New York Times Crossword
NO RUSE ACROSS
1 Art of riding and
training a horse 9 “Mea culpa” 14 Campania’s
capital
20 Put in other
words
21 Bob Marley’s “____ You Be Loved”
22 Mark in the World Golf Hall of Fame 23 Lacking selfassurance 24 Onus for a magician’s disappearing act? 26 Study of how
gels gel?
28 All together
29 Little, to a Scot 30 η
31 Fizzle (out) 33 Miscellaneous
task
37 Irish writer
Behan 39 Increased,
with “up” 44 Actress Polo 45 Pablo Neruda’s
“____ to Wine” 47 They’ll put you head and shoulders above everyone else 49 Constellation almost above the North Pole 50 Autobiography subtitled “The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban” 53 Red card
54 ____ Khan, prime minister of Pakistan beginning in 2018 55 Sports broadcast feature 56 Angry Wisconsin sports fans? 59 Fire sign?
61 Like n, where n = 2k (and “k” is a whole number) 62 Unagi, at a sushi
bar
63 President Bartlet of “The West Wing”
64 Singer Astley 66 Total-itarian? 69 Law enforcement, slangily 71 Tajikistan, e.g.,
once: Abbr. 73 “How was ____
know?”
75 Loll
77 Many a marble
bust
80 Getting “Amscray!” under control? 85 Like yoga
instructors 87 Greet the day 88 One of the Earps 89 –
91 Bathroomcabinet item 92 Certain bridge
positions 94 McEachern aka the “Voice of Poker”
95 Cake topper 96 Wealthiest professional sports org. 98 Abrogates 100 Party animal? 102 Reveals
104 Reply to an
oversharer 105 One in a hundred: Abbr. 106 Parrot
110 Power of a
cowboy’s shoe? 116 Odysseus’ wife whispers sweet nothings?
119 Bliss
120 With wisdom 121 In a sense, colloquially 122 Activity for some pen pals 123 Port on the Black Sea
124 Colorful food fish 125 Giveaways during some pledge drives
DOWN
1 What the doctor
ordered
2 Where Johnny Cash shot a man, in song 3 Bruins legend
Phil, to fans 4 “Cut it out!” 5 Pronounced
with authority 6 Twitter handle
starter
7 Davis of “Thelma
& Louise” 8 Icelandic saga 9 Chicken ____ (discontinued fast-food snack) 10 Dramatic accusation at a dentist’s office? 11 Stickers
12 City council representative: Abbr.
13 Onetime White
House inits. 14 Lunchtime
liaison
15 Bands you might listen to in the car?
16 Salt’s musical
partner
17 Where “khop jai” means “thank you”
18 God the who limbs “loosens and weakens the mind,” per Hesiod 25 27 19 31 Call Not Île ____ be at paneer gross there? home (dish with puréed spinach)
32 33 Way “The in Adventures of Milo and ____” (1989 film)
34 Cyber Monday
offerings 35 care She might of a kid take on a sick day
36 Rock star who wrote the poetry collection “The American Night” 37 Contradict
38 “Mon ____!” 40 36-Down’s anagrammatic nickname
41 “Gay” city in a Cole Porter song 42 Hallmark.com purchase
43 Opposite of “takes off” 46 Something to leave to beavers? 48 Precipitous 51 Grammy-nominated DJ Steve
52 Thomas ____ Edison
57 Join with rings 58 Smudge
60 Vaper’s purchase 65 Neighborhood where you might get kimchi, for short 67 Goddess of the dawn
68 Obama chief of staff Emanuel
70 Campaign pros 71 ____ Gilbert, co-developer of a COVID-19 vaccine
72 Smile with one’s eyes, per a modern coinage 74 Long past 76 Some fencing
swords 78 Something to
play fetch with 79 “Well, golly!” 80 Biting
81 Spongy toys 82 Resets to zero,
as a scale 83 ____://
84 John Winston
____ Lennon 86 Professor ’iggins 90 Eaglelike? 93 Appetizers filled with potatoes and peas
97 One of the
Jacksons 99 Word following
English or green 101 Kind of wonder? 103 Cred
105 Campaign (for) 106 Itself: Lat.
107 World’s oldest alcoholic beverage
108 Pulitzer-winning playwright from Independence, Kan.
109 Seriously annoys,
with “off”
110 Tora ____,
Afghanistan
111 Not overlooked 112 Defendant’s
plea, for short 113 Determination 114 Fork point
115 Storied caldron
stirrers
117 Spanish “that” 118 Admit (to)