THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Some old PCS 5 Experience financial ruin

11 Many files in a Downloads folder 15 Talk ____

19 1990s sitcom starring Tia and Tamera Mowry

22 Beethoven’s ‘‘Ah! perfido,’’ for one 23 Southwest people known for their dry farming

24 Grand Prix city 25 Fulminate 26 Portent

27 Start a web session 28 Tribute

30 Many zoomers 31 Gush (over)

33 Red lightsaber wielder

36 Singular praise 37 ____ Xtra (soft drink)

38 Soul: Sp.

39 Make it so there’s snow way out?

41 1963 hit for the Kingsmen

45 It gets the show on the road

48 Nothing but a number, it’s said

49 Call from an oldtime paperboy 50 Essayist Susan 51 Attraction, so to speak, with ‘‘the’’ 53 Org. often impersonated by phone scammers

54 Time for a visit from Ong Tao, the ‘‘Kitchen God’’

55 Slip up 56 Yellowstone sight 58 [Gulp!]

59 House of Commons reps

61 ____ gratia (in all kindness: Lat.)

62 Rush order

64 Like some questions 66 Romanov V.I.P., once

68 Charlotte N.B.A. player

70 ‘‘ .?.?. you get the point’’ 74 ‘‘Well, lookie here!’’ 75 Quaint exclamation of dismay

78 Fee payer, often 79 Thin pancakes in Indian cuisine 80 Laborer of old 84 Dan of ‘‘Schitt’s Creek’’

85 To the ____ power 86 Time for March madness?

88 Ultimate fighting inits.

90 Certain summer baby

91 ‘‘There you ____!’’ 92 Big tower, for short?

94 Years and years 95 Shock

97 Sings, in a way 101 When you should leave, for short

103 Piece of rollerderby equipment 104 Classic-joke start 105 High five at the Olympics?

107 Unchanged

108 Yea or nay

109 Power source 111 Barfly’s flier 112 Added to a thread, say

113 El ____ of the Spanish Renaissance 115 ‘‘Amscray!’’

117 Egomaniac’s thought

119 Noted character with object-subjectverb syntax

120 Dangerous part of a road on which to pass 121 Extroverts

127 Tie down

128 Best-picture winner of 2012

129 Basketball feat suggested by this puzzle’s pairs of theme answers, informally 130 1040 figs.

131 Love of languages? 132 In on

133 Add (on)

DOWN

1 Philosophy

2 H.S. class in the same department as chem 3 Yahoo alternative 4 Trusty to the end 5 Pirate’s booze

6 One way to learn 7 Like the Six Million Dollar Man

8 ‘‘Anchors Aweigh’’ grp.

9 Amtrak stop: Abbr. 10 Lab worker 11 Logical conundrum 12 Prolong 13 Numismatic grade 14 Plopped (down) 15 Setting for many a diorama

16 Shortcut missing from newer smartphones

17 Lead

18 Affixes

20 Subject of interest, in brief

21 Chess piece whose name is derived from the Persian for ‘‘chariot’’

29 Cocktails made with ginger beer, informally 30 Pieces in the game Bananagrams

31 Flights connect them 32 All-encompassing Egyptian deity 34 Aromatic beverage 35 Perch for the selfimportant

37 Gemstone cut named for a fruit 38 Baffled

40 Very bright

42 Eye piece

43 Nobelist Joliotcurie

44 Really get to 46 Sweetie

47 Weep in an unflattering way, in modern lingo

52 Lugs

57 Hold on to 58 Lunchtime estimate 59 Computer shortcuts 60 Slices and dices, say 61 Scottish hillsides 63 Annoying

65 Walk with swagger 67 It might get swiped in a college dining hall 68 Football trophy name 69 Where some replacements take place, in brief

71 Third column on a calendar: Abbr. 72 Eaglet’s hatching spot

73 Certain public transport

75 Sound from a jalopy 76 Played again 77 Words from an exlover

81 Go by

82 Put down again 83 Origami steps 85 Bread in Indian cuisine

87 One taking action 89 Certain close relative

92 Invite out for 93 1990s tennis star Huber

94 Off-kilter 96 ‘‘Later!’’

98 Green vehicles 99 Fried plantain dish of Puerto Rico

100 Country named for its geographic location

102 It makes you you 103 Lobbyists’ area in D.C.

106 Radiator cover 110 ‘‘Die Hard’’ squad, in brief

112 Miss ____, famed dial-a-psychic

113 Businesses that see an uptick after New Year’s

114 Aussie hoppers 115 Kernel of an idea 116 ‘‘Ouch, ouch, ouch!’’

118 High style

120 Barnyard bleat 122 ‘‘Mais ____!’’ (‘‘But of course!’’)

123 ‘‘Cyberchase’’ channel

124 Org. whose members stay in their lanes 125 Business name ender

126 ‘‘Yipe!’’