New York Times Crossword Puzzle

TRIVIAL MATTERS

By David Kwong / Edited by Will Shortz ACROSS

1 Not rumpled, as a bed 5 Slice, for example 9 Veal topper, informally 13 Cookie containers 17 “Yeah, right!” 18 Certain body of

believers

21 Part of a Latin 101

conjugation 22 What kind of tree ____? 24 High-grade cotton 25 Capital that was home to the world’s tallest building before the Burj Khalifa 26 Pears and apples 27 Vladimir Lenin’s real last name 29 Nahuatl speaker 30 Answer to 22-Across [Science & Nature] 32 Multipurpose 33 Fixed

34 Polite

36 Moving vehicle 38 “Carmen” and

“Elektra” 39 “Jeez!” 40 Mimicking 42 Director Anderson 43 Simulated 46 Answer to 113-Across [Geography] 48 Answer to 13-Down [History]

50 First name on a famous plane 52 Farm females 53 Host for a destructive

beetle

55 Abbr. on a label of

brandy

58 Class skippers 61 Princess seduced by Zeus 63 Cartesian conclusion 65 Word said before “do” 66 What 1986 ____ romantic comedy got its title from a song by the Psychedelic Furs?

68 Who wrote a 2003 best seller about a ____?

71 Tres + cinco 72 “Little ol’ me?” 73 Fine fabric 75 Asmara is its capital 76 Regard

77 World Cup cry 79 Newspaper units: Abbr. 81 Clammy 82 Answer to 68-Across [Art & Literature] 85 Answer to 66-Across [Entertainment] 89 “Phooey!”

90 Have a bawl 91 Amherst campus, for short 92 Cacophonous 94 Knight’s wear, in England

97 Pad

98 Find a new tenant for 99 Calendar units: Abbr. 102 Select, as sides for a game 104 Answer to 39-Down [Sports & Leisure] 106 “To repeat …” 108 Lens covers 109 Meerkat in “The Lion King” 111L iving, to Livy 112 Nose out

113 What ____ comes from a farm bird? 117 Blacken

118 Song heard at the start of “Saturday Night Fever” 119 Ride provider 120 Some I.R.S. data, for short

121 Not hush-hush 122 Kind

123 What a judge does for much of the day DOWN

1 Some roadsters 2 Brightly lit 3 Clinton who once ran for president 4 Tour de France stage 5 “Pipe down!”

6 60 minuti

7 Get rid of 8 “When it comes to …” 9 Scorer of 12 World Cup goals

10 Spanish ouzo flavoring 11 Nutritional std. 12 Bump on a slope 13 Where were battleships sunk in an 1894 ____? 14 Key of Beethoven’s

“Für Elise” 15 Quimby of children’s

books

16 Lines on sheet music 18 CBS debut of 2000 19 Comic actor known for his shock humor 20 1966 Donovan hit with a rhyming title 23 “That tastes bleah!” 28 “Holy cow!”

30 Cole Porter’s “Well, Did You ____?” 31 Jungle tangle 32 Sweet and kind 35 1962 hit for the Ikettes 36 Part of an itinerary 37 Cost to get a hand 39 What annual game have the ____ won more than any other team?

40 Too 41 Condition once called “shell shock,” for short

43 Process

44 How chicken teriyaki is usually served 45 Gave reluctantly, with “up”

47 Court plea, in brief 49 Oregon city that was the first permanent U.S. settlement west of the Rockies

51 A, B, C or D, in multiple choice: Abbr.

54 Foal’s mother 56 Like Fenway among all major-league ballparks

57 Folds 59 Cinephile’s channel 60 “Buzz off!”

62 Natty neckwear 64 Locale for Jacques Cousteau 67 Crankcase device 69 Like a moray 70 Director Burton 74 Follower of the Gospels

78 Wry Bombeck 80 Resilience

83 “It’s a waste of time” 84 Loaves from wholegrain flour

86 Put away, in a way 87 Longtime Steelers coach Chuck 88 Small digit 93 Reeked

94 Gain entry to 95 Kind of scholar 96 Freeman of “Now You See Me”

98 TV Tarzan player 99 Hot stuff

100 Fate 101 Unwelcome looks 103 Be of ____ (aid) 104 Syracuse player, once 105 Sacha Baron Cohen character 107 Original edition of this puzzle’s theme 109 Actor Diggs 110 Words of triumph 111 Whack

114 Length of a pool and back

115 Partner of tuck 116 Suffix with elect