The New York Times Crossword
Across
1 Hotel chain
operated by Hilton 4 Banned insecticide 7 Big voices with big
egos
12 Some users of
Cyrillic script
17 Antique furniture
expert, perhaps 20 Like bills in arrears 22 Freak out
23 100 percent
24 Sight at a
checkout counter 26 Golfer who won the 1998 Masters (Italy)
28 Attach, as a patch 29 “Baa, baa” ma
30 “Rosy-fingered”
Greek goddess
31 Snitch out
34 Zip
35 World’s end?
36 Grp. led by Mahmoud Abbas beginning in 2004 39 Apples and pears,
botanically
41 Seethe (Norway) 44 Queen Latifah’s
given first name 46 Playwright ____-Manuel Miranda
47 Benefit
48 Pipsqueaks
49 Give up all at once
(Ecuador)
53 Org. with a
Summer League 54 Churn
55 Response from a
therapist
56 Were, for one?
58 “If we don’t end
____, ___ will end us”: H.G. Wells
61 Calculus expert? 63 “Inventing ____”
(2022 Netflix hit) 66 Die-hard
70 Gate in digital logic 71 Major player in U.S. economic policy
(Egypt)
74 Retired jersey number for the 76ers’ Moses Malone 75 Post-it notes, e.g.
77 Cousin of a plum 78 It’s good for three
points
80 Where you might get into hot water
81 ____ Hortons
(Canadian chain) 83 Statistician Silver 85 Land with an accent over its first letter
86 Big inits. in TVs
89 Boarding group?
(Switzerland)
94 Causes for pauses
97 God: Lat.
98 Stephen of “V for
Vendetta”
99 Except for
100 Activity for Santa
(Rwanda)
102 Scouts B.S.A. members since 2019
104 Marks, as a ballot 105 “OK, you get it,” for
short
106 De ____ (freshly) 107 Used room service,
e.g.
109 Hamm of women’s
soccer fame
111 Nickname that’s three consecutive letters of the alphabet
112 Torus-shaped
gasket
114 One who walks to
work? (Qatar)
119 What this puzzle’s circled letters are with respect to the surrounding shaded squares? 123 Quite eccentric 124 Noted underground adventurer
125 Sad ass
126 Burger topping that jacks up the
cholesterol
127 Rich sources
128 Kidney-related 129 Asphalt
component
130 Daily ____ (news
blog)
Down
1 Disneyland ride
2 McEntire of
country music
3 Old map inits.
4 Certain coding
snippet
5 Special collection
of musical hits?
6 “Je te plumerai la ____” (line from “Alouette”)
7 Old gold coin
8 ____ spot
9 Seconds, in brief 10 Open-mouthed
responses
11 Temptresses in the
“Odyssey”
12 Create an elaborate series of deceptions
13 Part of L.V.
14 Got in the game,
perhaps
15 Watch parties?
16 Focus for 15Down
18 It’s a drag
19 Seats
21 Big name in power
tools
25 Fail
27 Monitors at school,
briefly
32 ____-Eaters
33 Kindle competitor 36 “ASAP!”
37 Sondheim and Bernstein’s collaborator on “West Side Story”
38 Pungent party
bowlful
40 Ultra-aggressive 42 Freshly
43 Quite a fight
45 Fighting
47 “____ días!”
50 Instantly get along
well
51 Rush
52 Home of the David Geffen School of Drama
57 Laundry product 59 Like some 401(k)
contributions
60 It’s touchy to hit
61 “____ Rheingold” 62 “The Chi” channel,
familiarly
64 It has a devoted following on Sundays
65 Expiates, with
“for”
67 “____ out!”
68 Formal farewell
69 Modifier in digital
logic
72 “Oh, really?”
73 Catch a few
waves?
76 Lloyd of women’s
soccer fame
79 Talk smack about 82 Skirt style
84 Getting bored
with
87 Suggests
88 Kind of cat or
rabbit
90 Flat top?
91 Target of a joke
92 Region of Croatia associated with a canine breed
93 “Did you ring?”
94 Hybrid farm animal 95 Site acquired by
Match.com in 2011 96 London’s ____ Row 100 Liquor from Mexico 101 Like em dashes visà-vis en dashes 102 Benitez of TV news 103 Fuse by heating below the melting point
108 Bomb produced in
the 1950s
110 Ritalin target, for
short
113 Marvin who sang
“Sexual Healing” 115 Offended
116 Food that’s a national emblem of Wales
117 “Thus ... “
118 Standard operating procedures, for short
120 Clinch
121 Plasma particle 122 Ambrose Burnside was its first president, for short