The New York Times Crossword
This puzzle originally ran in November 2017.
ACROSS
1 Philbin’s onetime morning co-host 8 Equality-promoting org. 12 Those who believe everything has a spirit 20 Off base
21 Small songbird 22 Patronized a restaurant 23 Prodigality? 25 Emmy-winning actor on “The West Wing” 26 Spinny pool shot 27 Direct (toward)
29 Part of many German names
30 “Ready?” response
33 Hog seller?
38 Chefs’ hats
40 Corp. budget item
41 1969 self-titled jazz album 42 Salad alternative 43 Trouble maker 46 Depend (on)
48 Letters of warning on internet sites 52 Radiologist’s tool, for short 53 Cigar City, so-called on account of a former major industry
54 A part of Life? 55 Irritate
56 Suffix with market
57 Mr. Magoo biopic? 62 Actress Thurman 63 N.Y.C. subway letters 65 High school sweethearts 66 “____ said ...” 68 Birthplace of Emily Dickinson
71 Sloppy sort 72 Roadblock 73 Canadian coin, informally 74 Like rebate coupons, typically
78 “How cool!”
79 Actor Kilmer 80 Cuckoo or dodo? 83 Locale for a flock 86 Nonreactive
88 Abbr. in a military title 89 Dark times, informally 90 Trickster 91 Mariner’s org.
92 Small 93 Resembling down 95 General ____ chicken 96 Buccaneer’s quaff
98 Was on a crowded bus, say 100 Soprano Renata 102 Prepares cube steak? 107 Altar sites
108 A/C stat
109 Gay who wrote “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”
110 “I ____ talking to you!” 112 The “E” of E.D. 114 All-day gripe sessions? 121 Like a rope in tug of war
122 Northern Iraqi 123 Alter ego on “The Simpsons” 124 Tightwads’ opposites 125 Hungers 126 Questionable
DOWN
1 Ones in a mess, informally 2 Question: Abbr. 3 Pot-au-____ (French stew) 4 Basis of the plot of “Gone Girl”
5 Like Corinthian columns 6 Bacilli shapes 7 Habiliments 8 Cobbler’s tool 9 Vineyard designation 10 ____ Cayes (Haitian port) 11 Not related?
12 Gilbert who wrote “Love and Death on Long Island” 13 Rosetta Stone discovery site
14 In a senseless way 15 Deranged, in slang 16 Polish movie named Best Foreign Language Film of 2014
17 Work out
18 Henry VII’S house
19 Lee who co-created the Avengers
24 Not an elective: Abbr. 28 Flower colored by Aphrodite’s blood, in myth 30 “You know who this is”
31 “A Visit From St. Nicholas” poet
32 Ways out of embarrassing situations? 34 Polished 35 It may have a ring to it 36 Enero a diciembre
37 Civil rights activist Guinier 39 Laker legend with a size 22 sneaker, informally 44 Something absolutely necessary 45 Fast-paced two-player card game
47 Munchies, say 49 Enumerations of things to be sat on?
50 Is plenty angry
51 Song words before
“the World” and “the Champions”
53 Like pre-1917 Russia 55 Green shells
58 Animal with a flexible snout 59 Early title for Julius Caesar 60 Brightest star in Orion 61 Apollo 11’s Eagle, for short 64 What Lionel Messi wears 67 Brazil’s ____ Bernardo do Campo 68 Choreographer Ailey 69 2016 film set in Polynesia 70 Et ____ (footnote abbr.) 72 Document certifiers, for short 74 Countenance 75 Sorting category on itunes 76 Vacuum-tube component
77 Cousin of a spoonbill 81 Alleged psychic exposed by the Amazing Randi 82 Co-authors Margret and H.?A. 84 Theatricalize
85 Lhasa ____ (dogs) 87 “Old World Style” pasta sauce brand
92 Glacial deposit 93 Opposition
94 Easy question
95 “I dare you to do better!” 97 Snitched on, with “out” 99 Lucy’s place, in a Beatles song 101 “Impossible!”
102 Leash, e.g.
103 Line (up)
104 Ones on the outsides of brackets
105 “Yuck!”
106 Forgeries
108 Pot growers?
111 Kind of vaccine 113 Cardboard container: Abbr. 115 “____ pasa?” 116 Decorative garden item 117 Source of much of Google’s income
118 Fictional creature made from heat and slime 119 Unspecified degree 120 ____ milk