The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Power-ups
ACROSS
1 Not fine 7 Expedition 12 Savory jelly 17 Tacks on 19 Mollycoddle 20 Sight on an English farm 21 Slacker role for Jeff Bridges in “The Big Lebowski” 22 Superenthusiastic
23 Spelman College
graduate, e.g. 24 “____ is an emotion in motion”: Mae West
25 See 30-Across 27 Morning weather phenomenon 29 See 33-Across 30 With 25-Across, get as much approval from an audience as possible 32 Dalmatians, e.g. 33 With 29-Across, like a deer in headlights 35 N.Y.C.’S first subway line 36 Singer Mann 38 Michelangelo masterpiece 40 Sunset Boulevard sight 42 Utah mountain range
45 What people tend to do when a rush-hour subway train arrives
47 See 50-Across 48 See 53-Across 50 With 47-Across, not change anyone’s mind, say
52 Forest of Fangorn resident, in fiction
53 With 48-Across, stops wasting time
57 Dawn
59 Eternally damned 61 Promptness 63 Default consequence 65 Have an influence (on)
69 Iraqi port city 70 Mathematical concepts suggested eight times in this puzzle
74 “I’m telling the truth!”
75 One of the
Seven Dwarfs 77 Yeats’s “The Lake ____ of Innisfree”
78 Bad place for a fly, in a saying 80 Showy shrub 83 Arch supporter 85 See 90-Across 86 Flat-topped cap 88 See 92-Across 90 With 85-Across, uncomfortably accurate
92 With 88-Across, sacrificed
94 Place that processes ore 96 Eponym of the world’s largest church
101 Some teambonding trips 103 State whose capital is
Dispur
105 Drum that can be played with a brush
106 Hypotheticals 107 See 113-Across 109 Cleans, as a
deck
112 See 116-Across 113 With 107-Across, bad sort of competition
115 “Freak on a Leash” metal band
116 With 112-Across, “Your misfortune is nothing special” 118 Jocular lead-in
to “macation” 119 List ender
121 Abstract artist de Kooning known for her portraits
123 Obsessive
cleaner, say
125 Important faculty for school
126 Brought home 127 Lively French dance popular in the Baroque era 128 Big name in nail
polish
129 Rug rats
130 Brand whose sales skyrocketed after the release of “E.T.”
DOWN
1 Person who’s being used 2 Sister of Laertes 3 They’re scored from 1 to 5 4 What’s found at one end of a rainbow 5 Comfy-cozy 6 Sources of Norse mythology
7 More throaty 8 Pale
9 Ukr., e.g., once 10 Spanish “I love you”
11 Kind of cuisine that’s often eaten with one’s hands
12 Tied, in scores 13 ____ vide (culinary technique) 14 Do some heavy lifting
15 “Don’t pay attention to that”
16 Idle gossip 18 Convince
19 Cracks
20 Actor Dev of “Lion”
26 Lick (up)
28 Stop the flow of
31 House call? 33 Playful growl 34 Run-____ (hiphop trio) 37 Alternative to an ellipsis
39 Some clickbait articles 41 Potentially risky thing to drop in a relationship 43 ____ Woo-shik, co-star of 2019’s “Parasite” 44 ____ cuisine 46 Sanders who played in a World Series and two Super Bowls
49 Charon’s domain
51 Lead-in to self
53 They might be caught in the rain
54 ____ Bator 55 Stun, in a way 56 Hard-hit line drive
58 One variety of love 60 Broadway’s ____-Fontanne Theater
62 Heckle
64 Part of a hammer
66 Butter alternative 67 “There warn’t no home like a raft ...” speaker
68 Lavish celebration
71 Hard Italian cheese
72 Level, for one 73 Isolated components 76 Deviation in flight 79 Exterminator’s target
81 Was bested by
82 Title horror film locale 84 Wrote poorly 86 They have your life hanging by a thread
87 They might involve impersonating a dealer
89 Kingdom east of Babylonia 91 Mini-albums, in brief
92 Ship with three banks of oars 93 Fly catcher 95 Dead Sea
Scrolls sect 97 Envelope abbr. 98 Juggling, singing, magic, etc.
99 Scholarly
100 Tells off
102 Just peachy
104 ____ Pro
108 Dental covering similar to a crown
110 Water pipe
111 Dishonest
attack
114 Foe of the Morlocks, in sci-fi
116 Major export of
Tuscany
117 Place to hang
holiday lights 120 Something drawn by a jerk, maybe
122 Sanctuary
124 What a digitigrade stands on