NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
CREATURE FEATURE BY TIMOTHY POLIN 59 Peevish quality
61 Get a new mortgage 63 [Kiss]
65 Powerful D.C. lobby 68 Scylla or Charybdis 74 Speedy wide receiver,
perhaps
80 Skill
81 [Fingers crossed] 82 Buzz out in space 83 And so on: Abbr. 84 Staff leader?
86 & 87 What might cost
you an arm and a leg? 88 Silver-tongued
89 2004 also-ran
91 Martin who wrote “The
Pregnant Widow” 92 Evening, in ads 93 Southern sandwich 94 Is there in spirit? 96 Zen Buddhist goal 98 Makes fun of 99 Menace in 106-Down 104 Bad-mouth
106 Add spice to
107 Metaphor for
deliberate ignorance 109 Gobbled (down) 111 Seriously uptight 112 Fictional setting for
106-Down
115 “A ____ believes no
one” (old saying) 116 Pottery
117 Caffè ____
118 Justin Bieber or
Justin Timberlake 119 Concerning
120 Conventions: Abbr. 121 “There, there”
122 Disgustingly
obsequious
123 Class with drills
DOWN
1 Things investors take an interest in?
2 Suffer
3 106-Down director 4 Pink, e.g.
5 Brought out
6 Christen anew
7 Tidiness
8 Proud, fiery types, they
say
9 Save for later,
in a way
10 Fathers or brothers 11 Santa ____
12 No longer in force 13 Gives meaning to 14 Horn of Africa native 15 Neon, e.g. 16 Transmission
17 Like the menace
in 106-Down 18 Common knee injury
site, briefly
19 Locale for a trough 27 Fairy-tale “lump” 29 Hack
30 Hit BBC comedy,
briefly
31 Peter of “The Maltese
Falcon”
32 Handles deftly 33 Utmost degree
34 Farm machine 36 Something to angle for 37 “In Dulci Jubilo” and
others
39 Modest skirts 40 Modern subject of
F.A.A. regulation 43 TV show with the season’s highest rating, often
44 “____ U.S.A.”
(1963 hit)
48 Sports arbiter 49 Pixielike
51 Cabaret accessory 52 Country-music
channel, once 55 Decorative pillowcase 58 Adjudicate,
as a case
60 “This is
looking bad” 62 Lyricist Sammy 63 Singer Haggard 64 Golfer’s obstacle 66 Ska-punk band with the 1997 song “Sell Out”
67 Sunning area
68 Ax
69 Seasonal quaff 70 Small herrings
71 Is a crowd
72 Actor Morales 73 Deteriorates 74 Beginning 75 Precollege,
for short
76 Text tweaks 77 Midcrisis hire, perhaps 78 Word with black or
blood 79 Frozen-dessert chain 85 Leaves nervously
exhausted
88 Thugs
90 Aromatic
yellow citrus 93 Preppy wear 95 Himalayan native 97 Cheap and gaudy 98 Charged
99 Scrap
100 Actress Salma 101 Movie org. whose “100 Years … 100 Thrills” list has 106Down at No. 2 102 Takes a load off 103 Superman,
by birth
105 “Coo-oo-ool!” 106 1975 summer
blockbuster
107 Morse clicks
108 Indian blueblood 110 Teensy amount 113 Yogi’s accessory 114 Oscar ____ (Hollywood honor, informally)