THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Miss
5 More than excited 10 Grub for a grub 14 Elliptical
18 Where a phone might be tapped
19 Last Oldsmobile model
20 Site of the Bocca Nuova crater 21 Regional flora and fauna
22 Facial feature of a Lego man? 24 Sparkling Italian wine 25 With 81-Across, flashy basketball play 26 Completely remove 27 Blew off steam? 29 “Hold your horses” 31 Word before job or joke
33 M.C. during a power outage? 37 Regulus is its brightest star 38 Small change? 40 Most eccentric 41 Formerly
42 What means most in the end?
43 Some somber music 45 “So what?” 46 Tailor’s measurement 48 “The elite fighter pilots may skip the rest of the lecture”?
53 New Cub Scout 54 Hairy hunter of Genesis 55 Looney Tunes devil, for short 56 Hostile declaration 59 Decision 60 Expense for a political campaign
62 List of available courses 64 What the abscissa and ordinate are measured from 66 Take in
67 Drive a getaway car through Australia’s outback? 72 Cousin ____ (“Jimmy Kimmel Live” regular) 74 Major account 75 Nickname of a 2010s pop idol, with “the” 76 Bird in Liberty Mutual commercials 77 Work mates 79 Answer
81 See 25-Across 84 When Caesar is told to “Beware the ides of March”
87 Give in
89 What you might do after the movie previews are finally over? 93 Yeshiva instructor 94 Civil War side: Abbr. 96 Group who ought to know better? 97 Rx prescribers 98 Pioneering programmer Lovelace 99 Fish whose name means “very strong” in Hawaiian
103 Put away
105 “The devil’s lettuce” 106 Where spaghetti and orzo rank in terms of their suitability for making necklaces? 109 Resident of Japan’s “second city” 111 ____ Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table 112 Martin ____, star of 1960s TV’S “Route 66”
114 Opera singer Fleming 116 Play with, as a toy mouse
118 To boot
120 One who believes exclusively in a sea god?
122 Political columnist Molly
123 Noted Christian 124 Role in the 2005 hit musical “Jersey Boys” 125 Electric-flux symbols 126 “Pretty please?” 127 Like child’s play 128 County on the Thames
129 Legal postponement
Down
1 What Winthrop speaks with in “The Music Man”
2 Give in 3 Musicians’ slip-ups 4 Hang-ups 5 Fannie ____ 6 Isaac Newton, by hobby
7 Classic soda brand 8 Source of the word “galore”
9 Xbox and Gamecube 10 Cause 11 Long-distance travelers, informally 12 Composer Dvorak 13 Passed out 14 De-squeaked 15 Thick cloud above a peak
16 Took in
17 ____ of the land 21 System used in computer code 23 Frist’s successor as Senate majority leader
28 That, in Spanish 30 Quizzical utterances 32 Actress Conn of “Grease” 34 Popular tablets 35 Antique-shop deal 36 Stovetop item 37 Where a herd might be heard 39 Aretha Franklin’s Grammy-nominated sister 44 Thingamajig 47 Kind of order for the circled letters in this puzzle 49 Swedish Air Force supplier
50 Guys
51 Making a clerical error? 52 Exercise in dexterity 53 Grease
57 Cry from a nursery 58 The king of diamonds carries one
61 It might be glassy or icy
63 Ragtime great Blake 65 Shrub that produces a crimson-colored spice 67 Two-time Emmy winner for “30 Rock” 68 Common thing to lie about
69 Rule that ended in 1947
70 Prime cut 71 “____ is life” 72 Carving in a cartouche 73 Business whose patrons are often fighting 78 Entanglement
80 No. 44 82 Completely embarrasses, slangily 83 Piece of music that evokes the countryside 85 Certain percussion player
86 Home of the Komodo dragon 88 Knuckleheads 90 *Swoon* 91 Southwestern ski resort
92 Prime meridian std. 94 Absurd pretense 95 20-Across’s island, to locals
100 Sum total: Abbr. 101 Storehouse
102 ____ polloi 104 Voting district 107 Like the newspaper Al-shabiba 108 Ancient empire builders 110 Something to play for 113 Some are shockers 115 Online handicrafts marketplace
116 Part of many a postcard, briefly 117 Gardner of old Hollywood 119 Nine-symbol message
121 Word often spoken in pig Latin