New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Theater purchase: Abbr. 4 Fertility doctor’s focus 8 Little sucker? 11 Mountain-to-mountain

transport 18 Sch. with a Manchester campus 19 Apple product 20 Fail to grant, in court 21 Showed humility 22 “Spoon River Anthology” poet Edgar ____ Masters 23 California’s Rancho

____ 25 Appeared amazed 26 Tattler’s threat 28 At a high rate 29 “____ Folks,” Charles

Schulz’s first strip 30 Scheme 31 Visibly sad 33 Making environmentally friendly 38 No. expert 40 One in a jungle trail 41 Walk with swaying

hips 43 Arduous 46 Relative of a Great

Dane 47 6 letters? 48 Like cars in a usedcar lot 49 Source of feta cheese 51 Prominent parts 54 Put-on 55 Clinton secretary of

state 59 Ingratiate 60 Like the American pronunciation of many Polish names 62 7 1/2-foot Ming 64 Item extending over a

gunwale 65 “Sesame Street” subjs. 66 An airbag can prevent it 70 Fixer-upper’s need,

for short 72 Counterpart of Aurora 74 Good part of a record 75 Diverge 79 Look good on 82 Citizen 84 Camera option, for

short 85 She’s courted in “The Courtship of Miles Standish” 88 Shipping unit: Abbr. 89 Country that’s won the most medals in the history of the Winter Olympics 91 + or – thing 92 How-to aid 95 Kind of omelet 97 1990 Mike Leigh comedy/drama 100 Maven 101 First word of Dante’s

“Inferno” 102 “E.T.” boy and others 103 “Would you let me

take a look?” 106 Plagues 109 Funny 110 Coffee mate? 111 Lady in “Lady and the

Tramp,” e.g. 113 Fix, as a braid 117 From the top 119 Battery size 120 Put forth 121 107-Down subject 122 Org. concerned with

toy safety 123 ____ Search (Bing

forerunner) 124 Renaissance-fair wear 125 Put on 126 Road ____ 127 Where costumes are

worn

DOWN

1 Dutch pot contents 2 Toll 3 1935 poem with one word per line … as spelled out by this puzzle’s circled letters 4 Start of a reminiscence 5 Where bills may accumulate 6 Sullied 7 Extinct wingless bird 8 California’s ____ Freeway 9 Common pizzeria

name 10 Blue shade 11 Piece of Tin Pan Alley

music 12 Midwest tribe 13 Ahab, e.g. 14 Decorative border 15 Writer of 3-Down 16 Exist 17 Pay-stub abbr. 20 Remove, in a way 24 Mad magazine cartoonist Drucker 27 Like about 45% of human blood 32 Internet troll, intentionally 33 Cells that protect

neurons 34 Ransack 35 In conclusion: Fr. 36 Levi’s Stadium athlete,

informally 37 Some Pontiacs 39 One who’s much

praised 42 Capt.’s inferiors 43 Clutch 44 Cause déjà vu, perhaps 45 ____ talk 46 “Family Guy” daughter 50 Certain heiress 52 ____ Period, 1603-1868 53 “____ Arizona Skies”

(John Wayne movie) 56 “Just a minute,” in

texts 57 Cousin of an aardwolf 58 Army Rangers beret

color 61 Branded footwear 63 Circle 67 Cousins 68 Ones whose work is

decreasing? 69 Severe penalty 71 Harp’s home key 73 Liberal arts subj. 76 Da ____, Vietnam 77 Fright-wig wearer 78 Comic impressionist

David 79 Lie in the hot sun 80 Thick 81 Group mailing tool 83 “31 Days of Oscar”

network 85 Mound 86 Code contents 87 Barrier to some websites 90 River through

Deutschland 93 What a cousin can be

twice 94 Done 96 Flips 98 What may make you

duck down? 99 Certain salt 100 Falafel holder 104 Steppes dwelling 105 “Beowulf” and others 107 It might have an escalator 108 Bias 110 Artist Maar depicted in Picasso’s “The Weeping Woman” 112 MCAT topic: Abbr. 113 ____ room 114 Intro to biology? 115 Screen 116 Lib. listings 118 Astronomer’s std.