New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Symbol of authority, informally
7 Compañero
12 Delhi issue
16 Reaction to puppy pics
19 Water buffalo, for one
20 French ____ (trick-taking game)
21 Land of blarney
22 Pass during the NFL playoffs
23 THE LADY VANI__ __ __ __ (No. 2, 1964)
25 Who infamously boasted “They can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money”
27 Luxurious
28 Suffix in some pasta names
29 BILLE (No. 3, 1972)
31 He gave Starbuck’s orders
34 NATO members, e.g.
35 Adorable sort 36 x0 (No. 1, 1985)
41 Barnyard baby
42 Keep one’s mouth shut?
43 Porky Pig’s girlfriend
44 It cost 5¢ in 1965
47 Home of Iowa State
49 Help with a crime
50 Google web browser
53 Laser-pointer chaser
54 Like the Balkans in the 1990s
57 Certain peaceful protest
58 Country singer McEntire 59 Captivate
60 VAUDEVILLIAN (No. 2, 1988)
65 Become more complicated, say
66 Getting together
67 Sheen
71 LOST, E.G. (No. 1, 1984)
73 Glacier-scaling tool
74 Yard tool
77 Private student
78 Figure it out
79 ____ Lilly (pharmaceutical giant)
80 “Jeez!”
82 Actress Garr
85 Beach shaper
86 Only player to win the U.S. Chess Championship with no losses or draws
88 Darling
91 Harbor helper
92 ____ story (tale of a car company’s bankruptcy?)
93 CHAN__E __PPEA__ANCE TO CONCEA__ __ __D MISLEA__ (No. 1, 1968)
97 Islamic spirit
99 Brand of insecticide strips 100 Madhouses
101 TITTLE-TATTLE (No. 16, 2011)
103 Opposite of post
105 Airline posting
109 Furnace for calcium oxide production
110 ENT I CEMENT (No. 1, 1983)
114 Big club in Las Vegas?
115 The final word
116 Give a lift
117 Know-it-all
118 “____ Como Va” (Santana hit)
119 Female Olympian of note
120 Palindromic battlers
121 Place of worship whose third, fourth and fifth letters are appropriate
DOWN
1 One of eight in a stick of butter: Abbr.
2 Jolly laugh
3 Dec. 24 and 31, e.g.
4 Minor accident
5 Mary ____ Evans aka George Eliot
6 Opposite of paleo
7 Memo abbr.
8 When doubled, Hawaiian food fish
9 Pique
10 Terk in Disney’s “Tarzan,” e.g.
11 Opera with the aria “Ave Maria”
12 Naval engineer
13 Air traveler’s accumulation
14 Quint’s boat in “Jaws”
15 Enclosure for a bike chain and sprockets
16 180
17 Arthur who invented the crossword puzzle (1913)
18 Overgrown, say
24 Kind of terrier
40 30 26 36 38 34 39 32 33 37 Crop Young chicken, Actress Move scorchingly beach, Shock’s Throw and No Kind Chafe Out longer rave) of across up barefoot ____ gas, maybe Tyler partner e.g. frozen (rant hot a
44
45
41 informally Internet that’s ending Part brainstem Chatter of also for the ending inter- an
50 46 48 Greek might Affix, Eyelashes in letter follow a way that “z”
52 51 “One Ketchup (Ernestine ____-dingy” brand the catchphrase operator’s on 55 “Laugh-In”) Arch type 56 57 Landlord’s Petrol unit due 58 Surgically remove 60 Unearthed
61 Mi, in a C major
scale
62 Number twos 63 Pelvic bones 64 Air carrier 68 Island where Paul Gauguin painted
69 Book that’s the source of the phrase “a land flowing with milk and honey”
70 Go back (on) 72 Instruction in an oatmeal recipe
74 “Zebra” 75 Slugger from Louisville 76 Florida city whose name has three pairs of doubled letters 78 Upscale watch
brand
80 Annual eightday celebration 81 Basketball stat:
Abbr. 82 Numbskull
83 Poetic dusk 84 Color of traffic
on a GPS 87 Craft carried
over a portage 88 Rhythmic part
of a heartbeat 89 Same: Prefix 90 Sense of self 93 Protagonist in “The Stepford Wives”
94 FedEx competitor 95 Clears for
takeoff?
96 Old Glory 97 1964 Tony Randall title role 98 Like oranges and
some gossip 99 Duck or Penguin 102 Frost
103 Davidson of “SNL” 104 Richard and
Jane in court 106 Commercial prefix with postale
107 Out of office?:
Abbr.
108 One-named
Irish hitmaker 111 Tops
112 Madrid’s country, in the Olympics
113 Song lead-in to “Believer,” “Loser” or “Survivor”