The New York Times Crossword
Across
1 Symbol of authority,
informally
7 Compañero
12 Delhi issue
16 Reaction to puppy
pics
19 Water buffalo, for
one
20 French ____ (tricktaking game)
21 Land of blarney
22 Pass during the
N.F.L. playoffs
23 THE LADY VANI__ __
__ __ (No. 2, 1964) 25 Who infamously boasted “They can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money”
27 Luxurious
28 Suffix in some
pasta names
29 BILLE (No. 3, 1972) 31 He gave Starbuck’s
orders
34 NATO members,
e.g.
35 Adorable sort
36 x0 (No. 1, 1985)
41 Barnyard baby
42 Keep one’s mouth
shut?
43 Porky Pig’s girlfriend 44 It cost 5¢ in 1965
47 Home of Iowa State 49 Help with a crime 50 Google web
browser
53 Laser-pointer
chaser
54 Like the Balkans in
the 1990s
57 Certain peaceful
protest
58 Country singer
McEntire
59 Captivate
60 VAUDEVILLIAN
(No. 2, 1988)
65 Become more
complicated, say 66 Getting together
67 Sheen
71 LOST, E.G. (No. 1,
1984)
73 Glacier-scaling tool 74 Yard tool
77 Private student
78 Figure it out 79 ____ Lilly (pharmaceutical giant)
80 “Jeez!”
82 Actress Garr
85 Beach shaper
86 Only player to win the U.S. Chess Championship with no losses or draws 88 Darling
91 Harbor helper
92 ____ story (tale of
a car company’s bankruptcy?)
93 CHAN__E __ PPEA__ANCE TO CONCEA__ __ __D MISLEA__ (No. 1, 1968)
97 Islamic spirit
99 Brand of insecticide
strips
100 Madhouses
101 TITTLE-TATTLE
(No. 16, 2011)
103 Opposite of post105 Airline posting
109 Furnace for calcium
oxide production 110 ENT I CEMENT (No.
1, 1983)
114 Big club in Las
Vegas?
115 The final word
116 Give a lift
117 Know-it-all
118 “____ Como Va”
(Santana hit)
119 Female Olympian
of note
120 Palindromic
battlers
121 Place of worship whose third, fourth and fifth letters are appropriate
Down
1 One of eight in a stick of butter: Abbr.
2 Jolly laugh
3 Dec. 24 and 31, e.g. 4 Minor accident
5 Mary ____ Evans a.k.a. George Eliot 6 Opposite of paleo7 Memo abbr.
8 When doubled, Hawaiian food fish
9 Pique
10 Terk in Disney’s
“Tarzan,” e.g.
11 Opera with the aria
“Ave Maria”
12 Naval engineer
13 Air traveler’s
accumulation
14 Quint’s boat in
“Jaws”
15 Enclosure for a bike chain and sprockets
16 180
17 Arthur who invented the crossword puzzle
(1913)
18 Overgrown, say
24 Kind of terrier
26 Young chicken, e.g. 30 Actress Tyler
32 Move barefoot across a scorchingly hot beach, maybe
33 Shock’s partner 34 Throw ____ (rant
and rave)
36 No longer frozen
37 Kind
38 Crop up
39 Chafe
40 Out of gas,
informally
41 Internet ending
that’s also an ending for inter44 Part of the
brainstem
45 Chatter
46 Greek letter that
might follow “z” 48 Affix, in a way
50 Eyelashes
51 Ketchup brand
52 “One ____-dingy” (Ernestine the operator’s catchphrase on “Laugh-In”)
55 Arch type
56 Landlord’s due
57 Petrol unit
58 Surgically remove 60 Unearthed
61 Mi, in a C major
scale
62 Number twos
63 Pelvic bones
64 Air carrier
68 Island where Paul
Gauguin painted 69 Book that’s the source of the phrase “a land flowing with milk
and honey”
70 Go back (on)
72 Instruction in an
oatmeal recipe
74 “Zebra”
75 Slugger from
Louisville
76 Florida city whose
name has three pairs of doubled letters
78 Upscale watch
brand
80 Annual eight-day
celebration
81 Basketball stat:
Abbr.
82 Numbskull
83 Poetic dusk
84 Color of traffic on a
GPS
87 Craft carried over a
portage
88 Rhythmic part of a
heartbeat
89 Same: Prefix
90 Sense of self
93 Protagonist in “The Stepford Wives”
94 FedEx competitor 95 Clears for takeoff? 96 Old Glory
97 1964 Tony Randall
title role
98 Like oranges and
some gossip
99 Duck or Penguin 102 Frost
103 Davidson of
“S.N.L.”
104 Richard and Jane in
court
106 Commercial prefix
with postale
107 Out of office?:
Abbr.
108 One-named Irish
hitmaker
111 Tops
112 Madrid’s country, in
the Olympics
113 Song lead-in to “Believer,”“Loser” or “Survivor”