N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
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ACROSS 1 Relieves 9 “You ____!” 15 Noted brand once owned by a utopian colony in Iowa 20 Theodore, for one 21 Display no talent for 22 Like boots 23 Deadliness 24 Make lots of people stop in their tracks? 26 Heartbeat 27 Bite stopper 29 When Juno Beach was attacked 30 Herb in absinthe 31 Be watchfully ever-present 34 Flub 36 Obtain through trickery 37 Roughly equal 39 “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,” e.g. 40 Demanding 41 One of the singing Carpenters 42 Unnecessary extras that don’t cost much? 44 One may be circular 47 Neighbor of Turkey 48 Did some farm work 49 Sharp 50 Lugosi of film fame 51 Cry of Pontius Pilate 53 Company behind the Falcon 9 launch vehicle 56 Grad-student headaches 57 Ancient Greek vessel 59 Diamond stat 60 Mountain in the logo of Yerevan State University 61 Sweetheart, in slang 63 Brother who’s a criminal? 67 Subject of the photo “Guerrillero Heroico” 68 Trembling, say 70 Friend of Huck 71 Hectic scramble 73 Cirrus clouds, e.g. 74 King of the Titans, in Greek legend 77 Movie starring Michael J. Fox as a lycanthrope 80 French-press alternative 81 Look ecstatic 82 Neighbors 84 How Bilbo Baggins traveled 85 Currency with notes in denominations of 1,000, 5,000 and 10,000 86 Annoy actors Keaton and Crabbe? 89 Clog clearer 90 On again 91 Green 92 Scotland’s ____ Islands 93 Doomed 96 Soprano Fleming 97 Cold treat eaten with a spoon 98 Strapped, say 99 ____ relative 100 Boris Pasternak heroine 102 Org. that might come pounding at the door 105 Safety worry? 108 Home to some flying monkeys 111 Heals 112 “Am I the only one thinking this ...?” 113 Hollywood resident, e.g. 114 Said “C-O-L-O-U-R,” e.g. 115 Kind of acting 116 Made fun of mercilessly DOWN 1 Doesn’t just sit there 2 Flat, e.g. 3 With 44-Down, half-dozen real estate agents? 4 Longtime news inits. 5 “Breaking Bad” channel 6 One escorting 7 Log 8 Terrier named after a Scottish island 9 Real pal, for short 10 Bit of jewelry with a pendant 11 Attached with a knot at the end 12 Not nebulous 13 Nebulous 14 Downed 15 Climbs 16 ____ sauce (macaroni and cheese ingredient) 17 Word after sing or string 18 Post on a banister 19 Perplex 25 Off the beaten path 28 Plain dwelling? 32 Part of a concert that many people impatiently sit through 33 Moving vehicle 35 Some infrastructure 36 Name for a cat 37 Depression Era refugee 38 Stash hunter 39 Hebrew name that means “his peace” 40 Annotation on Santa’s list 42 About which you might ask, “One lump or two?” 43 Theme in “To Kill a Mockingbird” 44 See 3-Down 45 Name on the Saudi flag 46 Refuse 48 Not engaged 50 It has two cups 52 LP players 54 Teaser 55 ____-Bakr (fatherin-law of Muhammad) 56 Like Mork 58 Put in a crypt 60 Aconcagua’s range 61 Like most Judd Apatow comedies 62 In flames 64 One may be polyatomic 65 Ripe 66 “Golden Boy” playwright 69 Pokémon Go, for one 72 Posh 74 Yogurtlike beverage 75 Whole lot 76 “Gymnopédies” composer 78 Africa’s ____ Chad 79 James who wrote the best seller “A Million Little Pieces” 81 City next to Gulfport 83 Cut at a slant 86 Selfish demand 87 Discover 88 City on the Italian Riviera 89 Sign of a hit 90 What jets may do midair 92 Word often said to lack a rhyme 93 Contents of drives 94 Do better than 95 Mother-of-pearl 96 Size again 97 Candid 99 Nasdaq alternative 101 “C’est la vie!” 103 Paleontologist’s find 104 Polo brand 106 Cook who’s entrepreneurial 107 ____ talks 109 It might get your feet wet 110 Stadium cry