The New York Times Crossword Puzzle: ‘S-q’s Me!’

ACROSS

1 Philbin’s onetime morning co-host 8 Equalitypromoting org. 12 Those who believe everything has a spirit

20 Off base

21 Small songbird 22 Patronized a

restaurant 23 Prodigality? 25 Emmy-winning actor on “The West Wing” 26 Spinny pool shot 27 Direct (toward) 29 Part of many German names 30 “Ready?” response

33 Hog seller? 38 Chefs’ hats 40 Corp. budget item 41 1969 self-titled jazz album 42 Salad alternative 43 Trouble maker 46 Depend (on) 48 Letters of warning on internet sites 52 Radiologist’s tool, for short

53 Cigar City, so-called on account of a former major industry

54 A part of Life? 55 Irritate

56 Suffix with market 57 Mr. Magoo biopic? 62 Actress Thurman 63 N.Y.C. subway letters

65 High school sweethearts 66 “____ said …” 68 Birthplace of Emily Dickinson 71 Sloppy sort 72 Roadblock 73 Canadian coin, informally

74 Like rebate coupons, typically 78 “How cool!” 79 Actor Kilmer 80 Cuckoo or dodo? 83 Locale for a flock 86 Nonreactive 88 Abbr. in a military title

89 Dark times, informally 90 Trickster 91 Mariner’s org. 92 Small 93 Resembling down 95 General ____ chicken 96 Buccaneer’s quaff 98 Was on a crowded bus, say 100 Soprano Renata 102 Prepares cube steak? 107 Altar sites

108 A/C stat

109 Gay who wrote “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”

110 “I ____ talking

to you!”

112 The “E” of E.D. 114 All-day gripe

sessions?

121 Like a rope in tug

of war

122 Northern Iraqi 123 Alter ego on

“The Simpsons” 124 Tightwads’

opposites

125 Hungers

126 Questionable

DOWN

1 Ones in a mess, informally 2 Question: Abbr. 3 Pot-au-____ (French stew) 4 Basis of the plot of “Gone Girl” 5 Like Corinthian columns 6 Bacilli shapes 7 Habiliments 8 Cobbler’s tool 9 Vineyard designation 10 ____ Cayes (Haitian port) 11 Not related?

12 Gilbert who wrote “Love and Death on Long Island” 13 Rosetta Stone discovery site

14 In a senseless way 15 Deranged, in slang 16 Polish movie named Best Foreign Language Film of 2014 17 Work out 18 Henry VII’S house 19 Lee who co-created the Avengers 24 Not an elective: Abbr.

28 Flower colored by Aphrodite’s blood, in myth 30 “You know who this is”

31 “A Visit From St. Nicholas” poet 32 Ways out of embarrassing situations? 34 Polished

35 It may have a ring to it

36 Enero a diciembre 37 Civil rights activist Guinier

39 Laker legend with a size 22 sneaker, informally 44 Something absolutely necessary 45 Fast-paced twoplayer card game

47 Munchies, say 49 Enumerations of things to be sat on?

50 Is plenty angry 51 Song words before “the World” and “the Champions” 53 Like pre-1917 Russia

55 Green shells 58 Animal with a flexible snout 59 Early title for Julius Caesar 60 Brightest star in Orion

61 Apollo 11’s Eagle, for short 64 What Lionel Messi wears 67 Brazil’s ____ Bernardo do Campo 68 Choreographer Ailey

69 2016 film set in Polynesia

70 Et ____ (footnote abbr.) 72 Document certifiers, for short 74 Countenance 75 Sorting category on itunes 76 Vacuum-tube component 77 Cousin of a spoonbill 81 Alleged psychic exposed by the Amazing Randi

82 Co-authors Margret and H.?A. 84 Theatricalize 85 Lhasa ____ (dogs) 87 “Old World Style” pasta sauce brand 92 Glacial deposit 93 Opposition 94 Easy question 95 “I dare you to do better!” 97 Snitched on, with “out” 99 Lucy’s place, in a Beatles song 101 “Impossible!” 102 Leash, e.g. 103 Line (up) 104 Ones on the outsides of brackets

105 “Yuck!”

106 Forgeries

108 Pot growers?

111 Kind of vaccine 113 Cardboard container: Abbr. 115 “____ pasa?” 116 Decorative garden item 117 Source of much of Google’s income 118 Fictional creature made from heat and slime 119 Unspecified degree

120 ____ milk