THE SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Government policy
chief
5 Assented
12 Not empirical
19 Not natural-looking 21 Sometimes hard-to-find shirt opening 22 Drunkard 23 Onetime co-host of “The View,” informally 24 Contest once hosted by Bob Barker
25 Makes reference (to) 26 Catastrophic event that can be caused by a gigantic earthquake 28 “Fer sher”
29 Folds, as a business 30 Headed for
34 Abbr. on mil. mail 36 French painter of ballerinas 40 Injunction
42 How Hercule Poirot likes to address Hastings 43 Money in Malmö 45 Headstone inits. 46 Stag
48 Ones in rocking chairs, stereotypically 50 Smartphone feature 53 Cherry variety
54 Start to many bumper stickers 55 Response to pointing out a resemblance between two people 56 Hollywood labor groups 59 See 71-Down
60 Plant stalk
62 Crank (up) 63 Chipotle choice 65 Nitwit
66 180s
67 2015 hit spinoff of “Despicable Me” 68 How someone in awe might describe himself 70 Pretty cool, in slang 73 One of the Big Four accounting firms 74 Deft touch 75 Place-holder letters 78 Better now
80 Trivia fodder
81 All ____
83 Rough shelter 84 Hannah who coined the phrase “the banality of evil”
86 Largest city in the Baltics
87 Planets like ours, in sci-fi
88 Hue lighter than lime 91 Per ____ (yearly) 92 Vintage-film channel 93 Goody
95 Like St. Augustine, among all U.S. cities 97 College, to a Brit 98 Amérique
101 Immigrants’ class, for
short
102 Only words on the front of the Great Seal of the United States
104 Really fresh
106 Its hub at J.F.K. was designed by Eero Saarinen
108 Hubbub
110 Artistic, chatty sorts, it’s
said
113 Draft
117 Testify
119 “I got the check”
120 Ancient, undeciphered
writing system
121 Towel fabric
122 Relatives of asters 123 Tony who won a Tony for
“Angels in America” 124 “It’s a deal!”
DOWN
1 E.M.T.’s training 2 Speed along 3 Print ad come-on 4 Sit on the throne 5 International conglomerate whose name means “three stars” 6 Cable-news host Melber 7 Gchats, e.g.
8 Some A.L. players 9 Response to a surprising claim
10 “That’s something ____!” 11 Voyager 12 Medieval Spanish kingdom
13 Sport last played in the Olympics in 1936 14 Was awesome 15 Occupied
16 Funny 17 Riddle-me-____ 18 Qtrly. check recipient, maybe
20 “Stars above!” 27 “____ soon?” 31 Smear
32 Writing in a window? 33 Paranoid sorts, in slang 35 Pushes back 37 “Mamma Mia!” setting 38 In a light manner 39 Outbreaks 40 Anthropomorphic king of Celesteville
41 “Still ____” (Julianne Moore film)
43 Rios, e.g. 44 Decisive assessment 47 Intl. Rescue Committee, e.g.
49 R.&B. singer with the hits “So Sick” and “Mad” 51 Tempe sch.
52 Things in restaurant windows
57 Sac-fly result 58 Outlay that cannot be recovered
59 Some corsage wearers 61 Grand Lodge group 64 Ready ... or red, maybe 65 “Let’s keep this between us”
67 Wasn’t kidding about 68 Stunt at the end of a powerful performance 69 Informal assent
70 Go back on one’s word? 71 With 59-Across, some works of Tennessee Williams
72 Big ____ (the drug industry)
74 Biter
75 Moment of liftoff 76 Dangerous toy 77 “Same here”
79 Legal vowelless Scrabble play 80 Herculean act
82 Bit of art pottery 85 Preface to a heart-toheart conversation 89 End of a George Washington address? 90 Safer alternative to paintball
91 If you’re lucky 94 Candy brand owned by Hershey
96 Word before and after “no” 99 Salt-N-Pepa and Ben Folds Five
100 Branch of Islam 102 Rakes in
103 Not taken seriously? 105 Tiniest change
107 Popular gaming console that sounds like two pronouns
109 It’s a long story
110 “Keep movin’!”
111 Info for a chauffeur,
perhaps
112 Yahoo alternative
114 “Yuck!”
115 Grp. of connected computers
116 1/100 of a 43-Across 118 Manhattan part ... or a suburb near Manhattan Answers will appear next week