N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
No. 0314
ACROSS
1 After the fact, as a justification
8 Co-star of “The Golden Girls” 17 Knock over, so to speak
20 Quaker fare
21 Go poof
22 Drop the ball
23 ILLUS__RA__ORS
25 What a third wheel
might see, in brief
26 Setting for most of
“Life of Pi”
27 Tests the weight of 28 One of the Greats? 30 Oscars of the sporting
world
33 Good sign for an angel 34 Intl. org. headquartered in Geneva
37 Some bad sentences 39 ACC__L__RATOR
44 Grapple, in dialect
47 Exercise too much,
say
48 A as in Arles
49 LUXUR__ __ACHT
54 “____ Agnus Dei”
(Mass phrase)
55 Peak in Turkey mentioned in both the “Iliad” and the “Aeneid”
56 Runner Sebastian who once held the world record for the mile
57 What you might get
from a trailer
59 Sport played at British
boarding schools
60 Post production?
64 ____ mater, membrane
surrounding the brain 65 Popular 90-min.
show
66 ENDANGER__EN__ 70 Man’s name that coincidentally is Latin for “honey”
73 Word with small or
fish 74 Weak
75 What may result in a
handshake
76 Help to one’s
destination
82 The Blue Jays, on
scoreboards
83 Comeback to a
challenge of authority 84 Bitter
85 CONFIG__ __ATION 90 Actor Somerhalder
91 Most in the style of comedian Steven Wright
92 Unfocused
93 POI__T OF __IEW 100 Go all out
101 French fashion inits. 102 “Kinda sorta”
103 Pan-cook, in a way 107 Supermodel
Bündchen
109 Pepé ____ (cartoon
skunk)
111 Drop off
112 Admit (to)
113 __OTIC__
120 Hit the weed?
121 Have guests over
122 Guest, e.g.
123 Place full of guests 124 Start of a seasonal
request
125 Some kitchen utensils 1 Entourage
2 Hall’s partner in pop
3 Part of a thong
4 “OK, you can stop the
story right there”
5 Old-fashioned “cool” 6 One might speak
under it
7 Co-star of Kline in “A
Fish Called Wanda”
8 Start of a compilation
heading
9 Times for some vigils 10 Letters on many towers
11 Busy mo. for C.P.A.s 12 Go bad
DOWN
13 Three-sport event, for short
14 A chest often has a large one 15 States 16 Recharge 17 Photocopy, e.g.
18 It’s the law!
19 Item said to have been burned in protest, once
24 Musical prefix with
beat
29 Memphis-toNashville dir.
31 Emphatic assent
32 Lively dance genre 34 Hone
35 Contract details
36 Beehive State city
38 Aerodynamic
40 Bishop’s jurisdiction 41 Antagonist
42 Hotel-room staples 43 Top-notch
44 Booties
45 Playwright Chekhov 46 Garbage
50 Drink similar to a slushie
51 About 460 inches of rain per year, on Kauai’s Mt. Waialeale 52 HBO satire starring
Julia Louis-Dreyfus 53 ____ bar
54 Org. that takes the
lead on lead?
58 Baby fox
60 How a flirt may act
61 Football stat: Abbr. 62 NaOH
63 Radio broadcaster:
Abbr.
66 Legislation that was part of F.D.R.’s New Deal
67 Ethnic group of
Rwanda and Burundi 68 Two, for four
69 Coin with 12 stars
70 “Zoom-Zoom”
sloganeer
71 Hollywood composer Bernstein with 14 Oscar nominations 72 Guarded
73 Like pets and parking
meters
75 ____ Slam (tennis
feat)
76 Julius Caesar’s first name
77 Words of hopelessness
78 Mature naturally, in a
way
79 ____ Writers’ Workshop 80 Electronic Hasbro toy 81 One side of the coin 83 Arias, typically
86 Scottish folk dance 87 Alternative explanation for a lucky guess, in brief 88 Ear: Prefix
89 Letters on some
badges
94 “Stillmatic” rapper
95 Seen
96 Kind of skate
97 Brown shade
98 Kids’ observation
game
99 Hit musical with an “Emerald City Sequence”
104 Yoke
105 HP product
106 Narrowly beats (out) 108 Singer James
109 Drink for un bébé
110 A full moon will do this
112 Life force, in China 114 ____ Majesty 115 Hosp. areas
116 The Jazz, on scoreboards 117 Brown shade 118 Things for happy campers?
119 Picky person’s pick?