NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

RESETTLING LETTERINGS

ACROSS

1

What a drawbridge

may bridge

5 In that case

9 Control-tower

installation

14 Pass

19 “That one’s ____” (“My

bad”)

20 Amelia Bedelia, e.g.

21 “Go me!”

22 Member of a noble

family

23 2004 film about a

group of MALIGNERS 25 It might be put on for

stage PAGEANTRIES 27 Annual film festival where “Saw” and “Get Out” premiered 28 “____ La La” (1964 hit)

29 Senator, e.g., for short 30 Avoids a bogey,

perhaps

31 Being

33 Be hopping mad

34 Cool one

37 W.W. II hero,

informally

39 Muletas are waved at

them

40 Canon camera

41 Branch of Islam

42 You might be MARVELING AT this as it whizzes by

46 Sort of SCHEMATIC for Christian education

48 Like some casts

49 City nicknamed the

Old Pueblo

51 French city near the

Belgian border

52 Prefix with colonial 53 Tightfitting

55 Toni Morrison title

heroine

56 Annual British acting

award

58 Series of questions,

maybe

60 Counterpart of elles

62 Opposite of never

64 Many relationships are INSTIGATED on one

68 Healthy eaters may give this A WIDE BERTH

72 Disrupt an online

meeting, in a way

74 Mauna ____

75 Grp. that hasn’t yet found what it’s looking for

76 Wonder Woman and

others

79 Valuable load for a

mule

81 Influence

84 Pioneering gangsta

rap group

85 Burdened

86 Just

88 Preferring one’s own

company, perhaps

90 They can be NOISELESS while stalking prey

93 Explorers of the

UNTRAVERSED

95 Burden

96 Old cable-TV inits.

97 Fill in

98 Word repeated in “I ____, I ____, it’s off to work I go”

99 Lick, say

100 “____ merci!”

(French cry) 101 “On it, captain!” 103“No need to make me

a plate” 106Five-letter word that replaces a four-letter word?

107 1980s gaming inits. 108 Not even

111 Writing done

GRAPHICALLY

115 The Trojans lacked the FORESIGHT to turn this down

116 It’s multilayered

117 You should always bring it to a competition

118 Children’s author

Blyton

119 Be taken aback 120One way to cook a

116-Across

121 Unenthusiastic

122 They know the drill:

Abbr.

123 Word after hard or

before short

DOWN

1 “My Two ____” (2015 Claudia Harrington children’s book)

2 Top

3 Appliance brand since

1934 4 Pea shooters?

5 “Sign me up!”

6 Complete travesty

7 Feature of many

British accents

8 Binges too much, for

short

9 As if orchestrated

10 Indexed data

structures

11 Directly

12 Fourth person to walk

on the moon

13 Do a double take?

14 Boot

15 Almost

16 What makes Shrek

shriek?

17 One side in a debate 18 It may be blown

24 They may be blown 26 House Republican

V.I.P. Stefanik

28 Star in Canis Major

32 Just so

34 Hot-dog topper

35 Airline passenger

request

36 Lion ____

38 “Dear ____ Hansen” (2017 Tony-winning musical)

41 Responds to br-r-r-isk

weather?

42 Like zebras and lions

43 Voice with an Echo 44 Rub it in

45 “It is what it is” and

others

46 Mike Krzyzewski, to

Duke basketball fans 47 Rise

50 Hot-dog topper

54 A little too silky,

maybe

56 Justin Trudeau, by

birth

57 Don’t believe it!

59 Aftmost masts on

ships

61 Gives fuel to

63 Gets a move on,

quaintly

65 Who can hear you

scream in space

66 Ending with poly

67 Title meaning

“commander”

69 “____ Meenie” (2010

hit)

70 Battling

71 Rings up

73 Showing the effects

of an all-nighter, say 76 Give one’s blessing to 77 It has more coastline than California, surprisingly

78 Score after seven

points, maybe 80 Certain radio format 82 Apropos of

83 “Like that’ll ever

happen!”

86 “Appetizers” or

“Desserts,” at a diner 87 International cosmetics company ____ Rocher

89 Content people?

91 Larsson who wrote “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”

92 Pooh-pooh

94 Common April

activity, nowadays

97 Vietnamese

sandwich

100 Group trying to sack

aQB

102Make over,

as a ship

104A crowd, they say 105It has 104-Down legs 106Obscure, with “out” 109They may be set by

industry grps.

110 Girl in “The Old

Curiosity Shop”

111 sin/tan

112 Major Japanese

carrier

113 “Kill Bill” co-star

114 You can chew on it

115 Some appliances