The New York Times Crossword
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1 Exfoliants
7 Foofaraw
10 Cookout chuckouts 14 Thickener used in
desserts
18 Like favorite radio
stations, perhaps 19 Calico calls
21 Memo starter
22 N.F.L. Hall-ofFamer Yale ____
23 Backpacker’s
snack
24 Big huff?
25 Have an outsize
presence
27 “I didn’t need to
know that!”
28 What a net might
attach to
30 Flying Cloud of old
autodom
31 Jazz clarinetist
Shaw
32 Soaring shot
33 Some Six Nations
members
35 *Mount Everest
scaler
37 Hogs
39 *Went out of
control
40 A.M.A. members:
Abbr.
42 Marketing experiment comparing two variants
44 Some red marks
45 Big lugs
48 Say “Whomever
did this ...,” say
49 Alice who wrote
“The Color Purple” 51 Org. with a sizable
registry
54 Yellow jacket, for
one
55 Syrup brand since
1902
57 Word before Roger
or Rancher
58 To a profound
degree
60 *”Cinderella”
meanie
62 Field trip
conveyances
63 Middle van Pelt
child in “Peanuts” 64 Use Tinder, say
65 Airs
69 Big exporter of
pistachios
70 Features of some bygone muscle cars
71 Give an elbow
bump to, say
72 Free of fizz
73 *Lateral-breaking
pitches
75 Skulk
76 Maker of the
world’s first quartz watch
77 Javanese dyeing
technique
78 Potala Palace city 79 One of seven represented in the Pleiades
80 *Glide down from
above
81 Sleigh driver’s need 82 Sound of an
ungraceful landing 84 ____ card
85 Fashion house whose logo is two interlocking C’s
87 Like the Carolina
Reaper pepper
88 Visionary
91 Title for Baltimore 92 Crow language
family
95 Sounds of
hesitation
96 da-DUM
99 On pins and
needles
101 Homebrewer’s
sugar
103 Cartoonish villains 106 “Little ol’ me?”
107 Woodard of
“Clemency”
109 Article in Aachen 110 “Where ignorance is bliss, ____ folly to be wise”: Thomas Gray
111 “Eh ... I’ll pass”
112 It’s a banger in
Germany
114 *Portrayer of Scrooge in 1951’s “A Christmas Carol”
116 Surgical seam 118 Unagi and anago, for two
119 What parallel lines never do
120 It beats scissors 121 Passionate
122 Secretary, e.g. 123 ____ Noël
124 Place to wallow 125 Butterfly garden bloomers
Down 1 2
Places
“Mad Money” host Jim
3 Eye part with rods and cones
4 Kind of port
5 Boot-camp exercises performed on all fours
6 Narrow groove
7 One for the roadie 8 Most beloved
9 Dominated, informally
10 Pico de gallo herb 11 Not yet in stock
12 Soup bases
13 Highway heavyweight
14 ____ mode
15 Like toum or agliata sauce
16 Forest between Champagne and Lorraine
17 Cousin of kvass 20 Plant pore
26 “____ Miz”
29 Early computer acronym
34 O.E.D. part: Abbr. 36 Some rideshares 38 They may be hidden behind paintings
41 Knot-tying and lashing, to a sailor 43 Like some short tennis matches 46 Install, as sod
47 Record-player annoyances
50 Actor Guinness
51 Improvised comment
52 “Colette” actress Knightley 53 Comedian Wyatt of
“Problem Areas” 56 Porter, for one
57 Derby cocktail
59 Bad Brains and
Bikini Kill, for two 61 Muckety-mucks 62 Colorful bird
named for its diet 64 Not easily moved 65 Ocho menos
cinco
66 Buttonholes,
basically
67 Actor/activist
George
68 Seattle’s W.N.B.A.
team
70 Absolutely wrecks
71 K
74 Reason to do a
“stupid human trick”
75 X
76 Tangential topics 78 Allow to access
79 “I am,” in Latin
80 Incomplete
dentures
81 Ball game that all
players might lose 83 Lacks
85 Place to wear
muck boots
86 One roasted or
toasted
87 More raspy
89 Dramatize, as a
historical event
90 Teller, maybe
93 “That time is fine
for me”
94 Lack of musicality
97 Teeny-tiny
98 Word after ring or
water
100 Side-to-side
movement
102 Pastoral skyline
features
104 Tyler of “Whose
Line Is It Anyway?” 105 Places for hoses
and hoes
108 Oatmeal glob
113 Judgy sound
115 Jupiter’s realm, in
myth
117 Pic on a pec, say