NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD

111-ACROSS! BY GRANT THACKRAY

Across

1 Poor-weather driving

aid

7 Pale-faced

11 Texting format, for

short

14 Indonesian island 18 Possible weapon in a

bar fight

19 Resting place for a

polar bear

20 “I totally crushed that!”

22 It’s actually made of 55-Down 24 Companion of Jason 25 Wood that makes up the foundation of much of Venice 26 Clomped (on) 27 Basil who designed England’s Coventry Cathedral

28 Level

29 “____ All That” (1999 rom-com)

30 Who 93-Down was all along 35 Product of Boston or Chicago

36 Part of a KFC order 37 Enthusiastic assent in Madrid 38 Cambodia’s Lon ____ 39 What flows in une rivière 40 The “E” of Q.E.D. 42 Boat with a very fine net 44 “Phooey!”

45 It turns out to be 99Down 49 Beefcake’s pride 50 Fresh

51 House call?

52 Up to this point 53 Bad luck, old-style 56 Joke, slangily 57 Metal band around a pencil eraser 61 Peeping aid 63 Fashion

66 It really is an 8-Down 69 Has pegged, say 70 Disappointment for someone looking for a parking spot 72 Record-holder for the most times hosting the Academy Awards 74 Limit

75 Studio sign

76 Ga. neighbor 79 Indonesia’s ____ Islands 80 Nothing, in Latin 82 Having a spare tire, maybe

83 What 11-Down does, shockingly 88 Computer-controlled players, in gaming lingo

90 Relating to the sun 91 Tolkien’s trilogy, for short

92 Cut

93 U.S. broadcaster overseas

94 ____ row

95 The end: Fr.

96 “Dies ____”

100 To whom the title “45Down” was referring the whole time 103 Big name in

headphones

104 Hindu god of

destruction

105 Trims

106 Kids’ character who says, “A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside” 107 Annual meal

108 Learned inside and

out

111 Warning for solvers of

this puzzle

114 Source of one’s sense

of balance

115 Many resting places 116 Plant that’s the source of a caffeinefree tea 117 One way to sit by 118 Squeeze (out) 119 Figure in statistics 120 Altercation

Down

1 “Gangsta’s Paradise” rapper 2 Tomboy 3 Subjects of some food-package warnings

4 Cake finisher 5 Extra in “The Sound of Music”

6 Make it clear how things are going to go 7 Natural dos

8 See 66-Across 9 Ground breaker 10 Itch

11 See 83-Across 12 Muddles 13 Accept, as a package 14 “The Devil and Daniel Webster” author 15 Nabokov novel 16 Lucy of “Charlie’s Angels” 17 TV “Cousin”

18 Jrs. take them 21 Good person to ask for directions 23 Actor Kinnear

27 Not covering much 29 Picket, e.g. 30 Pre-euro money 31 Govt. cultural org. until 1999

32 Big cheese 33 Suffix with Jacob 34 Throw on the floor? 37 Sound in the stacks 41 “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” protagonist 42 Lead-in to foam 43 Oh follower 44 “Tiny Bubbles” singer 45 See 100-Across 46 Hill of R&B 47 Inquired about 48 Jamie of “M*A*S*H” 49 Falls for 54 Brightest star in Aquila

55 See 22-Across 57 Swamp

58 Kind of port 59 Regulus’s constellation 60 Draw back 62 Slapstick prop 64 Puccini pieces 65 Stolen item in “Alice in Wonderland” 67 Moving aid 68 State quarters? 71 Rest

73 Penguin and others 77 Lead-in to Jon or Wayne 78 Exclusive groups 80 Nothing but ____ 81 Player of Nelson Mandela in “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” 84 Interest for a limnologist 85 Some core classes: Abbr. 86 Treehouse builder, maybe 87 Unattended 88 Exclusion

89 Big name in kitchen utensils 90 Center of a roast 93 See 30-Across 95 Jester 97 Cause a wedgie 98 Opposed

99 See 45-Across 101 Bucko 102 Major John ____, Benedict Arnold’s co-conspirator 103 Western capital 106 Koi’s habitat

107 Baghdad’s ____ City 108 Early millennium

year

109 Not to mention 110 Show with a “cold open,” for short 111 Excel command 112 For

113 Remote button