THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Earners of credits 7 One selling airtime, informally

12 Emulates a chipmunk, say

20 Like a beaming smile

22 Go out to get some juice?

23 Pork-cutting option

24 Ingredient in an Alabama slammer 25 Revise

26 Word with ‘‘two’’ or ‘‘three’’ to describe a sloth

27 Small kitchen knife 29 Abstract artist Mondrian

30 Thomas Hardy title character

31 Bottom part 32 Traveled like Charon

34 Schedule keeper: Abbr.

35 One for whom underwear is pants 36 ‘‘Wait .?.?. what did you just say?!’’

37 Fuse 39 Three-dimensional 43 ‘‘Have You Never Been ____,’’ No. 1 album for Olivia Newton-john 44 Origami designs thought to bring good fortune

45 One receiving a congratulatory email from ebay

47 Helps secure a loan 48 Recovery center 49 Refused to share 50 Scratch

51 Tablet taken before going to bed, maybe 52 Portrayer of Marvel’s Hawkeye

53 Left the harbor 57 Rapper who cofounded Mass Appeal Records

58 Green liqueur 59 Dinosaur of kids’ TV 60 It’s nothing

61 Host

63 Signaled slyly 64 ____ Top (low-cal ice cream brand) 65 Camaro, for one 66 As one

67 Birth day presence? 68 ‘‘All in the Family’’ subject

71 ‘‘Don’t dwell on the past’’

73 Families-and-friends support group 74 Negotiate

75 Some diners .?.?. and donors

76 Provide a password 77 Was rife (with) 78 Matthew of ‘‘The Americans’’

79 Save for later, in a way

80 Skewered

82 Like Queen Anne’s lace?

83 Traditional accounts

87 Onetime hair removal brand

89 Let out or take in 90 Stage name for hip-hop’s Sandra Denton

91 It’s all the rage 92 ‘‘What-ever’’ reactions 94 Post-distraction segue

97 Light-filled room 98 Way, way off 99 Hitchcock’s forte 100 Clearing

101 Like bison vis-àvis beef

DOWN

1 Key for Chopin’s ‘‘Heroic’’ Polonaise

2 It might be organized

3 Foundation options 4 Eclipses and comets, perhaps

5 Joy of MSNBC 6 Parked it, so to speak

7 Maximally

8 Pacific birds?

9 Bit of thatching 10 Take sides? 11 Catapulted, say 12 Bird much seen in cities

13 Reply to a ring 14 Not in the dark 15 Adriatique, e.g. 16 Task for a souschef

17 Like sirens

18 Be considered perfect

19 More than just clean

21 Shopping in order to improve one’s mood

28 Fire

31 They might be wireless

32 Desktop icon 33 Surname of Harry Potter’s adoptive family

35 Pop star nickname, with ‘‘the’’

36 Bet strategically 38 Mythical nymph 39 Reliquary 40 Inspiration for the Frisbee

41 Floored 42 Longtime Ohio State basketball coach Matta

43 Filet ____ 44 Stopped smoking? 46 Half of a notorious outlaw duo

47 Added to the language

50 First little piggy’s destination

52 Key hit with a pinkie

53 It helps take the edge off

54 Just going through the motions 55 Complete, as a crossword 56 Creations for Mardi Gras 58 Particles composed of two up quarks and one down quark 59 Did a TV marathon, say

62 Start of some nofrills brand names 63 In a lather, with ‘‘up’’

64 Happy ____ 66 Come back around 67 Bits of high jinks? 68 What Mr. Clean, Captain Picard and Michael Jordan have in common 69 Thought expressed in American Sign Language by extending the pinkie, thumb and index finger

70 Compilations of funny film faux pas 71 Soeur’s sibling 72 Warehouse loading areas

74 *shrug*

77 ‘‘We want all the juicy details!’’ 78 Maintain, in a way, as a highway 81 Michael whose initials match those of his famous comedy troupe

82 Cut through 83 ‘‘____ and Majnun’’ (Arabic story that in- spired a Clapton hit) 84 One of the ‘‘holy trinity’’ ingredients in Cajun cuisine 85 Advice to one in a lather?

86 Very inclined (to) 88 Sting, perhaps 90 Taverna staple 91 Spice related to nutmeg 93 Argentite, e.g. 95 Fifth of eight 96 Show filmed at Rockefeller Ctr.