The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Ones with big heads
around the office?
6 With 27-Down, island nation near Indonesia
10 What OPEC and
NATO are both in?
14 E, in Morse code
17 Inauguration Day
activity
19 Five-times-a-day
Islamic prayer
20 Word with earth or
muscle
21 Function whose output is 45º when
applied to 1
22 German : Freundin ::
Spanish : ____
23 Google search info
24 Some whiskeys
25 Piece of work
26 Premium membership designation
28 End ____
30 Small row
32 Sashimi selection
33 Holds
36 Language of the 18th-century poet Mir Taqi Mir
38 (0,0), in math
41 Put on an unhappy
face
42 It lets you see the
sites 46 Rice dish
47 Mess up
48 Hebrew name
meaning ‘‘ascent’’
49 Walks (on)
53 Talk, talk, talk
55 ‘‘How ____!’’
57 Contents of some
banks
59 Hyphenated beverage
brand
60 Holders of multiple
passports
65 Transcript fig.
66 Give a hoot?
67 Values highly
68 Trouble
69 Soothe
71 [Ignore that edit]
72 Honey ____ (Special
K flavor)
74 First openly lesbian anchor to host a major prime-time news program
77 Pond fish
78 Not looking good
at all
80 Follow closely
81 Goth relative
82 ‘‘What in the . . . !’’
85 $$$ for old age
87 ____ soap
88 Brutes
92 Ones fighting for
change
97 Reindeer in ‘‘Frozen’’
99 Start of a rendezvous
request
100 2019 jukebox musical featuring the song ‘‘Proud Mary’’ 101 Sun-kissed, say
102 Funny business?
104 Zip
106 ‘‘____ a Crime’’ (2016 Trevor Noah memoir)
108 Hempseed product
111 Property claim
113 One might be good
or evil
117 Michael ___ of ‘‘Ugly
Betty’’
118 End of an era?
119 Bringing up the rear
121 Tops
122 Kind of syrup that’s an alternative to honey
123 Homeland of many
Paiute and Shoshone
124 Grate expectations?
125 ‘‘Spy Kids’’ actress
Hatcher
126 ‘‘So true!’’
127 One of two poles
DOWN
1 ‘‘May God bless and keep the ____ . . . far away from us!’’ (‘‘Fiddler on the Roof’’ line)
2 Bad way to go
3 Winans with 12
Grammys
4 Panko-breaded chicken
dish
5 Sp. title
6 Fence line?
7 A long time
8 Drops in water
9 Purchase for Wile E.
Coyote 10 Sleeveless undergarment, informally
11 Settled (on)
12 Event with a crowning
moment
13 Store
14 Pull out all the stops
15 Not sharp, perhaps
16 Thompson of ‘‘Sorry
to Bother You’’
18 Summer ____
19 Soda cracker, by
another name
20 Choice words?
26 Pull in
27 See 6-Across
29 Microsoft’s answer to
the iPad
31 ‘‘I’m so sorry for
you!’’
33 Trendy
34 Alex and ____
( jewelry chain)
35 Mo. metropolis
37 Early development
sites
39 Extended-wear
manicure options
40 Added bonus,
metaphorically
43 Aerie baby
44 Celia known as the
‘‘Queen of Salsa’’
45 Words of admission
50 Stop ____ (sign)
51 Muralist Rivera
52 Goof (around)
54 Kind of data distribution with two peaks
56 Finish with 58 Tometi who co-founded Black Lives Matter
60 Newsroom sights
61 ‘‘So are we!’’
62 Used Grubhub or
Postmates, say
63 ____ Ing-wen, first female president of
Taiwan
64 Alleged
66 Traditional attire for
some martial artists
70 Ornate tea vessel 73 Overdone
75 ‘‘Howdy!’’
76 Put in a seat, perhaps
79 Lakeside city that’s at
one end of I-79
83 Result of pulling the
goalie
84 Jane of ‘‘9 to 5’’
86 ‘‘Don’t misbehave!’’
89 Q followers
90 Letter that rhymes with three other
letters 91 Phishing target, for
short
93 Encroach
94 Human rights lawyer
Clooney
95 Like the Dalai Lama
96 Part of the joke
97 Gawps
98 Go away
102 Take a dive, perhaps
103 W.W. II threat
105 Ringing in the new
day?
107 109 110 112 [Nodding] ‘‘Duh!’’ Katie Brown slang of or in ESPN blacken modern 114 Japanese ingredient soup 115 Children’s Blyton author 116 Bird with a reduplicative name 119 J.F.K. alternative 120 Dallas and Houston are in it, in brief
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