N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 Deets, say
5 Like pangolins
and armadillos
10 Pacific weather phenomenon
16 000-000002, for Mr. Burns on “The Simpsons”: Abbr.
19 Apt name for a
protester?
20 Shire of “The
Godfather”
21 “What’s the
____?”
22 Job-listing
letters
23 Play about love and heartbreak in ancient Greece [1605, 431 B.C.]
27 Danger
28 Cater (to)
29 Where people might come to a happy medium?
30 Is worth it
32 “The Taming of the Shrew” sister
36 Wheels
37 Timeless children’s classic about country dwellers’ friendships [1908, 1881]
41 Farm cry
43 Vented
appliance
44 Comedy talk show from 2003 to 2022, familiarly
45 Superlative
score
48 “Great Caesar’s
ghost!”
50 Eat, baby-style
56 Timid
58 It’s symbolized by a crescent moon and star
63 Jewish folklore
creature
64 Magnum opus about a young man, family and the concept of free will [1866, 1965]
70 Not according to
plan
73 Celebrity chef
DiSpirito
74 “Go ahead,
shoot!”
75 Major and Commander, to Biden
76 Coming-of-age novel about a teenage boy and his isolation [1951, 1986]
80 Like an old
apple
81 Chicken ____ (South Asian dish)
82 Phenomenon also known as data decay
86 Placid
88 Rapper ____
Thee Stallion
93 Drudges
94 Celebratory
smoke
99 Veered, as an
airplane
101 Just peachy 102 Tale about soldiers and treachery in southern Europe [1940, 1603]
110 Polynesian
greeting
111 Kleenex : tissue :: ____ : sticky note
112 Yellow-brown
shade
115 Mercury and
Mars, for two
117 Grp. promoting
world peace
120 College athletics
channel
121 “In a nutshell” ... or an alternative title for this puzzle?
126 Wallach of
“Baby Doll”
127 Stoat in its white
winter coat
128 Lawyer’s favorite dessert?
129 Asteroid discovered in 1898
130 Name that
means “king”
131 City that lends its name to a variety of ice cream
132 Warren in the Baseball Hall of Fame
133 Fashion letters
DOWN
1 Modern kind of purchase
2 Locale for many Panhellenic Games
3 “Rapunzel” or “Rumpelstiltskin”
4 Kinda getting up there 5 Poker great
Ungar
6 Burner on a
range?
7 Michigan liberal-arts college
8 Certain
collateral
9 Convict, in old
slang
10 Persian Gulf
territory
11 Gamer’s
headache
12 Degree in
mathematics?
13 Voice role for Snoop Dogg in 2019’s “The Addams Family”
14 Federal agent who was the inspiration for Dick Tracy
15 Nightmare
16 Addressed
17 Manatee
18 Adspeak claim
of convenience
24 Gin add-in
25 German refusal
26 One of Cuba’s
Castros
31 Subject line
abbreviation
33 Wild group, for
short
34 One of many in the “Disney Morgue”
35 Leave
gobsmacked
38 Scoreboard letters at MetLife Stadium
39 D.O.J. branch
40 Helpful
connections
41 Halloween
symbol
42 Busy month for
a C.P.A. 46 Turn from an old pallet into a bookcase, for example
47 Title for Charlie
Chaplin
49 “Toy Story” toy
torturer
51 “I can’t believe
this!”
52 Go head to head
(with)
53 Paul who painted “Cat and Bird”
54 Advanced
55 Some F.D.N.Y.
pros
57 Juicy gossip
59 Time
measurement
60 One of a classic
septet
61 “Key of the
Nile”
62 Act out?
65 Imitation
66 Amazon device
67 Laptop brand
68 It’s just what
you’d expect
69 Bosnian’s
neighbor
70 After-hours
conveniences
71 Cry at an amusement park
72 Parent
77 Philosopher Rand who rejected altruism
78 “____ What ____” (song from “La Cage Aux Folles”)
79 Doggy’s sound
83 Carving station
option
84 Hawaiian fish also called a wahoo
85 “Shame!” 87 Prefix with hotel
89 Exams that are essentially impossible to study for
90 ____ Gadot of “Wonder Woman”
91 Piercing tool
92 Basis for an annual Forbes list
95 Hobgoblin
96 V8 debut of
1964
97 Music to a
masseur’s ears
98 Optimizes, as an
engine
100 Play-____
102 More loaded, as
a wallet
103 Stadium chant
104 A.F.L. All-Time Team member with a law degree
105 “No. Way!”
106 Old-timey
“listen”
107 Default search engine for Microsoft Edge
108 Some classic
jeans
109 Tethered
113 “____: The Smartest Guys in the Room” (2005 documentary)
114 Wackadoo
116 Protein-rich blood components
118 “Uncle!”
119 “Downton
Abbey” role
122 Zhuzh (up)
123 Small word for
small
124 Hydrogen’s
atomic number
125 Itch