NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD
TAKE TWO BY CELESTE WATTS AND JEFF CHEN
Across 1 After the fact, as a
justification
8 Co-star of “The
Golden Girls”
17 Knock over, so to
speak
20 Quaker fare
21 Go poof
22 Drop the ball 23 ILLUS__RA__ORS 25 What a third wheel
might see, in brief 26 Setting for most of
“Life of Pi”
27 Tests the weight of 28 One of the Greats? 30 Oscars of the sporting
world
33 Good sign for an angel
34 Intl. org. headquartered in Geneva
37 Some bad sentences 39 ACC__L__RATOR 44 Grapple, in dialect 47 Exercise too much,
say
48 A as in Arles 49 LUXUR__ __ACHT 54 “____ Agnus Dei” (Mass phrase)
55 Peak in Turkey mentioned in both the “Iliad” and the “Aeneid”
56 Runner Sebastian who once held the world record for the mile
57 What you might get from a trailer
59 Sport played at British boarding schools 60 Post production? 64 ____ mater, membrane surrounding the brain 65 Popular 90-min. show 66 ENDANGER__EN__ 70 Man’s name that coincidentally is Latin for“honey”
73 Word with small or fish
74 Weak
75 What may result in a handshake
76 Help to one’s destination
82 The Blue Jays, on scoreboards 83 Comeback to a challenge of authority 84 Bitter
85 CONFIG__ __ATION 90 Actor Somerhalder 91 Most in the style of comedian Steven Wright
92 Unfocused
93 POI__T OF __IEW
100 Go all out
101 French fashion inits. 102 “Kinda sorta”
103 Pan-cook, in a way
107 Supermodel
Bündchen
109 Pepé ____ (cartoon
skunk)
111 Drop off
112 Admit (to)
113 __OTIC__
120 Hit the weed?
121 Have guests over
122 Guest,e.g.
123 Place full of guests 124 Start of a seasonal
request
125 Some kitchen utensils Down 1 Entourage
2 Hall’s partner in pop 3 Part of a thong
4 “OK, you can stop the story right there” 5 Old-fashioned“cool” 6 One might speak under it
7 Co-star of Kline in“a Fish Called Wanda” 8 Start of a compilation heading
9 Times for some vigils 10 Letters on many towers
11 Busy mo. for C.P.A.S 12 Go bad
13 Three-sport event, for short
14 A chest often has a large one
15 States
16 Recharge
17 Photocopy, e.g.
18 It’s the law!
19 Item said to have been burned in protest, once
24 Musical prefix with beat
29 Memphis-tonashville dir. 31 Emphatic assent 32 Lively dance genre 34 Hone
35 Contract details 36 Beehive State city 38 Aerodynamic 40 Bishop’s jurisdiction 41 Antagonist 42 Hotel-room staples 43 Top-notch
44 Booties
45 Playwright Chekhov 46 Garbage
50 Drink similar to a slushie
51 About 460 inches of rain per year, on Kauai’s Mt. Waialeale 52 HBO satire starring Julia Louis-dreyfus 53 ____ bar
54 Org. that takes the lead on lead?
58 Baby fox
60 How a flirt may act 61 Football stat: Abbr. 62 NAOH
63 Radio broadcaster: Abbr.
66 Legislation that was part of F.D.R.’S New Deal
67 Ethnic group of Rwanda and Burundi 68 Two, for four
69 Coin with 12 stars
70 “Zoom-zoom” sloganeer
71 Hollywood composer Bernstein with 14 Oscar nominations 72 Guarded
73 Like pets and parking meters
75 ____ Slam (tennis feat)
76 Julius Caesar’s first name
77 Words of hopelessness
78 Mature naturally, in a way
79 ____ Writers’ Workshop
80 Electronic
Hasbro toy
81 One side of the coin
83 Arias, typically 86 Scottish folk dance 87 Alternative explanation for a lucky guess, in brief
88 Ear: Prefix
89 Letters on some badges 94 “Stillmatic”rapper 95 Seen
96 Kind of skate 97 Brown shade 98 Kids’observation game
99 Hit musical with an “Emerald City Sequence”
104 Yoke
105 HP product 106 Narrowly beats (out) 108 Singer James
109 Drink for un bébé
110 A full moon will do this
112 Life force, in China 114 ____ Majesty
115 Hosp. areas
116 The Jazz, on scoreboards
117 Brown shade
118 Things for happy campers?
119 Picky person’s pick?