New York Times Crossword Puzzle

No. 0320

BODY LANGUAGE

By Christina Iverson and Katie Hale Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Almost

5 Oven setting

10 Portrayer of the boxer Clubber Lang in ‘‘Rocky III’’

13 In case

17 When repeated, oldtime call to listen 18 Part of a prank

20 Govt. organization with a two-syllable acronym

22 Kind of clarinet 23 Came to know, old-style 24 It empties into the Bay

of Bengal

26 Radar spot

27 Bringing in, as income 29 ‘‘Keen!’’

30 With 12-Down, spend much more than a fair price 31 Department-store

department

32 Lay ____ to 34 Question that’s not one

of the five W’s

35 Big consideration for

the expecting 37 Ticket fig.

40 Wisteria and

honeysuckle

42 Video game character

in a hit 2020 film 43 Educator/writer ____ Johnson McDougald, first African American female principal in New York City public schools 45 Belief of roughly 25 percent of the world’s population

46 Director Craven 47 Downstairs

51 Kept in

53 Lets out

55 Vape’s lack

56 Martini & Rossi

product, familiarly 57 Emmy-winning Ward 58 Took down, in a way 59 Fly around Africa 62 Doughy dinner item 64 Drug agent’s seizure 65 Deseret News reader,

typically

66 Did nothing 67 Professor ____

69 With 74-Across,

gesture of approval 70 On fire

73 Champing at the bit 74 See 69-Across

78 One cutting down, so

to speak

79 What babies do faster

than college students 80 Feudal land

81 O’s, but not P’s or Q’s 83 Petty

84 Some posers 86 Self-titled rock album

of 1958

88 Quaint contraction 91 Smoking spot, for short? 92 Former baseball

commissioner Bud 93 Sound, e.g.

94 Moves like muck

96 I.T. help center, often 98 Ending with bear or

bull

99 ‘‘Uncle!’’

101 Rocker Rose

102 Heard in court

104 Promotion

105 Letters that might

change your mind? 107 Prepare, in a way, as

eggs

109 Irritable

112 En voz ____ (aloud:

Sp.)

113 Insincere, as a remark 116 Kristen of

‘‘Bridesmaids’’

118 Jaunty

119 Counterpart of ‘‘adios’’ 120 ‘‘Yes’’ or ‘‘No’’ follower 121 Old Icelandic work 122 Fivers

123 Idiosyncrasy

124 Greek performance

venue

125 Alternative to

Wranglers

DOWN

1 Blues group, for short? 2 Fully ready to listen 3 Loretta who sang ‘‘You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)’’ 4 Cold climate cryptids 5 ‘‘The ____ they are ... ’’ 6 Messenger ____ 7 Walk around at a rest

stop, say

8 ‘‘Bus Stop’’ playwright 9 Be in store

10 ‘‘Who, me?’’

11 Invitation letters

12 See 30-Across 13 Subjects of some tests 14 Actress Burstyn

15 What some insects and

insults can do 16 Primo

19 Bit of bad weather, on a

weather map 21 Indo-____ languages 25 They’re numbered in

Microsoft Excel 28 More agreeable 33 Theodor ____ a.k.a.

Dr. Seuss

36 Will Smith/Tommy Lee Jones film franchise, for short 37 Flat-earther?

38 Like many a stuffed toy 39 Aware of

41 Word that, fittingly, contains all four different letters of APPEAL

42 Question following a

clever trick

44 Shows scorn toward 46 Take by force

48 Wood strip

49 Peak in the ‘‘Odyssey’’ 50 One of the five W’s 52 Arcane matters 53 Panache

54 Leave gobsmacked 58 Scatter

60 Sudden sharp pain 61 Have seconds and thirds and fourths and . . . 63 Flatten

64 Lilies with bell-shaped

flowers

68 Rachel Zegler’s role in 2021’s ‘‘West Side Story’’

70 Allow entry 71 Forehead mark on

Hindu women

72 City SW of York

75 Safe bettor 76 Instruments with

endpins

77 Some sources of leafy

greens

80 F on a gauge

82 It’s just not true! 85 Easy opportunity for a

basket

86 Vegas venue with an

iconic fountain 87 Who might be on the

trail

89 Candy bar fillings 90 Emergency request 92 Vikings’ foes

95 A goose egg

96 One reporting to an

underboss 97 Nauseate

99 Bankrupt

100 Bizarre

103 One holding things

together, perhaps 104 ‘‘____, Can You Hear Me?’’ (Oscarnominated song from ‘‘Yentl’’)

106 Sub station?

108 Lemon or cheese

product

110 & 111 In cooperation 114 Sea-____ Airport 115 Fair-hiring inits.

117 Option for a range