New York Times Crossword Puzzle

No. 1223

ACROSS 1 English guy

5 Partner in indecision

with 5-Down 8 Alternative

to pavement

14 What leads many people to say, “Let’s face it”?

19 Spanish greeting

20 G.I.’s address 21 California’s motto 22 Like a truck descending a steep hill

23 Sources of Manchego

cheese

24 How polka bands get

their start?

27 Org. with an annual Help a Horse Day

29 Big suit

30 Harvard University Press’s ____ Classical Library

31 Hundredths:

Abbr.

32 Pontiff’s

gold treasure? 37 Performed creditably 39 Word with

store or sign

40 Value

43 Like powwows 46 Register things

48 Star bursts

49 Summer hat 50 Enthrones

53 Query about the Freedom Caucus or Berniecrats?

56 Noted beautycontest loser

57 Most remote of the

Near Islands

59 Irish port, county or

bay

60 “Shame!”

61 Sushi eel

63 Improvised

67 Some refuges

69 Figure in Jewish

folklore

70 Like some factories

… or, in a different sense, like 90-,

109- and 119-Across (but not 24-, 32- and 53-Across)? 73 Potentially unhelpful answer to “Who’s there?”

77 Speed

79 The 21st Amendment,

e.g.

80 Biblical spy

81 Wonder

84 Dutch cheese

87 Pas sans

89 Awestruck

90 Nickname for a hard-to-please girl? 95 Room to

maneuver 97 Certifiable,

so to speak

98 Bygone office position 99 Unctuousness

101 White part

of pearly whites 102 Offshore

sight, maybe

104 Vexes

107 Arabic name that sounds like a polite affirmative

109 Data maintained by

competitive dentists? 112 Envelope abbr.

114 That’s right!

117 Italian article

118 Intentionally lost 119 Speakers’ searches for just the right words?

125 Halliburton of the Halliburton Company

126 Buckwheat cereal 127 Restroom sign

128 Antidiscriminatory

abbr.

129 Iago or Othello

130 It notably

has two bridges

131 Bleachers

132 “x” in 5x = x2 ÷ 2 133 Tit for tat? DOWN

1 Shoddy

2 “Alas!”

3 War-torn

Syrian city 4 Philosophical argument

for belief in God 5 Partner in indecision

with 5-Across 6 Connoisseur

of food and drink 7 One might be found near a cloverleaf

8 Modern

prefix with tag

9 Series

10 Word with

you but not me

11 Main ingredient in

Wiener schnitzel 12 Kitchenware brand 13 Like corsets

14 Russian “peace” 15 Terminus

16 Online enticement 17 Codger

18 Botanical bristles 25 Evidence

left by a moth

26 Dead reckoning? 28 ____ Alcorn,

creator of Pong 33 Wood for a raft

34 “And who ____?” 35 Texter’s transition

36 St. Petersburg’s river 38 Unduly harsh

41 Has a 42-Down

42 See 41-Down

44 ____ Lee, singer with the 2011 No. 1 album “Mission Bell”

45 All limbs

47 Audit a class, say 50 Move

slowly (along)

51 City near

the Sierras

52 What comes before “B”? 54 Islamic mystic

55 Tinker (with)

58 Align

62 Doesn’t really see 64 Gift-tag word 65 Lansing-to-Flint dir. 66 Brief swim

68 Protective

sorts in showbiz 71 Fervor

72 Some runoff sites 74 BBQ side

75 What can

go before watt 76 Rare success story from the dot-com bubble 78 More pulchritudinous 81 Beau’s girl 82 ____-Dixie

(grocery chain) 83 It’s not as

simple asa),b),c) 85 “Go ahead!”

86 Italian wine city 88 Trolley sound

91 Bee, e.g.

92 Introvert’s focus 93 Cross inscription 94 Seethe

96 Max at the MoMA 100 Sea cow

103 Need for a model 105 Flowering herb also known as devil’s nettle

106 Woman’s name that

means “star”

108 Banisters

110 Not loose,

as a diamond

111 4-0 series, say

112 Some refuges

113 Like panang curry 115 “Git!”

116 “I did it!”

120 It fits in a lock

121 Architect Maya

122 Mathematician’s 116Down

123 Inits. before

many state names 124 Jesus Christ,

with “the”