NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
SPECIAL TREATMENT By Scott Hogan and Katie Hale / Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
1 Favors
5 Slathered in sauce, in
restaurant-speak 8 Letters on security
camera footage
12 Big flings
18 “Pet” you wouldn’t
take to the vet 19 Cosecant’s reciprocal 20 Cookie with its name
on it
21 One of four on a
diamond
22 I visited the
cardiologist, who ... 25 Bull-headed?
26 Club assistant
27 Apt letters that complete this word: P__RPO__ __ 28 Nailed
30 Partner of Hoda on
“Today”
31 I visited the dermatologist, who ...
35 “The greatest as well as the most elegant of Roman philosophers,” per Voltaire
38 Rob in Hollywood 39 Fashion something
fashionable, maybe 40 Uninspired 41 Revealing word 45 Like a money-back
guarantee
47 I visited a dentist and
now I ...
51 Otis of elevator fame 55 Set forth
56 Prattle
57 Sorry ass? 61 Equivalent of 32,000
ounces 62 Pinches
64 Scenario before a two-run home run, say
65 Lived (in) 67 Alternative to foil or
saber
69 I visited the anesthesiologist and now I’ve ...
73 Bitter brews
74 Gets in shape? 76 Home of the 123story Lotte World Tower
77 Natural decorations
on some bookshelves 79 Pique
80 Hunt
82 Lovelace of early computer programming 84 California wine valley 87 One with a landlord 89 I visited a sleep
specialist, who ... 92 Double-wide, as a
garage
96 Professional who
works a lot
97 Skin
98 Soul seller
100 Change positions, as
in volleyball
102 Takes the blame for 105 I visited the
radiologist, who ... 110 Rude ... or, without its first two letters, rude person
111 ____ beer (nonalcoholic beverage)
112 MSNBC competitor 113 Slowly cook,
in a way
118 Prenatal tests, in brief 120 I visited the podiatrist
and now I ...
123 Call
124 Filled, folded food 125 Female French friend 126 O, in hangman 127 Meager
128 Part of most musical
notes
129 Cribbage marker 130 Mathematician
Noether
DOWN
1 Rock band with a
slash (but not Slash) 2 Like much of Iran 3 Sue Monk ____, author of “The Secret Life of Bees”
4 Castle material,
maybe
5 GameCube successor 6 Result
7 Actress Thompson of
“Creed”
8 It’s totally corny 9 Step in origami 10 Educational
forum
11 Gave a thumbs-down 12 “Whaddya mean?” 13 Kind of keyboard 14 Setting for some post-run refreshments? 15 ____ Barbarino, John Travolta’s role on “Welcome Back, Kotter”
16 Heretofore
17 Car that Brits call a
“saloon”
19 Mascara mishap 23 Proctor’s
pronouncement 24 ____ Lingus 29 The “Do” in “Do-ReMi”
32 Went under
33 Asia’s disappearing
____ Sea
34 Old yeller? 35 Bamboozles
36 Having two equal
sides
37 Behaved like the lion
in Oz
40 Caribbean musical
genre
42 Long quest
43 Roth ____
44 It’s involved in kissing
and telling 46 Wheelless vehicle 48 Hint to the number of ingredients in Triscuits
49 Web-page code 50 Allowed to be
borrowed
52 Puts the pedal to the
metal
53 Spanish salutation 54 They might come out
of the woodwork 58 U.S. fair-hiring inits. 59 “We doin’ this?” 60 Eleven, in El Salvador 63 It might be a stretch 64 Olive ____ of
“Popeye”
66 Pack of dogs? 67 Man’s name that becomes a distance if you move the first letter to the end 68 Sponge feature 70 Ridiculously
71 Bean variety
72 Have over
75 Erupt
78 [Forehead palm
smack] 81 Corp. shuffle 82 ____ Max, singer of the 2018 hit “Sweet but Psycho” 83 Neighbor of Md. 85 Non-stereo 86 Button on social
media
88 Leo, for one 90 Swear
91 Do some engraving 93 “SportsCenter”
anchor Linda 94 Swears
95 Knocking
onomatopoeia 98 Like a comeuppance,
perhaps
99 “Lemme, lemme!” 101 Ancient Greek area north of Thessaly 103 Color-blending
technique 104 Title for a French
priest
105 Lasting bad memories, so to speak
106 Got tagged 107 Anxiety condition, for short 108 Open, as a toothpaste
tube
109 Garden statuette 114 Long
115 Express-lane unit 116 Quilter’s line
117 Current event? 119 ____ vs. ____ (Mad
strip)
121 Paul ou Paulette 122 Fix