The new york times
ACROSS
1 Wildfire season
stat, for short
4 Title feline in a Hanna-Barbera cartoon
10 Act impartially 16 Capital of Peru? 19 Hebrew letter on a
dreidel 20 Communities for
some commuters 21 Gridiron standout 22 Article in El Mundo 23 Taylor Swift’s “____
the Damn Season” 24 Spanish wine
classification 25 Produce in bunches 26 Trojans’ sch.
27 Big shows
29 Grassy area 30 Parliament member 31 TikTok alternative,
familiarly 33 Neologism
35 Family feud
participant 39 Brainstorming aid 41 “Really, you too?” 42 Nutrition fig. 44 Word said four times in the Lord’s Prayer
45 Each
46 Page in a passport,
perhaps 47 Machine-shop tools 48 Actor Somerhalder of “The Vampire Diaries”
49 Longtime newswire
inits.
50 When repeated, reply to “Who wants a cookie?” 51 Woman in Camelot 52 “Green”
53 Italian wheels 54 SCOTUS appointee
of ‘93
55 Since
57 Home of
Umm al Quwain: Abbr.
58 Gent
60 Crashed and
burned
Crunch Time | Michael Schlossberg 62 Cat scratchers eating its way 64 Draws through this puzzle, 65 Heavy lifter? with “the” 66 Wordsinan 122 Choice words
analogy 123 And others, in Latin 67 French vineyard 124 Sold products on
region behalf of
70 “The highest result 125 Grp. that measures of education,” 1-Across according to Helen 126 Place to crash while Keller camping
73 Sheep shelters 127 Brother of Eos and 77 Excited jackpot cry Selene
79 Goofy image, 128 Navarra’s land
maybe 129 Harden 80 Forewarned 82 Base of a nonmeat
burger 83 “____ I a Woman?” 84 Stumbling sounds 85 Look at quickly ... or
closely 86 Many a fed. holiday 87 Thrilla in Manila
result, in brief 88 Does some
massaging 90 Least inviting 92 Fade out 93 Like many
consigned goods 95 Part of the fam 96 When repeated, slangy sound of eating 97 Makes some
alterations to 99 Sound like a real
jackass 100 Org. with a Canine Good Citizen certification 101 ____ Eisley, where Luke Skywalker meets Han Solo 103 “Tarnation!” 105 Serenades, as the
moon 107 Audibly
gobsmacked 111 Spot for a bowler 114 “Thanks ____” 115 Strings entered during checkout 118 Magic word 119 Classic children’s
book character
DOWN
1 Go before 2 Idealistic, and then
some 3 Notwithstanding 4 Actress Thompson of “Thor: Love and Thunder”
5 Big name in
spatulas
6 Tricked somebody 7 First Nations group 8 Middle name of
James Garfield 9 Govt. agency established in November 2001 10 Clutch, for one 11 Jetson son 12 Gemologist’s
consideration 13 Civil engineering or
molecular biology 14 Pique
15 Riveting icon
16 ±
17 “1984” superstate 18 Feature of an action
comedy
28 Heavy load
32 Place for a pew 34 Merely cosmetic feature of some electric vehicles 36 Time to stop trying? 37 Server at a royal
table, once 38 Tasting the
forbidden fruit 40 Slobbers
43 What makes her
hear? 45 Italian novelist Pera 53 Singer with the
2001 No. 1 hit “Fallin’?”
56 What makes an
avocado rich
59 Kind of jacket inspired by a school’s uniform 60 Femur-tibia
connector, for short 61 What “puppy paws”
equal, in craps 63 “Hurray!”
67 Drops in midair 68 Member of a furry
race
69 “Go ahead. I’m not
scared”
71 Focused, workwise 72 ____ de’ Medici, who founded the Medici dynasty 74 Subjects of some grade- school posters
75 Paul Krugman’s
subj.
76 Thrill
78 Air force?
81 Poet who wrote “The Cow” and
“The Panther” 89 “What’s Eating
Gilbert Grape” actor 91 Fruity desserts 94 Brackish
98 Certain subway art 99 Slow dance with
quick turns
100 Keyless
102 Tibetic language
104 Difficult situation 105 State of mayhem 106 Sharp
108 “La Maja Desnuda”
and others
109 Anti-apartheid org. 110 Near miss
112 Rocky Mountain
town
113 Assayer’s unit
116 Wrinkly fruit
117 “What’s Eating
Gilbert Grape” actor 120 Little chuckle
121 Gilbert and Sullivan
princess