THE SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

FIRST LADIES, 0205, BY SAM TRABUCCO Across

1 16-ounce container 6 Material commonly used during cathedral construction 14 Primitive timer 19 Pinnacles 20 Sidney Poitier’s 1980 autobiography 21 Moretz of “Carrie” 22 Performs, biblically 23 When soap operas first flourished 24 They’re measured by pluvio-meters 25 Geneticist’s study 26 Rage 28 Sheena who sang “U Got the Look” with Prince 29 “No worries” 30 It helps you achieve balance 33 Highlighter shades 34 %: Abbr. 35 Reply to “No offense” 37 Aid after a computer crash, say 40 Get 41 Mark 44 Mosaic pieces 46 Question after a photo finish 47 “How’s it hangin’?” 48 Click “Going” on a Facebook event, e.g. 49 2013 best seller by Sheryl Sandberg 53 Pennsylvania vacation locale, with “the” 56 Pokey’s pal on TV 57 Spanish she-bear 60 Running a bit behind 61 Part of a stock exchange? 64 Overcome a certain career barrier ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? 68 Heavy weight 69 “Same with me” 70 Move hastily 71 Also-ran in 2000 72 Gray squirrel, in slang 74 Send elsewhere for the night, as a roommate, in modern lingo 75 Easy-to-carry telescope 79 Cubs’ home 80 Less safe for a plane landing, in a way 84 Change from blackand-white 86 Classical musician with a Presidential Medal of Freedom 87 Pub vessel 91 Permeates 92 Behind 94 Fix, as an election 95 Cab destination? 100 Geometric toy whose sides change depending on how it’s folded 101 Drop a bit 103 Arthurian princess 105 Poetic preposition 106 Scrape (out) 107 Go online 108 Remove fat from, as a

soup 110 Caramel candies from

Hershey 112 Opposite of standing 113 Getting ready to swing 114 Lake catch 115 White who is the oldest person ever to host “S.N.L.” 116 Participate in deciding 117 Took care of

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1 Superfluous part of an essay 2 *One who 64-Acrossed for Supreme Court justices ... 3 Emphatic refusal 4 After deductions 5 Gift-shop item 6 Hurriedly showed oneself out? 7 “J to ____ L-O!” (Jennifer Lopez album) 8 *... for astronauts 9 Like over four billion people 10 “Victory is yours” 11 Mexican president Enrique Peña ____ 12 Zac of “Neighbors” 13 Professors answer to them 14 Reading material for a Hollywood agent 15 *... for British prime ministers 16 Most-wanted invitees 17 Texting while driving, e.g. 18 Anchor’s place 27 Enter, as data 31 Cousin of “OMG!” 32 Guido who painted “Massacre of the Innocents” 36 Today 37 “Hmm, guess so” 38 Loo, for short 39 ____ rally 42 What boats shouldn’t do 43 ____ Gay (W.W. II plane) 44 Best Foreign Film of 2005, set in South Africa 45 Kennedy who was the mother of Maria Shriver 46 Aid for the handy, informally 49 Letters of “pride” 50 Alternative to a pound 51 Emphatic agreement 52 Org. with a travel ban? 54 Bills, e.g. 55 Hit record? 57 “Yi-i-ikes!” 58 Pacific 59 Ending with teen 61 Certain conservative skirt 62 Hillary Clinton in 1969 or Bill Clinton in 1970 63 Monster 65 Fictional spacecraft created by the Time Lords 66 Like lettuce 67 West Coast air hub 73 Overly 74 Two-____ (smallish car) 75 ____-fi 76 Yapping dog, for short 77 *... for secretaries of state 78 “Don’t be so dumb!” 81 Rip off, informally 82 Clown (around) 83 [Yawn] 85 Rule by governing board 87 Altar constellation 88 *... for Best Directors 89 Ranger’s station 90 Che Guevara’s real first name 93 Puts forward, as effort 95 Factor in area calculation 96 “____ little silhouetto of a man” (Queen lyric) 97 Desert NE of the Sinai Peninsula 98 *... for Nobel laureates 99 1941 chart-topper “Maria ____” 101 Slice for a hearty

appetite 102 Miner’s strike 104 Catches off base 109 Apologia pro vita ____ 111 60 minuti

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