edited by will shortz: no 1202 rePresent! by Paul Coulter THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORd

Across

1 Tennis judge’s cry 6 Locks in a barn? 10 Icon leading to checkout 14 Traveled in trunks?

18 Large green moths 19 Dateless, say 21 It’s frequently in Italian

22 Greek ally in the “Iliad” 23 13579 AZ

25 Hash houses 27 Country on the Red Sea

28 Home sick? 29 Brackish coastal habitat 30 Citrus drink 31 Egyptian god of the universe

33 It often comes before the fall 34 Summer clock setting: Abbr. 36 Large large skip skip

43 Victoria’s Secret item

46 Sandra Denton, in hip-hop’s “Whatta Man” trio

48 A miner concern? 49 Opening in a battlement 50 Some transitional movie shots 52 Sporting a feathery crest

55 First name on the Supreme Court 56 AT hot dog hot dog RA 58 Tags 60 The Lions or Tigers, on scoreboards 61 Many a fête d’anniversaire attendee 62 Writer Wiesel 63 Invincibility powerup in Mario games 65 Blow away 66 Wound + dis 72 “____ Vickers,” Sinclair Lewis novel 74 Doesn’t keep 75 Perch for a pie 76 Comment on a blog 78 Dad ____

79 After all deductions 80 P P U U B B

84 Big name in watches 86 Creator of a draft 88 All you can eat 89 Masters 91 Six-foot runner? 92 Cut, as a log 93 Scratch (out) 94 Per spire 99 Farrokh Bulsara ____ Freddie Mercury 101 ____ Caovilla, Italian shoe designer 102 Part of a buck 104 End of the British alphabet 107 Something studied in toponymy 112 Altar avowal 113 Creator of the detective Adam Dalgliesh

116 Fiery peppers

117 Yearn

do 119 Currier’s partner 120 Something to take lying down 121 Grassy expanse 122 Certain reunion attendee 123 It’s better than never, they say 124 Spanish title: Abbr. 125 Pivot around an axis 126 Less crazy

Down

1 White sheet 2 Broadway’s McDonald 3 Reversed

4 Kept on going 5 Evictor of the Jews in “Fiddler on the Roof” 6 Palindromic title 7 Pint-glass fill 8 “That’s all wrong!” 9 Off-road motorcycle race

10 Street fleet 11 What a Mercator projection map notably distorts 12 ____ Bridge (Venice landmark)

13 Like some yoga 14 Explosion fragments 15 Small dam 16 Trojan ally in the “Iliad” 17 Moonshine maker’s need 20 Cornerstone abbr. 24 Puts in order 26 Political refugees 32 Announcement over a plane’s P.A. 35 Like cleats 37 Minute amount 38 Test for a college sr. 39 “Father ____” (bygone British sitcom)

40 Store event that people may stand in line for 41 Freshen

42 Give a major lift 43 Soul sister, say 44 ____ avis 45 Garden parties? 47 Telepathy term 51 Children’s author Blyton 52 Anklebone 53 Abbr. that rhymes with “bill,” appropriately 54 Woodworking tool 57 Catbird seat?

58 “At Seventeen” singer Janis ____ 59 He wore No. 6 for the Sixers

63 Like some clean energy

64 Ones place 67 Boiling blood 68 “Ask ____ ...” 69 Flag 70 Satellite connection 71 Eldest Stark son on “Game of Thrones” 72 Manhattan Project creation 73 Baseball’s Garciaparra 77 Long haul 79 Durable yellow cotton cloth 80 Darlings 81 Grassy expanse 82 Boy king in Shakespeare’s “Richard III” 83 Atlanta-to-Miami dir. 85 Transmission part 86 Groceries holder 87 Genetic-info carrier 90 What all people are, per the Bible 92 Cardinal letters

95 “____, My God, to Thee” (hymn) 96 Sings the blues 97 Funds 98 Discordant

100Hank who voices Moe and Chief Wiggum

103 Lyric poem 105 German port in Lower Saxony 106 Two in the hand 107 Knight who cofounded Nike 108 What obsidian forms from

109 Partner of aid 110 Lion’s share 111 “Cómo ____ usted?” 114 Norwegian P.M. Stoltenberg 115 Sibyl 118 “Despicable Me” supervillain