New York Times Crossword Puzzle

THE FIRST SHALL BE LAST Answers on the next page No. 0828

ACROSS

1 Ditch 6 See-through clothing

material 10 Listens to Shakespeare? 15 Taiping Rebellion

general 18 Tourist’s report 20 Ring or sphere 21 Mail 22 Reason to scream, “Why won’t this damn thing locate airplanes?!”? 23 Honorary title in Wisconsin? 25 ____ Aduba of “Orange Is the New Black” 26 Insect that shorted out an early computer, spawning the term “computer bug” 27 “Ciao” 29 Surmise 30 Hamiltons 32 Domain of “Hamilton” 34 City with 500 attractions? 36 Takes in 38 Bay ____ 39 Section of “Aida,” e.g. 41 Letters after CD 42 “Hey, let’s gather 100 people to enact laws and ratify treaties”? 46 Fired (up) 47 Glow 48 Get by 49 Super ____ 50 Listen to violinist

Itzhak’s music? 52 Like blue moons 53 Norm: Abbr. 54 California missionary

Junípero ____ 55 “Ready to relieve ’em of a ____ or two” (“Les Misérables” lyric) 56 Stamp incorrectly, in

a way 58 Group that appeared

in the movie “Grease” 60 Oscars grp. 64 Out of gas, informally 65 Soft drink favored by

the Marines? 68 Stephen of “Interview

With the Vampire” 69 Sticky spots? 71 Cathedral feature 72 Blazing successes 74 “Oh, you’re

funny-y-y-y …” 76 Indian wear 77 Super ____ 78 Setting for the beginning of “The Book of Mormon” 79 Church response that’s taken as a given? 83 Lead-in to Pablo or

Carlos 84 Like Navy SEALs 85 “Old MacDonald Had

a Farm” sounds 86 “Got it” 87 Newspaper essay on why not to go outdoors? 89 Skit show, for short 90 E-cigarette output 91 Frat-boy types 92 Assn. 93 Top of the agenda 95 Fastener with a ringshaped head 97 Cries of approval 101 Tennis’s King of Clay 102 Cry from comic-book

civilians 105 Futile 107 Meadow 108 Woody playing a medieval baron? 110 Books written entirely in chat rooms? 113 Robert of “Airplane!” 114 Singer LaBelle 115 TLC and Destiny’s

Child 116 Most “Doctor Who”

characters, for short 117 “What if …,” informally 118 ____ cone 119 On edge

DOWN

1 Walk with pride 2 Crosswords in 1924-25,

e.g. 3 Home inspector’s concern 4 “Selma” director DuVernay 5 Locks in place for a

while? 6 What the “1” of “1/2”

represents 7 Intellectual 8 Litigate 9 Home-remedy drink 10 Bill of “Trainwreck” 11 Aladdin, e.g. 12 “Ratatouille” rat 13 Embroiled (in) 14 Biological pouch 15 Los Angeles Lakers’

home until 1999 16 Assent to a married

mujer 17 89-Across character played by Adam Sandler 19 “Tao Te Ching” philosopher 21 Mailed 24 “Howdy” 28 “____, verily” 31 Gray, say 33 Mythical father of Harmonia, strangely enough 35 Southern chain 37 Took in 39 America’s Cup, e.g. 40 Rostand protagonist

____ de Bergerac 42 Sunday delivery 43 Bush labor secretary

Chao 44 Sips 45 Puts under 46 Bits of truth 47 Name on many a college hall, informally 50 One easily bowled

over? 51 Laugh-filled broadcast 53 Racer’s brand 54 More see-through 57 Noted tea locale 58 The Titanic, e.g. 59 Gucci competitor 61 Bit of expert advice 62 Fill with gas 63 Like pageant contestants, typically 66 “Full speed ahead!” 67 Push-up muscle, informally 70 “That means …” 73 Passing remarks? 75 Showed over 77 Nisan observances 79 Green spirit 80 Something felt at

Christmas 81 Post-Christmas events 82 Hit upside the head,

in slang 83 Snoot 84 Eternally, to poets 87 Words of concession 88 Liable to spoil? 90 Cousin of a lemming 91 Sch. whose honor code includes chastity 94 Staffs 95 Start of a few choice

words? 96 Big dipper 98 Native of Alaska 99 Goes, “Ow, ow, ow!” 100 Like the response

“Talk to the hand!” 103 Adele, voicewise 104 Spot checkers? 106 One of Asta’s masters 109 College-level H.S.

courses 111 “Dios ____!” 112 The “V” of fashion’s

“DVF”