NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD

DIDN'T WE JUST HAVE THIS? BY WILL NEDIGER Across

1 Poses 5 ____ palm (tropical tree) 9 Drive (around) 13 Composer Bernstein who was unrelated to Leonard 18 Doohickey 20 Home to the Dole Plantation 21 Industry show 22 Late singer Judd 23 Contest with lots of “tied” scores 24 In a fight 25 Body part that humans have that other primates don’t 26 Term to drop in a serious relationship, informally 27 Argument extender [ref. 18-Across] 30 Tiny amounts 31 Terse denial 32 What seat selection on an airplane often comes with 33 Eerily familiar feeling 35 Scottish refusal 36 Focused on the bull’seye 39 State fiction as fact 41 Supervise 45 Slowly makes its way through 47 Fun functions 48 With 87-Across,“i’ve been around the block a few times” [ref. 23-Across] 53 Yoga pose 55 Covering 56 Rock’s C.J. or Dee Dee 57 Currency of Qatar 59 Package in Santa’s sleigh 61 18+, say 62 Danger 65 Sun block 67 Molecular messenger 70 Classic Yogi Berra quote [ref. 33-Across] 74 Whole bunch 75 Fiber made from cellulose 76 Chemical ingredient in flubber 77 Did some secretarial work 78 The last thing a Mississippi cheerleader wants? 79 Land divided at the 38th parallel 81 Former name for the N.B.A.’S Thunder, informally 82 Crib-sheet user 85 Team building 87 See 48-Across 91 Consolidated for easier reading, as a Twitter thread 93 Composer Luigi who pioneered noise music 95 Like some arts 96 Be an agent for 97 Broadway composer Jule 99 Crop that might be insect-resistant, in brief 102 Sleep inducer 104 ____ particle 106 Came next 108 Algonquian people 111 Debut album by Britney Spears [ref. 82-Across] 115 Beginning 116 French pronoun 117 Word implied in “I haven’t the foggiest” 118 Crenshaw or casaba 119 “That makes two of us” 120 One with a nose for gnus? 121 A pan might come with just one 122 Elusive giants 123 Tread + riser 124 Becomes less taut 125 Seemingly forever 126 Instrument for Orpheus

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1 Transport in a Billy Strayhorn standard 2 Showrunner Rhimes 3 ____ pool 4 Sam with 82 P.G.A. Tour wins 5 Lay it on thick 6 Pledge 7 Political unit of ancient Hawaii 8 Highly unconventional 9 Sector for many startups 10 Durable leather 11 Give a take 12 Doughnut similar to an éclair 13 Spice up 14 Canadian observance also called Fête du Travail 15 Not worth arguing about 16 Goldman who crusaded for birth control access 17 Barbecue order 19 “Never ____ Give You Up” (Rick Astley song) 28 Useless 29 Prefix with medicine 34 One whose work goes over your head 37 Web portal with a Bing search bar 38 Ambulance pro 40 Monocle-dropping exclamation 42 Be on the bottom? 43 “____-Tripping”(Nikki Giovanni poem) 44 Sixth of five? 46 Home country of the poet Adonis 47 Mouth-watering? 48 Park way 49 Was given no other option 50 “There’s no other option” 51 Persuaded 52 Starting position, maybe 54 Relish 58 “Goodness me!” 60 Sojourner Truth or Frances Harper 62 It’s illegal for employers to prohibit workers from discussing this 63 Called to mind 64 Talk at length 66 “On the Basis of ____” (2018 legal drama) 67 Swift 68 Goddaughter, often 69 “It therefore follows that ...“71 Sport played on a fronton 72 Lazes around 73 Doc who performs Pap smears 78 Black Lives Matter cofounder 80 Valuable to collectors, say 81 High-minded sort? 82 Depress, with “out” 83 Santa ____ winds 84 Comment with a shiver 86 Marks down, maybe 88 Gave officially 89 Deteriorate 90 Guileful 92 Cholesterol-lowering drug 94 ____ and including 96 Share on Tumblr, say 98 “You can learn from anyone — even your ____”: Ovid 99 “Yep, you got me” 100 Story of one’s life 101 Danish city where Hans Christian Andersen was born 103 ____ al Ghul (on-andoff lover of Batman) 105 Fennel-like flavoring 107 Material for some drums 108 Online forum V.I.P.S 109 Still having a shot at winning 110 “The Thin Man” dog 112 Itches 113 Far from friendly 114 Rest on one’s ____