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The New York Times Crossword Puzzle: Cinéma Vérité

NO. 1220 12/27/20

- BY DAN MARGOLIS / PUZZLE EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

ACROSS

1 Advice columnist Savage

4 Out of tune ... or bubbles

8 Saturn or Mercury, once

11 ____ fever 16 Prayer leader

18 Opening opening?

20 Yeats or Keats

21 Pliocene, e.g.

22 Something to build on

23 Ancient Aegean land

24 The fly in flyfishing, e.g.

25 Turn

26 Indy film? (1981)

30 Render unnecessar­y

31 Female deer

32 Classic sci-fi anthology whose first story is titled “Robbie”

35 Sound from a flock

36 Road movie? (1950)

40 Some M.I.T. grads: Abbr.

41 Bizarre

43 React to a stubbed toe, maybe

44 Confident juggler’s props

45 Film director’s cry

46 Blood work locales

49 Sound of relief

52 Cannoli ingredient 56 PG movie? (1992)

63 Anthem opening 64 A little bit of work

66 Brush off 67 Draw out

69 One whose range goes from about F3 to F5, musically

70 Hilarious folks

72 World capital with the Gangnam district

74 Challenge

75 Humming bird feeder filler

77 Blatant

79 N.Y. engineerin­g sch.

80 Actress de Matteo of “Sons of Anarchy”

81 Family film? (1972)

84 Barely contain anger

86 ____ glance

87 Thor : Thursday :: ____ : Wednesday

89 Suffix with hero

90 Oration station

94 Cleverly selfrefere­ntial

98 Social stratum

100 Common 99¢ purchase 103 Dock-udrama? (1954)

108 Spendthrif­t’s opposite

110 ____ Palace, Indian tourist attraction 111 Perfectly timed 112 Pilot, e.g. 114 Short film? (1989) 118 Where Minos ruled

120 Safe, on board 121 Violet variety 122 Wait in neutral 123 Jack rabbits, but not rabbits 124 Saturnus or Mercurius

125 Part of a sewing

kit

126 Nair rival, once 127 Not so moving? 128 Nile reptile

129 Its name is derived from the Greek for “I burn” 130 OB/GYNS, e.g.

DOWN

1 Wear off? 2 Easygoing 3 Hometowner­s 4 Toy (with), as an idea

5 Least strict

6 ____ mundi 7 Popular ABC programmin­g block of the ’90s 8 “Perhaps” 9 Fine spray

10 66 and others: Abbr.

11 One of the Borgias 12 Rubber-stamp, say

13 Kids use it for texts

14 “Vous êtes ____” (French map notation)

15 Grp. with the Vezina Trophy 17 Pastels and charcoal, for two 19 Swear words? 20 More than enough 27 Enjoy some dishes without doing dishes, perhaps 28 Hasten

29 ____ Tuesday (Aimee Mann’s band)

33 Dot follower 34 Some ESPN highlights, for short 37 Something often underlined and blue 38 Half-moon tide

39 ____ the crack of dawn

42 Balderdash

45 Trickster of Shoshone mythology

47 Short-legged hound

48 Fuel additive brand

50 17, for an R-rated movie

51 Director Ashby

52 Dappled horse

53 Key

54 Hidden downside

55 Man’s name that’s another man’s name backward

57 In poor condition, as old machinery

58 Choler

59 ____ about (approximat­ely)

60 Undesirabl­e plane seat

61 Often-animated greeting

62 Yes or no follower

65 Flub

68 Eye drop

71 New Deal program, in brief

73 Co. with brown trucks

76 Palindromi­c title

78 See

118-Down

82 Lady of Spain

83 Anti-mob law, for short

85 Baby shower gift

88 Photograph­er Goldin

90 ____ Pérignon

91 ____ given Sunday

92 “My package arrived!”

93 Alcoholic drink consumed in one gulp

95 French stars

96 Clench

97 Utah national park

99 Bit of ranch dressing?

100 Got around

101 Street vendor

102 Radio buttons

104 First name of a

literary “Papa”

105 Diminutive

106 Cat’s pajamas?

107 Extends a tour

109 Invite to enter

113 Parts of kingdoms

115 When repeated, a “Seinfeld” expression 116 Scruff

117 Masseur’s target

118 With 78-Down, Greek letters that together sound like a world capital

119 Dashed

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