Montreal Gazette

THE SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ DOUBLES PLAY, 0726, BY WYNA LIU

ACROSS

1 Ones out of this world, for

short

4 Club setting for scenes in “Goodfellas” and “Raging Bull”

11 Something pressed in an

emergency

19 ____ Lee (dessert brand) 20 Gets better

21 Oppressive dominance 22 *Performers who set the bar high? 24 *Go-getter’s maxim

25 In a way

26 Eves 28 One-named Grammywinn­ing singer 29 Worried exclamatio­n from Astro on “The Jetsons” 30 Writer and film critic James 31 Platinum-selling rapperturn­ed-tv-cop

33 Sr.’s hurdle

36 English cathedral city 37 Brand with a jingle to the “Dragnet” theme 39 *Public health agency’s mission

43 Part of a ventilatio­n system 46 Actress and civil rights activist Ruby ____ 47 Boors 48 *Feature of a Chippendal­es show

51 Fix the colors on, say 54 Boor

55 Special orders on new autos 56 It means well in Italy 57 P.R. event 59 Smooth sailing

60 Gas numbers

63 Bug 66 Stand-up comic Wong 67 *Places for coasters 70 Move in a hurry, quaintly

71 Best horse of the 20th century, per The Associated Press 73 Language spoken on Easter Island

74 Jazz’s Jackson 75 Matriarch’s title, maybe 78 Chats away 79 Large musical combo 80 Spud

82 Palette cleansers between courses

84 *How to screw in a light bulb 86 Common chords

88 “I didn’t need to know that” 89 Tries hard 91 *What keeps up standards in the radio business? 94 Temple cabinets 95 End of many addresses 98 Pioneer of detective fiction

99 Reed in a pit

100 A while back 103 Author/magazine editor Welteroth

105 Singer/activist Horne 107 Half of a record

109 Celebrity ... but just barely 110 *”Holy moly!”

114 *Occasion for hiding in the dark

116 In trouble, metaphoric­ally 117 Genre for the Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair 118 Beat poem allegedly inspired by a peyote vision 119 Carpentry contraptio­n 120 Words of understand­ing 121 Italian diminutive suffix

DOWN

1 Lengthy reprimand, so to speak 2 Lowbrow

3 Taste 4 “Ouch!”

5 Half of some matching sets 6 Put away

7 Hold tightly 8 National Medal of Arts winner Davis 9 Played miniature golf 10 Altar place

11 Snap 12 Inverse trig function 13 Choking-hazard label 14 How TV shows may be shown

15 Some Montanans 16 Plant part

17 ____ king 18 Spanish chess piece 19 Put away for later 23 Expert advice 27 Evaluate, as an opponent 30 Phoenix sch.

32 Like polka

33 What sheep participat­e in 34 Plant part 35 Alternativ­ely 38 Summer hrs. in Colorado 40 Words of commitment 41 Pyle’s portrayer on “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” 42 Pang

43 Love, in Lyon 44 Defeat soundly 45 Couple of fins 48 Head of ____ 49 Happy refrain 50 National economic prosperity, metaphoric­ally 52 Adolescent 53 “What’s up?” in textspeak 56 A.C. measure

58 First man, in Maori mythology 60 Oil-rich nation that’s not in OPEC

61 Sour milk product 62 Cathedral in N.Y.C. 64 “Revelation­s” choreograp­her 65 Small, in a way 67 Oscars, e.g.

68 Blue Ribbon brand 69 It’s found in a key: Abbr. 72 Mountain nymph of Greek myth

74 Comfy shoes, for short 76 Writing on many a license plate 77 Opposing forces in Risk 79 Preventing spills, say

80 Sporty option

81 Folk singer Guthrie 83 H.S. class 84 Monopoly token 85 Have a serious crush on, informally

87 Less expressive 90 Issa of “Insecure” 92 Puts down

93 Little bump 95 Ancestor of the modern lemon and lime 96 Ring combo

97 She played “the devil” Miranda in “The Devil Wears Prada”

101 “Dagnabbit!” 102 Kind of pants 104 Japanese beer brand 105 Partially landlocked bay 106 Drachma replacemen­t 108 “My word!”

109 Five of these are needed to play Yahtzee 110 Astronaut Grissom 111 Transcript fig. 112 Topic discussed by the bar

113 Barely manage, with “out” 115 Children’s author Asquith

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