THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Front 7 Spanish rice 12 Little sucker? 15 Smallish batteries

18 Like a seacoast after a storm, maybe 19 Ferris Bueller’s girlfriend

20 ____ B. Wells, civil rights pioneer 21 ____-mo

22 S as in soup? 23 Kind of drawing 25 Icarus’s downfall 26 Skip work for health reasons

28 Words after “Ooh, ooh!”

29 Beau, to Brigitte 30 Verbal stumbles 31 Baseball catcher 32 Ire 34 Boy band with two members who previously starred on “The Mickey Mouse Club”

36 Little suckers 37 Headgear for a tailgater

39 One of the Arnazes

40 “... but it’s up to you” 43 Famously green shampoo

45 Rap’s Shakur 47 Pope after Benedict IV 48 Winter vacation destination 51 Parades 54 Barely beat 55 Goals 56 Silverback gorilla, e.g. 58 Moreno with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony 60 Drag-racing vehicles

62 “____ trap!” 63 Meager

65 Tired

66 In perfect order ... or, as two words, what’s formed by applying the answers for the five italicized clues to the circled letters 70 Dined at home 71 More skeptical 73 “Hamilton” actor Leslie

____ Jr.

74 Break down, to a Brit 76 Theory

77 Sea ____

79 Prefix with -plasm 80 Piece paid by Pisans for a piece of pizza, previously

82 Safe places 84 Multi-episode narrative 87 Crucifix inscription 88 Relentlessly question 90 En ____ (as a whole) 91 Having tattoos 92 Event that’s a bit off? 94 The butler, stereotypically 97 It gives Ford an “F”: Abbr.

99 Buff

100 First Alaskan on a major U.S. party ticket

101 E-4, E-5 and E-6, in the U.S. Navy, in brief 102 Successors to LPS 105 Part of Canada above Alta. and Sask. 106 One of the Gandhis 109 Where to get a mullet trimmed

112 “____ get it now!” 113 Civic center 115 Colored ring 116 Washington’s Sea____ Airport 117 Non’s opposite 118 Ban ... or bandit 119 By and large 120 College entrance exam org.

121 Hosp. V.I.P.S 122 Author Zora ____ Hurston

123 Son of Aphrodite

Down

1 Compete in one leg of a modern pentathlon 2 Loud, as the surf 3 Chills

4 Not incl.

5 Set the boundaries of 6 Perfect

7 Smart ____ 8 Painter of the “Four Freedoms” series, 1943

9 Sound from a cheering crowd 10 Even 11 Pinnacle

12 ____ Chemical Company, onetime maker of Vaporub 13 Writer Serwer of The Atlantic

14 Event planner’s need 15 Attempts 16 They’re listed by degrees

17 ____ boom 19 Struck, old-style 24 Bygone Apple messaging app 27 Members of a blended family 33 Move, in Realtor jargon 35 Airport logjam 36 Rick, Ilsa and Victor had one in “Casablanca” 37 First lady between Eleanor and Mamie 38 Fanny 40 Accented cheer 41 Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, for two 42 Restricted zone 44 “Ba-dum-tss” 46 Education support grps.

48 ____ Paulo, Brazil 49 Sea route, e.g. 50 “Frozen” queen 52 Endless Youtube viewing, e.g. 53 French island off the coast of Newfoundland 57 Tropical yellow fruits 59 Writer Rand

61 New York city with a marina

62 Suffix with tour or Tory

64 ____-El (Superman’s birth name) 65 Conflict during which the Lusitania was sunk: Abbr. 67 Fateful date 68 What’s left at sea 69 Dig in 72 Flat, round bread cooked on a griddle 75 Noted congresswoman from the Bronx, familiarly 78 After-bath application 79 Anatomical sac 81 Hoped-for response to an SOS

83 Lien holder, e.g. 85 Ahab’s father in the Bible 86 Desert’s lack 89 Hogwarts professor who was secretly a werewolf 91 “Awkward Black Girl” creator and star 92 “Who cares?” 93 Slapstick silliness 95 Gary who created “The Far Side” 96 Award to be hung

98 Start of a playground joke

99 U.S. govt. bond 101 Compass letters 102 Unisex fragrance 103 ____ Street, Perry Mason’s secretary 104 Strong ropes used to support masts 107 Verb preceder 108 Bad things on motorists’ records, for short

110 “Dies ____” (hymn) 111 Curb, with “in” 114 The Jazz, on scoreboards