NY Times Puzzle No. 1125
ACROSS
1 Annual N.A.A.C.P. ceremony since 1967
12 Series of steps in
Spain
14 Noted antigun demonstration on the National Mall
16 Illinois city near
St. Louis
17 Extra-wide shoe
spec
18 That’s a wrap!
19 Expect to happen
21 Hosp. staffers
23 Scale notes
24 Thumbs-up
response
25 Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
28 Cold War concerns, for short
30 It’s around “two
o’clock”: Abbr. 31 ___ Prize, major honor in mathematical achievement
32 Something often containing a single parenthesis
33 “Well, gosh, could
be …”
36 Big name in
green products
38 27-Down, for
example
39 Network descended from the first national “superstation”
42 Actor Rutger ___
of “Blade Runner”
43 Japanese zither
44 “You ___?!?!”
45 Fully anesthetized
46 Spanish : “son” ::
English : ___
48 “Peanuts” girl
with curly hair
50 Expressions of
repugnance
52
55
56
59
60
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2
3
4 ___Guessr, browser game that pulls from Google Street View
5
6
7
8
9
Qatar left it in 2019
Relish
Remark following an interesting development
Line on a Montana license plate
Documents for foreign nationals
DOWN
1972 hit whose singer claims to “know a place”
Surname on “Cheers”
Kind of group in chemistry
Suffix similar to -trix
Height
Beaus
Don Draper and Roger Sterling on a hit AMC series
Hit hard
10 Some forensic lab
samples
11 Get ready in a
hurry
12 Substitute
13 Deploying ransomware, for one
14 Common residential street name
15 Big stink, more
colloquially
20 To us, in Latin
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26
27 Olive lover?
29 Modern descriptor with man or woman
31 Aerospace company that makes launch vehicles for NASA
32
34
Says who?
Scale notes
Lampoon
Automne preceder
35 Ending with hot or
honey
36 Give a whoop
37 Saw, informally
40 Rougher-thanusual instance, as of a head cold or thunderstorm
41 Legal checks
43 Didn’t lose the
thread
44 Subtly acknowledge, in a way
47 Sleeping spot 51 X-ray ___ (novelty
purchase)
53 French verb whose first letter contains a circumflex
54 Singer whose likeness was the highest-selling doll of 1976, surpassing Barbie
57 Old French love
poem
49 Prefix with
linear 58
Follower of Marx