New York Times Crossword Puzzle
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1 Ascribes, with “up” 7 Title film character played by Tyler Perry
12 Hails
19 Showy gymnastics
maneuver
20 Togalike Roman cloak 22 In an attentive manner 23 SWAN
26 Crunchy green vegetable
27 Profitable 28 Sportscaster Johnson 29 Show up
31 Wet blanket?
33 They contain libidos
34 MARS
43 Largest city of Yemen 44 French region now part of the Grand Est
45 Ally (with)
46 Hershey product similar to a Heath bar
47 Part of a
domain name
49 Gists
51 Foreboding atmosphere
55 ATLAS
60 Fixed fee
63 Spa sound
64 “Once in Love With
____”
65 Objectivist Rand 66 Fat-substitute brand 67 Pride-parade letters 69 Self-referential 71 Fifth-century pope dubbed
“the Great”
73 An evergreen 74 Martinique,
par exemple
75 Exist
76 Musical instruments
that lie flat
78 TRIO
84 Jose ____ (tequila
brand)
85 ____ the Explorer 86 Chapel Hill sch.
87 It’s a long story 91 Squealed
93 Really bothers
96 Drew useful material
from
97 OKAY
101 Fiery end?
103 ____ es Salaam 104 Of a heart chamber 105 Direct
108 Stop, in sailor’s lingo 112 Shudder of emotion 117 WASP
120 Opening letters?
121 One of the Wahlbergs 122 One way to pay 123 Introversion
124 Idol worshiper
125 Yoga poses
Down
1 Musical Mama
2 Cut
3 Something delivered by
a diva
4 Droopy
5 Capital of Uganda 6 Nearly out?
7 Gullet
8 Second first lady 9 Foolish oldsters
10 K thru 12
11 King who spoke at Kennedy’s inaugural ball
12 Lugs
13 Samuel Adams, e.g. 14 Rich supply
15 Natl. Guard counterpart
16 Small, as Beanie Babies
17 1961 title role for
Charlton Heston
18 A comic called Wanda 21 Burglar frightener 24 ____ Nui
(Easter Island) 25 Mooers’ mouthfuls 30 Muse of lyric poetry 32 Flight of fancy 34 Publisher’s pile: Abbr. 35 ____ Park, Ill. 36 Commercial
lead-in to Caps 37 “____ Boom-De-Ay” 38 Certain house … or
house dressing 39 Land next to
Peru: Abbr. 40 Obligation
41 Drop a line, say 42 Raise
47 Banned insecticide 48 Desdemona’s husband, in opera 50 Candidate’s goal 52 Bobby of the Black
Panthers
53 Stephenie who wrote the “Twilight” series
54 Periodic table figs. 56 Actor Holm
57 Where cultures thrive? 58 Horse bit
59 Wonder Woman
is one
60 City, but not county,
leader?
61 Yale of Yale University 62 La ____ (notre
planète)
68 Neuter
69 Med. scan
70 Poetic time
71 Stop: Abbr.
72 That life evolves, to
Darwin
74 Pressed
75 Apothegm
77 Global sports org. 79 German for “first” 80 Cole Porter’s “Well,
Did You ____?” 81 Actress Anderson 82 They may match presidential administrations 83 Train
88 Nonspecific amount 89 Mild exclamation 90 Supplemental work
for actors
92 Golden ____ (General
Mills cereal) 94 Winter Olympics
activity
95 Willa Cather’s
“My ____” 96 Bad-mouths
97 Writer who coined the term “banana republic” (1904)
98 Drab songbird 99 Airport amenity 100 Realm chronicled by
C. S. Lewis
101 ____ expected (predictably)
102 1991 Wimbledon
champ Michael
106 Ghostbuster Spengler 107 ____ Préval, twotime president of Haiti
109 Say further
110 Brandy grade, briefly 111 Volcano at the meeting point of the African and Eurasian plates
113 Pet-protection agcy. 114 White House spokesman Spicer
115 Greek peak
116 Some degrees
118 Bad start?
119 Col.’s superior