NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

NOTE: In this special crossword, the completed solution conceals a familiar three-word phrase related to the puzzle’s theme. 70-Across provides a hint on how to find it.

ACROSS 1 Crew’s colleagues 5 Dojo needs 9 Classic sci-fi film billed as “a horror horde of crawl-and-crush giants” 13 “La-La” lead-in in a 1974 Al Green hit 16 Iberian wine city 18 “Vincent & ___” (film about the van Gogh brothers) 19 Rings of angels 21 What X-O-X lacks? 22 “Macbeth” king 23 Words on a fragile package 26 Irascible 27 “Mona Lisa,” e.g. 28 Thumbs-up 29 Harridan 30 Orchestra section 31 Mouthpiece for the head? 34 Jiffy 35 Not post37 Old piece 38 Little dog, for short 39 ___ Aviv 40 Strawberry blond sister of Barbie 43 Hindu “Mr.” 44 “Swans Reflecting Elephants” and others 46 1960s-’70s series starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr. 49 Oscar winner Hathaway 51 Material beyond the terrestrial plane, in medieval science 55 Hello or goodbye, maybe 57 PC key 59 First word in 104-Across 61 Cum ___ 62 ___ engr. 63 Like hit shows, often 67 Pitchforkwielding groups 69 Boo-boo 70 How to get a message out of the boxes 74 Van Morrison song “___ the Mystic” 75 Numerical prefix 76 “Only the Lonely” singer 77 Part of a wriggly field? 78 Foreordained 80 Understands 82 Maker of the Sorento 83 Gallivants, with “about” 85 Boo-boos 87 Pale 89 Like citrus fruits 92 Like video games, nowadays 94 ___ Lingus 96 Round Table assignments 99 Old PC monitor feature 102 Ernie’s instrument on “Sesame Street,” informally 103 Italy’s main broadcasting co. 104 TV channel with lots of bells and whistles 105 Take up, as a skirt 107 Rotary alternative 112 Covent Garden performance 114 Newspaper columnist, humorously 115 Grampa Simpson 116 Snockered 117 Anders Celsius and Greta Garbo, for two 118 DDT and others 121 “Is Anybody Goin’ to San ___” (#1 Charley Pride song) 122 Bullet, in poker 123 Cartoonist Wilson 124 Help illicitly 125 Alley flanker 126 Hide/hair link 127 Looking up 128 Chant at a bullfight 129 Satirical 1974 espionage film DOWN 1 With 97-Down, classic puzzle type 2 Like eyebrows 3 Ones getting the red-carpet treatment, say 4 “The Spiderwick Chronicles” coauthor DiTerlizzi 5 Antarctic summit between peaks named for faith and charity 6 Words after “win by” or “hang by” 7 What lobsters and crabs have 8 Nursery purchase 9 Baltimore club, for short 10 Ethan of “Before Sunrise” 11 Giant Manning 12 Company that pioneered walkie-talkies 13 “___ Mater” (hymn) 14 African capital 15 Organic chemistry group 16 Lilac and lavender 17 Turns into mush 20 Oaf 24 Not ephemeral 25 All ChiSox home games are played on it 32 ___ Lee 33 Pro with books, for short 35 Slapstick prop 36 Play watcher 41 Motocross entry, for short 42 Pirate’s cargo 44 Frenzied as if possessed 45 East German secret police 47 Where a mattress goes 48 Shapes like squares 50 Country that has two oryxes on its coat of arms 52 Like much processed wheat 53 Roman magistrates 54 Push off 55 Food item named after an Austrian city 56 Film set on Pandora 58 Snarly dog 60 Recedes 62 Blackmail, e.g. 64 “Well, now!” 65 Beat 66 Uncle Pedro, e.g. 68 Sign of a successful show 71 One with a name on a plaque, maybe 72 Nickname for baseball’s Dwight Gooden 73 Rolling Stones #1 hit with the lyric “You’re beautiful, but ain’t it time we said goodbye?” 79 Hefty thing 81 Wrinkly dog 84 Ones providing cold comfort, briefly 86 Big wheel’s wheels 88 “You betcha” 90 Dim bulbs have low ones 91 Horse hue 93 Prefix with skeleton 95 1970 John Wayne western 97 See 1-Down 98 Placid 99 Self-image? 100 Like the Palace of Versailles 101 English landscapist famous for “The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons” 104 Irritates 106 Electromagnetic device 108 Op. ___ (footnote phrase) 109 Some West Coast wines 110 Magazine to which Obama gave his first postelection interview in 2008 111 N.F.C. West player 112 Admit 113 Trifling 117 Wilts 119 “___ my destiny be Fustian” (Dickinson poem) 120 Was idle