THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD ‘ OH, REALLY?’ By Freddie Cheng / Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1 Polo need 7 Some ballroom

dances 14 Go by again 20 Figures in TV’s

“V” 21 Acid, e. g. 22 One- two wager 23 Ultranationalism? 25 Sunday best 26 Keep on hand 27 View from une

chalet, maybe 28 Reforms? 29 Scream, so to

speak 31 Gray shades 35 Mil. stat 36 Dame ___

Everage 39 “Thriller”

Grammy sweep? 44 Appear that way 46 Zero 47 More than dislike 48 Speed at which the apocalypse is coming? 51 Having allegorical

meanings 56 43- Down follower 57 Brought in 61 Gold- compound

salt 62 Balkan native 64 Obsessivecompulsive soap purger? 66 Source of indigo 70 Kate who married

a prince 73 Classic Jags 74 Big gambling loss in the Biggest Little City in the World? 77 Venetian strip 80 Louis Armstrong

played one 81 More gung- ho 84 Excitement 89 Former Treasury secretary Paul and former Yankee Paul 91 Bad precept for U. S. foreign policy? 93 Spa item 97 L- P center 98 Non compos

mentis 99 Not a happy ending on the yellow brick road? 105 Choice word 106 “Are you ___

out?” 107 Do a hula, e. g. 108 Swerve 110 Goes ( for) 112 Nastily slander 116 Wrong 120 What a chair

may hold 121 TV detective with his unbalanced suspect? 125 Solemn pieces 126 Like the Boston

Tea Partiers 127 Whence the

phrase “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts” 128 Opposite of

dethrone 129 Big name in

pasta 130 Curses out?

Down

1 Some mil. brass 2 Settled down 3 Lead- in to type 4 Bikers’ woes 5 Japanese

mushroom 6 J. F. K. search

party? 7 Clandestine group 8 Link letters 9 Joint concern 10 Opposite of flat 11 Part of a bray 12 Santa ___ 13 Dump 14 Dump 15 Red- letter word 16 Article of apparel that’s not made where you might think 17 Like CH3CO2H 18 Run 19 Asserts something 24 Plaster support 28 1980s New York Philharmonic maestro 30 Peter of “The Last

Emperor” 32 Part of some email addresses 33 Radar anomaly 34 Class action grp.? 36 Spanish 101 word 37 Many- layered 38 “Little” comics

boy 40 Rear 41 J’adore perfumer 42 Perennial

succulent 43 Religious figure 45 Sandbox

frequenters 49 Manhattan

Project physicist 50 Jazz vocalist

Shaw 52 Antelope related

to the gemsbok 53 Cram 54 “Am ___ only

one?” 55 Mitt Romney and

others, once 58 Pizzeria order 59 “The Lord of the Rings” tree creature 60 U. K. mil.

decorations 63 Con 65 China’s Zhou ___ 66 With the bow, in

music 67 Really bright 68 Memo intro 69 Blonde

Anderson 71 Appropriate 72 Death Row Records cofounder, familiarly 75 Chap 76 “Finally!” 78 Like election

laws, typically 79 Ugly one 82 Watson of the Harry Potter films 83 Musical with the song “Seasons of Love” 85 Sabotage 86 Dump, say 87 A long time 88 Big vein 90 Some Blu- ray

players 92 Louis XIV, for

one 94 Wreath source 95 Solution reaction 96 Miss’s partner 99 It might result in

a meltdown 100 Tchaikovsky’s

“Eugene ___” 101 Bag handlers 102 House of ___ 103 Broadway smash

starting in ’ 87 104 Pizzeria need 109 Chart holder 111 Spark, so to

speak 113 Consort of Zeus 114 Big oil exporter 115 Mini’s

counterpart 117 Summer cooler 118 Record problem 119 Lays the

groundwork for? 121 Half a laugh 122 New element in each of this puzzle’s theme answers 123 Geog.

abbreviation 124 Tiny application