The New York Times Crossword

TODAY: DOWN FOR THE COUNT (1229) BY LAURA TAYLOR KINNEL

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1 TV-screen inits. 4 Steinful 7 Cut (off) 10 “Nope” 13 Lucky strikes? 15 Massage target 17 Capital of Belarus 19 Spa amenity 20 1/x, for x 24 Top type 25 Hay-fever irritant 26 Online payment option 27 Record holder for the most Indianapolis 500 laps led (644) 29 Lowly workers 30 Mythical being depicted in bronze in Copenhagen Harbor 31 Followers of dos 32 Home of the N.C.A.A.’s Rhody the Ram, for short 34 Director DuVernay 36 Govt. org. often impersonated on scam calls 37 Picked a card 39 Abstainers … or the central column’s answers vis-à-vis 20-, 39-, 74- and 101-Across, respectively 44 One in a pocketful 45 Has finished 47 Speed that would enable a 23-minute D.C.-to-L.A. flight 48 Where fans are often placed on high? 50 Org. whose academy’s motto in English is “The sea yields to knowledge” 52 One who might give you a shot 53 Miss 54 Food that Marge Simpson once served with “a whisper of MSG” 58 Big name in denim 59 Collected $200, say 63 “Te ____” 64 Former superstore chain selling diapers and strollers 67 “Egads!” 68 Quite a tale

70 Spirit 71 Charitable offering 73 Film character who says, “Kiss me as if it were the last time” 74 It postulates a space-time fabric 80 Congressional budget directives 81 San Francisco’s ____ Valley 82 Radio medium 83 Renaissance-themed festival 84 Tears to pieces 86 Who once had all 10 of the top 10 Billboard hits simultaneously 87 “The Gift of the Magi” author 89 “Seriously?” 91 Gobbles (down) 94 Doze (off) 95 Mr. Incredible’s actual surname 96 College town of George Washington Carver 98 Hither’s partner 99 “Absolutely!” 101 Little Richard hit with “the most inspired rock lyric ever recorded,” per Rolling Stone 104 Sea eagle 105 Many-time N.H.L. All-Star Jagr 107 Sheepish 108 Fashionable 110 Nonbinary identity 111 Focus of an egoist’s gaze 112 Magazine with annual Women of the Year Awards 113 President Ford and others 114 Traditional, if bulky, presents in Santa’s bag 115 Opening words?

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1 Super Bowl trophy eponym 2 Deep-fried doughy treats 3 Picked nits 4 ____ tear (athlete’s injury) 5 Thieves’ place 6 Yosemite attraction 7 Hides one’s true nature 8 Group with the 2012 charttopping album “Up All Night,” to fans 9 It’s pitchfork-shaped 10 “Why do you ask?” response 11 The 1 in (1,2), in math 12 Work times, typically 14 Phaser setting 15 Admiral Graf ____ (German W.W. II ship) 16 Leaf (through) 17 Bearing 18 One might be taken in protest 19 Longtime NPR host Diane 21 Satellite inhabited continuously since 2000: Abbr. 22 Complement of turtledoves in a Christmas song 23 Obsolescent TV companion 28 Paris’s ____ La Fayette 30 Disfigure 33 ____ sleep 35 Perturb 38 “The Caine Mutiny” author 39 End of some school names, for short 40 Orbicularis ____ (eyelid-closing muscle) 41 “We ____ Kings” 42 What fools might make of themselves 43 “Je ne ____ quoi” 44 Joint winner of FIFA’s Player of the Century award in 2000 46 Top-level foreignpolicy grp. 49 Monopoly quartet: Abbr. 51 Fold 53 Fuel line 54 Wallop 55 1935 Triple Crown winner 56 Top-ranked professional tennis player for a record 237 consecutive weeks 57 Ark contents 59 ____ fast one 60 Labor-day setting? 61 “Beau ____” 62 Signs off on 65 “I tell ya!” 66 Charlotte of “The Facts of Life” 69 Universal self, in Hinduism 70 Preserves something? 72 Houston A.L.’ers 73 Trump who wrote 2017’s “Raising Trump”

75 Tiny margin of victory 76 When one usually goes through customs 77 Purple pool ball 78 Brushed up on 79 Lucky-ticketholder’s cry 84 Famed Chicago steakhouse 85 A couple of Bible books 87 Completely unrestrained 88 Tribute 89 Swollen, as a lip 90 Drain, as blood 92 Swiss dish 93 Derisive expressions

95 Runs smoothly 97 They can’t do without does 100 Prefix for a polygon with 140° interior angles 101 Headed for overtime 102 A short rest, so to speak 103 He: Lat. 104 Top female baby name of 2014-18 106 Year that Michelangelo’s “The Crucifixion of St. Peter” was completed 109 Things the Energizer bunny may need