new York Times sundaY crossword
Across 1 English guy 5 Partner in indecision with 5-Down 8 Alternative to pavement 14 What leads many people to say, “Let’s face it”?
19 Spanish greeting 20 G.I.’s address 21 California’s motto 22 Like a truck descending a steep hill
23 Sources of Manchego cheese 24 How polka bands get their start? 27 Org. with an annual Help a Horse Day 29 Big suit 30 Harvard University Press’s ____ Classical Library 31 Hundredths: Abbr. 32 Pontiff’s gold treasure? 37 Performed creditably 39 Word with store or sign
40 Value
43 Like powwows 46 Register things 48 Star bursts 49 Summer hat 50 Enthrones 53 Query about the Freedom Caucus or Berniecrats? 56 Noted beautycontest loser 57 Most remote of the Near Islands 59 Irish port, county or bay 60 “Shame!” 61 Sushi eel 63 Improvised 67 Some refuges 69 Figure in Jewish folklore 70 Like some factories ... or, in a different sense, like 90-, 109- and 119-Across (but not 24-, 32- and 53-Across)? 73 Potentially unhelpful answer to “Who’s there?”
77 Speed
79 The 21st Amendment, e.g. 80 Biblical spy 81 Wonder
84 Dutch cheese 87 Pas sans 89 Awestruck 90 Nickname for a hard-to-please girl? 95 Room to maneuver 97 Certifiable, so to speak 98 Bygone office position 99 Unctuousness 101 White part of pearly
whites
102 Offshore sight,
maybe
104 Vexes
107 Arabic name that sounds like a polite affirmative
109 Data maintained by competitive dentists?
112 Envelope abbr. 114 That’s right!
117 Italian article
118 Intentionally lost 119 Speakers’ searches for just the right words?
125 Halliburton of the Halliburton Company
126 Buckwheat cereal 127 Restroom sign 128 Antidiscriminatory
abbr.
129 Iago or Othello 130 It notably has two
bridges
131 Bleachers 132“x”in5x=x2÷2 133 Tit for tat? Down 1 Shoddy
2 “Alas!”
3 War-torn Syrian city 4 Philosophical argument for belief in God 5 Partner in indecision with 5-Across 6 Connoisseur of food and drink
7 One might be found near a cloverleaf 8 Modern prefix with tag
9 Series
10 Word with you but not me
11 Main ingredient in Wiener schnitzel 12 Kitchenware brand 13 Like corsets 14 Russian “peace” 15 Terminus 16 Online enticement 17 Codger 18 Botanical bristles 25 Evidence left by a moth
26 Dead reckoning? 28 ____ Alcorn, creator of Pong
33 Wood for a raft 34 “And who ____?” 35 Texter’s transition 36 St. Petersburg’s river
38 Unduly harsh 41 Has a 42-Down 42 See 41-Down 44 ____ Lee, singer with the 2011 No. 1 album “Mission Bell”
45 All limbs
47 Audit a class, say 50 Move slowly (along)
51 City near the Sierras 52 What comes before “B”? 54 Islamic mystic 55 Tinker (with) 58 Align 62 Doesn’t really see 64 Gift-tag word 65 Lansing-to-Flint dir. 66 Brief swim 68 Protective sorts in showbiz 71 Fervor
72 Some runoff sites 74 BBQ side 75 What can go before watt 76 Rare success story from the dot-com bubble
78 More pulchritudinous 81 Beau’s girl 82 ____-Dixie (grocery chain) 83 It’s not as simple as a), b), c)
85 “Go ahead!” 86 Italian wine city 88 Trolley sound 91 Bee, e.g. 92 Introvert’s focus 93 Cross inscription 94 Seethe
96 Max at the MoMA 100 Sea cow
103 Need for a model 105 Flowering herb also known as devil’s nettle
106 Woman’s name that
means “star” 108 Banisters
110 Not loose, as a
diamond 111 4-0 series, say
112 Some refuges 113 Like panang curry 115 “Git!”
116 “I did it!”
120 It fits in a lock 121 Architect Maya 122 Mathematician’s
116-Down
123 Inits. before many
state names 124 Jesus Christ, with
“the”