very strange!)

117 Middle-earth quaff

118 Eponymous 2001 No. 1 album

119 Shade

120 Coal industry org.

121 Tree that starts fires?

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©2019 New York Times 10/13/19

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