New York Times Crossword Puzzle
BRIGHT IDEAS
ACROSS
1 ____ Pérignon
4 Result of a sand save, in golf
7 Letter-shaped groove used in framing
12 Subway stop: Abbr.
15 Chicago Booth offering, in brief
18 Computer text standard
20 ‘‘If all goes well ... ’’
21 Shook a leg
23 Traditional Indonesian percussion orchestra
24 Baseball manager who once instructed his team to ‘‘pair up in threes’’
25 It may be a lot outside the city
26 180s
27 It helps you get the picture
30 Sportscaster Hershiser 31 Annual Pebble Beach event
33 ‘‘That is hilarious!’’
34 Cite
35 Food-pyramid group
37 Orange-juice specification
39 Place for poissons
41 IV placers
42 Support staff: Abbr.
47 Hostile party
48 Blue ____ (symbol of Delaware)
51 ‘‘The Terrible’’ czar
53 Mirror
55 Sad response to ‘‘How was the game?’’
57 Feel discontented
58 Having knobby bumps
59 Heretofore, poetically
60 Metal receptacle by a fireplace
61 College student’s earnings
62 Student’s do-over
63 Table scraps
65 Absinthe flavoring
66 1974 C.I.A. spoof
67 Brand name on a Go-Gurt box
70 Hovers menacingly
71 Like a tuxedo bib
75 Athlete Arthur
76 Alley ____
78 Leaves on the shelf?
79 Sportage automaker
80 Language with
44 consonant symbols
81 ‘‘____ knows?’’
82 Back in the day
83 Suffix with east or west
84 Rubik with a cube
86 Fertility-clinic donations
87 Ohio home to Cedar Point, the ‘‘Roller Coaster Capital of the World’’
89 Airline to Oslo
90 Guys in commercials
92 Steering implement
93 Burdensome amount
95 Giant Mel
96 Shelley’s ‘‘____ Skylark’’
97 Leave one’s mark, in a way
99 Spot
100 One with two years to go, informally
102 270° from sur
105 Hide ____ hair
106 Prepare to skate
108 Soldier’s helmet, in old slang
110 Place to find a crook
111 Downhearted
113 After-school helper
115 Blanket
117 Lab dropper
118 Character with character
119 Welcome policy at a bar
120 Bagel topper
121 Anthony of ‘‘In the Heights’’ and ‘‘Hamilton’’
122 Seventh heaven
DOWN
1 Unearthed
2 ____ personality
3 Duplicating machine
4 Primary person, informally
5 Primary person?
6 Acclaims
7 Bone attached to the patellar tendon
8 Unit of stamps
9 Poet Federico García ____
10 Talk show host nominated for
an Academy Award
11 Whisper from Don Juan
12 Lacking
13 Sashimi choice
14 Verb in some tautologies
15 The ‘‘thing’’ in ‘‘Is this thing on?’’
16 Che Guevara wore one
17 ‘‘Easy on Me’’ singer
19 Activist Chavez
22 Director Walsh of
old Hollywood
28 Bygone tape type
29 Seeming eternity
32 Italian dipping sauce
34 Netflix series starring the Fab Five
36 Legacy of 72-Down, seven of which appear among this puzzle’s answers and one more suggested by the black squares in the middle of the grid
38 Something that’s big with the current generation?
39 Actress Sorvino
40 Some nights of celebration
42 Ethically indifferent
43 Tangential remarks
44 When the original Big Five ruled Hollywood
45 Magical objects
46 Union members
49 Those, in Spanish
50 Cereal-box abbr.
52 Designer Miller
53 Relative of Ltd.
54 Hosp. areas
56 Unleashes upon
64 Bygone tape dispenser
66 Failed device meant to communicate with the dead
67 Swerves at sea
68 Org. that sets worker exposure limits
69 Object in the classic painting ‘‘His Master’s Voice’’
72 With [circled letters reading clockwise], American icon born 2/11/1847
73 Common spot for a wasp nest
74 Primatologist Fossey
77 You can trip on it in the desert
79 Didn’t stop
82 Sharer’s possessive
85 Late harvest mo.
88 Novelist Brown
91 Tilling tool
94 Without gender, in Latin
95 Egyptian god of death and rebirth
97 Barbershop sounds
98 Kind of bond
99 Seasonal inflatable
101 Chaos
103 Tastes
104 Board of a cosmetics company?
106 Bard’s instrument
107 Cougar
108 Hideki ____, W.W. II prime minister
109 P.I.s, e.g.
112 Gender abbr.
114 Cat’s pa
116 Turn bad