ABRIDGED TOO FAR
BY MICHAEL SCHLOSSBERG / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ
Michael Schlossberg is a doctor at St. Charles medical center in Bend, Ore., specializing in internal medicine. He started constructing crosswords in 2018 after reading the series “How to Make a Crossword Puzzle” on The New York Times’s website. This is his sixth puzzle for the paper and his first Sunday. The idea for it came to him after he heard the answer at 121-Across in conversation and thought, I bet there’s a literature-themed puzzle in there.” - W.S.
76 Coming-of-age 2 Locale for many 49 “Toy Story” toy novel about a Panhellenic torturer teenage boy Games 51 “I can’t believe and his isolation 3 “Rapunzel” or this!”
[1951, 1986] “Rumpelstiltskin” 52 Go head to head 80 Like an old apple 4 Kinda getting up (with)
81 Chicken ____ there 53 Paul who painted (South Asian 5 Poker great “Cat and Bird” dish) Ungar 54 Advanced
82 Phenomenon also 6 Burner on a 55 Some F.D.N.Y. known as data range? pros decay 7 Michigan liberalarts 57 Juicy gossip
86 Placid college 59 Time
88 Rapper ____ 8 Certain measurement
Thee Stallion collateral 60 One of a classic 93 Drudges 9 Convict, in old septet
94 Celebratory slang 61 “Key of the Nile”
smoke 10 Persian Gulf 62 Act out?
99 Veered, as an territory 65 Imitation
airplane 11 Gamer’s 66 Amazon device 101 Just peachy headache 67 Laptop brand
102 Tale about 12 Degree in 68 It’s just what soldiers and mathematics? you’d expect treachery in 13 Voice role for 69 Bosnian’s southern Europe Snoop Dogg neighbor
[1940, 1603] in 2019’s “The 70 After-hours
110 Polynesian Addams Family” conveniences
greeting 14 Federal agent 71 Cry at an
111 Kleenex : tissue :: who was the amusement park ____ : sticky inspiration for 72 Parent note Dick Tracy 77 Philosopher Rand 112 Yellow-brown 15 Nightmare who rejected
shade 16 Addressed altruism
115 Mercury and 17 Manatee 78 “____ What ____”
Mars, for two 18 Adspeak claim of (song from “La 117 Grp. promoting convenience Cage Aux Folles”)
world peace 24 Gin add-in 79 Doggy’s sound 120 College athletics 25 German refusal 83 Carving station
channel 26 One of Cuba’s option
121 “In a nutshell” ... Castros 84 Hawaiian fish also or an alternative 31 Subject line called a wahoo title for this abbreviation 85 “Shame!” puzzle? 33 Wild group, for 87 Prefix with hotel 126 Wallach of “Baby short 89 Exams that
Doll” 34 One of many are essentially
127 Stoat in its white in the “Disney impossible to
winter coat Morgue” study for
128 Lawyer’s favorite 35 Leave 90 ____ Gadot of
dessert? gobsmacked “Wonder Woman” 129 Asteroid 38 Scoreboard 91 Piercing tool discovered in letters at MetLife 92 Basis for an
1898 Stadium annual Forbes list 130 Name that means 39 D.O.J. branch 95 Hobgoblin
“king” 40 Helpful 96 V8 debut of 1964 131 City that lends its connections 97 Music to a name to a variety 41 Halloween masseur’s ears of ice cream symbol 98 Optimizes, as an 132 Warren in the 42 Busy month for a engine
Baseball Hall of C.P.A. 100 Play-____
Fame 46 Turn from an 102 More loaded, as a 133 Fashion letters old pallet into a wallet bookcase, for 103 Stadium chant example 104 A.F.L. All-Time
47 Title for Charlie Team member
Chaplin with a law degree
ACROSS
1 Deets, say
5 Like pangolins
and armadillos
10 Pacific weather
phenomenon
16 000-00-0002, for Mr. Burns on “The Simpsons”: Abbr. 19 Apt name for a
protester?
20 Shire of “The
Godfather”
21 “What’s the
____?”
22 Job-listing letters 23 Play about love and heartbreak in ancient Greece [1605, 431 B.C.] 27 Danger
28 Cater (to)
29 Where people might come to a happy medium? 30 Is worth it
32 “The Taming of
the Shrew” sister 36 Wheels
37 Timeless children’s classic about country dwellers’ friendships [1908, 1881]
41 Farm cry
43 Vented appliance 44 Comedy talk show from 2003 to 2022, familiarly 45 Superlative score 48 “Great Caesar’s
ghost!”
50 Eat, baby-style
56 Timid
58 It’s symbolized by a crescent moon and star
63 Jewish folklore
creature
64 Magnum opus about a young man, family and the concept of free will [1866, 1965]
70 Not according to
plan
73 Celebrity chef
DiSpirito
74 “Go ahead,
shoot!”
75 Major and Commander, to Biden
DOWN 1 Modern kind of
purchase
No. 0122
105 “No. Way!”
106 Old-timey
“listen”
107 Default search engine for Microsoft Edge 108 Some classic
jeans
109 Tethered
113 “____: The Smartest Guys in the Room” (2005 documentary)
114 Wackadoo
116 Protein-rich blood components
118 “Uncle!”
119 “Downton Abbey”
role
122 Zhuzh (up)
123 Small word for
small
124 Hydrogen’s
atomic number 125 Itch
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