THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Across

1 Supply for an ultimate Frisbee team

6 2019 box-office flop described by one critic as ‘‘Les Meowsérables’’ 10 Picks the brain of 14 Extemporizes 19 ‘‘Why should ____?’’ 20 Feeling tender 21 Apartment, in real estate lingo

22 How spring rolls are cooked 23 Oscar-winning actress born Mary Louise 24 One side of a 2015 nuclear agreement

25 It’s irreversible 26 University of Florida athlete

27 ‘‘That was great!’’ — ‘‘No, it stank!’’

31 Setting for Jo Nesbo’s best-selling crime novels 32 They have stems and white heads

33 Mild, light-colored cigars

36 Have because of 38 Drive (from) 39 Recurring pain? 42 Route 70 in {Route 10, Route 95, Route 101, Route 70, Route 25} 45 Snitch

47 Hit film set aboard the spaceship Nostromo 48 Cereal grain 49 Fastener that leaves a flush surface

51 Modern party-planning tool

52 Lofty

53 Collector’s item 55 Word after combat or cowboy

58 What two Vikings have explored

59 Royal staff

61 Sort represented by the emoji

64 Fruits often used in sushi

66 Cattle in [cattle/pigs] 69 Burrito condiment 73 Vodka mixer 74 Hopeless predicament 79 Birthstone for Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasiocortez

80 Toffee bar brand 82 What the nose knows 84 Major move, for short

85 ‘‘ . . . unless you disagree’’

87 Naturally occurring hexagonal crystals 90 ‘‘Dames at ____’’ (Broadway musical) 91 Was fed up

92 Comics character with the dog Daisy 95 Bear x tiger 98 ‘‘Billions’’ airer, for short

99 Et ____

101 Hamilton, to Burr 102 Green cards, informally

103 Offering to a houseguest

105 Hardly any

106 Car in {plane, car, train, horse, car, car, train}

113 Pong company 114 Shakespeare character who inquires, ‘‘Are your doors lock’d?’’ 115 Greet grandly 116 Provide funding for 118 Was accepted 119 ____ mess, English dessert of berries, meringue and whipped cream

120 Its merchandise often comes with pictorial instructions

121 ‘‘Set Fire to the Rain’’ singer

122 Part of a golf club 123 Mathematician Descartes

124 Credit-application figs.

125 PC platform popular in the 1980s

Down

1 Grow faint 2 Coffee-order specification 3 Garment whose name sounds like an apology 4 Sign of distress

5 Like many wildflower seeds

6 Boutros Boutrosghali’s home city 7 Nearly 5,000 square yards

8 Comparative word 9 Matched up

10 What has interest in a car?

11 Sound of disdain 12 Long, loose robe 13 Leave momentarily 14 Brief evocative account

15 Diarist Nin

16 ‘‘Hello ____’’ (old cellphone ad line) 17 Subatomic particle 18 Some nice cameras, for short

28 Wife of Albert Einstein

29 Wipe out, slangily 30 ‘‘____ deal’’

33 Has a tête-à-tête 34 Pale pinkish purple 35 Light-footed 36 Muhammad’s fatherin-law

37 Cause of a smudge 39 First work read in Columbia’s literature humanities course 40 Like some news coverage

41 Squeeze

43 ‘‘Nice going!’’

44 Crux of the matter 46 Rating for risqué shows 50 ____-in-the-hole (British dish)

53 Whale constellation 54 Massive ref. books 56 Have things in common

57 Like music that uses conventional keys and harmony

60 Org. whose website has a ‘‘What Can I Bring?’’ section 62 Summer Olympics host before Tokyo 63 They may come in a boxed set

65 Summer hrs. in Iowa 67 Co. captains?

68 First line of a Seuss classic

69 Parts of cars and stoves

70 High-profile interviewer of Harry and Meghan

71 Style of ‘‘Roxanne’’ in ‘‘Moulin Rouge!’’ 72 Drawn out 75 Easterlies

76 Done again

77 Chef Waters who pioneered the organic food movement

78 Mrs. ____, ‘‘Beauty and the Beast’’ character 81 Kind of vaccine used against Covid

83 Slippery

86 Partly

88 Two-person meeting 89 Certain sots

91 Words often replaced when singing ‘‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’’ 93 Disney character who says ‘‘Some people are worth melting for’’ 94 Less sportsmanlike 96 Where the King lived 97 Tennis’s Nadal, fam- iliarly

100 Make sparkling 103 Font flourish

104 Tease

105 Cartographic collection

106 In Touch and Out, for two

107 Texter’s ‘‘Then again . . . ’’ 108 Cloud contents 109 Trees under which truffles might grow 110 ‘‘De ____’’ (response to ‘‘Merci’’)

111 Took too much, for short

112 ____ contendere 117 ____ Moore, antipoverty entrepreneur of the Robin Hood Foundation