CROSSWORD NEW YORK TIMES

ACROSS

1 Bedbug, e.g.

5 “Police Line — Do Not Cross” material

9 Gay ____

14 Blemish for a straight-A student

19 Rpm indicator

20 Having gone tit for tat 21 Florida city whose name ends with two state postal abbreviations 22 Humiliate 23 Makes eye contact before undressing? 26 Hoosier hoopster 27 Expatriate 28 Wide-eyed type

29 “What ____ thou?” 31 One of five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council

32 One reading up on infant care, maybe 34 Equilibrium 36 Minor setback 38 Butts 39 Parent wearing your Superman costume? 42 Year abroad 43 The sun, for one 44 “Party Up

(Up in Here)” rapper, 2000 45 Bugs’ cartoon pursuer

46 Org. with evening meetings 47 Book after Jonah 49 “Get ____” 51 Root beer brand since 1937 54 Script suggestion about starting the fight scene?

60 AFL partner

61 The “A” of IPA

62 Ocean buildup

63 Willa who wrote “My Ántonia” 65 Mean-spirited sort

68 Richard Gere title

role

69 Eat a little here, a little there 70 Greek god of sleep 72 Take for granted 76 Early Chinese dynasty 77 Black ____ 78 Ballet choreography?

84 Sport

86 RR ____

87 Widening of the

mouth?

88 Broody genre

89 Racy film

91 FEMA offering

94 Cartoonist

Thomas

95 Beaut

96 Was harder for the bronco buster to hold on to? 101 High flier 102 Firstborn 103 University of Illinois city

104 Lumbering, say 106 In days of yore 107 “Same with me” 109 Subjects of an apartment restriction 111 Actresses Field and Hawkins 113 Rarity in a Polish name? 115 Like the digit “0” in 2018?

118 Iowa senator elected in 2014 119 “... but I could be wrong” 120 Reynolds of “Deadpool” 121 James who was nominated for a 1967 Grammy for “Tell Mama” 122 Hives, e.g. 123 Forte’s opposite

124 Old flames 125 Balance

DOWN 1 All-too-common VA diagnosis 2 Corroded

3 Fall guy 4 Loses intentionally 5 What the classics stand

6 “Selma” director

DuVernay

7 Southernmost Ivy 8 Hyphen’s longer

cousin

9 Agricultural locale that’s weed-friendly? 10 Down’s counterpart: abbr. 11 Trail mix bit 12 Title city in a 1960 #1 song 13 “Don’t panic” 14 Event for Jesus described in Matthew 3:13-17 15 Kegler’s org. 16 Popular Mexican folk song 17 Depletes

18 It’s a wrap 24 “Uhh ...” 25 Positioned 30 Lambaste 33 Auto-repair chain 35 Boxcars half 37 Looped in, in a way 38 Skipper, informally

40 Places for

conductors 41 Kind of tide 43 Breakfast order at a diner

48 Giggle syllable 49 The New Yorker

cartoonist Chast 50 Tip of the tongue? 52 Number between nueve and once

53 Put out 55 Make 56 Politician inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame

57 Trunk

58 Tally, in Britain 59 Vituperated

64 Orbitz

booking

65 Grub

66 Build up

67 Fickleness of

life 71 Demeaners of the #MeToo movement, say 72 Part of a stockyard 73 Dungeons & Dragons, e.g., for short 74 T-shirt size: abbr.

75 First name on the Supreme Court 76 Monsoons

79 Draws

80 Treeless plain

81 Put on an act? 82 February birthstones 83 1899 gold rush destination 85 Be absolutely awesome

90 Makes potable, in a way

91 Wall St. worker 92 Probably will 93 Supergiant in Cygnus

96 A state of rapture 97 Notable whose name is an anagram of GALORE

98 Some arm

bones

99 Journalist

Fallaci

100 Emotionally

developed

101 ____ whale

105 Bacon runoff

108 Cockeyed

110 Boundary between the earth and the underworld, in myth 112 RBI or HRs

114 The “e” of i.e.

116 III or IV, maybe 117 When doubled, a 2010s dance craze