NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 SAT section eliminated by the College Board in 2021
6 Firth person? 10 Best-selling book of
all time
15 Get the attention of 19 Sister-in-law of Prince
William
20 Lead-in to pilot
21 Stick on
22 ‘‘Goodness gracious!’’ 23 Nod off at a self-serve
restaurant?
26 Jupiter, exempli gratia 27 [Turn the page] 28 Sooner, informally 29 Diamond stat
30 Get down and dirty, in
dialect
32 Bovine disease
34 Fancy flooring for an
R.V.?
38 Home of Etihad
Airways: Abbr. 39 Eyeball creepily 40 Requirement
41 Hoops grp.
44 Like universal blood
recipients
48 One layer of a sevenlayer dip
50 What the prestigious
ice sculptor had? 55 Unable to think clearly 59 Goes nowhere, say 60 Word with holy or
heating 61 Grammy-winning singer
Cash
63 Certain elite school 64 Appear
65 Back in the U.S.S.? 66 Org. to which Taft was elected president after serving as U.S. president
67 ‘‘Yes, that’s clear’’ 69 ‘‘Let everyone else get some steak before taking seconds!’’ 74 Mooches
76 Mate 77 Grand Central info 78 Surreptitious bit of
communication 81 ‘‘What have we here!’’ 82 Like many characters in Alison Bechdel cartoons
84 Nintendo release of
2006
85 Show runner
86 2013 Tony winner for Best Revival of a Musical
88 ‘‘We should stall!’’ 91 Long-stemmed
mushroom 93 Egyptian god of the
afterlife
94 Llama’s head?
95 Button clicked to see
the rest of an article 97 Not out, say
101 Target of the heckle ‘‘What game are you watching?!’’
103 Why no one hangs out in actors’ dressing rooms these days? 107 Played obnoxiously
loudly
111 At 10 or 11 p.m., say 112 Part of lifeguard
training
113 Navigation app 115 Lucky charm
116 American ____
(century plant) 117 Bathroom fixture that
one never asked for? 122 Their heads get dirty 123 Dirt
124 Typos for exclamation marks if you fail to hit Shift
125 Opposite of neat 126 ____ strategy
127 Fills to the max 128 Set (on)
129 Bathroom-door sign
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1 ____ salt (magnesium
sulfate) 2 Mixed-martial-arts great
Anderson
3 What a hiree should be
brought up to 4 Brief summary
5 Gab
6 Knocked in a pocket, in
pool
7 Handle a job
satisfactorily 8 Additional
9 ____ the line
10 Trinket
11 Less certain
12 Many a maid of honor,
informally
13 Create an account? 14 Not included
15 Marvel group led by
Hercules
16 ____ monkey
17 Lucky charm
18 Plague
24 ‘‘My treat next time!’’ 25 Cheese sometimes
paired with fig jam 31 Subject of the Irancontra affair 33 Requirements for
witnesses
35 Jessica of ‘‘L.A.’s Finest’’ 36 Believer in Jah 37 Book-fair organizer,
maybe, in brief 41 Longtime procedural set in Washington, D.C.
42 Foreshadow
43 Pass up?
45 Declare
46 ‘‘All in the Family’’
mother
47 Tissue that’s prone to
tearing, for short 49 Italian car since 1907 51 Enemy in the game
Doom
52 Sticks in a box?
53 Style of women’s
leather handbags 54 Isaac and Rebekah’s
firstborn
56 Piece with a title like ‘‘10 Best Places to
¨¨
57 First mate?
58 Recolor 62 Comparatively neat 65 Johnson & Johnson
skin-care brand 68 Moniker after a lifestyle
change
70 Initial problem for a
storied duckling 71 Man’s nickname that sounds like consecutive letters o the alphabet 72 ‘‘Phooey!’’
73 Japanese ‘‘energy
healing’’
74 Bread for dipping 75 Golden ratio symbol 79 Actress Patricia of ‘‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’’
80 Phone, wallet, ____ (traveler’s mental checklist)
83 Gaudy jewelry
84 Word in obituaries 85 Eponymous member of
the Ford family 87 Most cheerful 89 Fictional establishment
selling Duff Beer 90 Option for an overnight
guest
92 Campsite org. 95 Antacid brand
96 Forms of some mythological sea creatures
98 Turn into
99 Bob hopes?
100 Garment worn with
a choli
102 Something Pharaoh’s dream foretold in Genesis
103 Make a goat
104 Heavies
105 ‘‘Pearls Before ____’’
(comic strip)
106 Put away
108 Sculptor with a dedicated museum in Philadelphia
109 Throw out
110 Showers attention (on 114 Lemon-bar ingredient 118 Food-service-industry
lobby, for short 119 Command to a dog 120 Male swan
121 Slow (down)