Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

New York Times Crossword Puzzle

Answers on the next page

- By Lee Taylor / Edited by Will Shortz

THAT’S A MOUTHFUL ACROSS

1 Parabolas, essentiall­y 5 Part of a

wedding 9-Across 9 See 5-Across

13 Trophy winner

18 He planned

for a rainy day

19 Sled dog with a statue in Central Park

20 Jewish month before

Nisan

21 Corolla part

22 Result of a foul on a long basketball shot 25 Bandleader Shaw 26 Start of Euripides’

signature 27 Bargain-basement 29 See 92-Across

30 Took off the board 32 Popular jeans

33 Does, as an animated

character

35 A, B or C,

in Washington 38 Albino orca, e.g. 41 “You’re on!”

and others 42 Skedaddles

45 Country

singer Chesney

46 “It was all ____” 48 Chops down

49 Places for toasters and

roasters

51 Word after

sock or bunny 54 Subjects of some New

Year’s resolution­s 56 Deli order

57 Reddish

59 When repeated, emergency cry to a fighter pilot 60 Wise-looking

63 Pub orders

64 On base, say

67 Part of a department

store where people sit 70 Legally confer,

as a power

71 Opulent

73 Kind of joke

74 Lilac color

76 High regard

78 Certain intersecti­on 79 Andrew Jackson’s Tennessee home, with “the” 83 Family-reunion

attendee, informally 84 One taking inventory? 87 ____ Pueblo (World

Heritage Site)

88 Polite

89 Expensive outing 90 Philadelph­ia art museum, with “the”

92 With 29-Across, source of a famous smile

93 Home of the world’s only 14-lane suspension bridge 98 “Atonement” author Ian 100 Old barracks

decoration­s

101 Catches up to

102 Bollywood instrument­s 105 Man Ray’s genre

106 Ham it up

109 Wine orders

112 Good servers

114 Timekeeper on

the Emerald Isle

117 “Free ____”

118 Text-message status 119 Assists in a way one

shouldn’t

120 One getting the redcarpet treatment

121 Diary passage

122 Avant-garde

123 Father

124 Scottish caps

DOWN

1 Hill and

tunnel builder 2 Architect

Mies van der ____ 3 Complain

4 What a dairymaid does

all day long

5 Poi plants

6 Chaiken who co-created

“The L Word” 7 Printemps follower 8 Source of a deferment

in the 1960s draft 9 Syndicate

10 Big fan

11 Yamaha competitor 12 Formerly, once 13 Figurehead?

14 Tim ____, frequent collaborat­or with Adam Sandler 15 Ancient Greek state

with Athens 16 “The Marvelous Mrs. ____” (award-winning Amazon series)

17 “I beg of you”

19 A sharps

23 Aer Lingus destinatio­n 24 Performanc­es

for Hawaii tourists 28 Plane, e.g.

31 Column in

soccer standings 34 Confesses

35 Picket line crosser 36 Hobbes’s favorite food in “Calvin and Hobbes” 37 Text-message status 39 Leading characters in

“Mad Max”

40 Matter in court 43 Pretentiou­s

44 1984 Olympic

gymnastics sensation 47 ____ Boston

(noted hotel)

49 ____ de leche 50 Somewhat

51 Put an edge on 52 Loopholes

53 “Hey you!” 55 Wanna-____

56 Writer Stieg Larsson,

e.g.

58 Hard way to say the answers to the italicized clues in this puzzle (good luck!) 60 Willow twig

61 San ____, Calif. 62 Having a frog in one’s

throat

64 Building

direction, briefly 65 What “btw” means 66 Mess (with)

68 Spanish direction 69 Book before Deut. 72 Extend a hand

to after a fall, say 75 London’s Old ____ 77 Beyond that

79 Listens attentivel­y 80 Declare

81 “Jane the Virgin” actress

Rodriguez

82 Pizazz

85 Wine: Prefix

86 Was on the

verge of collapse 87 What “light” cigarettes

are lower in

89 Not so hip

90 “The Garden of Earthly Delights” painter

91 Cleverness

93 App release

94 One of the

B vitamins 95 Underwater 96 Electricia­n’s concern 97 Like the smell

of some bread 99 Where something annoying might be stuck

103 Less welcoming

104 Sample

107 What a headache

might feel like

108 Start of a classic

Christmas poem

110 James of jazz

111 Ponzi scheme, e.g.

113 Wilbur’s home in

“Charlotte’s Web” 115 Box-score inits.

116 Time-sheet

units: Abbr.

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