THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Men are pigs (after she’s through with them, anyway!)
6 The ‘‘A’’ of James A. Garfield
11 Naysayers 20 Lower-cost option on a popular rideshare app
21 Egg: Sp. 22 Frontiersman’s headgear
23 Result of a merger between Quaker Oats and Greyhound? 25 Maintaining equilibrium
26 Discourage
27 Soft drink concentrate, e.g.
29 ‘‘Night on Bald Mountain’’ or ‘‘Finlandia’’
30 With 18-Down, what has four legs and sprints?
32 Musician who was booed in 1965 for playing electric guitar 34 Letters before Gerald R. Ford and Ronald Reagan
35 Luau instrument, for short
37 Zoom
39 Corner 41 Second-longest human bone, after the femur
46 Result of a merger between Kraft and Hershey’s?
51 Result of a merger between Google and Planters?
53 Like the wights on ‘‘Game of Thrones’’ 54 Best of the best 56 Spelling ____ 57 What Santa checks twice
58 R-rated
59 Rulers’ staffs
61 Fire man?
63 On the ____
64 Poet Lazarus 66 Prefix with thermal 67 Bad sound for an engine
68 Result of a merger between Hasbro and Nikon?
72 Bird like the Canada goose or arctic tern 75 Lummox
76 Cheese offered tableside at Italian restaurants, informally 77 Recipe amt.
80 Eagle constellation 81 Passive acquiescence 84 Voice a view
86 Firm decision maker? 87 Revolutionary Guevara
89 Klum of ‘‘Project Runway’’
90 ‘‘My love,’’ in Madrid 91 Result of a merger between Procter & Gamble and Jacuzzi? 94 Result of a merger between Hormel and Instagram? 96 Warehouse
97 10 to 10, say
99 ____ reform, cause for the Marshall Project 100 Middling grade 101 Pub choice
103 Shot across the bow?
106 ____ Waldorf, the so-called ‘‘Queen B’’ on ‘‘Gossip Girl’’
109 Leaves nothing to the imagination
114 Measured
116 ‘‘Been there, done that’’ feeling
118 Disney’s world 120 Result of a merger between Ralph Lauren and Starbucks?
123 ‘‘Stop your foolishness outside!’’
124 Not on
125 Chops up finely 126 Was uncomfortably hot
127 Basil-based sauce 128 ____ Allen, one of the founders of Vermont
DOWN
1 ____-de-sac 2 Ditto, in scholarly journals
3 Brexit vote, e.g. 4 Home to the Minoan civilization
5 Shine
6 ‘‘Now I get it!’’
7 2021 Super Bowl champs
8 Drink up during a timeout, say
9 Tex who directed the first Bugs Bunny cartoon
10 Iraqi city on the Tigris
11 Kimono accessory 12 Natural talent 13 ____ Young-white, comedian/correspondent for ‘‘The Daily Show’’
14 Lead-in to an Indiana ‘‘-ville’’
15 ____ Ng, author of the 2017 best seller ‘‘Little Fires Everywhere’’
16 Piehole
17 ‘‘Oops!’’
18 See 30-Across
19 Part of a musical note
24 Held forth
28 ‘‘Two thumbs down’’ review
31 Answer to ‘‘Are you asleep?’’ that can’t be true
33 Drift off to sleep 35 Ordinary
36 ‘‘Eh, not really’’ 38 1981 hit Genesis album whose name resembles a rhyme scheme
40 Balls in the sky 42 Little sounds 43 Muscular
44 ‘‘Who’s there?’’ response
45 Nancy who served as the first female member of the British Parliament
47 Come together 48 Like some thinking 49 A.O.C., e.g.
50 Meets
52 Evening prayer 55 Come together 59 Raw material? 60 Quintana ____ (Mexican state that’s home to Cancún) 62 Mayhem
65 Land governed by the House of Grimaldi 67 Obedience school command
68 More hackneyed 69 A head
70 A head
71 Best-case scenarios 72 Clipper parts 73 ‘‘You can’t fire me!’’ 74 Italian poet Cavalcanti who influenced Dante 77 Procrastinator’s problem 78 [Bo-o-o-oring!] 79 In essence 81 Where heroes are made
82 Sass
83 Co-founder of the N.A.A.C.P.
85 Word that, when spelled backward, becomes its own synonym 88 Member of the inn crowd?
90 One of the Canter- bury pilgrims
92 One doing the lord’s work
93 In which you might do a deep dive 95 Mistruth
98 JAMA contributors 102 Tool in a wood shop
104 Shred
105 ____ hole
107 Battery part
108 Language group related to Yupik
109 Birkin stock? 110 From scratch 111 Quinceañera, e.g. 112 Man’s name that spells a fruit backward 113 Passed-down stories 115 ‘‘Stop stalling!’’ 117 ‘‘The slightest’’ or ‘‘the foggiest’’ thing 119 Oscar-winning lyricist Washington 121 Classic Pontiac 122 Phishing target, for short