THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Polite response to “Thank you” 9 Classic verse that begins “Ah, broken is the golden bowl!” 15 Kafka or Liszt 20 Written justification 21 Part of a doubleheader 22 Esther of “Good Times” 23 Tennis clinic focusing on drop shot skills? 25 More competent 26 Haunted house sound 27 “It’s a Wonderful Life” cabdriver 28 Meter reader? 30 Architect Saarinen 31 “Don’t get all worked up!” 32 Young actor Smith 33 Cutter 34 Churchill, e.g. 36 Pigs 38 Coaches who help you use your wrist in shots? 42 Ed.’s pile 45 Spiny ___ 46 Fleece 48 Chooses not to participate 49 Tennis players who clown around? 52 “One can only ___ much” 53 BlackBerry, e.g., in brief 54 Having freedom of tempo 55 Illumination unit 56 Year that “Shrek” and “A Beautiful Mind” came out 58 Putter (along) 60 “The fix ___” 61 “Haven’t the foggiest” 64 Photo developing compound 67 “For a righty, you hit the ball pretty well on your left side,” and others? 73 Allay 74 Destroy 75 In ___ form 76 Source of the line “They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind” 79 Part of R.R.: Abbr. 81 “___ in cat” 82 You might set one out for a cat 84 Due follower 85 Part of R.S.V.P. 88 Line judge’s mission? 91 Commercial law firm specialty 93 Canadian natives 94 Mastery 95 “Alexander’s Feast,” e.g. 96 “Nothing” and “aught”? 98 Part of R.S.V.P. 100 Captain Hook’s alma
mater 101 Ready follower? 102 Bit of voodoo 104 Tech release of
2010 108 Mex. miss 110 Of two minds 112 Author of a 1719
literary sensation 113 Transamerica
Pyramid feature 114 Planchette holder 116 Luke Skywalker’s
volley? 119 Hit single-player
game of the 1980s 120 Goes over the top,
in a way 121 Does again 122 It falls between 3760 and 3761 on the Jewish calendar 123 Housekeeping 124 Broad-minded DOWN 1 Vice president John ___ Garner 2 Setting for a 1935 Marx Brothers comedy 3 Public radio offerings 4 Ever 5 Swiped 6 Cabinet dept. 7 Pleasant 8 Scottish landowners 9 Modern kind of name 10 Lightish blade 11 Home of the Shoshone Mtns. 12 It’s higher than an ace 13 Celebrity 14 Art Deco master 15 Monk’s title 16 Barbie’s last name 17 Mistakenly hitting into the doubles area during a singles match? 18 Pirate, e.g., for short 19 One goes after it 24 Biloxi-toBirmingham dir. 29 Sporty car features 32 Middle brother in a 2000s pop trio 33 Jerk 35 Epithet for Nadya Suleman 37 Riga resident 38 Spanish irregular verb 39 Ski-___ 40 Like some awakenings 41 Neither raise nor fold 42 Sloppy fast-food sandwich 43 “Semper Fidelis” composer 44 ___ Bay, former U.S. base in the Philippines 46 Eliza Doolittle, for one 47 Subjected to voodoo 50 Vex 51 White Castle offerings 52 Barely remembered days of old 57 Zoo department 59 Batting champ John 62 Turn-___ 63 Start to puncture? 65 Kind 66 Part of a requiem Mass 68 Anchor-hoisting cry 69 As expected 70 “Singin’ in the Rain” composer ___ Herb Brown 71 Way things are going 72 Durable fabric 76 Abbr. after a period 77 Crumbly snack 78 Start of a tennis game? 80 Either Zimbalist 83 Con 86 Praying figure 87 “Top Gun” org. 89 D.D.E. opponent 90 Frankie Valli sang in it 92 1958 hit with the line “Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip” 93 Jefferson’s vice president 97 Response to “I bet you won’t” 98 It can be gross 99 Container on a counter, maybe 102 Perfume 103 Mysterious blip 105 Michelangelo
masterpiece 106 Eve of old TV 107 One who does not
believe in miracles 108 Not bad 109 Destroy 111 City near Provo 112 Bit of residue 113 Dry 115 Mandela’s org. 117 Three-time Tony
winner Hagen 118 Daughter of Loki