THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Parrot 5 Jumping-on-amattress sound 10 What hist. and
econ. majors get 13 Pelé’s given name 18 Jesus, for one 19 Some navels 21 It starts every
March in N.Y.C. 22 New Age pianist 23 “Bummer!” 24 One paying a flat
rate 25 Mountain-climbing
hazard 27 Actress Lorna 28 Contracted
agreement 29 No longer fit in 31 “Kitchy-___!” 32 Lead-in to meter 33 2012 film title character who was computergenerated 34 Italian Renaissance
composer Giovanni 35 Provoke 37 It’s high in West
Africa 40 Some rechargeables 41 Worldly figure? 43 Odor-___ 44 Naval flier 47 Reach, as new
heights 48 Sufficient, in
“Macbeth” 49 Other-worldly? 50 Govt. agent 51 Surveillance org. 53 Join, in a way 55 Lasagna cheese 58 “Love Me, I’m a
Liberal” singer 62 Party org. 63 “The Matrix” hero 64 Lb. and oz. 65 Linguist Chomsky 66 “Say that again?” 67 Chicago mayor
Emanuel 69 Sitting area? 71 Broadway title role
for Audrey Hepburn 72 TriBeCa neighbor 73 “The ___ Love”
(R.E.M. hit) 74 “Of course, señor!” 75 ___ Balls (bygone
snack cakes) 77 Sevilla cheer 79 Topper 80 Blackbird 81 Archer’s wood
source 83 Panther figurine
material 84 51-Across
forerunner 85 Carrier to
Amsterdam 87 More spine-tingling 89 OPEC nation
currency 91 Circus tent 94 Burns in the
kitchen, maybe 95 Pontiac’s tribe 98 “I know the
answer!” 99 Writer Santha
Rama ___ 100 Response to “I
promise I will” 102 Words of denial 103 Where cruisers
cruise 107 Free 108 Pkg. insert 109 Phone pad
letters 110 Pushy types? 111 Dutch painter
Vermeer 112 Collection of Norse
tales 113 Aunt of 1960s TV 115 Knitter’s stash 117 Dry as a bone 118 “The pleasure ___
mine” 119 Fragrant
necklace 120 Estevez of
Hollywood 121 Rice-A-___ 122 Apartment rental
sign 123 Benefits
agcy. 124 “They are,” in
Spanish class 125 Org. for some good
drivers
DOWN
1 Ring site 2 Lady Bird Johnson’s
real first name 3 1984 “educational”
Van Halen song 4 Bump 5 1998 Grammynominated song by the Verve 6 New York native 7 Quaint stopovers 8 Actress Long 9 Paganini’s
birthplace 10 Setting of Barbara Kingsolver’s “The Poisonwood Bible” 11 Idolizes 12 It can have three or
four legs 13 Lump of coal, to
Frosty 14 2012 film starring Johnny Depp as a bloodsucker 15 Buttinsky 16 Like many
basketball drills 17 No-good end? 20 Theater keepsake 26 Classic novel subtitled “Adventures in a Desert Island,” with “The” 30 “How sad” 33 Discombobulated 34 MTV’s early fan
base 36 Vintage vehicle 38 A VHF channel 39 Ready, with “up” 42 “The Black Cat”
writer 45 Collate 46 Medical suffix 51 Flat storage site 52 Daft 54 When repeated, a
1963 #2 hit 56 French 101
pronoun 57 Attach 59 Kiss alternative … or a hint to the starts of 3-, 5-, 10-, 14-, 26-, 64- and 68Down 60 Good laughs 61 Points on a bus route 64 Light, fruity alcoholic drink 68 Flowering plant used to treat liver ailments 70 Waco-to-Austin dir. 75 Vial fluids 76 Actor ___ Patrick Harris 78 Got off the stage 82 Step aside, judicially 83 Approximately 86 John, to Elton John 88 Breyers competitor 90 “The Good Wife” fig. 91 Kind of voyage? 92 “With any luck!” 93 Stopped playing games 96 Making, as one’s way 97 Place of peace and simplicity 99 Makes over 101 Muse of astronomy 104 Plays tug of war 105 Scot’s language 106 “I’ll answer your
questions” 111 Spurn, as a lover 112 Monroe of the
N.B.A. 113 Comedy routine 114 ___-rock 116 “___ for Evidence”
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