Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

New York Times Crossword Puzzle

- By Michael Liberman Edited by Will Shortz

LENGTH-ENING

ACROSS

1 Opportunit­ies for singles

7 Marbled savory snack from China

13 A boatload

17 ‘‘Keep Ya Head Up’’ rapper, informally

20 Home of the W.N.B.A.’s Wings

21 Talk and talk and talk and talk

22 On the deep

23 Poorly

24 Why the party’s about to get less hip?

26 Maker of the Switch console

28 Cremation receptacle­s

29 Service that’s not good?

30 ‘‘The ____ Company’’ (Frans Hals portrait)

32 Pie-crust ingredient

33 Army award attribute

35 Realtor’s exclamatio­n about a primary bathroom?

39 Actress Moriarty of ‘‘The Boys’’

40 ‘‘My package arrived!’’

42 Landing info, in brief

43 Sorrowful sound

44 ‘‘Not gonna ____ . . . ’’

45 Other: Sp.

46 Structure on the continenta­l shelf

48 Take (down)

49 How Shamu acknowledg­ed the crowd’s appreciati­on?

52 Go from

60 to 0, say

54 Grp. regulating global commerce

57 Got by just fine

58 Some N.F.L. linemen, in brief

60 Where someone might fiddle with your dance moves?

62 Flat-topped military hat

64 Ocean State sch.

66 Takes the stage

69 Man’s name that spells a fruit backward

70 ‘‘Prepare for a sword fight, McKellen, Fleming and all other namesakes out there!’’?

75 Uncurbed enthusiasm

76 Injury from a fistfight

77 Byproduct of burning tobacco

78 Bread maker?

79 Casino do-overs

81 Like many lifeguards

83 Crews

86 Neurodegen­erative disease, for short

87 1990s fitness fad

90 Dish cooked to smooth things over after a fight?

95 Cable channel with the comedy/drama ‘‘Sistas’’

96 TV that’s trash, e.g.

98 Pops

99 High point of a trip to Europe? 100 The old you?

102 It’s full of hot air

103 One small bite

105 Word with bus or whistle

106 What students in a karate class are often doing?

109 Spiny sea creatures

111 Flatbread made with atta

112 Charge for a tutor

113 Business-card abbr.

115 Hang ominously

116 Place for a lamp

118 Challenge for a court jester?

123 ‘‘That’s ____’’ (‘‘You may proceed’’)

124 ____ film

125 North African stew, or the dish it’s cooked in 126 Intimidati­ng in a cool way

127 Flavor enhancer, for short

128 Counterpar­t of -ful

129 Wears down

130 Contents of a corn maze

DOWN

1 Freeware annoyances

2 Where you might order nopales or esquites

3 Less clear, as a memory

4 Support group with a hyphen in its name

5 Ankle bones

6 About

5 o’clock, compass-wise

7 Daly of ‘‘Cagney & Lacey’’

8 Singer-actress Kitt

9 ‘‘Yo te ____’’

10 The Tasmanian one has been extinct since the 19th century

11 ‘‘Capisce?’’ 12 Like wind power vis-àvis natural gas

13 Something a parent might tell you to watch

14 God who was said to be in love with his sister while still in the womb(!)

15 Core position

16 Took a load off

17 Thing to bash at a bash 18 Buzz about space?

19 Thickheads

25 State symbol of Massachuse­tts

27 ‘‘Middlemarc­h’’ novelist, 1871

31 Showing signs of life

33 Commanding position

34 Located, to a builder

36 Herman Melville’s second novel

37 ‘‘That’s odd’’

38 Act unprofessi­onally?

41 Channel

45 How you might walk after getting great news

47 ‘‘Hey, I had it first!’’

48 Comedian-actor Ken of ‘‘The Hangover’’ films

50 Skewer

51 Pinkish-red shade

53 It moves one step at a time

54 ‘‘Ain’t I a ____?’’ (Sojourner Truth speech)

55 Between, poetically

56 Lead-in to a sale price

59 Lacking emotional toughness

61 Remove from Zillow, say

62 Show submission, in a way

63 ‘‘Jumpin’ Jehoshapha­t!’’

65 Still competing

67 Tour de France stage

68 Envelops 70 Pound who wrote ‘‘In a Station of the Metro’’

71 C sharp equivalent

72 Slowly move (in)

73 Sends unwanted texts to, maybe

74 Utterances of agreement

80 Totally loved

82 Present at birth

84 What’s so flippin’ easy to cook with?

85 Dinner at which ‘‘Dayenu’’ is sung

88 Fried pastries popular in New Orleans

89 Baby that rarely sleeps at night

91 Kind of high-fat, low-carb diet

92 Unlike π

93 Business magnate who is a Stanford University dropout

94 Actor Omar

95 Electronic toy with a blue ‘‘pull’’ handle

97 ‘‘On Juneteenth’’ author ____ Gordon-Reed

100 Some beachwear

101 Show-off

102 Mournful peals

104 Play opener

105 Rhimes with an eponymous production company 106 Pummel

107 Infuse (with)

108 Joy of TV

110 Sole connector?

114 Potato peeler targets

117 Patella neighbor, in brief

119 One may get in the way of a collaborat­ion 120 Purge (of)

121 Abbr. in a birth announceme­nt

122 Site used by NASA, in brief

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