The New York Times Crossword
Across
1 Sliver
4 Politician with the campaign slogan 30-Across
9 Word with poetry
or proportions
13 Something you
might click to open 16 Elicits a “Whoa”
from, say
18 Trimmed (down) 19 Wrestling star John 20 Tailor
22 Beams of one’s
dreams?
25 Food served in an
omakase meal
26 Having very little
mental energy left 27 Moonfish
28 Swimmers in kelp
forests
30 See 4-Across
33 Visit a museum to see a Rembrandt exhibit?
35 One prone to
looking down
36 His tomb is in Red
Square
37 Diamondbacks, on
scoreboards
38 Face cards?
41 Destination for
oenophiles
43 Sicily’s Parco
dell’____
45 Bug-spray
ingredient
49 Bird of prey that’s
gently petted?
53 Popular pops
55 Kind of attack
56 Longtime hockey
star Kovalchuk
57 To read: Sp.
59 Gross
60 Error, in totspeak
62 Buys in
65 Look down on
67 Actor Justin sitting
poolside?
71 Adds insult to injury 73 Santa-tracking org. 74 River across the New York/New
Jersey border
77 Some rideshare
info
78 Exploit
81 Award-winning film
set in Tehran
83 Bishop’s headgear 84 Hang up the cleats,
so to speak
86 Make fun of small
orange fruits?
90 Something
rectangular that might have more than four sides
91 Two-player card
game
92 TV character who said “Time to hit the hay ... oh, I forgot, I ate it!”
93 Old auto with its founder’s monogram
94 Storage spot
97 Opposite of “avant” 99 Reason to
reschedule
102 Mashed potatoes, on a Thanksgiving plate?
107 Instrument heard in Spanish folk music
111 Vinyl collection
112 Food brand whose sales boomed after the premiere of “Stranger Things” 114 “When We Were
Young” singer
115 Sharp
116 Fourth-quarter meltdown at an N.B.A. game in
Oklahoma City? 120 Made out
121 Take home
122 Lather gatherer 123 Remained in bed,
e.g.
124 Something to
shoot for
125 “... sting like ____” 126 Clubs
127 ____ Bleus, nickname for France’s soccer team
Down
1 Boardwalk treat
2 Plugged in, so to speak
3 Actor Leary
4 Missions, for short 5 ____ State, nickname for Massachusetts 6 Basis for an insurance investigation
7 “Build ____ Buttercup” (1969 hit by the Foundations)
8 Spot for a perfume
sample in a magazine, maybe 9 Green prefix
10 Staff
11 Lead-in to com or
net, but not org
12 Wrinkly-skinned
fruit
13 Largest object in
the Kuiper belt
14 And the following,
in footnotes
15 His birthday is
celebrated as “Children’s Day” in India
17 Worries anxiously 20 Mounted on
21 Angry reaction
23 Main port of Yemen 24 They’re banned in many classrooms nowadays
29 Thing seen in the foreground of “Washington Crossing the Delaware”
31 N.Y. neighbor
32 Calculators of old 34 Partner of starts 36 Speaking part?
38 “In that case ... “
39 Paul of “Little Miss
Sunshine”
40 Didn’t hear the
alarm, say
42 Where fruit bat soup is eaten as a delicacy
44 Orange follower
46 Widespread
47 Nonstop flight?
48 Maori for “image” 50 Redeems at a
casino
51 Sooners, by
another name
52 Have a homecooked meal
53 Like some
obligations
54 Dict. listing
58 Setting for Mets
games: Abbr.
61 Gradually diminish 63 Residential suffix
with Angel
64 High-priced violin,
informally
66 All-knowing sort 68 It’s represented by a dot in the topleft corner, in Braille 69 Mideast palace
parts
70 Son of Gloucester
in “King Lear”
71 &72 Apop
75 ____ Alonso, Mets slugger with the most home runs by a rookie in M.L.B. history (53)
76 “... ish”
79 People people, for
short
80 Exit
82 “What’s ____, Doc?” (old Bugs Bunny
short)
85 Grapefruit
descriptor
87 Kelly of “Live”
88 Remark after
losing
89 Nutritional figs.
95 “____ be an honor!” 96 Snapple
competitor
98 “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific”
writer, 1880
100 Leaning right:
Abbr.
101 Four-time U.S.
Open champ
102 Four-time Australian Open champ
103 It has its highlights 104 Maker of the MDX,
NSX and TLX
105 Bloc party?
106 Fix up again
107 Brown hue
108 Home of many
Sherpas
109 ____ Hughes, name of main roles in “Westworld” and “Downton Abbey” 110 Decade after the
aughts
113 Blossom
117 Taipei-to-Seoul dir. 118 Frequently
119 ____ Palmas