The New York Times Crossword

SHELL GAME / By David Steinberg / Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS 1 Browns 7 Four-hit achievement, in baseball lingo 12 Mil. posts 15 System used at Gallaudet Univ. 18 The U.S., in Mexico 20 Milo of “Romeo and Juliet,” 1968 21 Hawaii’s ____ Day 22 Low

23 “Et tu?” and others 25 Lotion ingredients 26 Suburb of Chicago 28 Joyful internet cry 29 Bubbly mixer 31 Popeye’s boy 33 Harassed, in a sense 34 Cartoon seller of Squishees 35 Pyrex glass marking 38 Jackson 5 member 39 Philip who wrote “Portnoy’s Complaint”

41 Cain and Abel’s younger brother 42 Word before questions or advice 43 Do sales work, informally

44 A part of

45 Band with the 1989 platinum debut album “Junta” 47 Darryl, in the comic “Baby Blues” 49 Accomplishing 51 Poke around

54 The “K” in Kmart 59 Places for plugs 62 Plastic-dispenser producer

65 The clue for 128Down, if this shell game weren’t a scam 68 Hardly guzzle 69 Group of pros 71 “Rights of Man” author, 1791 72 Early Cuzco dweller 73 Series of mistakes? 74 Vacation spot 77 Inside-dope source

80 Prefix with business 81 Chilled

83 With 13-Down, herbal brew 85 Cartoon seller of Duff Beer

86 The clue for 127-Across, if this shell game weren’t a scam 90 Former NFL’ers Detmer and Law 91 All together 93 Shapes of some Halloween cookies 94 Country united in 1990

96 Soft-drink options 98 A peeling place?

100 Westernmost of the ABC Islands 103 “Bug”

105 Hosp. worker 107 Prefix with caching 109 2.5, for the set

{1, 2, 3, 4} 112 Classic sculpture 114 Novel narrated by a soon-to-be mutineer 115 Material for small buildings? 118 Proctor’s warning 119 Students often take them out 121 When some bars close

122 Edict

124 End in ____ 125 Style influenced by Cubism

127 Like hand motions during a shell game 129 Professional group with a van 131 Month of l’année 132 Singer Reed 133 Four-time World Series-winning manager

134 In the near future 135 Superfund org. 136 Something to build on

137 Looks fabulous, in slang 138 Pincher

DOWN

1 England and Spain fought one in 1588 2 Smirnoff Ice, e.g. 3 Lacking polish 4 Push

5 Verbal stumbles 6 Walks or runs, for short

7 Work together 8 Fashion inits. 9 Elected 10 Degree of freedom 11 Lightens

12 Like hounds and most bunny rabbits 13 See 83-Across 14 Guru, maybe 15 “Pretty cool, huh?” 16 Johannesburg neighborhood much in the news during apartheid 17 Underground locale

19 Give a ring while on the road? 24 Tizzy

27 Typical Vanidades reader

30 How many TV shows are shown

32 Port. is part of it 36 One caring for a bebé 37 Classical poem 40 Email openers 41 Egghead? 46 Deceitful sort 48 Grp. with lots of pointers

50 Like the verbs “eat” and “drink”: abbr. 52 Bobcat relative 53 Fundraising org. 55 Fair

56 Warm up for a bout, say

57 Bug

58 Ages and ages 60 With politesse 61 They’re symbolized by slashes 62 Minecraft or StarCraft 63 Fantasy novel hero who rides the dragon Saphira 64 Capital 175 miles east of Venice, Italy 66 Lottery winner’s cry 67 Record again 70 Dernier ____ 72 Philosophy-class suffix

75 Marc of fashion 76 Follows a pattern? 78 Much-covered 1955 Bo Diddley hit 79 Juice

82 Verb often said three times in a row

84 It’s cut and dried 86 All right 87 Immune-system component 88 “Let’s do this thing!” 89 Amt. of seasoning 92 Loch on the border of the Highlands 95 Worn-down pencil 97 Say quickly

99 One way to run 101 Greyhound offering 102 Most visibly frightened

103 Develop a limp

104 Hybrid music genre

of the 2010s

106 Houston-to-Dallas dir.

107 Desert, in a way 108 City west of Binghamton 110 Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist Jennifer

111 Total jerks 113 Group with two Top 10 rock operas 116 Runs to

117 They have long necks and round bodies

120 Bear’s advice 123 Bearlike creature in sci-fi

124 Oil crisis? 126 Murmur

128 Cook in oil

130 Only three-letter scale note