New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Tennis world since 1968 8 St. Louis Arch, e.g. 15 Gasoline may make

it go

20 Impersonated 21 Performing, perhaps 22 Change of locks? 23 “Try not to miss Bangor and Lewiston”? 25 “____ de Lune” 26 Player of TV’s

Det. Tutuola 27 Publication read by

drs.

28 Kind of torch on “Survivor”

29 Private eye, slangily 30 Where Spartacus was

from

32 Rite for a newborn

Jewish boy

34 2:00 in New York visà-vis St. Louis? 36 Chopper topper 38 “____ ’em, boy!” 40 Fifth wheel

41 Part of a full house 43 Haunted house sound 45 Duds

47 Be sociable, say 50 Whistler from two

Eastern states? 53 Financial institution whose parent company is Canadian 55 Name in a Salinger

title

56 Cheers after a go-oo-oal!

57 Quaint store descriptor

59 Just beat

60 Put away

61 ____ equipped

62 “I’m such a klutz!” 64 Sportscaster Al

68 “We shouldn’t sell our

Fort Wayne home”? 72 How a B.L.T. might

come

73 Rice-A-____

74 Public image, briefly 75 Farm female

77 Reebok rival

78 Navy commando

80 It means “farmer” in

Afrikaans

82 Hydroxyl compound 83 Airbnb offering 86 “Sooner this, Sooner that … can’t you talk about any other subject?”?

89 Imparter of umami

taste, in brief

90 Exact look-alike 93 Resort near Snowbird 94 Middle-____

95 Big 2016 film set in

Polynesia

96 Cab alternative 98 Follows

100 Deal another blackjack card to a young Salem woman?

104 Take from the top 106 “Consider it done” 110 Tomorrow

111 Architect Saarinen 113 Some young ’uns

115 Grammy-winning singer of “Shepherd Moons”

116 A-lister

117 Midwest state secedes and will join the United Kingdom? 120 Whale food

121 Place

122 Direct route

123 Overused

124 Directed

125 Having braids

DOWN

1 Footnote abbr.

2 Take stock?

3 Fragrant compound 4 Pitted fruit

5 Icelandic letter 6 Powerful engine 7 Cruising

8 Be successful

9 The slightest amount

of

10 Oscar-winning foreign film of 2005 set in South Africa 11 Tiny-scissors holder 12 Nutsy

13 Competing with 14 Thirst

15 Firmly in place 16 Have a connection 17 Turbaned teacher 18 Loathing

19 Like some myths 24 “You’ll have to pay

for me”

29 Stylish

31 Unit of firewood 33 “Freedom ____ free” 35 Commercial

lead-in to Pen 37 Walter ____, Dodgers owner who moved the team from Brooklyn to L.A.

39 Submits, as a phone

report

41 Previous incarnations 42 Part of a recovery

effort

44 Writer of “The Gnat

and the Bull”

46 ____ Conference 47 Added up

48 City just east of LAX 49 Vintage Jaguars 50 Apology start 51 Oktoberfest music 52 First-rate, in British

slang

54 Buyer of a dozen roses, maybe

58 Former parent co. of Gramophone and Parlophone records 61 Ideology

63 Again, in Mexico 65 Getting help getting

clean

66 Dijon darling

67 Avoid puddles, say 69 Pointer’s pronoun 70 Sister of Helios 71 Ancient fortuneteller 72 In the 70s, say 76 Yellowstone

grazer

79 Unadon fish 81 Armchair accompanier

82 Things painted in the

spring

84 So darn cute

85 Like some fertile soil 87 Status

88 They may block passage

91 Start to form? 92 Single, for one

95 Art ____, longtime Cleveland Browns owner

97 Pressure indicator on

a map

99 Iger’s predecessor at

Disney

100 Hardly sophisticates 101 Sluggish

102 Actress Shire

103 Quattro + tre

105 Fabulist’s confession 107 Diarist Nin

108 Jeff ____, leader of the Electric Light Orchestra

109 Got on board

112 Licentious sort

114 Word with ceiling or

financing

117 C.I.A. forerunner 118 Tour de France time 119 “Who’da thunk it?!”