The New York Times Crossword
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1 Supply for an ultimate Frisbee team
6 2019 box-office flop described by one critic as “Les Meowsérables” 10 Picks the brain of 14 Extemporizes 19 “Why should ____?” 20 Feeling tender 21 Apartment, in real estate lingo 22 How spring rolls are cooked 23 Oscar-winning actress born Mary Louise
24 One side of a 2015 nuclear agreement
25 It’s irreversible 26 University of Florida athlete
27 “That was great!” “No, it stank!” 31 Setting for Jo Nesbo’s best-selling crime novels
32 They have stems and white heads 33 Mild, light-colored cigars
36 Have because of 38 Drive (from) 39 Recurring pain? 42 Route 70 in {Route 10, Route 95, Route 101, Route 70, Route 25}
45 Snitch
47 Hit film set aboard the spaceship Nostromo 48 Cereal grain 49 Fastener that leaves a flush surface 51 Modern partyplanning tool 52 Lofty 53 Collector’s item 55 Word after combat or cowboy 58 What two Vikings have explored 59 Royal staff
61 Sort represented by the emoji 64 Fruits often used in sushi
66 Cattle in [cattle/ pigs]
69 Burrito condiment 73 Vodka mixer 74 Hopeless predicament 79 Birthstone for Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris and Alexandria OcasioCortez
80 Toffee bar brand 82 What the nose knows
84 Major move, for short
85 “... unless you disagree” 87 Naturally occurring hexagonal crystals 90 “Dames at ____” (Broadway musical)
91 Was fed up 92 Comics character with the dog Daisy 95 Bear x tiger 98 “Billions” airer, for short
99 Et ____ 101 Hamilton, to Burr 102 Green cards, informally 103 Offering to a houseguest 105 Hardly any
106 Car in {plane, car, train, horse, car, car, train}
113 Pong company 114 Shakespeare character who inquires, “Are your doors lock’d?” 115 Greet grandly 116 Provide funding for
118 Was accepted 119 ____ mess, English dessert of berries, meringue and whipped cream 120 Its merchandise often comes with pictorial instructions 121 “Set Fire to the Rain” singer 122 Part of a golf club 123 Mathematician Descartes 124 Credit-application figs.
125 PC platform popular in the 1980s
Down
1 Grow faint
2 Coffee-order specification 3 Garment whose name sounds like an apology
4 Sign of distress 5 Like many wildflower seeds 6 Boutros BoutrosGhali’s home city 7 Nearly 5,000 square yards 8 Comparative word 9 Matched up 10 What has interest in a car?
11 Sound of disdain 12 Long, loose robe 13 Leave momentarily 14 Brief evocative account 15 Diarist Nin 16 “Hello ____” (old cellphone ad line) 17 Subatomic particle 18 Some nice cameras, for short
28 Wife of Albert Einstein
29 Wipe out, slangily 30 “____ deal”
33 Has a tête-à-tête 34 Pale pinkish purple 35 Light-footed 36 Muhammad’s father-in-law 37 Cause of a smudge
39 First work read in Columbia’s literature humanities course 40 Like some news coverage 41 Squeeze
43 “Nice going!” 44 Crux of the matter 46 Rating for risqué shows 50 ____-in-the-hole (British dish) 53 Whale constellation 54 Massive ref. books 56 Have things in common
57 Like music that uses conventional keys and harmony 60 Org. whose website has a “What Can I Bring?” section 62 Summer Olympics host before Tokyo
63 They may come in a boxed set 65 Summer hrs. in Iowa 67 Co. captains? 68 First line of a Seuss classic
69 Parts of cars and stoves 70 High-profile interviewer of Harry and Meghan 71 Style of “Roxanne” in “Moulin Rouge!” 72 Drawn out 75 Easterlies
76 Done again 77 Chef Waters who pioneered the organic food movement
78 Mrs. ____, “Beauty and the Beast” character
81 Kind of vaccine used against Covid 83 Slippery
86 Partly 88 Two-person meeting 89 Certain sots 91 Words often replaced when singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” 93 Disney character who says “Some people are worth melting for” 94 Less sportsmanlike 96 Where the King lived 97 Tennis’s Nadal, familiarly
100 Make sparkling 103 Font flourish 104 Tease 105 Cartographic collection
106 In Touch and Out, for two 107 Texter’s “Then again ... “
108 Cloud contents 109 Trees under which truffles might grow 110 “De ____” (response to “Merci”) 111 Took too much, for short
112 ____ contendere 117 ____ Moore, antipoverty entrepreneur of the Robin Hood Foundation