NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

STITCHIN’ TIME By Robert Ryan / Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 “It’s not that

simple”

9 Kind of passage 14 When Juliet drinks

the potion

19 Race held annually

in early March 20 Computer expert, for

short

21 Reading can be

found on it 23 Bigamy, legally

speakin’?

25 [I forgot the words

... ]

26 Eau so big?

27 Stellar, as a pitching

outing

28 Pirate fodder, once 30 Right hand

34 Joel’s smuggling partner on HBO’s “The Last of Us” 35 Creative types 36 Where copy editors

are workin’? 40 Beefeater, e.g. 42 Certain legal

guardian

43 Shade

44 Pitch tents, say 48 Auction unit

49 Loads

50 Heading on a

balance sheet 53 Classic Hasbro toy that debuted in 1964

54 Lenovo

competitor 56 “Enjoyin’ your meal?” or “I’ll be servin’ you today”? 59 Super Bowl LVI

winners

60 One can be empty or

veiled

63 Spirit 64 Brussels administrative official, informally 66 Oxford, e.g.

68 “____ is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it”: Gillian Flynn 71 France before it was

France

72 Animal that resembles a raccoon more than a bear, despite its name 76 Opposite of da 78 Spell out in Spanish? 82 Crumbly cake

topping

83 Reaction to the climax of a heartbreakin’ movie?

87 Equipment used to make “pizza slices” or “French fries”

88 Church chorus 90 Styled like Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock

91 Sch. near the Getty

Center

94 Cooper’s raw

material

95 OutKast, e.g. 97 Gnaw (at) 98 First-time offense, so

to speak

100 Concave bodily

features

102 Statute regulatin’

surrogacy?

104 Big ____

107 2022 horror sci-fi film co-starring Daniel Kaluuya 108 Item on a wish list 109 Japanese fried pork

cutlet 111 World capital closest to “Null Island” (0°N, 0°E)

113 Before, poetically 116 Cause of warming

tropical seas

117 Financin’ Broadway

shows?

123 Seize an opportunity 124 “Snowy” bird 125 All shook up

126 Stood (with)

127 Hiding spot for a

124-Across

128 Fully

DOWN

1 Sharp bark

2 Product typically wrapped in paraffin wax

3 Father

4 Draw

5 Grams in Britain? 6 Beats Electronics

co-founder, familiarly 7 Winter Olympics

powerhouse: Abbr. 8 Wednesday eponym 9 Specialty segments 10 Liable to be lost 11 Emits sparks, as a

campfire

12 Stick for a snowman,

say

13 Auto racing

champion Sébastien 14 Yet to be

apprehended 15 Some protest activity 16 Bubbles featurin’ comic-book dialogue?

17 Products with screens ... or a homophone of a type of big screen 18 South African

grassland 22 Mouthing off 24 “Gotcha”

29 Not of the cloth 31 Big-box store with a

labyrinthine layout 32 Blackmail

ammunition 33 Furnish with an

income

36 B equivalent 37 Booze 38 Acid-alcohol

compound 39 Entertainers Carvey

and Delany 40 Fencing face-off 41 Fix, as a bow 43 Sister channel of

QVC

45 Cracked open 46 N.Y.C. gallery 47 Irritating sort 50 ____ Gawande, best-selling author of “Being Mortal” 51 What’s found at the end of “Citizen Kane”?

52 Comfy

55 One tendin’ to reply

quickly?

57 Android

competitor 58 Georgian and

Edwardian, for two 61 Comprehensive

report?

62 Shade

65 French agreement 67 “The Simpsons”

teacher Krabappel 69 Regarded

suspiciously

70 Cause of insomnia in

a fairy tale

72 Surf sound 73 Grammy-nominated

sister of Aretha 74 Yawning 75 Something a P.S.A.

lacks

77 “Preach!”

79 Vans Old ____

(classic sneaker) 80 Heroine of Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog”

81 Hastily hung, maybe 84 401(k) alternatives 85 Word with “at

home” or “at all” 86 Mess (up)

89 Annual indie festival 92 Bread an Italian grandmother might have made? 93 Similar (to)

96 Like all animals in the genus Equus, uniquely

98 Sailor’s rear 99 Diplomatic

agreement 101 Form-al org.? 102 Ribbed

103 Some crossreferences in a research paper, informally

104 “____ it up!” 105 Preppy tops

106 Listless feeling 107 Pearl button coating 110 Very, informally 112 Marginally 114 Set of sheets? 115 “Dónde ____ ... ?” 118 Carbon-dating

determination 119 Game with “+2”

and “+4” cards 120 Held session, as a

council

121 “More or less” 122 “Relations”