THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 ____ Pérignon 4 Result of a sand save, in golf 7 Letter-shaped groove used in framing 12 Subway stop: Abbr. 15 Chicago Booth offering, in brief 18 Computer text standard 20 ‘‘If all goes well . . . ’’21 Shook a leg 23 Traditional Indonesian percussion orchestra 24 Baseball manager who once instructed his team to ‘‘pair up in threes’’ 25 It may be a lot outside the city 26 180s 27 It helps you get the picture 30 Sportscaster Hershiser 31 Annual Pebble Beach event 33 ‘‘That is hilarious!’’ 34 Cite 35 Food-pyramid group 37 Orange-juice specification 39 Place for poissons 41 IV placers 42 Support staff: Abbr. 47 Hostile party 48 Blue ____ (symbol of Delaware) 51 ‘‘The Terrible’’ czar 53 Mirror 55 Sad response to ‘‘How was the game?’’ 57 Feel discontented 58 Having knobby bumps 59 Heretofore, poetically 60 Metal receptacle by a fireplace 61 College student’s earnings 62 Student’s do-over 63 Table scraps 65 Absinthe flavoring 66 1974 C.I.A. spoof 67 Brand name on a Go-gurt box 70 Hovers menacingly 71 Like a tuxedo bib 75 Athlete Arthur 76 Alley ____ 78 Leaves on the shelf? 79 Sportage automaker 80 Language with 44 consonant symbols 81 ‘‘____ knows?’’ 82 Back in the day 83 Suffix with east or west 84 Rubik with a cube 86 Fertility-clinic donations 87 Ohio home to Cedar Point, the ‘‘Roller Coaster Capital of the World’’ 89 Airline to Oslo 90 Guys in commercials 92 Steering implement 93 Burdensome amount 95 Giant Mel 96 Shelley’s ‘‘____ Skylark’’ 97 Leave one’s mark, in a way 99 Spot 100 One with two years to go, informally 102 270° from sur 105 Hide ____ hair 106 Prepare to skate 108 Soldier’s helmet, in old slang 110 Place to find a crook 111 Downhearted 113 After-school helper 115 Blanket 117 Lab dropper 118 Character with character 119 Welcome policy at a bar 120 Bagel topper 121 Anthony of ‘‘In the Heights’’ and ‘‘Hamilton’’ 122 Seventh heaven

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1 Unearthed 2 ____ personality 3 Duplicating machine 4 Primary person, informally 5 Primary person? 6 Acclaims 7 Bone attached to the patellar tendon 8 Unit of stamps 9 Poet Federico García ____ 10 Talk show host nominated for an Academy Award 11 Whisper from Don Juan 12 Lacking 13 Sashimi choice 14 Verb in some tautologies 15 The ‘‘thing’’ in ‘‘Is this thing on?’’ 16 Che Guevara wore one 17 ‘‘Easy on Me’’ singer 19 Activist Chavez 22 Director Walsh of old Hollywood 28 Bygone tape type 29 Seeming eternity 32 Italian dipping sauce 34 Netflix series starring the Fab Five 36 Legacy of 72Down, seven of which appear among this puzzle’s answers and one more suggested by the black squares in the middle of the grid 38 Something that’s big with the current generation? 39 Actress Sorvino 40 Some nights of celebration 42 Ethically indifferent 43 Tangential remarks 44 When the original Big Five ruled Hollywood 45 Magical objects 46 Union members 49 Those, in Spanish 50 Cereal-box abbr. 52 Designer Miller 53 Relative of Ltd. 54 Hosp. areas 56 Unleashes upon 64 Bygone tape dispenser 66 Failed device meant to communicate with the dead 67 Swerves at sea 68 Org. that sets worker exposure limits 69 Object in the classic painting ‘‘His Master’s Voice’’ 72 With [circled letters reading clockwise], American icon born 2/11/1847 73 Common spot for a wasp nest 74 Primatologist Fossey 77 You can trip on it in the desert 79 Didn’t stop 82 Sharer’s possessive 85 Late harvest mo. 88 Novelist Brown 91 Tilling tool 94 Without gender, in Latin 95 Egyptian god of death and rebirth 97 Barbershop sounds 98 Kind of bond 99 Seasonal inflatable 101 Chaos 103 Tastes 104 Board of a cosmetics company? 106 Bard’s instrument 107 Cougar 108 Hideki ____, W.W. II prime minister 109 P.I.S, e.g. 112 Gender abbr. 114 Cat’s pa 116 Turn bad