THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Pear variety 5 Universal, as a motor 9 Short hedge? 13 Turner on the radio 17 Farm machine equipped with twine 18 More crafty
19 The right one is usually slower 20 Eclipse
21 Title character for Tyler Perry
22 Bright pink shade 24 Literary friend of Sam, Merry and Pippin 25 ‘‘____ With Marc Maron’’ (podcast) 26 Like a stock quote? 28 Attraction in 69-Across that once froze over for 30 hours in 1848
30 Informally agree to 32 Stick in a cup 34 Buyer
35 Sudden arrival 37 Attraction in 69-Across that withstands dozens of lightning strikes a year, familiarly
39 Didn’t swipe right? 40 Mail insert: Abbr. 42 What prices can do 43 Turning on the waterworks
46 Either end of America?
47 ‘‘I goofed,’’ in slang 48 Fish fittingly found in ‘‘anemone’’
50 Music genre that emphasizes the offbeat 51 Stumbler or bumbler
52 Name that sounds like a letter
54 Actor Kutcher 60 General meeting place
62 School subjects? 65 Steel boot feature 67 Occasion for fireworks: Abbr. 68 Capital city founded by King Harald 69 Locale of this puzzle’s attractions (really, all eight of them!) 72 Spa service, in brief 76 Pro ____ (for now) 78 Bleep out 79 Unwrapped eagerly 81 Voicer of Olaf in ‘‘Frozen’’
85 Typical sock hopper 87 British throne room?
88 Not a good guy 89 Handled thing 90 Handling things 92 Curt reprimand to a dog
94 Wood used to make chess pieces and pool cues
96 Scarfs (down) 98 Caribbean music genre
101 Name of two ‘‘Groundhog Day’’ characters
103 Little rascals 104 Attraction in 69Across overseen by the Navajo Nation
107 ‘‘Life would be ____ if it weren’t funny’’: Stephen Hawking
109 French eatery 111 Noted name in 2005 news
113 Cause of a driveway stain
116 Attraction in 69- Across on the Extraterrestrial Highway
118 ‘‘Nature of a ____’’ (1991 Queen Latifah album)
120 Originally called 121 Children’s author Eric
122 Biggest portion 124 A little crazy 126 Colonized, as bees might
127 Directional heading?
128 Skipjacks and bluefins
129 Perfect places 130 Be on the decline? 131 Spanish for ‘‘weight’’
132 Former L.A. center
133 Clinic liquids
DOWN
1 Political party founded in Syria 2 Attraction in 69-Across that’s part of America’s first national park
3 Picture
4 Attraction in 69Across that’s almost 2,000 feet deep
5 Often
6 Gives as a reference 7 Many a lib
8 Heady?
9 Owners of an infamous cow
10 Citrus with a portmanteau name 11 Person living in London
12 Consider 13 Comedian Jimmy with a self-described ‘‘schnozzola’’ 14 ‘‘Shoulda listened to me!’’
15 Confuse
16 One way to be cut 17 Some German rides 18 They’re very attached to their calves 20 Collection during a church service 23 Prepare (oneself) for a challenge 27 Debauchee
29 ‘‘Hail,’’ in old Rome 31 Have down 33 Special attention, for short
36 ‘‘Sup’’
38 Steep
39 Improvises in a jazz group
41 Jazz group, for short 44 Distributor of 1933’s ‘‘King Kong’’ and ‘‘Little Women’’ 45 Nigerian staple food 46 Nothing special 47 ‘‘Bulls get angry when they see the color red,’’ for one 49 Meditation aid 53 Small role for Paul Rudd
55 Marble, e.g. 56 Word before fly 57 Wyoming’s ____ Range
58 Yellowish pigment 59 ‘‘No,’’ in a certain dialect
61 Default consequence, perhaps 63 ‘‘The lady ____ protest too much . . . ’’ 64 Brut-ish?
66 Touch gently 70 Division for a tennis match
71 Persuaded 73 Attraction in 69Across designed to be a ‘‘city of the future’’ 74 Academic figures 75 Fictional archaeologist with a whip, familiarly 77 Googled oneself, e.g.
80 Attraction in 69-Across where crocodiles and alligators uniquely coexist
81 Quick boxing move 82 Tic-tac-toe loser 83 Buffet style
84 Part of the spine 86 Diamond stat 91 Deliberated (on) 93 Subgenre prefix 95 Flake, so to speak 97 Came to
99 Supply for kindergarten drawers 100 Eponymous saint of ‘‘Alamo City’’
101 Some clerical workers
102 Seller of over a billion Huggable Hangers on TV
103 It’s a trap!
105 Profitability metric, for short 106 Sea eagles
108 Wine-menu section
109 The two wives and 20 children of Johann Sebastian
110 Letter-shaped beam 112 Yoga pose
114 Insurance company whose name contains a diphthong 115 ‘‘Ivories’’
117 Bomb
119 Where dinars are spent
123 ‘‘Wait . . . what?’’ 125 Work on something you love?