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1 Rock subgenre named for its vocal aesthetic
8 Like some spacesaving beds
14 Styles that are picked,
informally
18 Amateur
20 Disinclined (to)
21 Royal figure of sci-fi
22 Grammy for Kendrick Lamar’s ‘‘DAMN.’’ or Cardi B’s ‘‘Invasion of Privacy’’
24 Shuts down
25 American, abroad
26 Apt name for a
worrier
27 Moving toward equilibrium, in biology
29 Legerdemain
31 Horse color
34 Prepares for a
Ms. Olympia competition, say
36 Tiny foragers
37 ‘‘Here’s an example
...’’
41 Insect with distinctive
pincers
44 Without stop
45 Subj. for some future
bilinguals
46 Sources of music in
musicals
50 Splinter group
51 Brewing brothers Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). 54 Capital of Japan’s
Hyogo Prefecture
55 It might be broken in
overtime
56 Waits to publish, as
an article
59 Second-rate
61 Pronoun pairing
63 Loop trains
64 Hornswoggle
67 De-creased
69 Luxury Hyundai
70 ‘‘Still da ____’’ (Trina
title track of 2008)
72 Fluster
74 Kind of squash
77 One using cloves or
garlic
79 What gets filled at a
shell station?
80 Monthly condition,
for short
83 Hairstyle protectors
85 Tabbouleh topping
87 Build, as interest
89 Kind of test
90 Board figure,
informally
92 Recipe unit
95 Goddess in a peacockdrawn chariot
96 Marilyn Monroe wore a fuchsia one while singing ‘‘Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend’’
99 Beverage that was a medieval source of nutrition
100 ____ President
101 Literary protagonist
raised by wolves
102 ‘‘The Sound of
Music’’ household
105 ‘‘Horned’’ creature
107 Turn one’s back on 109 Laces (into)
110 Apelike
112 University of
Montana city
115 Weasel word?
118 ____ Fielding, co-host of ‘‘The Great British Bake Off’’ beginning in 2017
119 Suffering from a losing streak, in poker slang
122 Secret exits represented five times in this puzzle’s grid
125 ‘‘Bus Stop’’
playwright
126 Camping shelter
127 Advocates
128 Romanov ruler
129 Vulnerable
130 Most likely to inspire
‘‘thirst’’
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1 Twins, e.g., for short
2 Site with tech tutorials
3 Gets out of a grave
situation?
4 Scores for placekickers
5 Mental health org.
6 They’re thumped at
supermarkets
7 Balls
8 Overly simplistic
9 Bake-off equipment
10 Major-____ (pro
ballplayer)
11 OB/GYNs, e.g.
12 Application
13 Royal pain
14 Circus apparatus
15 Laugh or cry, say
16 ‘‘Old a Farm’’ MacDonald sounds Had
17 N.Y.C. retailer with a famed holiday window display
19 Rum ____ Tugger (cat
in ‘‘Cats’’)
23 Like a romantic evening stroll, perhaps
28 [someone else’s
error]
30 Cause chaos
32 —
33 ‘‘That’s it?’’
35 Camping shelter
37 Only person to win an
Oscar, Emmy and
Tony in the same year (1973)
38 Kitty ____, stunt performer once known as the
‘‘fastest woman in the world’’
39 Four-limbed animals
40 ‘‘Raiders of the Lost
Ark’’ biter
42 Plato’s P
43 Halloween decorations that can be made with cotton balls
46 Heavy metal’s ‘‘Prince of Darkness’’ 47 ‘‘Am ____ only one?’’ 48 Level
49 Some skin-care products
52 Power up 53 A.L. East squad:
Abbr.
57 Slice, for one 58 Give the ____
60 Stopover 62 — 65 — 66 Put on ice
68 Traffic control org.
70 Disco ____ (iconic
garment for Lady Gaga)
71 ‘‘Chandelier’’ singer,
2014
73 Longtime record label 74 Annexes 75 Rube Goldberg machines, e.g. 76 Like some vaccines 78 A, in Berlin 80 Incline
81 Expansive work of
art, usually
82 Disreputable
84 Annual Austin
festival, familiarly
86 ‘‘This is too much’’
88 One to be dethroned
91 One being coddled,
maybe
93 Lacking any
adulteration
94 Zing
97 One who may have
attachment issues? 98 Small Nintendo
console, once
100 Spring month in
France
102 ____ 1, Yuri
Gagarin’s spacecraft
103 Cries in a tattoo
parlor
104 Frothy coffee
invented in Greece
105 —
106 Sign of resistance
108 Some bank deposits
110 Foul mood 111 Pelicans’ home,
informally
113 —
114 Girl in a tartan
116 Miner discoveries
117 Relative of ‘‘Hey!’’
120 March Madness
‘‘trophy’’
121 Road goo
123 Maliciously reveal personal info about online
124 ‘‘Mais ____!’’