New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Front

7 Spanish rice

12 Little sucker? 15 Smallish batteries 18 Like a seacoast after a

storm, maybe

19 Ferris Bueller’s

girlfriend

20 ____ B. Wells, civil

rights pioneer 21 ____-mo

22 S as in soup?

23 Kind of drawing 25 Icarus’s downfall 26 Skip work for health

reasons

28 Words after ‘‘Ooh,

ooh!’’

29 Beau, to Brigitte 30 Verbal stumbles 31 Baseball catcher

32 Ire

34 Boy band with two members who previously starred on ‘‘The Mickey Mouse Club’’

36 Little suckers 37 Headgear for a tailgater 39 One of the Arnazes 40 ‘‘… but it’s up to you’’ 43 Famously green

shampoo

45 Rap’s Shakur

47 Pope after Benedict IV 48 Winter vacation

destination

51 Parades

54 Barely beat

55 Goals

56 Silverback gorilla, e.g. 58 Moreno with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony 60 Drag-racing vehicles 62 ‘‘____ trap!’’

63 Meager

65 Tired

66 In perfect order … or, as two words, what’s formed by applying the answers for the five italicized clues to the circled letters 70 Dined at home

71 More skeptical 73 ‘‘Hamilton’’ actor Leslie

____ Jr.

74 Break down, to a Brit 76 Theory

77 Sea ____

79 Prefix with -plasm 80 Piece paid by Pisans for a piece of pizza, previously

82 Safe places 84 Multi-episode

narrative

87 Crucifix inscription 88 Relentlessly question 90 En ____ (as a whole) 91 Having tattoos

92 Event that’s a bit off? 94 The butler,

stereotypically

97 It gives Ford an ‘‘F’’:

Abbr.

99 Buff

100 First Alaskan on a major U.S. party ticket

101 E-4, E-5 and E-6, in

the U.S. Navy, in brief 102 Successors to LPs 105 Part of Canada above

Alta. and Sask.

106 One of the Gandhis 109 Where to get a mullet

trimmed

112 ‘‘____ get it now!’’ 113 Civic center

115 Colored ring

116 Washington’s Sea____ Airport

117 Non’s opposite

118 Ban … or bandit

119 By and large

120 College entrance

exam org.

121 Hosp. V.I.P.s

122 Author Zora ____

Hurston

123 Son of Aphrodite

DOWN

1 Compete in one leg of a

modern pentathlon 2 Loud, as the surf 3 Chills

4 Not incl.

5 Set the boundaries of 6 Perfect

7 Smart ____

8 Painter of the ‘‘Four Freedoms’’ series, 1943

9 Sound from a cheering

crowd

10 Even

11 Pinnacle 12 ____ Chemical Company, onetime maker of VapoRub 13 Writer Serwer of The

Atlantic

14 Event planner’s need 15 Attempts

16 They’re listed by

degrees

17 ____ boom

19 Struck, old-style 24 Bygone Apple

messaging app 27 Members of a blended

family

33 Move, in Realtor jargon 35 Airport logjam

36 Rick, Ilsa and Victor had one in ‘‘Casablanca’’

37 First lady between

Eleanor and Mamie 38 Fanny

40 Accented cheer 41 Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, for two

42 Restricted zone 44 ‘‘Ba-dum-tss’’ 46 Education support

grps.

48 ____ Paulo, Brazil 49 Sea route, e.g. 50 ‘‘Frozen’’ queen 52 Endless YouTube

viewing, e.g.

53 French island off the coast of Newfoundland 57 Tropical yellow fruits 59 Writer Rand

61 New York city with a

marina

62 Suffix with tour or

Tory

64 ____-El (Superman’s

birth name) 65 Conflict during which the Lusitania was sunk: Abbr.

67 Fateful date

68 What’s left at sea 69 Dig in

72 Flat, round bread

cooked on a griddle 75 Noted congresswoman from the Bronx, familiarly 78 After-bath application 79 Anatomical sac 81 Hoped-for response to

an SOS

83 Lien holder, e.g. 85 Ahab’s father in the

Bible

86 Desert’s lack 89 Hogwarts professor who was secretly a werewolf

91 ‘‘Awkward Black Girl’’

creator and star 92 ‘‘Who cares?’’ 93 Slapstick silliness 95 Gary who created

‘‘The Far Side’’ 96 Award to be hung 98 Start of a playground

joke

99 U.S. govt. bond

101 Compass letters 102 Unisex fragrance 103 ____ Street, Perry

Mason’s secretary 104 Strong ropes used to

support masts

107 Verb preceder

108 Bad things on motorists’ records, for short

110 ‘‘Dies ____’’ (hymn) 111 Curb, with ‘‘in’’

114 The Jazz, on

scoreboards