New York Times Crossword Puzzle
ANSWERS ON PAGE 2
Across 1 Star of four Spike
Lee films 8 Exercised on a track 14 Longtime Ed Asner
role 18 Birds at a ballpark 19 1954 film septet 20 White: Fr. 21 Away, in a way 22 Gustav Holst septet 23 Barista’s offering 24 Cable alternative 25 [ typo not fixed] 26 Star of a 1981 Broadway revue subtitled “The Lady and Her Music” 27 Add one’s views 29 Style 31 Second-incommand: Abbr. 32 41-Across athlete 34 How his-and-hers
towels are sold 35 “Gossip well told,”
per Elbert Hubbard 37 Comebacks 39 Bud 40 Hydrocarbon ending 41 See 32-Across 42 Electrical unit, oldstyle 45 Webster’s second? 47 Quick punch 50 Author Janowitz 52 Bud’s place 53 Strike turf before
the ball, in golf 54 Bye line? 56 Olympic venues 58 It may extend for
many minutes 59 Thoughtful exercise 60 Overseas market 62 Tease 63 Unspecified degrees 65 Comic strip cries 67 Waltzed through 69 ___ de carne asada 70 Burj Khalifa locale 72 Joint 76 Fashion label ___
Picone 78 Prickly sticker 79 Letter with a limited
amount of space 81 Savvy 82 Radar reading 84 Steel giant,
formerly 85 Chug 87 End of an argument 88 Singer at Obama’s
2009 inauguration 89 Baseball All-Star who was also a football Pro Bowler 90 Edamame source 92 Cross- state rival of
CIN 93 Arizona’s ___ Cienegas National Conservation Area 94 Hot prospects, say 97 Home base for many
a mission 99 Like Victorian
streets 102 Honorarium 103 Nirvana’s “Come
as You ___” 104 Paid to play 107 It has 135° angles 109 Proust title
character 111 See 115-Across 112 Campers’ letters 114 ___ by chocolate
( popular dessert) 115 Certain 111-Across
specification 117 Ghostly sound 119 First film Tarzan 120 White Russian, e.g. 121 1918’s Battle of
the ___ Forest 122 Formula One units 123 “The Terminator”
co- star 124 Neighbor of Archie
Bunker
Down 1 “I ___ it!” ( Skelton
catchphrase) 2 Bond villain ___
Stavro Blofeld 3 Popular snack brand 4 Actress/screenwriter
Kazan 5 Stretchiness 6 Assesses 7 “Be right there!” 8 Heap 9 Poet Khayyám 10 Artillery crewman 11 Founder of The New
York Tribune 12 Have something 13 Tiddlywink, e.g. 14 Peruvian pack 15 Warren of “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” 16 Free 17 Rapper who feuded with Ja Rule and Nas 19 Round figure 20 Second-tier, among
celebs 28 Women’s rooms? 30 Actress Belafonte 31& 33 Skeptic’s advice ... or a “noteworthy” hint to seven Across answers in this puzzle 36 Colorful songbird 38 Brazilian greeting 39 Pop/rock group with a 2002 hit cowritten with Mick Jagger 42 Story coloring? 43 1980s British band 44 Big deliveries? 45 Paganini or
Rachmaninoff 46 “He makes no friend who never made ___”: Tennyson 47 Schooner sail 48 Health org. since
1847 49 Dickens pen name 51 Raiding grp. 53 Polish the oldfashioned way 55 Air safety org. 57 ___-rock 61 Apotheosizes 64 Uncle ___ 66 Wrap ( up) 68 Hollow 71 Homemade bomb,
for short 73 Web site heading 74 Before, in verse 75 Sanguine 77 Recently 80 Met, as a challenge 83 “U. S. A.” is part of
one 86 Ended up? 91 Acronym for the
hearing- impaired 92 Louis Armstrong
instrument 94 “___ Republic” 95 Celebratory gesture 96 Alaska town that is mile 0 of the Iditarod Trail 97 Does a surfboard
stunt 98 1913 Literature
Nobelist from India 99 Douglas Hofstadter’s “___, Escher, Bach” 100 Amtrak bullet train 101 Sign of approval 105 Scratching ( out) 106 “Meditation XVII”
writer 108 N.R.A. piece?:
Abbr. 110 Vegas casino with
a musical name 111 Newsweek, e.g.,
now 113 “Terrible” toddler
time 116 Auden’s “___ Walked Out One Evening” 118 Often-partnered
conjunction