NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Wildfire season stat, for short 4 Title feline in a Hannabarbera 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

62 Cat scratchers

64 Draws

65 Heavy lifter?

66 Words in an analogy

67 French vineyard region

70 ‘‘The highest result of education,’’ according to Helen Keller

73 Sheep shelters

77 Excited jackpot cry

79 Goofy image, maybe 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 eating its way through this puzzle, with ‘‘the’’ 122 Choice words

123 And others, in Latin

124 Sold products on behalf of 125 Grp. that measures 1-Across 126 Place to crash while camping 127 Brother of Eos and Selene 128 Navarra’s land

129 Harden

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 gradeschool 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