THE SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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