THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE

DOUBLES PLAY By Wyna Liu Puzzles Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Ones out of this world, for short

4 Club setting for scenes in ‘‘GoodFellas’’ and ‘‘Raging Bull’’ 11 Something pressed in an emergency 19 ____ Lee (dessert brand)

20 Gets better 21 Oppressive dominance

22 *Performers who set the bar high? 24 *Go-getter’s maxim 25 In a way

26 Eves

28 One-named Grammy-winning singer

29 Worried exclamation from Astro on ‘‘The Jetsons’’ 30 Writer and film critic James 31 Platinum-selling rapper-turned-TVcop

33 Sr.’s hurdle 36 English cathedral city

37 Brand with a jingle to the ‘‘Dragnet’’ theme

39 *Public health agency’s mission 43 Part of a ventilation system

46 Actress and civil rights activist Ruby ____

47 Boors

48 *Feature of a Chippendales show

51 Fix the colors on, say

54 Boor

55 Special orders on new autos

56 It means well in Italy

57 P.R. event 59 Smooth sailing 60 Gas numbers

63 Bug

66 Stand-up comic Wong

67 *Places for coasters 70 Move in a hurry, quaintly

71 Best horse of the 20th century, per The Associated Press 73 Language spoken on Easter Island 74 Jazz’s Jackson 75 Matriarch’s title, maybe

78 Chats away

79 Large musical combo

80 Spud

82 Palette cleansers between courses 84 *How to screw in a light bulb

86 Common chords 88 ‘‘I didn’t need to know that’’

89 Tries hard 91 *What keeps up standards in the radio business?

94 Temple cabinets 95 End of many addresses

98 Pioneer of detective fiction

99 Reed in a pit 100 A while back 103 Author/magazine editor Welteroth 105 Singer/activist Horne

107 Half of a record 109 Celebrity .?.?. but just barely

110 *‘‘Holy moly!’’ 114 *Occasion for hiding in the dark

116 In trouble, metaphorically

117 Genre for the Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair

118 Beat poem allegedly inspired by a peyote vision

119 Carpentry contraption

120 Words of understanding

121 Italian diminutive suffix

DOWN

1 Lengthy reprimand, so to speak

2 Lowbrow

3 Taste

4 ‘‘Ouch!’’

5 Half of some matching sets

6 Put away

7 Hold tightly 8 National Medal of Arts winner Davis 9 Played miniature golf

10 Altar place

11 Snap

12 Inverse trig function 13 Choking-hazard label

14 How TV shows may be shown

15 Some Montanans 16 Plant part

17 ____ king 18 Spanish chess piece 19 Put away for later 23 Expert advice 27 Evaluate, as an opponent

30 Phoenix sch.

32 Like polka

33 What sheep participate in

34 Plant part 35 Alternatively 38 Summer hrs. in Colorado

40 Words of commitment

41 Pyle’s portrayer on ‘‘Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.’’

42 Pang

43 Love, in Lyon 44 Defeat soundly 45 Couple of fins 48 Head of ____ 49 Happy refrain 50 National economic prosperity, metaphorically

52 Adolescent 53 ‘‘What’s up?’’ in textspeak

56 A.C. measure 58 First man, in Maori mythology

60 Oil-rich nation that’s not in OPEC 61 Sour milk product 62 Cathedral in N.Y.C. 64 ‘‘Revelations’’ choreographer

65 Small, in a way 67 Oscars, e.g.

68 Blue Ribbon brand 69 It’s found in a key: Abbr.

72 Mountain nymph of Greek myth 74 Comfy shoes, for short

76 Writing on many a license plate 77 Opposing forces in Risk

79 Preventing spills, say

80 Sporty option 81 Folk singer Guthrie

83 H.S. class 84 Monopoly token 85 Have a serious crush on, informally 87 Less expressive 90 Issa of ‘‘Insecure’’ 92 Puts down

93 Little bump 95 Ancestor of the modern lemon and lime

96 Ring combo

97 She played ‘‘the devil’’ Miranda in ‘‘The Devil Wears Prada’’

101 ‘‘Dagnabbit!’’ 102 Kind of pants 104 Japanese beer brand

105 Partially landlocked bay

106 Drachma replacement

108 ‘‘My word!’’ 109 Five of these are needed to play Yahtzee

110 Astronaut Grissom

111 Transcript fig. 112 Topic discussed by the bar

113 Barely manage, with ‘‘out’’

115 Children’s author Asquith