New York Post

Sunday Break

- “SEE TO IT” By DAVID ALFRED BYWATERS

Across

1 Order not to pay

5 Attention-seeker’s word

9 Make up one’s mind

15 Half of a theoretica­l duality

19 Frankfurt article

20 Make over

21 Serving from a buffet station

22 Versed in

23 Part of a successful baker’s rep?

25 Ice-cream shop cry?

27 Irritable

28 Where to find Bend and Bandon: Abbr.

29 Mosaic part

30 Centers

31 Joie de vivre

33 New Age physician

35 Bundles that may be cylindrica­l

36 Nocturnal nuisance

39 Critter that doesn’t sound interestin­g

41 Fish in a spread

43 Has too much, briefly

44 Report on a sucker?

48 Expressed, as a farewell

50 Imitated

51 Early Iranian

52 Simple Simon’s request

53 Try to live up to

57 Blue-striped ball

58 Amer. attorney’s study

60 Proofer’s “Leave it alone”

62 Chihuahua kisses

63 W. alliance since 1948

65 “Hadestown” creator Mitchell

67 Ice skater’s small talk?

69 Verify

72 Metaphor for a mess

73 Talked pompously

74 Shell game item?

75 Brown ermine

77 Dumbbell abbr.

78 “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” poet

79 Puerto Rico, por ejemplo

81 Company with orange-and-white trucks

83 Friend

86 Golf club without much loft

88 Smashed

90 Humble response to praise

91 South Africa’s __ Town

92 Sound of disgust, in comics

93 Salon receptioni­st’s job?

96 One side of many rulers: Abbr.

99 Composer of the opera “Alfred”

101 Oil cartel letters

102 Smartphone sounds

103 Attempts to beat on foot

105 Bowler’s aversion

108 Desierto’s lack

109 Listing in a revision, perhaps

111 “Juno” actor Michael

112 Many a bottom line

114 Wear away

118 Cowardly committee head?

120 Farmers market IOU?

122 Bob with jokes

123 Back fin

124 Move like honey

125 Manual reader

126 Some farm moms

127 Swift

128 Potential opponents of us

129 Carry

Down

1 Group within a group

2 Lose energy

3 Taxing task

4 Wouldn’t leave be

5 Rainbow, e.g.

6 Egret, for one

7 River to the Fulda 8 Sleep __

9 Tweak for better flavor, say

10 Text alternativ­e

11 Quartet in many a string orchestra

12 Least healthy

13 Bit of OED info

14 Thames campus

15 Desert plant in the asparagus family

16 Lunar program

17 “You don’t have to”

18 Pleasantso­unding rock?

24 Polk predecesso­r

26 Sound from a nursery rhyme trio

32 Aesthetic notes

33 “Caught you!”

34 Sleeveless garment

36 Vocal improv

37 “Uh-uh!”

38 Kitchen fixture

39 Late-night reading aids

40 Arctic, for one

42 ’60s conflict site

45 Guys

46 Greeting card sentiment

47 Carrier rider

49 Chooses

54 “A Hard Road to Glory” author

55 Hopper on a pad

56 Fixer’s proposed amt.

59 Hot holiday drink

61 Overjoyed

63 How police might act

64 Wine drinker’s bonus

66 Big comm. company, once

68 Dawdle

69 Tobacco plug

70 Winery prefix

71 Making a mess of

74 Summer setting in K.C.

76 “Take __!”

80 Inc. cousin

82 Keats’ “fosterchil­d of silence and slow time” is one

83 Two together 84 Cal. entry

85 Not so pricey

87 “The Fault in __ Stars”: 2014 film

89 Badly timed, sometimes

91 Easy to see

94 Life-saving proc.

95 Like crossword answers

96 Christmas display

97 Bone __

98 Abrasion

100 Trump game often with

24 cards 104 Icicle sites

106 Gibe

107 G-B-D, say

108 Fill with wonder

110 Added stipulatio­ns

112 Lipton of tea fame, for one

113 Cry of trepidatio­n

115 Very

116 Nutrition regimen

117 Basic French verb

119 Filch

121 Sleep phenomenon, briefly

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