NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1 With frequency
4 Little disagreement
8 Rank for Porthos of ‘‘The Three Musketeers’’
13 Speak in Spanish
18 Court entrance?
20 Meaty sauce
21 Polynesian love
22 High grade
23 Instrument anyone
can play
25 ‘‘Oh, now I understand the significance of the troupe’s performance in ‘Hamlet’!’’
27 W-4 collector, for
short
28 Window treatment
30 Singer Rita
31 Touches up, as a
tattoo
32 ‘‘I can’t get past this
witness box!’’
35 Like many burns,
paradoxically
36 Word that can be represented by a number
37 Part of M.I.T.: Abbr.
38 Accidental ‘‘subject’’
of certain snapshots
41 ‘‘Watch out for that
bully!’’
47 Lead-in to air or
Atlantic
48 Application
49 ‘‘Father of,’’ in Arabic
Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). 50 Deborah of ‘‘The
Innocents,’’ 1961
51 Bamboozle
53 Passage straight from
the heart
55 Gave medicine
58 ‘‘Everyone dislikes
autumn now!’’
62 Where artwork is
often hung
64 Self-____
65 20,000 drops,
pharmaceutically
66 Big name in laptops
67 Euphemistic term for
love
68 Lisa with the 1994 No. 1 hit ‘‘Stay (I Missed You)’’
69 Where to see party people out on the floor?
71 Actor Willem
72 Really succeed
76 ‘‘Dracula has lived
half a millennium!’’
79 Talk like Foghorn
Leghorn
80 Lets out
81 Name that becomes an adjective when ‘‘-y’’ is added
82 Scottish refusals
84 Actress Whitman of
‘‘Parenthood’’
85 Word that can be represented by a number
86 Industrious animal in
a classic fable
87 ‘‘I’m thinking of a
grizzly!’’
91 Brandy container
94 Queen’s onetime rock
style 96 Fish of the future
97 Twisted do
98 ‘‘Careful, the shrub may have fingerprints on it!’’
105 Portmanteau expressions popularized by Tyra Banks
107 Trendy
108 Not just a couple
109 Many a Mormon
110 ‘‘I finished this
crossword!’’
113 Staple of Coen
brothers films
115 Buck who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2022
116 Closed captioner’s
machine
117 101-Down opera
118 Currency of the
Philippines
119 Diurnal phenomena
120 Acknowledge
wordlessly
121 Shape of a fox’s pupil
122 Haven
DOWN
1 Brightly colored food
fish
2 Make goo-goo eyes
3 Earth
4 Title of respect
5 R.&B.’s LaBelle
6 Over
7 Amped (up), slangily
8 Korean word for
cooked rice
9 Permits
10 Find hilarious 11 ‘‘Well, that’s
awesome!’’
12 ‘‘Stillmatic’’ rapper
13 Talk smack about
14 Taxing times?
15 Something you
shouldn’t pass on
16 ‘‘Diligence is the mother of good ____’’: Benjamin Franklin
17 Consults
19 ‘‘Men in Black’’ role
24 Braided buns, e.g.
26 Rainbow-esque
29 Water down, say
33 Water down, say
34 Purpose
38 It might be a stretch
39 Family name synonymous with wealth in early America
40 Oviform : egg ::
pyriform : ____
41 Relative of lime and
mint
42 TikTok persona typified by floppy hair and grunge clothing
43 Stratagem
44 Cite, with ‘‘to’’
45 ____-B
46 Certain link
47 Chum
51 Went way, way up
52 Lemon ____
53 Away from home
54 Hiker’s snack,
perhaps
56 March on, so to speak
57 Gentle roasts
59 By the book 60 Require smelling
salts, say
61 Dud
63 Start of a boast by
Julius Caesar
67 Bert of Cowardly Lion
fame
68 Rock veins
69 Leslie of ‘‘Gigi’’ and
‘‘Lili’’
70 Disinfected
71 School honcho
72 Boots, tent, mosquito
spray, etc. 73 Spaghetti-strapped
top, informally
74 Actor McGregor
75 Toy that may have a
rope
76 They might have matching half-heart necklaces, in brief
77 Swerve
78 Vaccine molecule
83 One who’s always on
the phone?
86 ‘‘Steppenwolf’’ author
87 Something that might be put on plastic bags 88 Many frontline 101 Composer Giuseppe
workers, in brief 102 Picked
89 ‘‘Thanks, Captain 103 Picked Obvious’’
104 Subject of a 2001
90 Come together bankruptcy
92 Muppet bear 105 Give as a handicap,
93 Immune system as points
components 106 Local bond,
94 Ready to play catch, informally say
111 Tax ID
95 Unexpressed 112
Pooh’s rhyming
98 Passport requirement friend
99 Pops 114 Krazy ____ of
100 Where @ is at? cartoons