IT’S GOING DOWN
BY MATT LINZER AND RAFAEL MUSA / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ New York Times Crossword
Matt Linzer, of San Francisco, is a former professional ballet and contemporary dancer who now works in graphic design and art. Rafael Musa, also of San Francisco, is a software engineer at Airbnb. This is Matt’s second puzzle for The Times, Rafa’s ninth. After Matt solved Rafa’s Pride-themed puzzle in the paper last June, he reached out for help in developing this one’s theme. - W.S.
ACROSS 60 “What hath 1 “That guy?” ____ to do with 4 Not in gear sleep?”: Milton 8 Soccer kickoff? 62 Before midnight: 11 Cheese used in Devices with
spanakopita warm water and 15 Antidiscrimination massaging rollers measure of 1990, 64 Kind of rock ... or in brief where to see it 16 Signified 66 Bygone Palm 18 “Hang loose” smartphone
hand sign 67 Saint ____ 21 Sonicare (Caribbean
competitor nation) 23 Before midnight: 68 Before midnight:
Sloth, e.g. Some household 25 Before midnight: expenses One with major 70 Branch offices, influence e.g. 27 Like about 75 Journalist 60 percent of Couric the world’s 76 Wagering sites population that closed in 28 Sloth, e.g. N.Y.C. in 2010, in 29 When to see the brief
86-Down 77 After midnight: 30 Blanche’s sister Event for in “A Streetcar Cowboys or Named Desire” Broncos 32 Reality star 78 “Can’t win ‘em Theresa of all” “Long Island 82 Some adobe Medium” abodes 34 Blond or brown 83 Clarified-butter
quaff variety 35 ____ Lingus 84 Fourth ingredient 36 After midnight: in a classic Ointments infused three-ingredient with cottonwood sandwich or calendula, e.g. 85 After midnight: 38 Fleece Synchronized 40 After midnight: swimming Journey’s “Open 86 Forbid Arms” and 87 Before midnight: Guns N’ Roses’ Surpass “November Rain,” 90 Run up, as debts e.g. 92 Mexican shawls 42 See 71-Down 95 Beam 45 TikTok post, 96 Ice-cream name
informally 97 ____ Spring 46 Prepared, as a (2010s protests)
report 99 Drag queen and 49 Actress Lindsay TV personality 52 Chai, for one Bianca ____ Rio 55 Cedar Rapids 100 Potter’s pal at
college Hogwarts 56 “Despicable Me” 103 ESE or NNW
supervillain 105 Conjunction used 58 Hookup that in logic might get 107 Eddie Bauer kinky? competitor 59 Big acronym in 109 After midnight:
purifying filters Totally lose it 113 “Ack! All these options sound great!”
116 Middle name for musician Sean Lennon
118 Unacquainted
with
119 Where to see the
86-Down
120 Star sign?
122 Final image in a preschooler’s book, maybe
123 Toledan title
124 Japanese crispy
cutlet
125 Vexation
126 Rapid transit? 127 Pranks with rolls,
informally
128 Bring (in)
129 Start to make
fiction fact?
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3
4
5
6
7 8
9
10
11 12 13 14 17 19
20 22 24
26 31
DOWN
Laughs
Latin expression that’s almost always abbreviated Condo-organizing Kondo
Romantic profession
App coder, for short
Home to the Wat Xieng Thong temple
Physicist Fermi College athletics channel
Device placed under a tongue Snore, idiomatically “Seriously?” Greek god whose name is an anagram of a flower
Try
Aspirin alternative Sublet offerer
It’s got all the answers
BART part
____ Rabbit
Event for Cinderella
Foot part
Fighting 33 Title roles for Norman Bates and Patrick Bateman
37 Phishing targets 39 Evacuation
survival pack
41 Qatar’s capital
42 “Balderdash!”
43 Word with space
or rock
44 Lab tube with a
bulb
47 Mary Jane
48 Computer circuitry components
50 Wildfire debris
51 Duck Hunt
console, in brief 53 Sugar source
54 Transported, as some emergency goods
57 Gas, e.g.: Abbr.
61 Cosmetic goop
62 Bike-ride mishaps 63 Great time
65 Holy chambers in
Judaism
69 Wad (up)
70 “Same for us!”
71 With 42-Across, “Lust for Life” singer
72 Chevy S.U.V.
73 Make edits to
74 Like some dives
or jams
78 “I didn’t need to
know all that!”
79 Largest ethnic
group of China
80 Bart Simpson
catchphrase
81 Go all over
82 A mushroom’s is
called a pileus
86 End-of-December tradition depicted five times in this puzzle
88 Umpire’s call
89 Giving a onceover
91 Subjects to a
tirade
93 Hinging (on)
94 Form of algae also known as rockweed
98 Physiques, for
short
No. 0107
101 Like most award
shows
102 Belgian river in a
W.W. I battle
103 Spacey sort
104 Less
welcoming
106 Nonelective
courses: Abbr. 108 Brewskis
110 “The father of American literature,” per Faulkner
111 Geek Squad specialist, informally
112 TV and radio host
Andy
114 Brand owned by
Hasbro
115 Pool accessory 117 Mathematician
Neugebauer
121 Spanish bear