NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD: PREPOSITION PROPOSITION
ACROSS
1 Sound of a dud 5 Personnel overhaul 12 End of the block? 15 Pitcher's feat, slangily
19 Peace activist Wiesel 20 Rear seating compartment in old automobiles 21 Replaced someone on a base 23 Wagers for a gym exercise?
25 Big name in luxury S.U.V.s 26 Successfully persuades 27 At the most
28 Sub
30 Opposite of stiff 31 Figures on slots 33 Bad thing to see under a truck's hood? 35 Small breather? 38 Customer-service worker
40 “Man and Superman” playwright 41 Anxious feeling 42 Wastebasket or folder, maybe 43 Avoided trans fats and refined sugars, say 47 Part of NASA: Abbr. 48 Unrecruited athlete's bottleful?
52 ____ al-Hussein (Jordanian royal) 53 Private eye
55 Word after flight or credit
56 “Zounds!”
57 ____ dish
58 It's not in the bag 61 Intake in many an eating contest 62 Makes drunk 63 Certain note passer, for short
64 Timely entrance? 69 Kitty
70 “Here's the thing ...” 72 Lawn coating 73 Grueling workplace, so to speak
75 Man first mentioned in Exodus 2 76 Something removed at a T.S.A. checkpoint 78 Purple smoothie flavorer
80 German “you” 81 Caught in ____ 82 Understudy's delivery? 85 Nonsense singing 88 Closet rackful 90 Suffer from a lockup 91 Zeros
93 “Fight, fight, fight for Maryland!” singer, familiarly 94 Duke of ____, character in “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” 96 Reaches by plane 97 Scam alert? 101 Paragons
103 Hoppy brew
104 Info provider 105 Optimist's credo 106 What an A.P. class likely isn't 110 Throws at
112 Fight clubs? 115 Serving to quell violent protests 116 Free, as a seat 117 Web links, briefly 118 Trickle
119 Certain baseball positions: Abbr. 120 Lunchtime errands, e.g. 121 ____ Classic (cable channel)
DOWN
1 Juices (up) 2 Something a chimney sweep sweeps 3 Permeate 4 Gossips 5 Pennzoil competitor 6 Low-cost lodging 7 Playwright Chekhov 8 Bags that might have drawstrings 9 Startled squeals 10 Neighbor of Oman, for short
11 Press, as a button 12 Vertical, to a sailor 13 Saying “Eww!,” say 14 Make hard to read 15 Org. that's nearly one-fourth Canadian 16 Speak before Parliament, e.g. 17 Comaneci of Olympics fame
18 Time in Tokyo when it's midnight in New York 22 ____ salad
24 App customers
29 10/
32 Scene
33 Founder of Philadelphia 34 Strong strings 35 Sister
36 Man ____ mission 37 Soundtrack for a brawl? 39 Proceed well enough 42 Story featuring divine intervention 43 ____ premium 44 Compositions often chosen for encores? 45 Seuss title character 46 Sad, in San Juan 49 Department
50 Small dam 51 Smoking or stress 54 Forfeits
57 Hits with snowballs 58 Nonexpert 59 Portrayer of Mr. Chips 60 Ball support 61 Something “shaken” in a trick
62 The Ravens, on scoreboards
65 Take too much of, briefly
66 Call for
67 “To repeat ...” 68 Self-absorbed 71 Hope that one may 74 Doesn't go on at the right time
76 Exit
77 Gives birth to
78 “Eso Beso” singer 79 Doctor treating patients 82 G.I. reply
83 Any of the Galápagos 84 Singer known for her 85-Across
86 Skill
87 Chinese menu name 89 More likely to escalate 92 Member of a four-time Stanley Cup-winning team in the 1980s 94 Emcee's item 95 Spring river breakup 105 Avid about 107 Some Nikons, for short
108 Go, “Ow, ow, OW!” 109 Professional grp.
111 Apt rhyme of “nip” 113 Card-game cry 114 Some doorways