New York Times Crossword Puzzle

After completing this puzzle, draw a line starting at the middle square of 59-Across and connect five appropriate squares in roughly clockwise order to reveal an image suggested by this puzzle’s theme

ACROSS

1 “Friendly” cartoon

character

7 Pro

14 Symbols in calculus 20 Simple kind of antenna 21 Expenditures’

counterpart 22 Lacking a break 23 Add surreptitiously 24 Worrisome sight for a swimmer

25 With spite

26 Some Houdini feats 28 John of spy fiction 30 Something extraordinary that won’t soon be forgotten 32 Some northern

Europeans

35 Bit of hydrotherapy 38 Caffeinated drink with

tapioca balls 39 Doled (out) 41 Opposite of

colorblindness? 42 “____ Jacques” 43 Ones eligible for

marathon prizes 45 “Don’t bite the hand

that feeds you,” e.g. 46 Flight-board abbr. 47 Sinking feelings 50 Mistrusts 53 Mother or sister 54 Does more

than ask

56 Dr. ____ Sattler, “Jurassic Park” paleobotanist 57 Energy giant that fell

into ignominy in 2002 58 Elevs.

59 Peevish quality

61 Get a new mortgage 63 [Kiss] 65 Powerful D.C. lobby 68 Scylla or Charybdis 74 Speedy wide receiver,

perhaps

80 Skill

81 [Fingers crossed] 82 Buzz out in space 83 And so on: Abbr. 84 Staff leader?

86 & 87 What might cost you an arm and a leg? 88 Silver-tongued 89 2004 also-ran 91 Martin who wrote “The

Pregnant Widow” 92 Evening, in ads 93 Southern sandwich 94 Is there in spirit? 96 Zen Buddhist goal

98 Makes fun of 99 Menace in 106-Down 104 Bad-mouth

106 Add spice to 107 Metaphor for deliberate ignorance 109 Gobbled (down) 111 Seriously uptight 112 Fictional setting for 106-Down

115 “A ____ believes no one” (old saying) 116 Pottery

117 Caffè ____ 118 Justin Bieber or Justin Timberlake 119 Concerning 120 Conventions: Abbr. 121 “There, there” 122 Disgustingly obsequious 123 Class with drills

DOWN

1 Things investors take an interest in? 2 Suffer 3 106-Down director 4 Pink, e.g. 5 Brought out 6 Christen anew 7 Tidiness

8 Proud, fiery types, they say

9 Save for later, in a way 10 Fathers or brothers 11 Santa ____

12 No longer in force 13 Gives meaning to 14 Horn of Africa native 15 Neon, e.g. 16 Transmission

17 Like the menace

in 106-Down 18 Common knee injury

site, briefly 19 Locale for a trough 27 Fairy-tale “lump” 29 Hack

30 Hit BBC comedy,

briefly

31 Peter of “The Maltese

Falcon” 32 Handles deftly 33 Utmost degree 34 Farm machine 36 Something to angle for 37 “In Dulci Jubilo” and

others

39 Modest skirts 40 Modern subject of

F.A.A. regulation 43 TV show with the season’s highest rating, often 44 “____ U.S.A.”

(1963 hit)

48 Sports arbiter 49 Pixielike 51 Cabaret accessory 52 Country-music channel,

once 55 Decorative pillowcase 58 Adjudicate,

as a case

60 “This is

looking bad” 62 Lyricist Sammy 63 Singer Haggard 64 Golfer’s obstacle 66 Ska-punk band with the

1997 song “Sell Out” 67 Sunning area 68 Ax

69 Seasonal quaff 70 Small herrings

71 Is a crowd

72 Actor Morales 73 Deteriorates 74 Beginning 75 Precollege, for short

76 Text tweaks 77 Midcrisis hire, perhaps 78 Word with black or blood 79 Frozen-dessert chain 85 Leaves nervously exhausted 88 Thugs 90 Aromatic yellow citrus 93 Preppy wear 95 Himalayan native 97 Cheap and gaudy 98 Charged

99 Scrap

100 Actress Salma 101 Movie org. whose “100 Years … 100 Thrills” list has 106-Down at No. 2

102 Takes a load off 103 Superman, by birth 105 “Coo-oo-ool!”

106 1975 summer blockbuster 107 Morse clicks 108 Indian blueblood 110 Teensy amount 113 Yogi’s accessory 114 Oscar ____ (Hollywood honor, informally)

No. 0624