NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
MATCH PLAY
ACROSS
1 Chunks of land
7 “Be on the lookout”
messages, for short 11 Person to take complaints
to, informally
14 Polo of “The Fosters” 18 Popular Dominican
dance
20 Leave quickly 21 Musical Yoko
22 Get a ____
on someone 23 Sou’wester
25 Abbr. in many blood
type names
26 “Logic dictates …” 27 It’s usually put in the
middle of a table 28 Late hours
31 Messes up
35 Downfall in pinball 37 Music export from
Tokyo, for short 38 Sciences’ counterpart 39 “Jeez!”
41 Princess who says, “I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board” 43 Campy 1972 vampire
film
45 Peace marches
48 Grub
51 Part of a preschool day 52 Opinion
53 Nirvana seeker 56 Sorority letter 57 Forbiddance 58 Masthead list, for short 60 More lit, perhaps 62 “After Earth” 69 Pothead
70 ____ Lama
71 Do the wave?
72 What un desierto lacks 74 Lyrical lament
75 Not able to catch
something
77 Growth ring
80 Farthest point in an orbit
around the moon 82 This woman
83 Closure opening? 84 Vote in France
85 Blue swaths on maps 87 They follow oohs 90 Like the simplest
instructions
95 Talk show host Cohen 97 Trade punches
100 Hills with gentle slopes on one side and steep slopes on the other 103 Fake
104 Verdi tragedy
105 “Grand Ole” venue 106 Say whether
or not you’ll attend 108 Blow out
110 Imbroglio
111 Prostates
115 French 101 verb 117 Collaborative site 118 Snatch
119 Game suggested by
this puzzle’s theme 125 Racer Luyendyk 126 Half of dos
127 Taking care of things 128 Nickel-and-diming sort 129 They might break out
in hives
130 Cockapoo or
cockatoo, maybe 131 Cpls.’ superiors 132 Act obsequiously
DOWN
1 Atlanta-based cable
inits.
2 Cold and wet
3 Term in tennis, golf and baseball, all with different meanings 4 Hero interred in Santa
Clara, Cuba
5 “Later, luv”
6 Rhyming nickname in
Cardinals history 7 Midriff muscles, for short 8 “Oh, quit being silly!” 9 Sailor in the Navy 10 Seatbelt, e.g. 11 “C’mon, be serious” 12 ____ Day vitamins 13 Rémy Martin product 14 Bridgesupporting frame 15 Dulles designer 16 Pasta-sauce brand 17 Longtime singing talent
show, familiarly 19 ____-vaxxers
24 Singer Reese 29 Garment worn by John Roberts that’s hidden in his name
30 R&B’s ____ Hill 31 Bristol, Conn.-based
cable inits.
32 Sister and wife of
Cronus, in myth 33 Collect
from the soil 34 Result of a religious
schism
36 Camping need 40 Japanese dogs with turnedup tails
42 Neighbor of Wyo. 44 Commercial rhyme
for “Famous” 46 Transmits
47 Part of a
Mario costume 49 Part of a
“Which came first?” dilemma 50 Comment before “I
missed that” 54 Director Van Sant 55 Cross
59 Maker of
the game Zaxxon 61 ____ contendere 62 Pad alternative 63 Chinese
New Year treat 64 One of the Castros 65 Shed material
66 Dwarf planet with more mass than Pluto
67 Good throw?
68 “Get outta here!” 70 ____ Taurasi, all-time W.N.B.A. scoring leader 73 Supplementary item 76 Suffix with methyl 78 Gymnastics flip 79 Arizona capital of the
Navajo Nation
81 ____ Germany 86 Relatively cool stellar
phenomenon 88 “Come again?” 89 Some bathroom
installations 91 Brother of Ham
92 Play starter? 93 Sand-burrowing
marine creatures 94 Reasons to
do something 96 Quaint demographic
grouping
98 No. 2
99 Revved up
101 Timeline part
102 Align
107 “¡Let’s go!”
109 Some flight
board info
111 Mop
112 Poop out
113 Over
114 ____ interview 116 Coin in Köln
120 Sci-fi C.G.I. creations 121 Debut,
metaphorically 122 Dealership expanse 123 I problem?
124 Hem but not haw?