The New York Times Crossword
Across
1 Opportunities for
singles
7 Marbled savory
snack from China
13 A boatload
17 “Keep Ya Head Up”
rapper, informally 20 Home of the
W.N.B.A.’s Wings
21 Talk and talk and
talk and talk
22 On the deep
23 Poorly
24 Why the party’s about to get less hip?
26 Maker of the Switch
console
28 Cremation
receptacles
29 Service that’s not
good?
30 “The ____ Company”
(Frans Hals portrait) 32 Pie-crust ingredient 33 Army award
attribute
35 Realtor’s exclamation about a primary bathroom?
39 Actress Moriarty of
“The Boys”
40 “My package
arrived!”
42 Landing info, in brief 43 Sorrowful sound
44 “Not gonna ____ ... “45 Other: Sp.
46 Structure on the
continental shelf 48 Take (down)
49 How Shamu acknowledged the crowd’s appreciation?
52 Go from 60 to 0, say 54 Grp. regulating
global commerce 57 Got by just fine
58 Some N.F.L. linemen,
in brief
60 Where someone might fiddle with your dance moves? 62 Flat-topped military
hat
64 Ocean State sch.
66 Takes the stage
69 Man’s name that spells a fruit backward
70 “Prepare for a sword
fight, McKellen,
Fleming and all other namesakes out there!”?
75 Uncurbed
enthusiasm
76 Injury from a
fistfight
77 Byproduct of
burning tobacco
78 Bread maker?
79 Casino do-overs
81 Like many lifeguards 83 Crews
86 Neuro-degenerative
disease, for short 87 1990s fitness fad 90 Dish cooked to smooth things over after a fight?
95 Cable channel with the comedy/drama “Sistas”
96 TV that’s trash,
e.g.
98 Pops
99 High point of a trip
to Europe?
100 The old you?
102 It’s full of hot air
103 One small bite
105 Word with bus or
whistle
106 What students in a karate class are often doing?
109 Spiny sea creatures 111 Flatbread made with
atta
112 Charge for a tutor 113 Business-card abbr. 115 Hang ominously
116 Place for a lamp
118 Challenge for a court
jester?
123 “That’s ____” (“You
may proceed”)
124 ____ film
125 North African stew, or the dish it’s cooked in
126 Intimidating in a cool
way
127 Flavor enhancer, for
short
128 Counterpart of -ful 129 Wears down
130 Contents of a corn
maze
Down 1
Freeware annoyances
2 Where you might order nopales or esquites 3 Less clear, as a
memory
4 Support group with a hyphen in its name
5 Ankle bones
6 About 5 o’clock,
compass-wise
7 Daly of “Cagney &
Lacey”
8 Singer-actress Kitt
9 “Yo te ____”
10 The Tasmanian one has been extinct since the 19th century
11 “Capisce?”
12 Like wind power visà-vis natural gas
13 Something a parent might tell you to watch
14 God who was said to be in love with his sister while still in the womb(!)
15 Core position
16 Took a load off
17 Thing to bash at a
bash
18 Buzz about space? 19 Thickheads
25 State symbol of
Massachusetts
27 “Middlemarch”
novelist, 1871
31 Showing signs of life 33 Commanding
position
34 Located, to a builder 36 Herman Melville’s
second novel
37 “That’s odd”
38 Act
unprofessionally? 41 Channel
45 How you might walk after getting great news
47 “Hey, I had it first!” 48 Comedian-actor Ken of “The Hangover” films
50 Skewer
51 Pinkish-red shade 53 It moves one step at
a time
54 “Ain’t I a ____?” (Sojourner Truth speech)
55 Between, poetically 56 Lead-in to a sale
price
59 Lacking emotional
toughness 61 Remove from Zillow,
say
62 Show submission, in
a way
63 “Jumpin’
Jehoshaphat!”
65 Still competing
67 Tour de France stage 68 Envelops
70 Pound who wrote “In a Station of the Metro”
71 C sharp equivalent 72 Slowly move (in)
73 Sends unwanted
texts to, maybe
74 Utterances of
agreement
80 Totally loved
82 Present at birth
84 What’s so flippin’
easy to cook with? 85 Dinner at which
“Dayenu” is sung
88 Fried pastries popular in New Orleans
89 Baby that rarely
sleeps at night
91 Kind of high-fat,
low-carb diet
92 Unlike π
93 Business magnate who is a Stanford University dropout 94 Actor Omar
95 Electronic toy with a
blue “pull” handle 97 “On Juneteenth” author ____ GordonReed
100 Some beachwear 101 Show-off
102 Mournful peals
104 Play opener
105 Rhimes with an eponymous production company
106 Pummel
107 Infuse (with)
108 Joy of TV
110 Sole connector?
114 Potato peeler
targets
117 Patella neighbor, in
brief
119 One may get in the way of a collaboration
120 Purge (of)
121 Abbr. in a birth
announcement
122 Site used by NASA,
in brief