New York Times Sunday Crossword
ACROSS
1 Mannerly 6 Philippine currency 10 Just open
14 Second socks, say 19 Offer a judgment 20 Thing with tags 21 Fruit-salad fruit 22 Sound of exertion 23 Huge celebration after L.A.’s football team wins the Super Bowl?
26 Nice nicety
27 Great shakes 28 Oldest tech sch. in the U.S., founded in 1824
29 Bygone royalty 31 Oodles and oodles 32 Besmirch
33 Big fuss
35 With 1-Down, address ender
37 Schlep
38 Reason that the prestigious scientific journal refuses articles from President Herbert’s relatives? 45 Power symbol? 46 Senate support 47 ____ gras 48 Restorative indulgence
50 Kind of bookstore 51 Oil-field sight
53 It’s symbolized by an
elephant, for short 55 Theater seating
option
56 Japanese honorific 57 Apology from a musician to the other band members?
64 Best Picture winner that was banned in Vietnam
66 Lena of “Chocolat” 67 1957 Jimmy Dorsey
hit
68 “Lonely Boy” singer,
1959
69 Stiff
71 Morally uncompromised
72 Many a summer
position
74 Like writing about
how to write 75 Epitome of herd
mentality 79 Volunteered at a
nursery? 83 General practice? 84 Idle of Monty Python 85 ____ Lou Who of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” 86 Elton John or Mick
Jagger
87 District on Hawaii’s
west coast 88 Volcanic substance 91 Person fluent in
Quechua
94 Et ____ (footnote
abbr.)
96 Fool
97 Adding a historic ship as a deal sweetener?
101 Campaign guru
102 Super Bowl played in
2020
103 Past
104 Get hold of
105 Dry
107 Hiker’s snack
110 Article from
U.C.L.A.?
112 Vatican ambassador 115 Small versions
117 Story about a drinking binge?
121 Frost lines?
122 Awards feat, for
short
123 Puccini piece
124 Really lift
125 Ed of “Elf”
126 Movement based on deliberate irrationality
127 Be really impressive,
informally
128 Procrastinate
DOWN
1 See 35-Across
2 Uber and Lyft had theirs in 2019, for short
3 Tarzan’s transport 4 Didn’t just request 5 Is dismissed, as a
class
6 On a Seder plate, it represents the arrival of springtime 7 Port. is part of it 8 State symbol
9 Sound from a marching band 10 Pseudonym lead-in 11 Ditch at the last
moment 12 Leatherwork tools 13 Largest city on the
Arabian Peninsula 14 “Lionized” studio 15 Neighborhood
16 Gift in “The 12 Days
of Christmas” 17 Push
18 Trap, of a sort 24 Sheikh’s peer
25 Free from
30 Aussie animals 34 Medal above plata 36 One-up
38 ____ cavity
39 Bowl, e.g.
40 Prefix with nautical 41 One temporarily entrusting property to another
42 Ink
43 Units in the life span
of a galaxy
44 Ad ____ tax
Answer Below 45 Brink of transition 49 Folksy possessive 52 Wilt
54 Magazine whose crossword is always accompanied by a photograph
57 Rigged card game 58 Hooked up, as oxen 59 Wolfs (down) 60 Supergiant in Orion 61 Hall of Fame quarterback for the Colts 62 More balanced
63 In ____ way
65 Rail container for
liquids
70 Bakery buy
72 Cloth woven from
flax fiber
73 So last year
76 “You can’t make
me!” 77 Female goat 78 Gloomy, weatherwise
79 Place to surf 80 Haydn’s “The Creation” and others 81 Step on a ladder 82 The Berenstain Bears
live in one
87 “A merry old soul,”
in a nursery rhyme 89 Crack up, in textspeak
90 Bit of kindling
92 U.S. counterpart to
Britain’s MI6 93 ____-Norman French 95 Common call on a
3rd-and-1
96 Not black-and-white 98 Sticker worn in November 99 How some practical
jokes go
100 Burden
101 Prairie east of the
Andes
106 Two-fifths of one
quarter
108 Sitar selection
109 Move laboriously 111 Houston M.L.B.’er 113 Stressed, in a way:
Abbr.
114 Multiple of tetra116 Union member of the 20th century, for short
118 Concern for one catching a connection, briefly
119 Sound from a drunk 120 “Stop right there!”