THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE
A note on Texas hold’em (useful for completing this puzzle):players seek to combine up to two of the cards they hold with cards laid out on the table to make the best possible five-card poker hand.
ACROSS
1 Italian almond-flavored cookies 9 Highland boating spot
13 Thick slices
18 Local at St. Mark’s Square
19 Put right
21 Bridal path
22 Plant with clusters of tiny white flowers 23 Come forth
24 Do OK, academically
25 Instinctive
26 Source of the phrase ‘‘Look before you leap’’ 28 Opportunity for making professional connections
30 Little cells 31 Traditional Easter entree
33 MGM rival, once 34 Part of a sword 35 Hurriedly
38 More versed in esoterica, maybe
41 Reason one might not go out for a long time?
43 ‘‘Forbidden’’ fragrance
46 Biblical verb with thou
47 One after the other 50 Model Banks 52 Bhutanese bovines 53 Fire-resistant tree 57 Fruit also called blackthorn
58 Works as a mixologist
60 Raid and plunder 62 Taken (with) 65 Waterworks, e.g.: Abbr.
66 Zip
69 Put on the map, say 71 Control element in medical trials
73 Anger
75 Do some hemming, but not hawing
76 Zip
78 Waters of the world, figuratively
80 From Serbia or Croatia, say
81 Anne Hathaway’s role in 2010’s ‘‘Alice in Wonderland’’
83 Actress Perlman of ‘‘Cheers’’
85 Uses a ride-ordering service
86 Public discussion venues
88 1975 Wimbledon winner
90 Daybreaks 92 Roulette bets with nearly 1:1 odds
94 Old imperial title 96 Steve Martin, Tina Fey and Drew Barrymore, all more than five times
101 Fraser of 1999’s ‘‘The Mummy’’
103 Groups within groups
106 100 percent
107 Part of U.S.D.A.: Abbr.
108 Original first name of Mickey Mouse 111 It can have a French or pistol grip 112 What can keep a bubble from bursting 115 Trumpeter Armstrong
119 F.D.R. initiative for workers’ rights
120 Sci-fi author Asimov
121 ‘‘That’s cool, man’’ 123 Some loungewear 126 ‘‘Whole ____ Love’’ (Led Zeppelin hit) 127 Artifacts
128 Held in high regard 129 Scornful look 130 Philosopher Descartes
131 1998 Matt Damon film featuring this puzzle’s game
DOWN
1 Pop culture sister site of The Onion
2 ‘‘I’m back’’
3 Flowers like marigolds and petunias 4 Takes on, as a tenant 5 French summer 6 ‘‘____ consummation/ Devoutly to be wish’d’’: Hamlet
7 Yarn
8 Aplenty
9 Apollo vehicle, for short
10 Legislative vacancy 11 Insertion mark 12 Like a geocentric orbit in which the orbital period is more than 24 hours
13 Wise
14 Actor Schreiber 15 Footnote indicator 16 They might be down for a nap 17 Economy part 19 Some tow jobs, for short
20 Aired again
27 Hour, in Italy 29 Resort chain since 1950
30 Tuna type
32 QB stat: Abbr. 35 The Tabard in ‘‘The Canterbury Tales,’’ e.g. 36 They’re picked by the picky
37 Schleps 39 123-Across’s holding that wins this puzzle’s game
40 Letter starter 42 Indicator on a clock .?.?. or one of four in this puzzle?
44 How words may be recited
45 Language in which ‘‘khoobsurat’’ means ‘‘beautiful’’
48 Frolic
49 ‘‘America’’ singer, 1981
51 Noted sparkling wine region
53 Some gear for a gig 54 Register ring-up 55 Fore, for the H.M.S. Pinafore
56 Consume 59 Recycling receptacles 61 Site of a counter offer?
63 Literature, theater, filmmaking and others 64 Rave attendees, for example
66 ____ the way
67 Title meaning ‘‘commander’’
68 Benching targets, informally
70 Statistics, e.g. 72 Home of Iolani Palace
74 Place to wear goggles
77 Cardinal point? 79 Good judgment 81 Small songbird 82 Fireplaces
84 Em or Bee, e.g. 86 Missouri site of 2014 civil rights protests 87 Think too highly of 89 Entering gingerly 91 Counterpart of ‘‘Thx’’
93 Humphrey Bogart role
95 Common component of a tiki-bar cocktail 97 Honest and caring 98 Diana Ross, once 99 One picking up the tab
100 Spot
101 ‘‘Purple’’ and ‘‘Thai’’ herbs
102 Polite refusal 104 Big swigs
105 Sign of a full house 109 Public-transit customer
110 Patterned fabric 113 Kismet
114 Place to dine on a train
116 Account creator, maybe
117 ‘‘____ Excited’’ (Pointer Sisters song) 118 Yearly January speech to Congress: Abbr. 122 Chill
124 Give new hope to 125 1960s campus activist grp.