The New York Times Crossword
Across
1 Almost
5 Oven setting
10 Portrayer of the boxer Clubber Lang in “Rocky III” 13 In case
17 When repeated, old-time call to listen
18 Part of a prank
20 Govt. organization with a two-syllable acronym
22 Kind of clarinet
23 Came to know, oldstyle
24 It empties into the
Bay of Bengal
26 Radar spot
27 Bringing in, as
income
29 “Keen!”
30 With 12-Down, spend much more than a fair price
31 Department-store
department
32 Lay ____ to
34 Question that’s not one of the five W’s
35 Big consideration
for the expecting 37 Ticket fig.
40 Wisteria and
honeysuckle
42 Video game character in a hit 2020 film
43 Educator/writer ____ Johnson McDougald, first African American female principal in New York City public schools
45 Belief of roughly 25 percent of the world’s population 46 Director Craven
47 Downstairs
51 Kept in
53 Lets out
55 Vape’s lack
56 Martini & Rossi
product, familiarly 57 Emmy-winning
Ward
58 Took down, in a
way 59 62
Fly around Africa Doughy dinner item
64 Drug agent’s
seizure
65 Deseret News
reader, typically 66 Did nothing
67 Professor ____
69 With 74-Across, gesture of approval
On fire Champing at the bit
See 69-Across One cutting down, so to speak
79 What babies do faster than college students
80 Feudal land
81 O’s, but not P’s or
Q’s
83 Petty
84 Some posers
86 Self-titled rock
album of 1958
88 Quaint contraction 91 Smoking spot, for
short?
92 Former baseball
commissioner Bud 93 Sound, e.g.
94 Moves like muck 96 I.T. help center,
often
98 Ending with bear
or bull
99 “Uncle!”
101 Rocker Rose
102 Heard in court 104 Promotion
105 Letters that might change your mind?
107 Prepare, in a way,
as eggs
109 Irritable
112 En voz ____ (aloud:
Sp.)
113 Insincere, as a
remark
116 Kristen of
“Bridesmaids”
118 Jaunty
119 Counterpart of “adios”
“Yes” or “No” follower
Old Icelandic work 70 73
74 78 120 121 122 123 124
125
Fivers Idiosyncrasy Greek performance venue Alternative to Wranglers
Down
1 Blues group, for
short?
2 Fully ready to listen 3 Loretta who sang “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)”
4 Cold climate
cryptids
5 “The ____ they are
... “
6 Messenger ____
7 Walk around at a
rest stop, say
8 “Bus Stop”
playwright
9 Be in store
10 “Who, me?”
11 Invitation letters
12 See 30-Across
13 Subjects of some tests Actress Burstyn What some insects and insults can do
16 Primo
19 Bit of bad weather, on a weather map
21 Indo-____
languages
25 They’re numbered
in Microsoft Excel 28 More agreeable
33 Theodor ____ a.k.a.
Dr. Seuss
36 Will Smith/Tommy Lee Jones film franchise, for short 37 Flat-earther?
38 Like many a
stuffed toy
39 Aware of
41 Word that, fittingly, contains all four different letters of APPEAL
42 Question following
a clever trick
44 Shows scorn
toward 14 15 46 48 49
Take by force Wood strip Peak in the “Odyssey”
50 One of the five W’s 52 Arcane matters
53 Panache
54 Leave gobsmacked 58 Scatter
60 Sudden sharp pain 61 Have seconds and thirds and fourths and ...
63 Flatten
64 Lilies with bellshaped flowers
68 Rachel Zegler’s role in 2021’s “West Side Story”
70 Allow entry
71 Forehead mark on
Hindu women
72 City SW of York
75 Safe bettor
76 Instruments with
endpins
77 Some sources of
leafy greens
80 F on a gauge
82 It’s just not true! 85 Easy opportunity
for a basket
86 Vegas venue with
an iconic fountain 87 Who might be on
the trail
89 Candy bar fillings 90 Emergency
request
92 Vikings’ foes
95 A goose egg
96 One reporting to
an underboss
97 Nauseate
99 Bankrupt
100 Bizarre
103 One holding things together, perhaps
104 “____, Can You Hear Me?” (Oscarnominated song from “Yentl”)
106 Sub station?
108 Lemon or cheese
product
110 & 111 In
cooperation
114 Sea-____ Airport 115 Fair-hiring inits.
117 Option for a range