Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

New York Times Crossword Puzzle

- A CUT ABOVE THE REST By Jeff Chen/ Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Oceans 6 Bats 10 “The Clan of the Cave Bear” novelist 14 Razz 19 Tennis’s Goran Ivanisevic, e.g. 20 A band may be on one 21 Torch-lit event 22 River of forgetfuln­ess in Hades 23 Iron Age people 24 It has nine rooms 25 Ottoman 26 Serve up on a platter, say 27 Collectors of DNA 28 Game twist 30 Some basketball players: Abbr. 31 Espies 33 Profit from 34 “I’m innocent!” 35 Lab safety org.? 39 3-D pic 40 Diner fixtures, informally 43 More rakish 46 Canon offering 47 Clown prop 51 Sitcom ET 52 Walt Disney’s middle name 54 Cable inits. since 1996 56 “Be a ___” 57 “Six Million Dollar Man” feature 60 Cabbed it 63 Most likely to be called up 64 From the top 68 Move, informally 69 2400, on the SAT 73 Dolt 74 Like most checks and political candidates 78 Green 79 Not so nice 82 Annual literary prize 83 Picked up, in Britain 84 Home of Velázquez’s “Las Meninas” 85 Breakfast dish 86 They break at dawn 87 Angelica and others 89 Like some resolution, for short 91 Showed no restraint, in brief 92 Cask filler 93 Linguistic quintet 94 Parts of sows and cows 96 Head of steam? 97 Place to lounge 99 Jazz great Carmen 103 Cricket’s sound 105 Triply 106 Like New Jersey among states admitted to the Union 107 Subway fare 109 Chinese hardliner 110 “Antigone” or “Elektra” 112 One famed for heartlessn­ess 114 Last name in cookies 115 Some notepad jottings 117 It may be left hanging 119 Take out 120 Farmworker in “The Wizard of Oz” 121 Scale unit 122 Tony winner Tharp 123 Spheres 124 Ice cream brand 125 Recess 126 It’s what’s to be expected 127 “The ___ the limit”

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1 Grab 2 Abbr. on a musical score 3 Cause of a crybaby? 4 Provider of an inside look? 5 Nos. after a period, maybe 6 Yen 7 Last name in “Star Wars” 8 Farm females 9 Takes for granted 10 Charitable giving, e.g. 11 Trees with poisonous seeds 12 Marquis’s inferior 13 First name in “Star Wars” 14 Girl group with four #1 hits in the 1990s 15 Often-decorative kitchen item, in Britain 16 Aids for long drives 17 Gas bill unit 18 Crisp 29 Lead-in to pop or pass 32 Chicago setting: Abbr. 34 Japanese computer giant 36 [See above] 37 Last place, with “the” 38 Indy 500 winner Luyendyk 40 2007 title role for Ellen Page 41 In utero 42 [See above] 43 Sharp putdown 44 1974 Fassbinder film subtitled “Fear Eats the Soul” 45 Subj. of some 911 calls 48 Figurehead, for short? 49 Like some parenting 50 QB Manning 53 Ottoman V.I.P. 55 RR stop 58 Brown-___ (sycophants) 59 Like one pre-Columbian civilizati­on 61 Parting word 62 Taunting figure 65 Running pants? 66 Subj. for Galileo 67 N.B.A. Hall-ofFamer Thomas 69 Oscar winner Swinton 70 Oscar winner Tatum 71 [See above] 72 Winter month in Spain 74 Withdraw from the bank? 75 [See above] 76 Seashore fliers 77 Twosomes 80 [See above] 81 [See above] 88 “___ kleine Nachtmusik” 90 Per 93 National rival 95 Her name is Norwegian for “beautiful woman who leads you to victory” 98 Van Gogh painting that once sold for a record $53.9 million 100 Highlight of many a western 101 Fix 102 Ain’t right? 104 Concerto movements 105 Broke 108 Didn’t get involved 109 Pac-Man screen, e.g. 110 ___’clock scholar 111 Numbskull 113 Loch ___ 116 Twosome 118 Canon offering, briefly

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