N.Y. Times Crossword Puzzle
Across
1 Sliver
4 Politician with the campaign slogan 30-Across 9 Word with poetry
or proportions 13 Something you might click to open
16 Elicits a “Whoa”
from, say 18 Trimmed (down) 19 Wrestling star
John
20 Tailor
22 Beams of one’s
dreams?
25 Food served in an omakase meal
26 Having very little mental energy left
27 Moonfish 28 Swimmers in
kelp forests 30 See 4-Across 33 Visit a museum to see a Rembrandt exhibit?
35 One prone to
looking down 36 His tomb is in
Red Square 37 Diamondbacks,
on scoreboards 38 Face cards? 41 Destination for
oenophiles 43 Sicily’s Parco
dell’____ 45 Bug-spray
ingredient
49 Bird of prey that’s gently petted?
53 Popular pops 55 Kind of attack 56 Longtime hockey
star Kovalchuk 57 To read: Sp. 59 Gross
60 Error, in totspeak 62 Buys in
65 Look down on 67 Actor Justin
sitting poolside? 71 Adds insult to
injury 73 Santa-tracking
org.
74 River across the New York/New Jersey border 77 Some rideshare
info
78 Exploit 81 Award-winning
film set in Tehran 83 Bishop’s
headgear
84 Hang up the cleats, so to speak
86 Make fun of small orange fruits? 90 Something rectangular that might have more than four sides 91 Two-player card
game
92 TV character who said “Time to hit the hay ... oh, I forgot, I ate it!”
93 Old auto with its founder’s monogram 94 Storage spot 97 Opposite of
“avant”
99 Reason to
reschedule 102 Mashed potatoes, on a Thanksgiving plate?
107 Instrument heard in Spanish folk music
111 Vinyl collection 112 Food brand whose sales boomed after the premiere of “Stranger Things”
114 “When We Were
Young” singer 115 Sharp
116 Fourth-quarter meltdown at an N.B.A. game in Oklahoma City? 120 Made out
121 Take home 122 Lather gatherer 123 Remained in bed,
e.g.
124 Something to
shoot for
125 “... sting like
____” 126 Clubs
127 ____ Bleus, nickname for France’s soccer team
Down
1 Boardwalk treat 2 Plugged in, so to speak
3 Actor Leary 4 Missions, for short
5 ____ State, nickname for Massachusetts 6 Basis for an insurance investigation 7 “Build ____ Buttercup” (1969 hit by the Foundations) 8 Spot for a perfume sample in a magazine, maybe
9 Green prefix 10 Staff
11 Lead-in to com or net, but not org 12 Wrinkly-skinned
fruit
13 Largest object in
the Kuiper belt 14 And the following, in footnotes
15 His birthday is celebrated as “Children’s Day” in India 17 Worries
anxiously 20 Mounted on 21 Angry reaction 23 Main port of
Yemen
24 They’re banned in many classrooms nowadays 29 Thing seen in the foreground of “Washington Crossing the Delaware” 31 N.Y. neighbor 32 Calculators of
old
34 Partner of starts 36 Speaking part? 38 “In that case
... “
39 Paul of “Little
Miss Sunshine” 40 Didn’t hear the
alarm, say 42 Where fruit bat soup is eaten as a delicacy 44 Orange follower 46 Widespread 47 Nonstop flight? 48 Maori for
“image” 50 Redeems at a
casino 51 Sooners, by
another name 52 Have a homecooked meal 53 Like some
obligations 54 Dict. listing 58 Setting for Mets
games: Abbr. 61 Gradually
diminish 63 Residential suffix
with Angel 64 High-priced
violin, informally 66 All-knowing sort 68 It’s represented by a dot in the top-left corner, in Braille
69 Mideast palace
parts 70 Son of Gloucester in “King Lear”
71 & 72 A pop 75 ____ Alonso, Mets slugger with the most home runs by a rookie in M.L.B. history (53)
76 “... ish”
79 People people,
for short
80 Exit
82 “What’s ____, Doc?” (old Bugs Bunny short) 85 Grapefruit
descriptor 87 Kelly of “Live” 88 Remark after
losing 89 Nutritional
figs.
95 “____ be an
honor!” 96 Snapple
competitor 98 “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific” writer, 1880 100 Leaning right:
Abbr.
101 Four-time U.S. Open champ
102 Four-time Australian Open champ 103 It has its
highlights 104 Maker of the MDX, NSX and TLX 105 Bloc party? 106 Fix up again 107 Brown hue 108 Home of many Sherpas 109 ____ Hughes, name of main roles in “Westworld” and “Downton Abbey”
110 Decade after
the aughts 113 Blossom 117 Taipei-to-Seoul
dir.
118 Frequently 119 ____ Palmas