The New York Times Crossword

No. 1125

ACROSS

1 Annual N.A.A.C.P. ceremony

since 1967

12 Series of steps in Spain 14 Noted antigun demonstration

on the National Mall 16 Illinois city near St. Louis 17 Extra-wide shoe spec 18 That’s a wrap!

19 Expect to happen

21 Hosp. staffers

23 Scale notes

24 Thumbs-up response 25 Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and

Neptune

28 Cold War concerns, for short 30 It’s around “two o’clock”:

Abbr.

31 ___ Prize, major honor in

mathematical achievement 32 Something often containing a

single parenthesis

33 “Well, gosh, could be …” 36 Big name in green products 38 27-Down, for example 39 Network descended from the

first national “superstation” 42 Actor Rutger ___ of “Blade

Runner”

43 Japanese zither

44 “You ___?!?!”

45 Fully anesthetized

46 Spanish : “son” :: English :

___

48 “Peanuts” girl with curly hair 50 Expressions of

repugnance

52 Qatar left it in 2019

55 Relish

56 Remark following an

interesting development

59 Line on a Montana license plate

60 Documents for foreign

nationals

DOWN

1 1972 hit whose singer claims

to “know a place”

2 Surname on “Cheers”

3 Kind of group in chemistry 4 ___Guessr, browser game that pulls from Google Street View

5 Suffix similar to -trix

6 Height

7 Beaus

8 Don Draper and Roger

Sterling on a hit AMC series 9 Hit hard

10 Some forensic lab samples 11 Get ready in a hurry 12 Substitute

13 Deploying ransomware, for

one

14 Common residential street

name

15 Big stink, more colloquially 20 To us, in Latin

22 Says who? 26 Scale notes

27 Olive lover?

29 Modern descriptor with man

or woman

31 Aerospace company that makes launch vehicles for NASA

32 Lampoon

34 Automne preceder

35 Ending with hot or honey 36 Give a whoop

37 Saw, informally 40 Rougher-than-usual instance, as of a head cold or thunderstorm

41 Legal checks

43 Didn’t lose the thread 44 Subtly acknowledge, in a way 47 Sleeping spot

49 Prefix with linear

51 X-ray ___ (novelty purchase) 53 French verb whose first letter

contains a circumflex 54 Singer whose likeness was the highest-selling doll of 1976, surpassing Barbie 57 Old French love poem 58 Follower of Marx