NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Miss 5 More than excited 10 Grub for a grub 14 Elliptical 18 Where a phone might be tapped 19 Last Oldsmobile

model 20 Site of the Bocca

Nuova crater 21 Regional flora and

fauna 22 Facial feature of a

Lego man? 24 Sparkling Italian wine 25 With 81-Across,

flashy basketball play 26 Completely remove 27 Blew off steam? 29 “Hold your horses” 31 Word before job or

joke 33 M.C. during a power

outage? 37 Regulus is its

brightest star 38 Small change? 40 Most eccentric 41 Formerly 42 What means most in

the end? 43 Some somber music 45 “So what?” 46 Tailor’s measurement 48 “The elite fighter pilots may skip the rest of the lecture”? 53 New Cub Scout 54 Hairy hunter of

Genesis 55 Looney Tunes devil,

for short 56 Hostile declaration 59 Decision 60 Expense for a political campaign 62 List of available

courses 64 What the abscissa and ordinate are measured from 66 Take in 67 Drive a getaway car through Australia’s outback? 72 Cousin ____ (“Jimmy

Kimmel Live” regular) 74 Major account 75 Nickname of a 2010s

pop idol, with “the” 76 Bird in Liberty Mutual

commercials 77 Work mates 79 Answer 81 See 25-Across 84 When Caesar is told to “Beware the ides of March” 87 Give in 89 What you might do after the movie previews are finally over? 93 Yeshiva instructor 94 Civil War side: Abbr. 96 Group who ought to

know better? 97 Rx prescribers 98 Pioneering programmer Lovelace 99 Fish whose name means “very strong” in Hawaiian 103 Put away 105 “The devil’s lettuce” 106 Where spaghetti and orzo rank in terms of their suitability for making necklaces? 109 Resident of Japan’s

“second city” 111 ____ Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table 112 Martin ____, star of 1960s TV’s “Route 66” 114 Opera singer Fleming 116 Play with, as a toy

mouse 118 To boot 120 One who believes exclusively in a sea god? 122 Political columnist

Molly 123 Noted Christian 124 Role in the 2005 hit musical “Jersey Boys” 125 Electric-flux symbols 126 “Pretty please?” 127 Like child’s play 128 County on the

Thames 129 Legal postponement

DOWN

1 What Winthrop speaks with in “The Music Man” 2 Give in 3 Musicians’ slip-ups 4 Hang-ups 5 Fannie ____ 6 Isaac Newton, by

hobby 7 Classic soda brand 8 Source of the word

“galore” 9 Xbox and GameCube 10 Cause 11 Long-distance

travelers, informally 12 Composer Dvorak 13 Passed out 14 De-squeaked 15 Thick cloud above a

peak 16 Took in 17 ____ of the land 21 System used in

computer code 23 Frist’s successor as Senate majority leader 28 That, in Spanish 30 Quizzical utterances 32 Actress Conn of

“Grease” 34 Popular tablets 35 Antique-shop

deal 36 Stovetop item 37 Where a herd might

be heard 39 Aretha Franklin’s Grammy-nominated sister 44 Thingamajig 47 Kind of order for the circled letters in this puzzle 49 Swedish Air Force

supplier 50 Guys 51 Making a clerical

error? 52 Exercise in dexterity 53 Grease 57 Cry from a

nursery 58 The king of diamonds

carries one 61 It might be glassy or

icy 63 Ragtime great

Blake 65 Shrub that produces a crimson-colored spice 67 Two-time Emmy winner for “30 Rock” 68 Common thing to lie

about 69 Rule that ended in

1947 70 Prime cut 71 “____ is life” 72 Carving in a

cartouche 73 Business whose patrons are often fighting 78 Entanglement 80 No. 44 82 Completely embarrasses, slangily 83 Piece of music that evokes the countryside 85 Certain percussion

player 86 Home of the Komodo

dragon 88 Knuckleheads 90 *Swoon* 91 Southwestern ski

resort 92 Prime meridian

std. 94 Absurd pretense 95 20-Across’s island, to

locals 100 Sum total: Abbr. 101 Storehouse 102 ____ polloi 104 Voting district 107 Like the newspaper

Al-Shabiba 108 Ancient empire

builders 110 Something to play for 113 Some are shockers 115 Online handicrafts

marketplace 116 Part of many a

postcard, briefly 117 Gardner of old

Hollywood 119 Nine-symbol message 121 Word often spoken in

pig Latin