THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORd

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Across

1 52-story Boston skyscraper, familiarly

7 Brass instrument with a mellow sound 15 ____ Malfoy, student at Hogwarts 20 Sorkin and Spelling 21 Kind of equinox 22 Puerto ____ 23 “Stop! You’re killing me!” 25 ____-garde

26 Give some lip 27 Uncut

28 More than willing 30 For whom the Lorax speaks 31 Internet home to “Between Two Ferns” 34 Latin for “womb” 38 Monsieur’s mate

41 Y or N, maybe 42 Shakespeare character who says, “This above all: to thine own self be true”

45 Actor Jason 47 Zugspitze, e.g. 50 A person skilled at deadpan has one 52 What “4” may stand for 54 French river or department 55 Beseech 56 Advert’s ending? 57 Designer Geoffrey 58 Carrier to Karachi 61 Tugboat sounds 65 Decked out 67 Unimpressed response to someone’s one-liner 72 ____ intolerance 73 Novo-Ogaryovo is the official one of the Russian president 74 Lavatory sign 75 Hawke of “Training Day” 76 Regrettable 79 Broadway’s Hagen 81 “Roméo et Juliette” segment 85 Coin-toss call 86 Stand-up chain started in Los Angeles

92 Big engine additive 93 Log-in needs 94 Verbally assail 95 “Iglu,” for “igloo”: Abbr.

97 Cover over, in a way 99 Start limping

100It might involve someone being “so poor” or “so old” 104 “____, amigo” 107 Count ____ 108 Nail-salon employees, at times

110 Its “reeds are a pain / And the fingering’s insane,” per Ogden Nash 114 Lipinski and Reid 115 “Jeez … lighten up!” 120 Be grandiloquent 121 To this day, Marie Curie’s are still radioactive 122 Mystery 123 Lacoste and Descartes

124 Star of 1976’s Oscar winner for Best Picture 125 Smoothed in a shop

Down

1 Some body art, for short 2 “Hilarious!” 3 Noteworthy times 4 Lobster traps 5 Med. professionals who take a pledge named for Florence Nightingale 6 Welcomes 7 Plaster 8 Condition for filmdom’s Rain Man 9 Suffix with speed 10 “Oh, what the hell … I’ll do it”

11 “Uh, you’ve told me quite enough” 12 Where Michael Jordan played coll. ball 13 Meadow call 14 Poet Ginsberg 15 “Game of Thrones” creature

16 Joan who quipped ”A Peeping Tom looked in my window and pulled down the shade”

17 “Pick ____ …” 18 “Pretty please?” 19 Doing a pirouette, say

24 Poison ivy, e.g. 29 Some sneakers 30 Something carried onstage? 31 “Terrif!” 72 “Sounds like a plan!” 77 “Don’t be ____!” 78 ____ Walcott, Nobel Prize-winning poet 80 Patriots’ org.

82 Bad state to be in 83 Mine transport 84 Modern party summons 87 Euros replaced them 88 Bustle

89 Grp. that puts on a show 90 Fleets

91 Wall St. bigwigs 93 Like Mount Narodnaya 95 Empty

96 Brings a smile to 98 Like some angels and dominoes 100Champion 101 Airport that J.F.K. dedicated in 1963 102 Erin of “Joanie Loves Chachi” 103 Locks up 105 Concoct

106 Bug

108 Jester

109 Feeling 110 Anthony Hopkins’s “Thor” role

111 City NNE of

San Antone

112 “My treat!”

113 “My stars!” 116 Cambodia’s Angkor ____ 117 Court org.

118 Skit show, for short 119 What makes you you?