SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

ACROSS

1 What a drawbridge

may bridge

5 In that case 9 Control-tower

installation

14 Pass

19 “That one’s ____”

(“My bad”) 20 Amelia Bedelia,

e.g.

21 “Go me!” 22 Member of a noble

family

23 2004 film about a group of MALIGNERS

25 It might be put on for stage PAGEANTRIES 27 Annual film festival where “Saw” and “Get Out” premiered 28 “____ La La” (1964

hit)

29 Senator, e.g., for

short

30 Avoids a bogey,

perhaps

31 Being

33 Be hopping mad 34 Cool one

37 W.W. II hero,

informally 39 Muletas are waved

at them

40 Canon camera 41 Branch of Islam 42 You might be MARVELING AT this as it whizzes by

46 Sort of SCHEMATIC for Christian education

48 Like some casts 49 City nicknamed the

Old Pueblo 51 French city near

the Belgian border 52 Prefix with colonial 53 Tightfitting

55 Toni Morrison title

heroine

56 Annual British

acting award 58 Series of

questions, maybe 60 Counterpart of

elles

62 Opposite of never 64 Many relationships are INSTIGATED on one

68 Healthy eaters may give this A WIDE BERTH 72 Disrupt an online

meeting, in a way 74 Mauna ____ 75 Grp. that hasn’t yet found what it’s looking for 76 Wonder Woman

and others 79 Valuable load for a

mule

81 Influence 84 Pioneering gangsta

rap group 85 Burdened

86 Just

88 Preferring one’s own company, perhaps

90 They can be NOISELESS while stalking prey 93 Explorers of the

UNTRAVERSED 95 Burden

96 Old cable-TV inits.

9/5/21

97 Fill in

98 Word repeated in “I ____, I ____, it’s off to work I go” 99 Lick, say

100 “____ merci!”

(French cry)

101 “On it, captain!” 103 “No need to make

me a plate”

106 Five-letter word that replaces a four-letter word? 107 1980s gaming inits. 108 Not even

111 Writing done

GRAPHICALLY

115 The Trojans lacked the FORESIGHT to turn this down

116 It’s multilayered 117 You should always bring it to a competition

118 Children’s author

Blyton

119 Be taken aback

120 One way to cook a

116-Across

121 Unenthusiastic

122 They know the

drill: Abbr.

123 Word after hard or

before short DOWN

1 “My Two ____” (2015 Claudia Harrington children’s book) 2 Top 3 Appliance brand

since 1934

4 Pea shooters? 5 “Sign me up!” 6 Complete

travesty

7 Feature of many

British accents 8 Binges too much,

for short

9 As if orchestrated 10 Indexed data

structures 11 Directly

12 Fourth person to

walk on the moon 13 Do a double take? 14 Boot

15 Almost

16 What makes Shrek

shriek?

17 One side in a

debate

18 It may be blown 24 They may be

blown

26 House

Republican V.I.P. Stefanik

28 Star in Canis Major 32 Just so

34 Hot-dog topper 35 Airline passenger

request

36 Lion ____

38 “Dear ____ Hansen” (2017 Tony-winning musical) 41 Responds to br-r-risk weather? 42 Like zebras and

lions

43 Voice with an Echo 44 Rub it in

45 “It is what it is”

and others

46 Mike Krzyzewski, to Duke basketball fans

47 Rise

50 Hot-dog topper 54 A little too silky,

maybe

56 Justin Trudeau, by

birth

57 Don’t believe it! 59 Aftmost masts on

ships

61 Gives fuel to 63 Gets a move on,

quaintly

65 Who can hear you

scream in space 66 Ending with poly67 Title meaning

“commander” 69 “____ Meenie”

(2010 hit) 70 Battling

71 Rings up 73 Showing the effects of an allnighter, say

76 Give one’s blessing

to

77 It has more coastline than California, surprisingly 78 Score after seven

points, maybe

©2021 New York Times 80 Certain radio

format

82 Apropos of

83 “Like that’ll ever

happen!” 86 “Appetizers” or

“Desserts,” at a diner 87 International cosmetics company ____ Rocher

89 Content people? 91 Larsson who wrote “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” 92 Pooh-pooh 94 Common April

activity, nowadays 97 Vietnamese

sandwich

100 Group trying to

sack a QB

102 Make over, as a

ship

104 A crowd, they say 105 It has 104-Down

legs

106 Obscure, with

“out”

109 They may be set by

industry grps.

110 Girl in “The Old

Curiosity Shop”

111 sin/tan

112 Major Japanese

carrier

113 “Kill Bill” co-star 114 You can chew on it 115 Some

appliances