NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD SOLUTION Puzzle is on J7

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1 Whammy 5 Where les enfants might play 9 Rendered speechless 15 Female lobsters 19 Every which way 20 Subject for a mariachi band 21 Insubstantial 22 Like Voldemort 23 Artist’s favorite spiritual? 26 Ablution, e.g. 27 Firefighter’s need, maybe 28 Summer Olympics host after London 29 ___ vu 30 Food item a cook might flip 32 Prescription pain medication 35 Nos. in a directory 37 Look for 38 Several, in Seville 40 Cool with what others are doing 42 Go (for) 43 Christmas song line from an artist? 47 Batman villain 51 What Mississippi cheerleaders ask for a lot 52 How you might do something gross 53 Cagney or Lacey: Abbr. 54 Daughter of James II 55 Where there’s Wi-Fi availability 57 Get ready to drive 60 Former six-term senator from Indiana 61 More yang than yin: Abbr. 62 Monetary bribes, in slang 64 What a star probably has 65 N.R.A. piece?: Abbr. 68 Artist’s favorite Broadway musical? 70 Revival meeting miracles 71 ___ Zulu (warrior dubbed Africa’s Napoleon) 72 Atlantean superhero of DC Comics 73 ___ Field 75 Defrocked villain on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” 76 Vista opener? 77 Roman of film 81 Michigan college 82 ___ generis 83 Part of an umpire’s count 86 Put in writing 87 Parts of an orrery 89 Artist’s expression for “Such is life”? 92 Easter purchase 93 Worth all the hype, as a film 94 Snorkeling aids 95 “Tsk!” 98 Finger 99 Cuts some slack 103 “Zero Dark Thirty”

locale 105 Castaway’s

construction 107 Rough position? 108 Sedona maker 111 The Roman way 112 How the expert artist passed her exam? 116 “The Cosby Show”

boy 117 Last word in the

Torah 118 Rain man? 119 Inclination 120 ___ Club 121 River that “sweats

oil and tar” in T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste

Land” 122 Predoctoral tests,

for short 123 Approximately

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1 Tatooine race in the “Star Wars” saga 2 What’s big at the movies? 3 Like old unrecyclable bottles 4 Certain Jaguar 5 Pre-exam feeling, maybe 6 Playground retort 7 South Korea’s ___ Tae Woo 8 Buffet cabinet 9 Key of Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet: Abbr. 10 Bronze 11 Topper 12 Ancient 13 Patchwork quilts have lots of them 14 “Good point” 15 Artist’s line of weary resignation? 16 “On This Night of a Thousand Stars” musical 17 Capone’s top henchman 18 Wintry mix 24 Flawed, as mdse. 25 Party host’s convenience 31 Reposed 33 “Laborare ___ orare” (Freemasons’ motto) 34 What Morehouse College lacks 36 Before, poetically 38 Home of Kings Peak 39 Little muchacho 41 What the tipsy artist had at the bar? 42 Liz of “Garfield,” e.g. 44 Pay to cross town, maybe 45 First chimp to orbit Earth 46 Pay to cross town, maybe 47 Pop icon? 48 “The Odd Couple” role 49 Daft 50 “Phooey!” 53 Gauntlet thrower’s challenge 56 What the artist confused people with? 58 Norse source for Loki lore 59 Dash 60 Dairy consumer’s enzyme 62 Erotic 63 Good wife in “The Good Earth” 65 Org. protecting music copyrights 66 “Congress ___ make no law …” 67 Actress Hayek 69 Prefix with poise 74 Pain and suffering 77 “Gay” capital 78 Summer lawn sight 79 New Jersey’s ___

University 80 QB mistakes: Abbr. 82 Holy mlle. 84 Turn to bone 85 Apiarist’s woe 88 Watchful ones? 89 Holy city of Iran 90 Access charge, of a sort 91 Debatable sighting 93 Words to live by 95 Blurts (out) 96 ___ yoga 97 Arabic name meaning “wise” 98 J. Carrol ___, Oscar nominee for “Sahara” 100 Phycologist’s

study 101 Some templegoers 102 Pro vote 104 Birdbrain 106 “___ fair …” 109 Discoveries of

Michael Faraday 110 Regarding 113 Easter purchase 114 ___’easter 115 “Boardwalk Empire”

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