NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Sewer, at times 7 Dregs of society 11 “I’m not doing so well” 15 ___ it up (dress

flamboyantly) 19 Sherpa’s tool 20 Kind of street 21 Accurse 22 Grams 23 Drank quickly 24 Allocated dollars for digs 26 &&& 27 “___ time now” 28 Smoker’s convenience 30 Toiling away 32 Santa’s bootblack? 34 “___ ever!” 35 Paisley refusals 37 Gets up 38 Density symbol 40 Anti-apartheid org. 42 1970 hit for Neil Diamond 43 De novo 44 Lies in the hot sun 46 Shacks 48 Marine rescue grp. 50 Fancified 52 Really desire, with “over” 53 Precipitate 57 House of the speaker? 58 Writer 60 Big guns 61 F = ma formulator 62 Very wide shoe spec 63 Text changes 65 Rocket center, once 66 ___ admin 67 “Not doable” 68 Govt. money guarantor 69 Its capital is Sydney: Abbr. 70 “O Sole ___” 71 Just ___ … or “Just ’___” 73 Crones 74 From way back 77 It’s needed for

self-checkout 79 Alternative to broadband 81 Fixed rate 82 Capital north of Cyprus 83 Mat material 84 Not yet out of the closet? 85 Attach a handle to 87 Preceded 89 Give a rude awakening,

say 90 Flexible, electrically 92 Derby features 94 Turn blue, say 95 Do wrong 96 Bubbling up 97 Ruination 98 Leonard Nimoy’s “___ Not

Spock” 100 “Fish Magic” painter 103 Rapper who played

Brother Sam on “Dexter” 105 1996 Olympian noted for performing on an injured ankle 110 Form letters? 111 “No ___” (“Don’t ask me”) 112 Basically 114 Breaks one’s back 116 Boston player, for short 117 Triple Crown winners must lead their league in these 118 Too-good-to-be-true

offer, often 119 Roman tragedy writer 120 Florida’s Sanibel, e.g. 121 Zebra feature 122 They’re run up 123 Like some dough

Down

1 Unhappy king of legend 2 Prefix with -metrics 3 Vegas casino 4 Roseanne’s husband on

“Roseanne” 5 Suit 6 Made de novo 7 Certain baby food 8 So-called “Goddess of

Pop” 9 Samovars 10 It’s part this, part that 11 Whom Shelley wept for 12 “Water Music” composer 13 Fr. title 14 “Watermark” vocalist 15 Really bugging 16 Woolly 17 English royal 18 Covers up 25 Street opening 29 Sports announcer’s scream 31 Lost-parcel inquiries 33 Newspaper section 36 It’s almost nothing 39 Prefix with -porosis 41 Took turns recklessly 42 Things may be written in it 44 Cap’n’s mate 45 Kind of well 47 Piece for nine 49 Hockey area in front of the

crease 51 Seemingly forever 54 Long-running TV show featuring the Hortons and the Bradys 55 Fishing boats 56 South American zoo animal 59 Revolutionary 1960s

Chinese youth 60 Open ___ 64 They’re often behind glass 67 Prompt 68 Apocryphal 69 ABC, for one 70 Wall St. credential 71 Small boat made of

wickerwork 72 “___ / Had ’em” (classic two-line poem about fleas) 73 Quibblers split them 74 The Sun Devils’ sch. 75 Sci-fi or western 76 Result of a bang-up job? 78 One running 80 Beta carotene and others 86 Go out 87 Trick-winning attempt in

bridge 88 ___ beer 90 Dwellings 91 TV announcer who broke the news of John Lennon’s murder 93 Earn hand over fist 96 Firenze friends 99 Rumpled 101 Put up 102 Lamb specialty 104 Unwilling to budge 106 Kick back 107 People conquered by the

Spanish 108 Wound protector 109 Much merriment 113 Heat org. 115 Got ___ (did great)