The New York Times Crossword
TODAY: WHAT’S HANGING?(0813)
Lisa Senzel is a pathologist at Stony Brook Medicine on Long Island. She has been solving the New York Times crossword in print since 1994. Jeff Chen is a writer in Seattle. The idea for this puzzle was Lisa’s. Jeff wrote a program to generate possible theme answers, then designed the grid and guided Lisa through the fill. ‘‘Generous, funny, great people’’ is how Lisa describes Jeff and the other crossword mentors she has had. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Bookish intellectuals
9 ____ Thai
12 Capital in the Caribbean
20 Lets handle
21 Romance author Huang
22 ‘‘Aww!’’-inspiring
23 Basic math subject
24 Ultimate degree
25 Goes around
26 Sting operation, basically
27 She released ‘‘30’’ in ’21
29 Microscope part
30 San ____ (Bay Area city)
33 Function of one end of a pencil
35 Musician with a Nobel Prize in Literature
39 ‘‘Eureka!’’
40 Concord and sultana
43 Significant feature of a May-December
romance
46 Award bestowed by King Charles, in brief
47 Subatomic particle with no electric charge
49 Mockery
51 Words said with a gulp
52 Gathering of experts
57 Stung
58 Work on something you like?
59 Advil alternative
60 Follower of Christ?
61 Dieted, maybe
65 West Point student
66 Certain endurance athletes
70 Turns, in a sense
71 Essay assignment
73 Chutzpah
75 Appropriate answer for this place in the grid
76 Even one
77 ‘‘Why, you little stinkin’ . . . ’’
78 Time magazine
once named him ‘‘Actor of the Century’’
80 Govt. employer of cryptologists
81 Mustafa ____ Atatürk, founding father of Turkey
83 Tend to the sauce, say
84 Gaelic tongue
85 Pelican pal of Nemo in ‘‘Finding Nemo’’
87 Options, metaphorically
89 Complete collection
90 Crested ____ (bird)
91 It might come packaged with a flavor packet
92 President between Tyler and Taylor
93 Earthy color
95 One in a black suit
97 World of Warcraft creatures
99 Unpopular bill
100 Number of legs on un escorpión
101 ____ program (college offering)
103 Brief moment
104 Director Lee
105 Piece of furniture with parts that fold down, as depicted seven times in this puzzle
111 Activity behind police tape, for short
112 Light bulb, in comics
114 One of many ‘‘residents’’ of San Francisco’s Pier 39
115 Michigan’s ____ Royale National Park
117 Lasagna cheese
120 ‘‘Star Wars’’ droid,
familiarly
121 One-named vocalist with the hits ‘‘Foolish’’ and ‘‘Happy’’
124 Something that turns on a turntable
125 Nursery purchase
126 Relative of a bookcase
127 100%
128 Superlative suffix
129 Wine from the Rhone Valley
130 Nine digits on an I-9
131 ‘‘You just broke my toe, ____’’ (biology pun)
DOWN
1 Feature of ‘‘Peter Pan’’ and ‘‘Black Beauty’’
2 Mil. roadside hazard
3 Skosh
4 Paperless Post product
5 Moving backward
6 Section of an atlas
7 Sporty car roof
8—
9 Rare bears
10 Pays to play
11 National flower of Mexico
12 Slabs for making pizza or bread
13 Poem about country living
14 ‘‘Ain’t gonna happen’’
15 Master keys?
16 Distinctively stylish
17 ‘‘American Dad!’’ airer
18 Stadium cheer
19 —
27 ‘‘Chances ____ . . . ’’
28 Part of the U.K.:
Abbr.
30 Spa treatment, for short
31 ‘‘I’m literally right here . . . ’’
32 Full of tension
33 Person on the high C’s?
34 —
36 That guy who spills beer all over you, maybe
37 Partner of willing
38 Sun, for a sunflower
41 Meets, as a challenge
42 Main bug in ‘‘A Bug’s Life’’
44 They’re not vets yet
45 Held up high
48 Menu bar option in Microsoft Excel 50 World’s tallest flying bird
52 A kid is a sucker for it
53 One way to take some courses
54 One who calls Homer Simpson ‘‘neighborino’’
55 50/50 propositions
56 ‘‘Go for it!’’
61 Dojo offerings
62 Mellow
63 Concerned with roots
64 —
66 Part of E.P.A.
67 Christmas displays
68 Cores
69 —
72 Joint ventures?
74 ‘‘____ Vibration’’ (Bob Marley
album)
77 Camera type, for short
79 ____ mission
82 ‘‘Everything is peachy!’’
86 Texter’s qualifier
88 Who said, ‘‘I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance’’
91 People who see things as they are
92 Grp. that might organize a walkathon
94 Comedian Margaret
96 Nebraska senator Fischer
98 Part of STEM: Abbr.
100 ‘‘Swan Lake’’ heroine 102 Parenting author Eda or meditation author Lawrence
106 Bounds
107 Word with bird or retirement
108 Place to give someone a ring
109 Big Apple?
110 You might lose a loose one
113 One eye in a winking emoticon
116 Hitch on Twitch, say
117 Orange-colored fruit pastry
118 Bedridden, say
119 —
121 Sailors’ songs
122 One more than bi123 —