NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD
LENGTH-ENING
ACROSS
1 Opportunities for singles 7 Marbled savory snack
from China
13 A boatload
17 “Keep Ya Head Up”
rapper, informally 20 Home of the WNBA’s
Wings
21 Talk and talk and talk
and talk
22 On the deep
23 Poorly
24 Why the party’s about
to get less hip? 26 Maker of the Switch
console
28 Cremation receptacles 29 Service that’s not good? 30 “The ____ Company”
(Frans Hals portrait) 32 Pie-crust ingredient 33 Army award attribute 35 Realtor’s exclamation about a primary bathroom?
39 Actress Moriarty of
“The Boys”
40 “My package arrived!” 42 Landing info, in brief 43 Sorrowful sound 44 “Not gonna ____ ...” 45 Other: Sp.
46 Structure on the
continental shelf
48 Take (down)
49 How Shamu acknowledged the crowd’s appreciation? 52 Go from 60 to 0, say 54 Grp. regulating global
commerce
57 Got by just fine 58 Some NFL linemen, in
brief
60 Where someone might fiddle with your dance moves?
62 Flat-topped military hat 64 Ocean State sch. 66 Takes the stage 69 Man’s name that spells
a fruit backward 70 “Prepare for a sword fight, McKellen, Fleming and all other namesakes out there!”? 75 Uncurbed enthusiasm 76 Injury from a fistfight 77 Byproduct of burning
tobacco
78 Bread maker?
79 Casino do-overs 81 Like many lifeguards 83 Crews 86 Neurodegenerative
disease, for short 87 1990s fitness fad 90 Dish cooked to smooth
things over after a fight? 95 Cable channel with the
comedy/drama “Sistas” 96 TV that’s trash, e.g. 98 Pops
99 High point of a trip to
Europe?
100 The old you?
102 It’s full of hot air 103 One small bite
105 Word with bus or whistle 106 What students in a karate
class are often doing? 109 Spiny sea creatures 111 Flatbread made with atta 112 Charge for a tutor 113 Business-card abbr. 115 Hang ominously 116 Place for a lamp 118 Challenge for a court
jester?
123 “That’s ____” (“You
may proceed”)
124 ____ film
125 North African stew, or
the dish it’s cooked in 126 Intimidating in a cool way 127 Flavor enhancer, for short 128 Counterpart of -ful 129 Wears down
130 Contents of a corn maze
DOWN
1 Freeware annoyances 2 Where you might order
nopales or esquites 3 Less clear, as a memory 4 Support group with a
hyphen in its name 5 Ankle bones
6 About 5 o’clock,
compass-wise
7 Daly of “Cagney & Lacey” 8 Singer-actress Kitt
9 “Yo te ____”
10 The Tasmanian one has been extinct since the 19th century 11 “Capisce?”
12 Like wind power vis-àvis natural gas 13 Something a parent
might tell you to watch 14 God who was said to be in love with his sister while still in the womb(!) 15 Core position
16 Took a load off
17 Thing to bash at a bash 18 Buzz about space? 19 Thickheads
25 State symbol of
Massachusetts 27 “Middlemarch”
novelist, 1871 31 Showing signs of life 33 Commanding position 34 Located, to a builder 36 Herman Melville’s
second novel
37 “That’s odd”
38 Act unprofessionally? 41 Channel
45 How you might walk
after getting great news 47 “Hey, I had it first!” 48 Comedian-actor Ken of
“The Hangover” films 50 Skewer
51 Pinkish-red shade
53 It moves one step at a time 54 “Ain’t I a ____?” (Sojourner Truth speech) 55 Between, poetically 56 Lead-in to a sale price 59 Lacking emotional
toughness
61 Remove from Zillow, say 62 Show submission, in a
way
63 “Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat!” 65 Still competing
67 Tour de France stage 68 Envelops
70 Pound who wrote “In a
Station of the Metro” 71 C sharp equivalent 72 Slowly move (in) 73 Sends unwanted texts
to, maybe 74 Utterances of agreement 80 Totally loved
82 Present at birth 84 What’s so flippin’ easy
to cook with?
85 Dinner at which
“Dayenu” is sung 88 Fried pastries popular
in New Orleans
89 Baby that rarely sleeps
at night
91 Kind of high-fat, lowcarb diet
92 Unlike π
93 Business magnate who is a Stanford University dropout
94 Actor Omar 95 Electronic toy with a
blue “pull” handle 97 “On Juneteenth” author
____ Gordon-Reed 100 Some beachwear 101 Show-off
102 Mournful peals
104 Play opener
105 Rhimes with an eponymous production company
106 Pummel
107 Infuse (with)
108 Joy of TV
110 Sole connector? 114 Potato peeler targets 117 Patella neighbor, in
brief
119 One may get in the way
of a collaboration 120 Purge (of)
121 Abbr. in a birth
announcement
122 Site used by NASA, in
brief