New York Times Crossword Puzzle
THIS N’ THAT By David Steinberg / Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
1 Filling entrees? 9 Imperfect 15 Laugh-track content 20 Former Diet Pepsi spokesmodel 21 Nymph jilted by Paris 22 ‘‘The Vampire Diaries’’ protagonist 23 Content of a demand to attend? 25 Cry of frustration 26 ___ flakes 27 Hullabaloo 28 Square meal? 30 Gas-station adjunct 32 Freaky funera l noise? 37 Tornado Alley state: Abbr. 38 Smirnoff Ice, e.g. 40 Red-faced 41 View from Big Ben 43 Patriots’ and Seahawks’ org. 44 ‘‘Castaway’’ director, 1986 46 Points of view 48 W.W. II rationing agcy. 49 Dive from a fire-breathing creature? 53 Al Qaeda stronghold 55 Vegetable that’s often fried 58 Place first, second or third, say 59 Man of letters? 61 ‘‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’’ director 63 Certain embedded Internet video 65 ___ lupus (gray wolf) 67 Not there yet 68 Company that introduced Saran Wrap 71 Venti, vingt or zwanzig? 75 Missal storage site 76 Coffee-bean variety 78 Went on a run? 79 43-Across ball carriers: Abbr. 81 Lake ___, biggest lake in South America 84 Holdups 86 Perfumery measure 90 Workers’ rights org. 91 Wool source 93 Woe for a sunburned sea monster? 95 Northern California’s ___ River 97 Burn 99 Make hot 100 ___-Magnon 101 Uses mouthwash, e.g. 104 Like a dutiful sentry 107 Faux pas 109 Symbol on a sarcophagus 110 Intel products used at a nuclear facility? 113 Hit with a charge 114 Seiji Ozawa, e.g. 116 ‘‘Argo’’ setting 117 Roman guardian spirit 118 Diminish in strength 119 Overseeing a work crew, e.g.? 127 Cause of radioactivity 128 Beggar’s receptacle 129 Attorney’s presentation 130 Coeur d’___ 131 Part of a contract 132 Mess
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1 Game show V.I.P.’s 2 Three-vowel word that sounds like a fourth vowel 3 Like some knights and warships 4 Kind of paste 5 What a spoiler might spoil 6 Golfer Woosnam 7 Chi-town circlers 8 Possessions 9 Old fogy 10 ‘‘We’d better skip it’’ 11 Santa ___ winds 12 Got the gold 13 Envelope abbr. 14 Handle of a plow? 15 Unceremonious removal 16 Half a game name that rhymes 17 Feathers, pointy bill, long legs, etc.? 18 ‘‘Life of Pi’’ director 19 Old colonial masters 24 Aficionado 29 AIDS-fighting drug 30 One with a colorful coat? 31 Woodard of ‘‘Primal Fear’’ 32 Garbage collector, informally? 33 Slanted columns 34 Fay of ‘‘King Kong’’ 35 Upped 36 Plant swelling 39 Like Isaac Asimov 42 Speed skater Ohno 45 Words of thanksgiving 47 Common craps roll 50 Dribble glass, e.g. 51 California resort town 52 Feelings of guilt 54 What I will always be, alphabetically 56 Parking-lot figure 57 From Square 1 60 Problems with hoses 62 Skeletal enemy in Mario games 64 ___ point 66 Perform terribly 68 ‘‘Lookin’ good!’’ 69 Kind of contraception 70 Period when rabbits stop fighting? 72 Harangues, with ‘‘at’’ 73 Sport 74 Mystery prize 77 Naïfs 80 Slangy greeting 82 Salad-bar morsels 83 Like the world’s largest sultanate 85 Economize to a fault 87 Juicy fruit 88 Destination of NASA’s Dawn probe 89 What Othello and Desdemona do in ‘‘Othello’’ 92 Prime Cuts brand 94 Si te of ancient Greek Olympics 96 What the jack of spades lacks 98 Howard Stern rival 101 Howard Johnson rival 102 Chilean author Allende 103 ‘‘My dear man’’ 105 Difficult situation 106 Greater or lesser follower 108 New York’s ___ Island 111 Circular opening? 112 Gather (from) 115 ‘‘South Park’’ boy 117 Some PC screens 120 Many an art-museum piece 121 Cellular messenger 122 Bit of old French bread 123 Charlottesville inst. 124 Picayune quibble 125 Brass producer, briefly 126 Catchy thing?