THE SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
FINAL OFFER, 0920, BY MARYELLEN UTHLAUT
Across
1 Curse
5 Unit of current
8 Developer of 1982’s E.T., a video game so bad that hundreds of thousands of unsold cartridges were secretly buried in a New Mexico landfill
13 Stealing attempts on the diamond?
19 Look extremely stylish, slangily
20 ____ People’s Democratic Republic
21 Classic actress Sophia
22 Lacking freshness
23 Always glad to be seated in the back of the boat?
26 Printed cotton fabric
27 Think of together
28 Perfectly placed “Batman” punch?
30 Behind the line of scrimmage
32 Pried, with “in”
33 Look ahead
36 Unfilled spaces
40 Part of New York City’s Museum Mile, with “the” 43 Charlatans
46 “Catch you later!”
47 Buddhist temple structure
50 Penny going through the wash once again?
53 Subject of Walter Lord’s “A Night to Remember”
54 Epson product
55 Facebook profile feature
56 Soup served at the church social?
58 Persuade by force
61 Sheep’s kin
63 Commencement
64 Church officer
65 Grape-nuts maker
66 Ark groupings
68 Feudal workers
72 In a lively manner
74 What a pointless meeting probably should have been handled by
76 California in San Francisco, e.g.
77 Afternoon gatherings of Mensa?
81 Force at sea
83 Monk’s title
84 Withdrew
85 Having no feeling in one’s texting hand?
89 Assumed name
90 One of the so-called “Three Crowns of Florence,” along with Petrarch and Boccaccio
91 Source of the idioms “fat of the land” and “fire and brimstone”
92 As we speak
93 Small anatomical opening, as in a bone
96 These can go for a lot of bucks
97 Check for mistakes
100 Party tray meat
103 Ad for heartburn medication?
109 Puts forward
114 State you’ll never get to
115 “Quit your snickering, Damon!”?
117 Hitting the floppy disk icon, say
118 Islamic rulers
119 Hill resident
120 Soup pod
121 Dangerous fly
122 Dividing membranes
123 ____ flour
124 “No man hath ____ God …”
Down
1 Labor-regulating org.
2 “Such a pity!”
3 Bugs
4 Doc’s needle
5 Without reserve
6 Yucatán natives
7 Fancifully worded
8 Drink rarely drunk with a straw
9 ____ Bora, area of Afghanistan
10 ____ American Heritage Month (April)
11 Foul rulers
12 Says without feeling
13 Start of a magician’s phrase
14 Send over the moon
15 Waited at a red light, say
16 Fedex, maybe
17 Order by the border
18 “Please ____ your tray tables” (plane request)
24 World-renowned
25 Sanskrit scripture
29 Part of many California place names
31 Get out of Dodge, so to speak
33 Caustic compound
34 Needing a passcode, maybe
35 Even one
37 Latin clarifier
38 Easy-to-bend metal
39 Greek vowel
40 Lead-in to rail
41 Computer menu with Undo and Redo
42 Dash gauge
43 Word with freeze or fixing
44 Choice word
45 “Don’t just ____ there!”
47 Digital passcodes
48 Viewed optimistically
49 ____ snake
51 Japanese city where Lexus is headquartered
52 Classic muscle cars
53 Cards with the most pips
57 Bread
59 Map section
60 Irascible
62 Some Hollywood
up-and-comers
65 Responded in court
67 Cowardly sort
69 Turn down
70 Units of distance in physics
71 Sticks a fork in
73 Piece of news
75 Drinks usually drunk with straws
76 Compos mentis
77 Stark who was crowned king in the “game of Thrones” finale
78 Eight-year member of Clinton’s cabinet
79 State
80 Glance at, as headlines
82 Animal for which the
Canary Islands are named
86 Opposite of WSW
87 -s or -ed
88 Modern prefix 90 Practices lexicography
93 One vain about his looks
94 “You ____?”
95 Greetings to some mainlanders
97 Ground-dwelling songbird 98 Bit attachments
99 Old enough
101 Kind of acid
102 Like most mouthwashes
103 Brownish shade
104 Greek vowels
105 Classic pop-art sculpture
with a slanted “O”
106 “Personally …”
107 Cut out
108 Male deer
110 Singer/songwriter Lee
111 Appropriate
112 “Suis” is part of its
conjugation
113 Comic book publisher Lee
116 Where to find MA and PA
Answers will appear next week