THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Dude, slangily 5 Toaster Swirlz brand 9 Country singer Haggard
14 Lhasa ____ (dog breed)
18 Metallic fabric 19 ‘‘____: Legacy’’ (scifi sequel)
20 Hymn of joy 21 Loud thudding sound
23 Shot in the dark 26 Get to the point? 27 Steps up?
28 Court plea, in brief 29 Winner’s sign 30 Alternative to a blitz
31 False start? 33 Improved version of an existing product 37 —
38 Skipping syllables? 40 Reward for a big hit, say
41 Two-legged stand 43 Fix for a bald spot 46 —
48 Shock 51 Oscar-winning Hanks role of 1994 54 Tiny bits
56 Byway connection 58 Voice-mail prompt 59 Hasbro game requiring increasingly quick reflexes
60 Tiny bit
61 Mensch
63 Meals with Haggadah readings 64 Award to wear 65 Real deal
66 —
68 Like cabernet sauvignon
69 Go over
71 Start of many Portuguese place names 73 Be angry
75 Suffix with age 78 Highly resistant elastomer
81 —
84 Skyscraper support 88 Like some ballots 90 Breakfast drink sans creamer
92 Ill-advised move 93 Intangible qualities 94 Do
95 Anonymous surname
96 Causes of pocket buzzes
97 Loud, sharp sound 98 Like Golden Raspberry-‘‘winning’’ films 100 Detectives
103 —
104 Whispered sweet nothings
106 It’s a sign
108 Unsmiling
110 Like some roller chains and ball bearings
112 —
116 Leaves zip for a tip 119 One given orders around the house 121 Tract of land 122 Nickname for the Wildcats of the Pac-12 124 Smut
126 Collection on Facebook
127 Shot in the dark 131 Three-time American League M.V.P. of the 1950s
132 Varsity
133 Hurt badly
134 Disneyland transport
135 Bill blockers 136 Ta-tas
137 Polishes off
138 Fore-and-aftrigged sailboat with two masts
DOWN
1 Photo mishap 2 Amassed 3 Congregational chorus
4 Tools for landscapers 5 ‘‘You get the idea’’: Abbr.
6 Food found in some bars
7 Most-often-used 8 Net wt. of many pasta packages
9 Sticker stat 10 It’s water under le pont
11 Teller of the third tale in ‘‘The Canterbury Tales’’
12 Surgical tool
13 Like some casts 14 Makes a scene 15 ‘‘Hallelujah!’’ 16 Marvelous
17 ____-3
22 Slice and dice, say 24 Takes over (from) 25 More than just a talker
32 Indian lentil dish 34 ‘‘No info yet,’’ on a schedule
35 Carefully avoid 36 Heating option 39 Composer Bruckner 42 —
43 Unlikely Oscar winners
44 Fighting
45 Tiny bit
47 G
49 Opening for a computer technician?
50 Pro fighter? 52 Swampy stretch 53 V.A. concern, for short
55 —
57 Phenomenon by which electrons radiate from a heated filament, so named for a famous observer
59 ‘‘You can’t be a real country unless you have a ____ and an airline’’: Frank Zappa 61 Mil. leader
62 Catch
63 Arc on a music score
65 Investment goal 67 Trucker on a radio 70 Pitchfork-shaped letters
72 —
74 When the first ‘‘Peanuts’’ comic appeared
75 Apple on the teacher’s desk?
76 Literature Nobelist Bellow 77 Innovation in pushups
79 It can represent a folder
80 First offer?
82 ‘‘I touched your nose!’’ sound
83 Coffin frames 85 Squarish
86 A jokester might say ‘‘And the pot thickens’’ after one
87 One of the friends on ‘‘Friends’’
89 Very easy living 91 —
94 French explorer who founded Detroit 96 Duty
98 According to
99 Bad P.R. for a celeb, maybe
101 Baseball announcer’s cry 102 One doing a Spot check?
105 Whom the Secret Service dubbed Rene- gade and Renaissance 107 Mike who served as a Wyoming senator from 1997 to 2021 109 —
110 Longtime Swedish automaker
111 ____ Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female head of state
113 Mammal found in the Andean cloud forest
114 Utterly lost
115 ‘‘I’m baffled’’ 117 Botanist’s study 118 A sucker for milkshakes, say
120 — 123 ESPNU covers its games
125 Web file format, for short
128 The natural order of the universe 129 Chats over Twitter, briefly
130 Grp. mobilized by a 911 call