The New York Times Crossword

THAT’S ONE WAY TO PUT IT

ACROSS

1 Draw in

8 Tight garment 14 Come before 21 Stingy sorts 22 Blogger’s pick for a pic

23 Utility worker 24 Falling down 26 Mean

27 Very: Ger. 28 Earth goddess 29 GPA killers 30 “Sprechen ____ Deutsch?” 31 Robert of

“The Sopranos” 32 Speeding ticket 37 Prep for the runway, maybe 40 Ball ____ 41 Besmirch 42 Emotionally demanding 43 Climbing Mount Everest, e.g.

45 Be Kind to Editors and Writers Mo. [for real!] 48 Notable features of Stockholm and Amsterdam

51 It “exists when one goes against one’s conscience,” per Pope Francis

52 Fire places

55 D.C. lobby for seniors

57 Locale for two of the Quad Cities 58 Egyptian cobra 61 Lying

66 Heat, as to soften metal

67 “u r hilarious!” 68 How scallops are often prepared 69 French horticulturist after whom a variety of fruit is named 72 Cause of insomnia, maybe 74 Design detail 77 Google ____

78 Run too far or lift too much

81 Go over in blackjack 84 In working order 87 Layoff 94 Old sitcom character who was 229 years old

95 Utah’s ____ Canyon 96 Get 29-Across 97 Railway offshoot 98 “So that’s it!” 99 Florae and faunae 101 Down 103 Mariners 105 TWA competitor 108 Classic Jag 110 Who “can’t buy you love” in an Elton John hit

113 “There, there”

114 Tax increase

120 Cheers in un estadio 121 Canon camera

122 Take off quickly 123 “If I ____ penny for every ...”

124 Some WSJ topics 128 Summer Olympics host after Barcelona

130 Dead

133 Custom-fits

134 Took off quickly 135 Pasta recipe

phrase

136 Show contempt for 137 At the scene

138 “We should avoid

doing that”

DOWN

1 New Testament book 2 Pilgrims’ pronoun 3 Radio host John 4 Life in the big city, to some

5 Bee: prefix 6 Dance with a kick 7 John Irving protagonist portrayed by Robin Williams 8 Wine holders 9 Spermatozoa targets 10 Dance-party enthusiast 11 Wooden 12 Worries no end 13 Five-point rugby play

14 Stripes mismatch, traditionally 15 Amazon, e.g. 16 Oklahoma City-toTulsa dir. 17 Develops (from) 18 Charlotte ____, Virgin Islands 19 Very last part 20 Pep

25 André ____, 1947 Literature Nobelist 30 Narrow waterway 33 Part of an accusation in Clue 34 Laker named to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016 35 Small anatomical container 36 Landing post-ETA 37 12 cc, maybe 38 Country star Church 39 Alternative to a name: abbr. 44 Draw, as a scene 46 Ratcheting wheel mechanism 47 Adjust with Photoshop, maybe 49 Japanese drama 50 Knocks over 53 Even 54 Trauma reminder 56 School support grps. 58 Corona, for one 59 Repeated cry at a dance class 60 Most profs 62 Mother-of-pearl 63 Out in court 64 Boost the horsepower of 65 Dish served with chopsticks in a bowl 69 Florida beach city, informally

70 Like the head of a tennis racket 71 Lowly worker

73 Bit of wind 75 Those, in Tijuana 76 Complaining fish? 79 “Hots” 80 “Creme sandwich” introduced over a century ago 82 Animal depicted in Edwin Landseer’s “The Monarch of the Glen”

83 Work, work, work 85 Air-conditioner fig. 86 Entrap

88 Army NCO 89 Alien autopsies, crop circles and the like 90 Liquid-____

91 Pet food with a paw-print logo 92 Where to accent “Laotian”

93 Pinstriper

99 Store blowout

100 Suffix with brew 102 Underbrush clearer 104 Occasionally

105 WWII shipping

worries

106 Oman’s leader, e.g. 107 Antarctic penguin 109 Officially prohibit 111 Lamb, e.g.

112 It goes up to about 1700 115 Aquarium fish 116 Swelter 117 Holiday celebrations 118 Holy Roman emperor called “the Great” 119 Country rocker Steve

125 One of the Ivies

126 Not conned by

127 Let stand, editorially 129 Neither’s partner 130 U.N. observer since ’74 131 Day-in-and-day-out pattern

132 D.C. summer setting