NAME DROPPING New York Times Crossword
Lewis Rothlein is a yoga instructor and jazz-piano enthusiast in Asheville, N.C. Jeff Chen is a writer and professional crossword constructor in Seattle. This is their third collaboration for The Times. The theme idea was Lewis’s. To find the best examples, Jeff wrote code and sifted the results from the database at XWordInfo.com, which has about 240,000 answer words from past Times crosswords. — W.S. 62 Attaches with a
click 64 Hindu god of
pleasure 65 Does away with 67 Climbing
Kilimanjaro, e.g. 69 Learned 71 “Squawk Box”
network 74 “True ____” 75 Mother ____ 76 Shipping option 79 Word with rolling
or bowling 80 Related (to) 81 Having a commanding lead 83 Verbal equivalent of a thumbsdown 84 Singer Marian, the first African American to perform at the Met 86 Bathroom
powders 87 One whose boss
laughs a lot 88 Car driven by Thelma and Louise, familiarly 89 Charged toward 91 Lager-head? 93 “Al-l-lmost done” 96 Spanish title:
Abbr. 97 Grows 99 Events of interest,
with “on” 101 Feeling down 103 Bit of vocal
fanfare 105 Home project
inits. 106 Plays a Halloween prank on, in brief 107 Actress Lillian with a 75-year film career 108 Pain reliever with an oxymoronic name 111 Synonym and
rhyme of “erases” 115 Insulating sleeve
for a beverage 117 Beezus’s sister, in children’s literature
ACROSS
1 Cuts back
7 ID that’s never
reused
10 Colorful seafood 16 Removals of impurities, informally
18 2020 film starring
a cartoon dog
20 Put on a pedestal 21 Tony-winning musical with puppets
22 “Anybody
home?!”
23 Burst of sonic
ecstasy
24 Southern
California sch.
25 Bestow
26 Old Testament
prophet
27 One of cinq in
“Tartuffe”
29 One of 100 in
Pooh’s woods
31 H.S. safety org.
33 Repeated musical
phrase
36 Eldest of a literary
trio
37 Pair of glasses? 38 Little monster
39 Barrier to entry
41 Big fat mouth
42 ____ blockers
(heart rate meds) 43 Can you dig it?
Yes, you can!
45 Angels can be
found in it
46 Long blade, of a
sort
47 Curved edges formed by intersecting vaults, in architecture
49 Cutting part of
The Onion?
51 Before, in poetry 52 5, 6 or 7, in golf
54 Baseball slang for
a home run
56 Ones getting hit
on at parties?
58 “I’m dead
serious”
59 Cheering loudly 60 Tool that evolved
from the sickle
61 Microwave 118 String-and-spool
toy
119 Refined
120 Approve
121 Dastardly
expression
122 Subject of many a
political scandal
DOWN 1 Something that may elicit stares, in brief
2 Amp (up)
3 Pac-12 Conference athlete
4 Desirable flight
option
5 Radiates
6 Goes out with
7 Improv bits
8 What a gavel
bang may mean
9 “Oh well, it didn’t
matter anyway” 10 Give a lecture,
with “out”
11 Concerns for coders and copy editors
12 Has a “ruff”
night?
13 Org. in “Argo”
14 Baking meas.
15 “____ Bones”
(classic spiritual) 17 The get-go
18 Reeked
19 Check out, as a
book
20 “Whoa!”-inducing
experiences
27 Subway line toward New York’s Kennedy Airport
28 Cautious (of)
30 New York’s ____
Field
32 Two-thirds of
105-Across
34 Informants,
informally
35 Botanists’
specimens
36 Very tiny bit
40 Homophone of vowels not found in this answer
42 Longtime anchor of “NBC Nightly News” 44 Guarding, as a
goal
47 Understand, as coined in 1961’s “Stranger in a Strange Land”
48 Tegan and ____
(indie-pop duo)
49 High ____
50 Popular singer who has recorded in
Elvish
53 What “Nothing for me” might mean
55 Upside?
57 Plastic
conveniences
62 Calls (for)
63 Playfully bite
65 Texter’s segue
66 When you get it,
you may say it
68 Oohed and
aahed, e.g.
70 Penalty boxes, in
hockey lingo
72 Lead-in to tech
73 Atlanta’s ____
Center
76 Gets a lift (but not
a Lyft)
77 Sport whose players wear boots
78 The first letter in “gigantic,” but not the third
82 Partner of hems 85 Prohibition and
others
89 Commotion
90 Title woman who has children at her feet, in a
1968 hit
91 Person dealing with casting and lines
92 2004 Don Cheadle film set in Africa
94 Like England in the late 16th century
95 Trig function
96 Commotion
98 Came up with an
invention?
100 ____ facto
102 Theme park cry 104 Call overseas
No. 0507
107 It means “waterless place” in Mongolian
109 Musical artist who designed Reykjavik’s Imagine Peace Tower
110 Accept defeat, in
modern slang 112 Groupie
113 Only prez to receive a patent
114 Runner Sebastian with four Olympic medals
115 Director of
“The Shining” and “Dr. Strangelove”
116 Hockey great
Bobby
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