The New York Times Crossword
Across
1 Like the Rock visà-vis any of the Stones
8 Small doodles,
perhaps
15 ____ pants
20 Surpass
21 Candy bar with an exclamation point in its name
22 To love, in Italian
23 Meticulous magical
beings?
25 The land down
under
26 Sharpen
27 Screams
28 Calendar column:
Abbr.
29 Frenzied states
30 High-ranking
figures, collectively 32 Like some crossCaribbean flights?
34 Three-time Pro Bowl wide receiver in the New York Jets Ring of Honor 37 Biblical father of
Eliphaz
40 CNN political correspondent Bash
41 Bushy-tailed
rodents
43 Postseason
tournament pick 46 ____ Reader (quarterly magazine)
50 Journals of a certain
stunt performer? 52 Commuting
arrangement
54 Body-shop fig.
55 Owing
56 Buddy of Buddy,
maybe
58 What might whet
an appetite
59 Taken down and
put up elsewhere 63 Relative of cerulean 66 Scale for some
judges
68 Possible reason for refusing to wear a tank top?
71 Worries about
something
73 2018 crime biopic 74 “Potatoes done
perfect” sloganeer 77 Shape of a
doughnut
78 Shape of a canine
ID tag, often
80 Fossil suffix
82 “Most miserable hour that ____ time saw”: Lady Capulet
83 “Checkmate”
85 Means of learning about Chiang Kai-shek?
91 Massachusetts’ College of Our Lady
of the ____
92 Some postpollution efforts 94 Become ticked off 95 Ready
96 Wielder of the
hammer Mjölnir 98 Tools used by
horologists
99 Inept dancers at
Oktoberfest?
105 Express-line count
107 Mentor of 50 Cent 108 Valedictorian’s
pride, in brief
109 Mag space seller 111 Smurf with a white
beard
115 Dish at a traditional
Bedouin wedding 116 New look provider ... or a homophonic hint to this puzzle’s theme
119 Small hill
120 Poorly lit
121 Series of steps
122 Early R&B group for
Missy Elliott
123 Stockpiles
124 Felt on the head?
Down
1 “2 Broke Girls” co-star Behrs
2 Bounce off the wall 3 Musk of SpaceX
4 Incendiary explosive 5 Big news to share in the biz world?
6 Company acquired by Allstate in 2011
7 Longtime first name in TV talk
8 Unpartitioned apartment
9 Clicking sounds? 10 Letter two after
tau
11 ____ E (skin care
brand)
12 Guacamole
ingredient
13 Major exporter of
nutmeg
14 ____ admin
15 “LOLOL”
16 Big name in
microwaves
17 Straight sides of
sectors
18 Put up
19 Soccer superstar nicknamed “La Pulga” (“The Flea”)
24 Water (down)
29 The National Zoo’s
Xiao Qi Ji, e.g.
31 Agitate
32 Hungarian herding
breed
33 Figure on Italy’s 2,000-lira note before euros were introduced
34 Common viper
35 Free
36 People can’t lie
under it
38 Actor who delivered the line “Nobody puts Baby in a corner”
39 Word with power or
brakes
42 GQ V.I.P.s
44 Best
45 “____: Vegas” (TV
reboot of 2021)
46 Revolted
47 Treat for Mr. Owl 48 Seward Peninsula
city
49 Verve
51 “There was no
choice”
53 Person with star
power?
57 Triangular piece in a
party bowlful
60 Rentals that might come with dolly
carts
61 “Wrong!”
62 Nickname for someone whose full name is a calendar month 64 65
Spur
Letter two before
tau Obie-winning
playwright Will
69 Defamed, in a way 70 “Indeed”
71 Reason to see an
ophthalmologist 72 Pea-jacket
material
75 Caterpillar
competitor
76 Thomas Jefferson or John Tyler, by birth
79 Org. that bestows the Community Assist Award
81 Liberal-arts sch.
major
84 Certain curtain
86 On the ____ (no
longer friendly)
87 Overseas speed
meas.
88 Go from here to
there ... like *that* 89 Quark’s place
90 “It’s my hunch ...”
93 Pithy saying
95 Dish whose yellow color comes from saffron
97 “Rude Boy” singer,
to fans
99 Divisions of bushels 100 Like the Mideast
exclave of Madha 101 Long rides?
102 Used a prayer rug,
say
103 Literally, “works” 104 Pieces of work
106 Traditional rivals of the N.C.A.A.’s ‘Hoos
109 Church part
110 There are three of them in a Morse
“O”
112 Passing through
D.C.?
113 USD : dollar ::
MXN : ____
114 Part of 79-Down:
Abbr.
116 Frequent C.D.C.
collaborator
117 “____ Way” (Kitty Kelley biography of
Sinatra)
118 Opponent
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