N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Kind of kick 8 Product of evaporation 15 Apple product 20 Keep in 21 Brunch-menu heading 22 Parts of college courses 23 Sources of stress for many modern workers 24 Utopia? 26 Part of the Dept. of Transportation 27 Channel buildup 29 Packers’ grp.? 30 Old tabloid fodder 31 Piece still under consideration for a magazine? 37 Org. concerned with water quality 40 Balsa or balsam 41 Budgetary excess 42 Signal meaning “no disease on this ship” 44 Hurt sharply 46 Workers in some labs, informally 48 Interminable task 49 “____ Must Die” (Claude McKay poem) 50 “Village” newspaper that’s nambypamby? 53 Bull’s urging 54 Fashion guru Tim 55 Behave 56 ____ of reality 57 Admitted (to) 59 Jacket material 60 Percolate 62 The “kid” in “Here’s looking at you, kid” 64 Kia model 65 Common flower that’s poisonous to eat 66 Santa’s nieces and nephews? 71 Indiana Jones trademark 74 ____ department 75 Uber-owned company that makes self-driving trucks 76 Agreement 80 Result of a year-end review, maybe 81 “That so?” 84 Also-ran for the golden apple, in myth 86 “I don’t reckon” 87 Home to Weber State University 88 Obama’s signature health law, for short 89 Like shoppers worrying about getting the right gift? 92 ____ pad 93 Top 95 Scheduled to arrive 96 Like kitsch 97 Fleet for many a commuter airline 100 Doctor’s orders, for short 101 Japanese soup 102 Specimen, for example: Abbr. 103 Jailhouse? 108 Prohibitionists 110 Craggy peak 111 Several CBS dramas 112 Short, for short 113 The Prada that one really wants? 118 Part of a postal address for a G.M. plant 121 Thomas of the N.B.A. 122 ____ Aquino, Time’s Woman of the Year in 1986 123 With 113-Down, product of flax 124 Miners’ aids 125 Women’s fashion magazine 126 Warning before lunging
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1 Genre for TV’s “Stranger Things” 2 First name in latenight 3 Unseemly 4 W. Coast air hub 5 When tripled, symbol of evil 6 Toddler garment 7 Amber, e.g. 8 Hand-held dish that doesn’t crunch 9 Outback animal 10 Blue Cross competitor 11 Muddy mixture 12 Makes fizzy 13 Network standard for smartphones, for short 14 Recipe abbr. 15 Time to go home 16 Skinny 17 Truck driver? 18 And so on: Abbr. 19 Alphabet string 25 Panegyric 28 Boater’s wear 32 Is off 33 Foul-smelling 34 Set of principles 35 “Will ya look at that!” 36 Kind of computing 38 Foe of the Cheyenne 39 Something set in a meeting 43 Insect that spends its larval stage inside a fruit 44 Hot tubs 45 Knight club 46 Car company that owns SolarCity 47 Golfer’s need 51 “There it is!” 52 Grand 58 Source for “Book of the Marvels of the World,” circa 1300 59 Chinese philosopher Mo-____ 61 Part of a club selling clubs 63 Well ventilated 65 After ____ (to some extent) 67 ‘Fore 68 HBO political satire 69 Non-prophet group? 70 Sch. in Knoxville 71 Dowdies 72 Cafe 73 Nickname for a Gilded Age businessman with a penchant for jewelry 77 “In Trump We Trust” author, 2016 78 Distillery item 79 Not we 81 “That deep, blue, bottomless soul,” per Melville 82 Lacks 83 Part of un jour 85 Ghost story? 88 Most fit 90 Awkward time at family movie night 91 New York City’s ____ River 94 Almost falls 98 Amps, with “up” 99 Vehicle at a ski resort 101 Light cotton fabric 104 Wild 105 Long arm 106 Covered in frost 107 Pass over 109 Gather 113 See 123-Across 114 Troop grp. 115 Roll call response in une école 116 Wernher ____ Braun 117 Scale note 119 Dutch financial giant 120 Govt. org. that offers a monthly “Puzzle Periodical”