NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
GHOSTED
BY ALISON OHRINGER AND ERIK AGARD
ACROSS
1 Word repeated in “Mi
____ es su ____” 5 Skipped town
9 Good name for
a botanist?
14 Certain vacuum tube 20 Taiwan-based
electronics giant 21 Per item
22 Shred
23 Make airtight 24 Caterer’s platter
26 Off
27 Director of “Eat Drink
Man Woman,” 1994 28 Morticia, to Fester, in
1960s TV 29 Expecting help?
31 Beat generation figure? 33 Tidy
35 ____ Muhammad,
mentor to Malcolm X 37 “Mm-hmm” 38 Reagan-era scandal 42 Old Germanic tribe 44 Passes out
48 Oral examination? 50 Initiations have them 52 Dish made from a
fermented root 53 Grace’s surname on
“Will & Grace” 54 Neutron’s home
56 Jazz singer who acted in the “Roots” miniseries 59 Whopper maker 60 Hematite, e.g.
62 Like 100% inflation 63 ____ Kippur 64 Sorbet-like dessert
originally from Sicily 65 ____ port
68 Wrist watch?
69 Like this puzzle’s circled letters vis-à-vis their Across answers
73 Brewer’s need
76 Long ____
77 “Nuh-uh!” 78 “Horrible!”
81 Reaches
84 Nearest country to
Cape Verde 85 Grammy winner Erykah
____
86 Talkative sort 90 Competitor of Rugby 91 “Li’l” fellow
92 “I’m with ____”
93 Hell, informally
95 It might take only
seven digits 97 Sampled
100 Be rumple-free 102 Leaves for baggage
claim, say
103 Star followers
105 Vitamin B3
107 Prefix with normal 108 Cause of a tossed
joystick, maybe 112 Block from getting
close to the basket 115 Gridiron gains
118 Comic ____ Nancherla 119 Stage in getting a Ph.D. 121 Some rustproof rails 123 Chasms
124 Newsroom fixture 125 Frozen breakfast brand 126 “Let’s do it!”
127 Risks a ticket
128 “Siddhartha” novelist 129 In case
130 Washington team,
familiarly
DOWN
1 ____ Crunch
2 Smoothie flavor
3 Tennis star’s feat
4 Place for exhibitions 5 Word with noodle or nurse 6 Viscount’s superior
7 Big scholarship awarder,
for short 8 Mint-family herb 9 “Down goes ____!”
(1973 sports line) 10 Mojito ingredient 11 Nail-polish brand 12 When jams are
produced
13 Place for an altar 14 Long line in Russia 15 Let
16 “Amen to that” 17 Earthen pot
18 What it takes two to do 19 One-on-one Olympics
event
25 Chuck in the air
30 Not mainstream, briefly 32 Separations at
weddings?
34 Body work, in brief 36 Lead-in to boy or girl 38 Birthplace of the
Renaissance
39 RCA component
40 Put claw marks in 41 Sharer of Russia’s
western border 43 Setting for many G.I.
stories
45 Much of Aries’ span 46 Postgraduation
stressors, for some 47 Lengthy attack 49 Refining, as muscles 51 Lead-in to cone 55“You only live once,”
for one 57 Baked-beans flavor 58 Mötley ____ 60 Schedule-keeping org. 61 Team scream
64 “10-4”
65 Longest American
north-south rte. 66 “Fiddler on the Roof”
setting
67 In spades 69 Future attorney’s
hurdle, for short 70 Memphis-to-Nashville dir. 71 2018 World Cup champs 72 Prayer ending? 73 Workplace for a cabin
boy
74 Antiquated anesthetic 75 Pong creator 78 All-female group with the 1986 No. 1 hit “Venus” 79 One-named singer whose
last name is Adkins 80 Pitches
82 Albany is its capital: Abbr. 83 Gorsuch’s predecessor
on the bench
84 Two of diamonds? 85 Trusted news source in
the Mideast
87 Friend of Descartes … or, in English, question pondered by Descartes? 88 “What chutzpah!” 89 Early record holder 91 Puts to rest 94 Pricey-sounding
apparel brand? 96 Tinder, e.g.
98 Surface
99 “Well, I’ll be” follower 101 B’way buys
104 It covers a lot
of ground
106 Recognition for
a scientist
108 Comic’s offerings 109 Per item
110 Stud finder?
111 One wearing black eyeliner and ripped jeans, say
113 Desire
114 Makes out?
116 Cause of some insomnia 117 Application figs. 120 Dummkopf
122 Boozehound