The New York Times Crossword
Note: This completed puzzle contains a 114-Across, comprising the eight shaded answers. Put these in order, one after the other. Then use the following key to get a line spoken by 25-Across in “The 40-Across”: A = R, B = I, C = J,D=P,E=A,G=H,I=O,J =C,K=L,L=U,N=T,O=Z, P=Y,R=M,S=E,T=D,U= S,V=G,X=N,Y=K.
Across
1 Flight path?
7 Pain in the neck?
13 Wish
19 Climbed, as 1-Across 20 TV-schedule info
21 Early online forum 22 Pacific harbinger of wet West Coast weather
23 Some tiki bar orders 24 Out in the sun too
long, maybe
25 English computer scientist who pioneered the breaking of ciphers generated by the 98-Across
27 Driver of some
engines
29 Bind
30 Part of a seat
assignment
31 Observed during
33 ____-Seltzer
35 Ready to blow
37 Leaf producer
40 2014 movie portraying the work of 25-Across, with “The”
44 Fission locales
46 Set of clubs
47 “The Merchant of Venice” character who favors wordplay
48 Brazilian jiu-____
50 Prey for a lion
52 Fitting
53 Connect with on social media, maybe
54 How some popcorn
is popped
55 Gradually slid (into)
57 Lead-in to dermis 60 Location of the Chair
of St. Peter within St. Peter’s Basilica
61 Thin porridges
63 Modern prefix with
health
64 Appearance
66 “My dear man ... ”
67 Civil rights leader
Medgar
69 Troublesome engine
sound
71 Hoover, for one
74 One way to segment
demographic data 76 Tibia’s place
77 Sly plan
80 Space-oriented engineering discipline, informally 82 What “... ”
sometimes means 84 Troublesome engine
sounds
86 Arrive at, as an idea 87 Ones without
owners
89 What a “Wheel of Fortune” contestant might buy when looking for __NSP__RAT__ON 91 Startled squeal
92 Forthrightly asserts 93 Genghis Khan,
notably
94 Herbert Hoover’s
middle name
96 Many a maid of
honor
98 W.W. II-era encoding
device
101 Currant-flavored
liqueur
103 Itsy-bitsy
104 Santa ____ (desert
winds)
105 Wear for a Sufi
scholar
107 Hello in São Paulo 109 One with an inside
job
111 Takes seemingly
forever
114 Sort of encoded message found in this puzzle’s grid [SEE NOTE]
117 From long, long ago 119 Express momentary
uncertainty over
121 Classified cost?
122 Icon to click for more
icons
123 Eeyore’s creator
124 Tidy
125 Radial patterns 126 Failed to maintain a poker face, perhaps
127 Figure the worth of
Down
1 Curse
2 Rat out
3 Longtime media figure suspected of being the inspiration for “The Devil Wears Prada”
4 Have ____ for
5 Wilbur is one, in
“Charlotte’s Web”
6 Like some insurance
benefits
7 Designer Versace
8 It’s for paper
shapers
9 Cousin of Gomez
Addams
10 Some quinceañera
gift-givers
11 Send off
12 Moves from a table
to a booth, say
13 Dunderhead
14 Ending with legal or
Senegal
15 ____-service
16 Implies
17 Go over, as a cold
case
18 When you should be
off, in brief
20 Cosette, to Marius,
in “Les Misérables” 26 Pull out
28 Comedian Wong
32 Soapbox rant
34 Polar expedition
attire
36 Out of juice
38 Frequent victim of Calvin’s pranks in “Calvin and Hobbes”
39 Crew vessel
41 Add chocolate sauce
and a cherry to, say 42 Pre-deal payment
43 Come to ____
45 Rude way to break
up with someone 48 Celebratory dances 49 Letters on a crucifix 51 One accepting the terms and conditions
56 Transports from Midway Airport to the Loop 58 Nose-dives
59 Na+, for one
62 Its in French
65 Rubber-stamps
68 Migration formation 69 Ho ____ Minh
70 Word after party or
date
71 Worsen significantly 72 Emotion felt con el
corazón
73 ____ Wearhouse
(retail chain)
74 Alvin ____, first African American to be elected Manhattan’s district attorney
75 Cellist who performed at the Biden-Harris inauguration
76 Attitude
78 Some back-andforths
79 They generate a lot
of buzz
80 Makes right
81 Pulitzer Prizewinning W.W. II correspondent
83 Class for which trig
is a prereq
85 Mountain cover
87 Bird of the Baltic
88 Runs down, in a
way
90 “I’m good, thanks” 94 Honeydew relatives 95 One of 14 in a fist
97 Carlos in the Rock &
Roll Hall of Fame
99 End of Q1, on co.
reports
100 Bank run, perhaps 102 Some writing
surfaces
106 Memory part
108 Affirmations from
the congregation 110 Sci-fi character who was originally a puppet before C.G.I.
112 Rock subgenre associated with David Bowie and Elton John
113 ____ Valley, Calif.
115 Laudatory works 116 French for “fat”
117 O’er and o’er
118 Side in checkers 120 Love of soccer?