THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Part of L.G.B.T., for short
6 Like wine, but not grape juice 10 Chances
14 Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore
19 “The Jungle Book” bear 20 Part of a theater?
21 Do for a few months? 22 “Lovergirl” singer Marie 23 *“Soak Up the Sun” singer, 2002
25 *Fictional protagonist who attends elementary school in Maycomb County
27 Smooth over
28 Onetime “Come hungry. Leave happy” sloganeer 29 Tolkien trilogy, for short 30 Hawk
31 Pick up from school
33 Nat ____ (documentary channel, for short)
35 Gentle attention-getter 36 Divert
38 *Actress in “Alien” and “Avatar”
42 Farthest orbital point from the moon
44 ____ smear
45 Patois
48 Grace’s partner on Netflix 49 Symbolic item
51 Avoids attention for now 53 Ingredient in bananas Foster 54 Cease
55 Completely lost
56 Speck in la mer
57 Ivanovic who won the 2008 French Open
58 Lend a hand when one shouldn’t
60 “Cool your jets!”
62 Directs
64 Really, really hope
65 Aqib ____, five-time Pro Bowl cornerback
67 #carpediem
69 Kitchen timer sound 70 Labors
71 Iowa college city that isn’t
Iowa City
73 Corrida combatants
75 One of the Spice Girls 76 Swedish vodka brand 79 Tease relentlessly 80 Hamilton and Burr, e.g. 83 “Nice job, dude!” 84 Poker-faced
85 You might gain knowledge through this
86 Direction from Tampa to Orlando, for short
87 “Don’t include me in this!” 89 Dipsomaniacs
91 Bronze
92 Costco competitor, informally
94 Italian wine region
95 Bottom of Britain?
96 Some square-dance participants
97 Bill passers, briefly
99 Some woolen blankets 103 Peter or Paul (but not Mary) 105 Ballerina’s balancing aid 107 Exhibition mounter
109 Anne with the Pulitzer-winning novel “Breathing Lessons” 112 *First African-American U.S. poet laureate
114 Uraeus, in ancient Egypt 115 2017 film nominated for Best Picture … or a hint to the answers to the eight starred clues
117 Northern race
118 President whose veep was Dick
119 Lone female Argonaut 120 “Copacabana” hitmaker, 1978
121 ____ St. James, first female Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year
122 Comes to light
DOWN
1 Amt. of cooking oil
2 Bobby in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America
3 Advil alternative
4 “Because I felt like it”
5 Makeup of some meat substitutes
6 Prefix with conservative 7 Ignore orders
8 Romeo or Juliet
9 Mountain ____
10 Covert ____
11 Render harmless, so to speak 12 Wasn’t stiff
13 N.S.F.W. stuff 14 Antismuggling grp.
15 Idle periods
16 Elaine on “Seinfeld”
17 Cry from the defeated 18 Jokester Mort
24 Trattoria dish
26 Labors
32 Rainer Maria ____, writer of “Letters to a Young Poet” 34 Baked, in a way 35 Herman Melville’s first book 37 Fracas
39 “Eventually …”
40 Vittles 41 Sick 42 Island whose name rhymes with a popular thing to do there
43 *Portrayer of Fallon Carrington Colby on “Dynasty” 46 *“The Silence of the Lambs” protagonist
47 Like the Vietnamese language 48 Kegger locale 49 *Singer with the most American Music Awards of all time (29)
50 *Janet Leigh played her in
“Psycho”
52 How, with “the”
59 Asian island divided between two countries
61 One on a bender, perhaps 63 Young ____
64 Arroz accompanier, often 66 In the hold
68 Keynote, say
69 R2-D2 or C-3PO
70 Overflows (with)
72 “For example …?” 74 Bigheadedness
75 Weapon with a lock, stock and barrel
76 Passing judgments?
77 ____ fide
78 M.M.A. stats, for short
80 Mob bosses
81 Money in the Mideast 82 1040 figures, for short 88 Gawked
90 “The Little Mermaid” villain 93 Certain clouds
96 Stonewall Inn, e.g.
98 Make it to the podium 100 App with an envelope icon 101 Kind of voice or dog
102 Wood that’s good for matchmaking
104 Word with house or high 105 Hat part
106 Hit musical with music by Elton John
107 Swear
108 ____ in three (chess challenge)
110 The Father of Art Deco 111 Nutrition figs.
113 Guadalajara gold
116 Horse’s female parent