NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Some old PCS 5 Experience financial
ruin
11 Many files in a
Downloads folder 15 Talk ____
19 1990s sitcom starring Tia and Tamera Mowry 22 Beethoven’s “Ah!
perfido,” for one 23 Southwest people known for their dry farming
24 Grand Prix city
25 Fulminate
26 Portent
27 Start a web session 28 Tribute
30 Many zoomers
31 Gush (over)
33 Red lightsaber
wielder
36 Singular praise
37 ____ Xtra (soft drink) 38 Soul: Sp.
39 Make it so there’s
snow way out? 41 1963 hit for the
Kingsmen
45 It gets the show on
the road
48 Nothing but a
number, it’s said 49 Call from an old-time
paperboy
50 Essayist Susan 51 Attraction, so to
speak, with “the” 53 Org. often impersonated by phone scammers 54 Time for a visit from Ong Tao, the “Kitchen God”
55 Slip up 56 Yellowstone sight 58 [Gulp!]
59 House of Commons
reps
61 ____ gratia (in all
kindness: Lat.) 62 Rush order
64 Like some questions 66 Romanov V.I.P., once 68 Charlotte N.B.A.
player
70 “... you get the point”
74 “Well, lookie here!” 75 Quaint exclamation
of dismay
78 Fee payer, often 79 Thin pancakes in
Indian cuisine 80 Laborer of old
84 Dan of “Schitt’s
Creek”
85 To the ____ power 86 Time for March
madness? 88 Ultimate fighting
inits.
90 Certain summer
baby
91 “There you ____!” 92 Big tower, for short? 94 Years and years 95 Shock
97 Sings, in a way
101 When you should
leave, for short
103 Piece of roller-derby
equipment
104 Classic-joke start
105 High five at the
Olympics?
107 Unchanged
108 Yea or nay
109 Power source
111 Barfly’s flier
112 Added to a thread,
say
113 El ____ of the
Spanish Renaissance 115 “Amscray!”
117 Egomaniac’s
thought
119 Noted character with object-subject-verb syntax
120 Dangerous part of a road on which to pass
121 Extroverts
127 Tie down
128 Best-picture winner
of 2012
129 Basketball feat suggested by this puzzle’s pairs of theme answers, informally
130 1040 figs.
131 Love of languages? 132 In on
133 Add (on)
Down
1 Philosophy
2 H.S. class in the same department as chem
3 Yahoo alternative 4 Trusty to the end
5 Pirate’s booze
6 One way to learn 7 Like the Six Million
Dollar Man 8 “Anchors Aweigh”
grp.
9 Amtrak stop: Abbr.
10 Lab worker
11 Logical
conundrum 12 Prolong 13 Numismatic
grade
14 Plopped (down) 15 Setting for
many a diorama 16 Shortcut missing from newer smartphones 17 Lead 18 Affixes 20 Subject of
interest, in brief 21 Chess piece whose name is derived from the Persian for “chariot” 29 Cocktails made with ginger beer, informally 30 Pieces in the game Bananagrams 31 Flights connect
them
32 Allencompassing Egyptian deity 34 Aromatic
beverage
35 Perch for the
self-important 37 Gemstone cut named for a fruit 38 Baffled 40 Very bright
42 Eye piece 43 Nobelist Joliotcurie
44 Really get to 46 Sweetie
47 Weep in an unflattering way, in modern lingo
52 Lugs 57 Hold on to 58 Lunchtime estimate 59 Computer shortcuts
60 Slices and dices, say 61 Scottish hillsides
63 Annoying
65 Walk with swagger 67 It might get swiped in a college dining hall
68 Football trophy name
69 Where some replacements take place, in brief 71 Third column on a
calendar: Abbr. 72 Eaglet’s hatching
spot
73 Certain public
transport
75 Sound from
a jalopy
76 Played again 77 Words from an exlover
81 Go by
82 Put down again 83 Origami steps 85 Bread in Indian
cuisine
87 One taking action 89 Certain
close relative 92 Invite out for 93 1990s tennis star
Huber
94 Off-kilter
96 “Later!”
98 Green vehicles 99 Fried plantain dish of
Puerto Rico
100 Country named for its geographic location
102 It makes you you 103 Lobbyists’ area in
D.C.
106 Radiator cover
110 “Die Hard” squad, in
brief
112 Miss ____, famed
dial-a-psychic
113 Businesses that see an uptick after New Year’s
114 Aussie hoppers
115 Kernel of an idea
116 “Ouch, ouch, ouch!” 118 High style
120 Barnyard bleat
122 “Mais ____!” (“But of
course!”)
123 “Cyberchase”
channel
124 Org. whose members stay in their lanes
125 Business name
ender
126 “Yipe!”
Answers below