The New York Times
ACROSS
1 Aid for a small business
10 Dev of ‘‘Slumdog Millionaire’’
15 Part of a prairie skyline
19 Strict commitment
20 Sidestep
21 ‘‘Way ahead of you’’
22 Compliment to a runway model?
24 Low card in Texas hold’em
25 Some donations 26 Stable supply
27 Starting piece on a1 or h8, say
28 ____ Slam (tennis feat)
30 Drain
31 Easily offended by foul language?
34 Kind of high ground
37 Trial
38 Breaks down
39 Spanish ‘‘sun’’
40 Axel ____, protagonist of ‘‘Beverly Hills Cop’’ 41 X
42 Japanese roadster since 1989 44 Residence that might be named for a donor
45 Question to a tantrum thrower?
49 Costly cuts
51 First two words of ‘‘Green Eggs and Ham’’
52 ____ fixe
53 Malbec and syrah, e.g.
54 Role model
55 Wet-Nap, for one 57 Friend with a rhyming description 59 Sighting aptly found in ‘‘Are you for real?’’
61 ‘‘Anything you’d like to ____?’’
63 Relics proving how Noah steered his boat? 68 Something to do for recovery?
69 Pacific island ring
70 Neil with the hit ‘‘Breaking Up Is Hard to Do’’
71 Carries out
73 Actor Elwes of ‘‘The Princess Bride’’ 75 Trade blows
77 Mild
79 Driver’s org., no matter how you slice it?
80 Relent
83 Prepared for a field trip?
86 Interjections akin to ‘‘Yeah, su-uure!’’
87 Bygone forensic spinoff
89 Android alternative
90 Quits at the last minute
91 Org. that awards the Safer Choice label
92 World capital established in 1535 93 Jackanapes
94 Rap producers’ favorite vegetables? 95 Masters of slapstick?
100 Retinal receptor 101 Drink after drink?
102 ‘‘To live without ____ is to cease to live’’: Dostoyevsky 103 Sign of summer 104 Stow cargo
108 Get into gear
109 Title for an oral surgeon’s handbook?
113 Certain sexual preferences
114 Italian automotive hub
115 Subject of many an off-season rumor 116 ‘‘Young Frankenstein’’ character played by Teri Garr
117 Tee type
118 4th order?
DOWN
1 ____ Rudolph, portrayer of Kamala Harris on ‘‘S.N.L.’’
2 Role model
3 Amigo
4 Rules’ partner, for short
5 El Dorado treasure
6 Like apple seeds, if eaten in huge quantities
7 Fresh from a keg 8 Sore
9 Org. that sponsored the design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial 10 MXN, on a currency chart
11 Adele and Cher, e.g.
12 ____ and Caicos 13 Part of a dean’s address
14 ‘‘I’d rather pass’’ 15 Shooting sport 16 All together now 17 Farm-to-table consumer
18 Word that sounds like its first letter
21 Elba who played Macavity in 2019’s ‘‘Cats’’
23 One end of the PolitiFact meter
29 Willing subject 30 ‘‘Don’t be rude .?.?. greet our guests!’’
31 Loonie or toonie 32 Some are named for kings and queens
33 Stately street liners
34 Coat from a goat 35 High point of Greek civilization? 36 Emeritus: Abbr. 37 ‘‘It’s me .?.?. duh!’’
40 ‘‘Just sayin’,’’ in shorthand 41 Needless to say 42 Mississippi ____ pie 43 Released 44 Thingamabob 46 Brink 47 World
No. 1 tennis player between Navratilova and Seles
48 Lived in a blue state?
50 One might be hard to sit for
54 Pipes at some bars
56 Brings out
58 Downfall in many an Agatha Christie novel
60 Buzzed hairstyle
62 Stops harping on something
64 Like a sparsely attended party 65 See 66-Down 66 With 65-Down, ‘‘Ditto’’
67 Pelvic exercises 72 Give attitude 74 Instruction for a course? 76 Earnings 78 Drew back 80 ‘‘Sorry to intrude …’’
81 Certain monkey … or monk 82 ‘‘Jackpot!’’ 83 One needing new, unburned pants? 84 De-lights? 85 Oil-rich state, for short
88 Appliance with apps
92 Yearns (for)
93 Fashionable pair
94 Cover for ‘‘little piggies’’
96 ‘‘Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk’’ is the last short story he wrote 97 ‘‘Take that!’’
98 Kind of chemical bond in salts
99 Vivacious quality
100 What a meta clue might do to itself
103 Chicago mayor Lightfoot
104 Brick made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene 105 New ____
106 Showy basket 107 Lifesavers, for short
108 Piece of equipment for gold medalist Lindsey Vonn
110 Marauder of old
111 Lifelong bud, slangily
112 Partner of hem