San Antonio Express-News (Sunday)

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- By Julian Kwan / Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 SAT section eliminated by the College Board in 2021 6 Firth person?

10 Best-selling book of

all time

15 Get the attention of

19 Sister-in-law of Prince

William

20 Lead-in to pilot

21 Stick on

22 “Goodness gracious!” 23 Nod off at a self-serve

restaurant?

26 Jupiter, exempli gratia 27 [Turn the page]

28 Sooner, informally

29 Diamond stat

30 Get down and dirty, in

dialect

32 Bovine disease

34 Fancy flooring for an

R.V.?

38 Home of Etihad

Airways: Abbr.

39 Eyeball creepily

40 Requiremen­t

41 Hoops grp.

44 Like universal blood

recipients

48 One layer of a sevenlayer dip

50 What the prestigiou­s

ice sculptor had?

55 Unable to think

clearly

59 Goes nowhere, say

60 Word with holy or

heating

61 Grammy-winning

singer Cash

63 Certain elite school 64 Appear

65 Back in the U.S.S.?

66 Org. to which Taft was elected president after serving as U.S. president

67 “Yes, that’s clear”

69 “Let everyone else get some steak before taking seconds!”

74 Mooches

76 Mate

77 Grand Central info

78 Surreptiti­ous bit of

communicat­ion

81 “What have we here!” 82 Like many characters in Alison Bechdel cartoons

84 Nintendo release of

2006

85 Show runner

86 2013 Tony winner for Best Revival of a Musical

88 “We should stall!”

91 Long-stemmed

mushroom

93 Egyptian god of the

afterlife

94 Llama’s head?

95 Button clicked to see

the rest of an article 97 Not out, say

101 Target of the heckle “What game are you watching?!”

103Why no one hangs out in actors’ dressing rooms these days?

107 Played obnoxiousl­y

loudly

111 At 10 or 11 p.m., say

112 Part of lifeguard

training

113 Navigation app

115 Lucky charm 116 American ____

(century plant)

117 Bathroom fixture that

one never asked for? 122 Their heads get dirty 123 Dirt

124 Typos for exclamatio­n marks if you fail to hit Shift

125 Opposite of neat

126 ____ strategy

127 Fills to the max

128 Set (on)

129 Bathroom-door sign

DOWN

1 ____ salt (magnesium

sulfate)

2 Mixed-martial-arts

great Anderson

3 What a hiree should

be brought up to

4 Brief summary

5 Gab

6 Knocked in a pocket,

in pool

7 Handle a job

satisfacto­rily

8 Additional

9 ____ the line

10 Trinket

11 Less certain

12 Many a maid of honor,

informally

13 Create an account? 14 Not included

15 Marvel group led by

Hercules

16 ____ monkey

17 Lucky charm

18 Plague

24 “My treat next time!” 25 Cheese sometimes

paired with fig jam

31 Subject of the Irancontra affair

33 Requiremen­ts for

witnesses

35 Jessica of “L.A.’s

Finest”

36 Believer in Jah

37 Book-fair organizer,

maybe, in brief

41 Longtime procedural set in

Washington, D.C.

42 Foreshadow

43 Pass up?

45 Declare

46 “All in the Family”

mother

47 Tissue that’s prone to

tearing, for short

49 Italian car since 1907 51 Enemy in the game

Doom

52 Sticks in a box?

53 Style of women’s

leather handbags 54 Isaac and Rebekah’s

firstborn

56 Piece with a title like

“10 Best Places to ... ” 57 First mate?

58 Recolor

62 Comparativ­ely

neat

65 Johnson & Johnson

skin-care brand

68 Moniker after a

lifestyle change

70 Initial problem for a

storied duckling

71 Man’s nickname that sounds like consecutiv­e letters of the alphabet

72 “Phooey!”

73 Japanese “energy

healing”

74 Bread for dipping

75 Golden ratio symbol 79 Actress Patricia of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”

80 Phone, wallet, ____ (traveler’s mental checklist)

83 Gaudy jewelry

84 Word in obituaries

85 Eponymous member of the Ford family

87 Most cheerful 89 Fictional establishm­ent selling Duff Beer

90 Option for an

overnight guest

92 Campsite org.

95 Antacid brand

96 Forms of some mythologic­al sea creatures

98 Turn into

99 Bob hopes?

100 Garment worn with

a choli

102Somethi­ng Pharaoh’s dream foretold in Genesis

103Make a goat 104Heavies

105“Pearls Before ____”

(comic strip)

106Put away

108 Sculptor with a dedicated museum in Philadelph­ia 109Throw out

110 Showers attention

(on)

114 Lemon-bar

ingredient

118 Food-service-industry

lobby, for short

119 Command to a dog 120Male swan

121 Slow (down)

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