THE SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

SUPER LOOPER, 0917, BY MARK MACLACHLAN

Across 1 Naval engagements 8 Setting a world record, e.g. 12 “The Hallucinogenic

Toreador” artist 16 Evidence in an arson

investigation 19 “No point arguing with me!” 20 Some rounds 21 “The only beauty that never

fades,” per Audrey Hepburn 23 Fancy French shellfish dish 25 Beer parlor 26 “Then again ...,” in a tweet 27 Collection of Hindu aphorisms 28 Palindromic bird 30 It’s got you covered 31 Tennis’s Novak Djokovic, by birth 32 Rex Tillerson’s alma mater, for short 34 Proteins responsible for mad-cow disease 35 Special ____ 37 It’s got you covered 39 Carved emblem 41 Keys for Keys? 44 German pronoun 46 South American plains 48 Tikkanen who won five Stanley Cups 49 All together, as a family 51 Classroom item 54 Schoolboy 55 More chichi 57 Get a bite? 58 Team finale? 60 Hot spot, both literally and figuratively 63 Roman philosopher who wrote, “All cruelty springs from weakness” 67 Buenos ____ 69 Central Park’s Summer-Stage, e.g. 73 At the limit, with “out” 74 Save from disaster 76 The same as 78 “Homer and ____ Exchange Cross Words” (2008 episode of “The Simpsons”) 79 Music genre for Weezer or the Shins 83 Catch like Spider-Man 85 Child’s seat, maybe 86 Tech overseer 91 Reason to stop reading 93 Stranded cellular stuff 94 ____ plane 95 Addis Ababa’s country: Abbr. 96 Claim deposits 97 “I rock!” 100 Group with Gladys Knight 102 Mahmoud Abbas’s grp. 103 Quarter deck? 105 Tiny conductor of heat or electricity 108 Email best not replied to 112 Mulled-wine ingredient 113 Extra periods at TD Garden 114 Mythical beast with goatlike features 115 Jazzy Fitzgerald 116 Premise of the film “Freaky Friday” 118 Some positives and negatives 121 Welcoming diners at midnight, say 122 Singer India.____ 123 Adds water to 124 Director Anderson 125 Surveys 126 “Darn it!” 127 A good place to start

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1 Grain containers 2 Theatricalize 3 National ____ Day (last Friday in April) 4 Football formation 5 007, for one: Abbr. 6 ____ monkey 7 Cocky walk 8 Copyright concern 9 Symbol for a break 10 ____, amas, amat 11 Taquito wrap 12 What may grow with interest 13 Barley wine, e.g. 14 Burton of “Reading Rainbow” 15 “Totally understood” 16 Blessed 17 Frequent director of De Niro 18 Pigment in red blood cells 22 “Star Wars” droid 24 Letters on N.Y.C. trains 29 Together 33 Swiss folk hero with a crossbow 34 Dig for answers 36 After-dinner drink 38 Speed skater Karin who won eight Olympic medals 40 Scratch 41 Celestial object that emits radio waves 42 Drawn 43 Poisonous snakes 44 Anthropomorphic hedgehog of gamedom 45 “Don’t mind ____!” 47 Elbow-benders 50 ____-pah-pah 51 Pair 52 “Excuse me” 53 Kidney-related 56 Dark time, in poesy 59 Wrap-up 61 1,1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 ..., e.g.: Abbr. 62 Less mendacious 64 Like the Dalai Lama 65 One of the Borgias 66 Evolves 68 The Philippines’ ____ Sea 70 Author Rankin 71 1428 ____ (horror film address): Abbr. 72 The N.B.A.’s Curry, informally 75 Singer James 77 Baja bear 80 Vermin 81 Straight: Prefix 82 Signer of many a permission form 84 Congress, with “the” 86 ____ wolf 87 Not level 88 Old outdoor dance sights 89 Place to try patatas bravas 90 Actress Lena 92 “Relax!” 95 Trusts and ____ (law school class) 98 Authority 99 Gertrude who swam the English Channel in 1926 101 Brand of note? 102 Teen driver’s acquisition 104 The New Yorker piece 106 Western tribe 107 “Turn! Turn! Turn!” band, with “the” 109 One-named philosopher 110 Paul ____, Microsoft co-founder 111 En ____ (as a group) 112 Boast 113 Bullfight chorus 117 Homophone for the atomic number of oxygen 119 Altar constellation 120 St. Pierre, par exemple

Answers will appear next week