THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Make a bust, say 7 Chew (on) 11 Ointment amounts 15 Modern lead-in to mania
19 ‘‘Enough!’’ 20 Contemporary of Picasso
21 Factory watchdog, in brief
22 Native of the country whose national sport is oil wrestling 23 Bit of company swag for a Genius Bar staffer?
25 With 114-Across, exasperated question to parking enforcement? 27 Awesome time 28 Elements of a Sherlock Holmes sports mystery?
30 A small part of who you are
31 Prefix with medicine
32 ‘‘Duck Dynasty’’ network
33 Irish ____, popular St. Patrick’s Day cocktail
36 Like much toothpaste
38 Mountain mammal 42 Plant cultivated by the Incas
43 Program after undergrad, for some 47 ‘‘____ rate .?.?. ’’ 48 Today’s plans: watchin’ someone’s kids?
54 Broadband inits. 55 Overrun
56 ‘‘Mr. Mom’’ actress Teri
57 Data output denoted by ‘‘N/A’’ 59 Super Bowl in 2022 61 Come on down! 63 Name that’s a body part in reverse
64 It may be measured in both feet and meters 65 How much Michael Jordan or Wilt Chamberlain could score, hyperbolically? 71 Lead-in to cross 72 Happy companion 73 Focus of the website Brickipedia
74 ‘‘The Hangover’’ character who wakes up with a missing tooth
75 Eschews grains and processed foods, perhaps
78 Common results of penalties
80 Writers such as Sappho
85 Waze way: Abbr. 86 Missile silo’s holding?
89 Pie slices might be displayed in one 91 Natural application to waterproof a ship’s hull
92 Guacamole gowith?
93 Engine type, informally
94 Playwright Edward 97 Hidden obstacle 100 Transport on a river
102 Transport on a rail 106 ‘‘Dope!’’
107 Where Sweet’n Low displays its logo? 111 T as in Tartarus 114 See 25-Across 115 Cry following an electrical malfunction? 117 Rufus and Chaka Khan’s ‘‘____ Nobody’’ 118 Like garage floors, often
119 Slight amount 120 Old English folklore figure
121 Jumbo
122 When said three times, ‘‘What have we here?!’’
123 Music score abbr. 124 Jaguar two-seaters starting in 2013
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1 Catch
2 ____ América (soccer tournament)
3 They call ’em as they see ’em
4 Text back and forth? 5 Like pioneering search engines of the 1980s 6 Polka-influenced music style
7 Yukon and Acadia, for two
8 Canon competitor 9 Sizable urban construction project 10 King of the gods in Wagner’s ‘‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’’
11 Ann of Hulu’s ‘‘The Handmaid’s Tale’’ 12 Rubbish receptacle 13 Hindi name for India
14 Smooth and glossy 15 ‘‘ .?.?. per my understanding’’
16 Zap
17 Line on a neck 18 Clears
24 ‘‘Resume speed,’’ musically
26 The Golden Arches, on stock tickers
29 One covering plenty of ground
30 Persona non ____ 33 Invent
34 When Lady Macbeth cries, ‘‘Out, damned spot!’’ 35 Smoke shop purchase
37 Standout in a field 39 Bunch of scoundrels 40 Follows
41 Tissue in a plant stem
42 DNA reviewer, in brief
44 Buy time
45 State of subjugation 46 Male voter stereotype beginning in the mid-2010s
47 Wheels off the road?
49 Run in place 50 In-state attendee of Great Basin College, e.g.
51 Check
52 Brother in the Lemony Snicket books 53 Certain college member
58 Great ____
60 Jokey remark after missing a modern reference
62 Be philanthropic, say
65 Execrate 66 Company computer fixers, informally
67 Big hits?
68 ____ Float (cold treat)
69 Like a situation at the start of an inning 70 Ounce of praise, jocularly
71 Slangy stuff to sell 76 Placed
77 ‘‘ .?.?. must all learn to live together as brothers, ____ will all perish together as fools’’: M.L.K. Jr. 79 Cakewalk
81 Bygone messaging app
82 Cheer for the Vikings
83 Poker giveaway 84 Certain outbuilding 87 Doth proceed
88 Fun plans after work, say
90 Stuff in stuffed pasta shells
94 Aphid that produces honeydew
95 ‘‘Ooh, check it out!’’ 96 Happened to 98 Really miff 99 Tycoon
101 What only one planet, Jupiter, is spelled with
103 ____ Hard Apple (beer brand)
104 Not connected 105 Name that’s ‘‘all the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word,’’ on Broadway 107 Liver, in Le Havre 108 Like church bells 109 ‘‘Bye 4 now!’’ 110 ‘‘Power Lunch’’ airer
111 Maryland athlete, for short
112 End in ____ 113 Doesn’t waste 114 Thanksgiving dinner offering
116 Very important