THE SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Like good whiskey 7 Signed notes 12 They might jump through hoops for you 20 Civil rights activist ____ Helen Burroughs 21 Place for a home pool, maybe 22 Comforting words 23 What Bart Simpson has been since 1989 24 Draw forth 25 One of the Borgias 26 Rap’s Salt-N-____ 27 Bad thing to be behind 29 Shame 30 Wham-O toy introduced in 1961 33 Late actor Bill who played Radio Raheem 34 Some break dancers, informally 35 Diminutive suffix 36 Quickly 37 Entice 38 Bit of fiction 39 See 2-Down 41 Blow away 43 Famous crosser of the 12-Down 48 Brisk rival 49 It’s easy to park 51 Euro pop? 52 Baghdad’s ____ City 53 Highway infraction, for short 54 Zuo Zongtang, a.k.a. General ____ 56 “Vox populi, vox ____” 57 Biblical figure referred to as a“son of the desert” 60 Blue Moon ____, three-time World Series winner for the 1970s A’s 63 Deletions 66 Famous crosser of the 45-Down 68 Ben who played the Wizard in Broadway’s“Wicked” 70 See 62-Down 72 Yes vote 73 Fidgety 74 Separated by a hairbreadth 75 Picked as the one, say 77 Fourth-largest news agency in the world 78 “Rugrats”baby 79 Internet ____ 81 Abbr. seen in some dictionary definitions 83 Little more than 85 Flair 87 Bugged? 91 Beseeches 94 Patron saint of soldiers and athletes 96 Mama baaer 97 Put on 99 “The Tell-Tale Heart” author 100 Pale purple shade 102 Like gymnasts 104 Outside: Prefix 105 Spread by light strokes 108 “Teach” at a college 109 Famous crosser of the 90-Down 111 Airline with famously tight security 112 Summoned from the office, say 114 Tenerife, por ejemplo 115 See 86-Down 117 May 8, 1945 118 As well 120 Displaced 121 Civil rights leader Medgar 122 Fidgety 123 Alms recipients 124 Bullpen setting 125 Coral-reef predators
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1 Grabs before someone else does 2 Famous crosser of the 39-Across 3 Like jumpsuits 4 Ready to be drawn 5 7-up, e.g. 6 Partridge family mother 7 Cassock wearer 8 Was creative 9 Employed 10 ____ truck 11 Earthy color 12 See 43-Across 13 Milk shaker? 14 Letters teachers send to colleges, informally 15 Yossarian’s tent-mate in “Catch-22” 16 Sound from the Road Runner 17 W.W. II beachhead 18 Hoity-____ 19 Wins over 27 Protester’s sign 28 Hunky 31 Commerce pact mentioned in the 2016 presidential debates 32 Surveilled 34 Catcher near the plate? 37 Chivalrous deeds 38 C.E.O. and pres. 40 Puts out 42 Iraq War subj. 44 D.C. nine 45 See 66-Across 46 Jill Stein’s group, with “the” 47 Unauthorized withdrawals? 50 Anarchic action 55 Mantra syllables 57 Gives the runaround 58 In one’s dotage 59 Schoolroom with brushes and paint 61 Olive ____ (Popeye’s gal) 62 Famous crosser of the 70-Across 64 9mm gun 65 Main character on“How I Met Your Mother” 67 Pertaining to bones 69 Goggle at 71 Instant: Abbr. 72 Long Island campus 74 “Pretty please?” 76 Major theme of Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” 80 Something observed in church 82 Something observed in church 84 Write again 86 Famous crosser of the 115-Across 88 Damsel, to a knight 89 Register, as for a class 90 See 109-Across 92 Pepsi Max, e.g. 93 Field for Alfred Kinsey 95 Trinity part 98 Supports the Red Cross, say 101 Should that happen 103 Parent’s definitive “End of argument!” 105 Opening 106 First Hebrew letter 107 Wilkes-____, Pa. 108 Like windows 109 Used hip boots, say 110 One dishing out digs 112 Name 113 “Whip It” band 116 Actress Saldana 118 Certain cat 119 Yoko from Tokyo