NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
A GIANT CROSSWORD
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1 Hip bones 5 Safecracker 9 Zip 12 When things aren’t going right 18 Terrific, in slang 19 Jai ___ 20 Web app platform 21 Title heroine of a Gustave Charpentier opera 22 Doctrines 23 Domino’s most important part? 25 Highest taxonomic rank 26 Successors’ spots 28 Host 29 P.M. part 31 Speak raucously 32 Game played with a rope 33 Monk’s wear 34 French possessive 35 Director Wertmüller 36 Grandpa Munster portrayer 38 Coastal indentations 40 City on the Somme 42 Rudely interrupts 43 Wish one ___ (rue) 44 It may be cured 45 Suffix with peck or puck 46 Certain elective surgery, for short 48 ___ es Salaam 49 Vest opening 53 Like strongmen 56 Careful wording, maybe 58 The White House’s ___ Room 60 Suit 61 Obsolescent belt attachment 63 Nautical pronoun 65 Cousin ___ 67 Actor Eric of “Troy” 68 Beam over 70 “Help wanted” inits. 71 2000 Ricky Martin hit 73 One small step 74 It’s separated from N.B. by the Northumberland Strait 75 Barrister’s deg. 76 One letting off steam 77 Half a Yale cheer 79 “Of course, Señor!” 81 Kind of sch. 83 Two long parts of the body 86 Experience 88 Mauna ___ 90 Skin soother 92 Day-___ 93 ___ v. Ashcroft (2004 privacy case) 94 Coming up 96 Opens, in a way 99 Sign with an arrow 101 Bygone ruler 102 First bishop of Paris 103 Olympic gold-medal
gymnast Conner 104 Coins that disappeared during the French Revolution 106 Onetime billionaire investor Laurence 108 Certain ones, in Brooklyn 109 “Rule Britannia” composer 110 Write 111 ___ Lumpur, Malaysia 112 “That is so funny — not!” 114 Appear as such 116 Eastern Conference N.B.A. city 119 “I ___ confused” 120 Androgynous “S.N.L.” skit turned into a 1994 movie 121 Escapade 122 Ersatz 123 New Mexico county or its seat 124 Gambling games 125 Addition, of a sort 126 Dickens’s Uriah 127 Feminine suffix
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1 Long-billed bird 2 Hopeless situation 3 With 50-Down, cry made in [the circled letters] after the starts of 54-, 33-, 30and 14-Down 4 Blitzkrieg, e.g. 5 Goes on and on 6 Biblical name meaning “high” 7 Ones with telescopes 8 Thingamajig 9 Smooth, in a way 10 Saint Agnes’ ___ (January 20) 11 Worldport airline 12 Vet 13 Rock’s ___ Fighters 14 Make a mistake 15 Try to reach headquarters, say 16 More than 50% of humanity 17 Busybody 20 1972 Eastwood western 24 African port of 2.2 million 27 Couple of buddies? 30 Exhibit apoplexy 33 Oil, for one 34 Per aspera ad ___ 37 Actor Wheaton of “Stand by Me” 39 Septic tank worker? 41 One foot in a line 42 Kind of overalls 43 Ad ___ 47 Sequel 50 See 3-Down 51 Suffix with duck 52 Airport data 54 Not much of a try 55 “You betcha!” 57 Football pride of Detroit 59 Half of an old film duo 62 Daddy-o 64 California’s ___ River 66 New Year abroad 68 Forbidden perfume? 69 ___ Dorney, locale of 2012 Olympic rowing 72 A/C meas. 78 With the bow, musically 80 Casino draws 82 Common place for something to drop 84 Versatile kind of tire 85 Response to a sinking
feeling? 87 Arts and crafts supplies 89 Istanbul’s ___ Airport 91 Wrap up 95 Sans-serif typeface 97 The scarlet letter 98 Phone billing plan 99 Think that maybe one can 100 William ___ Henley, “Invictus” poet 102 Denounce harshly 103 Pesto part 105 1960s TV spy org. 107 Start of a spill 111 Designer Lagerfeld 112 Rope material 113 Symbol of Aphrodite 115 ___ Paulo 117 Nonhuman villain of a classic 1968 film 118 ___ kwon do