NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Onetime Sony rival 8 Off-color

12 Maker of the X6 and Z4 15 Doctors Without

Borders, e.g.: Abbr. 18 Deep secret

19 ‘‘____ Dead?’’ (Mark

Twain play)

20 Quickly learn one’s

lesson?

21 Startling sound 22 Bookworms call dad? 24 South Beach and Paleo,

for two

26 Swiss painter Paul 27 Company whose business is picking up?

28 Seedy area?

29 Big Apple media inits. 30 Depletes, with ‘‘up’’ 31 A young Justice

Ginsburg chuckles? 36 Signature item

37 Singer Watson, a.k.a. Tones and I, with the 2019 hit ‘‘Dance Monkey’’

38 Apt name for a lawyer 39 False accusation,

informally

40 Fancy Feast alternative 43 One ‘‘R’’ in R&R 46 Hoarse

47 Do core exercises all

day, every day? 51 ‘‘____ Brockovich’’ 52 Quick drive

53 Elusive legend 54 Business for Sanders

supporters? 57 Holiday dish served with sour cream or applesauce

60 Links grp.

62 Hard to handle, in a way 64 Hunky-dory 66 Response to an order 67 Burger King bingefest? 71 Alma mater for Spike Lee and Donald Glover, for short 72 Logical connector 73 With the greatest of

____

74 ____ golf

75 Sloped-roof support 77 Govt. org. with a forerunner known as the Black Chamber 79 Race units 81 Dinner-table expander 83 Hops-drying oven 84 Supernova in our

galaxy?

90 Follower of word or

potato

93 ‘‘Gimme ____’’ 94 ____-cat

95 Numerous

97 Symbols in Twitter

handles

99 Like ____ of sunshine 100 Anatomical pouch 103 When E.M.T.s bring

home the bacon? 108 ‘‘I mean . . . ’’

109 A/C spec

110 Members of the crow

family

111 Heavier alternative

to a foil

112 Guthrie who performed at Woodstock

113 Cutting edge?

115 Some astronomy

Ph.D.s?

119 Longtime Japanese P.M. who stepped down in 2020

120 ‘‘Runnin’ ’’ team of N.C.A.A. Division I college basketball 121 Comparable (to) 122 Disciple

123 Tarnish

124 Really good time 125 Capital near the North

Sea

126 Prepares (for)

DOWN

1 Prepare for a road trip,

perhaps

2 End of a threat

3 Nora Ephron and Sofia

Coppola, for two

4 The land down under? 5 Walk-____

6 Prickly covering of a seed 7 ‘‘____ the only one?’’ 8 Beatles title woman 9 ‘‘____ your request . . . ’’ 10 Feature of a classical

Greek drama

11 ‘‘You betcha!’’

12 ‘‘The ____ — is wider than the Sky’’ (start of an Emily Dickinson poem)

13 Bit of fill-in-the-blanks

fun

14 Subject of intl. treaties 15 Compliant sorts 16 Squalid digs

17 Sports team V.I.P.s 20 Corporate money

managers, for short 23 Ancient Egyptians 25 Result of a breast pocket mishap, maybe

28 Ally of the Brat Pack 31 Common baking pear 32 Sacred cross in ancient

Egypt

33 Chance to go 34 Preserve, in a way 35 Only Stratego piece

with a letter on it 37 Sardine container 41 Studmuffin

42 Absorb, as sauce with

bread

44 Give extra consideration, with ‘‘on’’

45 Idaho, e.g., in dialect 47 Color marker

48 Got hip, with ‘‘up’’ 49 How a door might be

slammed 50 Subcontractor in a

bathroom remodel 51 Gusto 55 One may be nominated

for a Hugo Award 56 Least forward 58 Palindromic farm animal 59 ‘‘We ____ Overcome’’ 61 Stubborn sorts

63 It helps in passing 65 Rocker Cobain 68 Japan’s street food

mecca

69 Diarist who documented the Great Plague of London

70 Gets lost

76 Eponym of the Detroit

Lions field

78 Any Olympian, once 80 Drops an f-bomb, say 82 False fronts

85 Promises, promises! 86 Takes steps

87 ____ avis

88 Coarse farm sound 89 Dangerous move on a

busy highway 90 ‘‘Blueberries for ____’’

(kid-lit classic) 91 Legendary password

stealer

92 Higher, as ambitions 96 Build-your-own TexMex dish

98 Does a dog trick

101 Declare

102 Where hangers hang 104 They go wherever the

wind blows

105 They can be batted

and rolled

106 When high school seniors often visit the colleges that accepted them 107 Like binary questions 108 Volt-amperes

113 Attention hog, maybe 114 Galoot

115 Portrait seen on

renminbi bills

116 Car-sticker fig.

117 ‘‘Roses ____ red . . . ’’ 118 Nonsense