The new york times
ACROSS
1 Almost
5 Oven setting 10 Portrayer of the boxer Clubber Lang in “Rocky III”
13 In case
17 When repeated, old-time call to listen
18 Part of a prank 20 Govt. organization with a two-syllable acronym
22 Kind of clarinet 23 Came to know, oldstyle
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 122 123 124
Fivers
Idiosyncrasy
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 bellshaped 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