New York Magazine

Think These Things Through

- By Matt Gaffney

Across

1 6/6/1944

5 Mainstream type

11 “That’s adorbs!”

14 Posh evening events

19 Gospel great Winans

20 Salsa ingredient­s

21 Seoul-based automaker

22 Pass on the big wedding

23 “Cheers” character who made everyone laugh at school?

27 “Would you let me treat you?”

28 Singer Baker

29 “It’s not the ___ of the world”

30 Respectful address

31 Gift-shop request

35 ABCs

38 Acting like pumpernick­el, rye, and multigrain are the same?

44 Court cover

45 Super-disgusting

46 City for snowbirds

47 Feel down

49 Simple shirt

50 Jukebox pick

51 Opposite of 75-Down

54 Huge piece of lumber picked up by garbage collectors?

61 New York congressma­n Zeldin

63 “What ___ thinking?”

64 ___ butter

65 “___ luego” (“See you later”)

66 Word in many job titles

68 They choose to have no class

71 Instrument like a scalpel

72 ___ long (since way back)

73 A piece of cake

74 Lots and lots

76 Drink in a stein

77 Trick play in beach football?

83 “Gimme one ___”

84 Makes amazed

85 “___ My Party”

86 Napper’s noise

89 Boca ___

91 People of Florence, e.g.

95 Work team

96 Incredible loaf from a bakery you once found … but could never find again?

100 Roof material

101 Like better

102 Goat’s sound

103 Detroit-based org.

104 “___ We Trust” (phrase on coins)

107 Intends to ransom

111 Traffic jam in downtown Hollywood?

118 Kevin of “Bob’s Burgers”

119 Sweetheart

120 Crowd’s inspiratio­n

121 “Circle” singer Brickell

122 Pizza purchase

123 Part of GPS

124 Thin and strong

125 Property owner’s proof

Down

1 800, one way

2 Oscar ___ Renta

3 Open ___ of worms (invite trouble)

4 “It’s totally true!”

5 What steak, salmon, and stevia have

6 “___ time will tell”

7 City ENE of São Paulo

8 Do the lawn

9 Cozy stopover

10 Computer key hit in a panic

11 Like

12 Coffee-shop freebie

13 Float, as an aroma

14 Shaving option

15 In the style of

16 “___ a Battlefiel­d” (Pat Benatar hit)

17 Salt amount, in recipes

18 Has shipped

24 PR team’s take

25 Hideouts

26 Kimchee component

31 “You can stop explaining this to us now”

32 Tougher to find

33 Fuss

34 “Antiques Roadshow” airer 36 Tattoo spot, often 37 Fashionabl­e Anna

38 “Give me a minute,” when texting

39 1973 decision in the news

40 Of childbirth

41 Tim and Eli, for two

42 Love, in Latin

43 Eat well

48 The ___ a new era

50 Without delay, on “ER”

51 Iroquois Confederac­y people

52 Chip company

53 Enjoy a roller rink

55 Get droopy

56 Customary

57 Try to capture

58 Swahili-speaking nation

59 “Appreciate it”

60 Sought office

61 Chuckles, humorously

62 French academy

67 Web-access source

69 Court whistleblo­wers

70 Seaside inhalation 71 Placement (abbr.)

75 Fails to be, poetically

78 Football no-no

79 Shout when you touch a hot pan

80 Phnom ___ (Cambodia’s capital)

81 Newspaper-storage medium 82 Under a spell

87 Cath., e.g.

88 “You” sounds like her

89 Become unsafe to eat

90 Abbr. on bottles of wine

91 Afternoon, in Acapulco

92 Great Basin tribe member

93 Personal-ads abbr.

94 Like some Rieslings

96 “___ it be?” (bar query)

97 Lanai’s place

98 Poems in couplets

99 Handfuls of cash

100 Warthog features

105 Worn-down pencils

106 Brisbane greeting

107 Be familiar with

108 Helper

109 Ballerina’s knee bend

110 It leaves tracks in snow

112 GOP fund-raising org.

113 “Told ya!”

114 Number after uno

115 ___ Lanka (island nation)

116 Khaki colored

117 Noshed on

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