NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Mustard variety 5 Go beyond 9 Tired 14 Upper-tier academics 18 Rescue mission, briefly 19 Get off the highway 20 In current times 21 Put in an appearance 22 Comic strip about the
Patterson family 25 Food in the Bible 26 Caspian Sea feeder 27 Des ___, Iowa 28 Repudiates 29 Checkpoint needs 31 Periodic payments 32 Star 33 Like birds of prey 34 Coffee containers 35 Give one’s address? 37 Baseball card stat 40 SeaWorld performers 41 Mortarboard tosser 42 “Really useful engine” of
children’s books 43 Wilson of Hollywood 44 “What nonsense!” 45 #1 on the American Film Institute’s “Greatest Movie Musicals” list 47 Tech media Web site
founded in 1994 48 John at a piano 49 Basis of some ticket
discounts 50 Patient mover 51 Computer user’s shortcut 52 Viewed with contempt 54 What’s expected 55 Confers 56 Sentence unit 57 Like nougat 59 Toot one’s own horn 60 Where Arab Bank is
headquartered 62 [Gone … instantly!] 63 Home of Hannibal 67 Be relevant to 68 Withdraw 70 Over the hill 71 Former Indiana senator
Bayh 72 Gas in a vacuum tube 73 German-born Emmy
winner of 1960s TV 75 Not just a tiff 76 Untrustworthy sort 77 Breaking developments? 78 “Regrets” and others 79 “Exactly right!” 80 Wrangler rival 81 Went (for) 82 Gulf war missile 83 Company of two? 84 Makes a go of it 86 Really impresses 87 Palmed off 88 Hold the fort, say 90 Holders of addl. thoughts 92 Existential anxiety 93 Welcome sight after a flood 94 Various things 99 Tweeters 100 Unalaska native 101 Beam from one end to the
other 102 Patriarch who lived 950
years 103 Horrorful 104 Tired 105 Sideways 106 French or Italian bread
Down
1 Cool, in hip-hop slang 2 English war poet Gurney 3 Hardly a slow poke 4 1942 Cary Grant comedy 5 Besieger’s bomb 6 Rink jumps 7 “Dear” one 8 What a gutter may lead to 9 Made-up alibis 10 Stops on a whistle-stop
tour 11 Love 12 Subject of many a Burns
ballad 13 Size up 14 Something to grow out of 15 Elocution phrase 16 Musical duo Brooks & ___ 17 They have springs 21 All ___ 23 Fruit growers 24 Setting up 28 Hold for questioning 29 Early release 30 One of the authors in the
game Authors 32 Procter & Gamble soap 33 Drank to excess 34 Pressed 35 Award won by Alice Munro
and Stephen King 36 Pulitzer-winning composer
Ned 38 Some drafts 39 Krakauer’s “___ the Wild” 41 Zesty staple of Asian
cuisine 42 Martial-arts move 45 Old Nick 46 Melodious 47 Initiates a conflict 51 Entree, often 53 Playwright O’Casey 55 Line on a map 57 Recoiled fearfully 58 Catchy parts of pop songs 59 Farm machines 60 Hard-to-reach nest 61 Classic name in crossword
puzzles 62 Puerto Rican port 63 Got through difficulties 64 Get retribution for 65 Guesstimated 66 Ewoks’ home in “Star
Wars” 67 Socialite’s party 68 Green ___ 69 Like some stores of years
gone by 73 Erased, as a tape 74 Eggplant casserole 77 Lifts a finger? 79 Soft shade 82 Betraying nervousness, in
a way 83 How utility bills are usually
paid 85 Set preceder? 86 1981 comedy or its 2011
remake 87 Volume control on a
soundboard 88 Small dollops 89 “Spamalot” writer Idle 90 Untidy stack 91 Out of port 94 Détente 95 State-of-the-art 96 Biblical pronoun 97 Shucked item 98 Density symbol, in physics