The New York Times Crossword Puzzle: Resolved

ACROSS

1 Feeling of hopelessness 8 Julius Erving, to fans 11 Calendar abbr. that’s also a French number 15 “Your choice him ____” 19 Early online encyclopedia 20 “____-hoo!”

21 The Powerpuff

Girls, e.g. 22 Fantasy author

Gaiman

23 Going my way? 24 What’s up? 25 Wagner opus 27 “Stop rolling

sevens!”? 30 Southeast Asian ethnic group 31 Princess in a galaxy far, far away

32 Lady bird

33 Org. in charge

of Tokyo 2020 34 Suffix with

expert

36 “Oy ____!”

37 Bay window 39 Home of Mount

Rushmore: Abbr. 40 Bobby of the

Black Panthers 42 Spew out

45 Build rapport like a presidential candidate? 50 “Livin’ la ____ Loca” 51 Celery unit 52 “Hmm, that’s odd!”

53 Dance craze of the early 2010s 54 Right on

56 Spot for a laundromat? 58 Color akin to cyan 60 Anger

61 Word with pop or crop 63 Subject of gossip 65 Dance-class garments 67 Matter of survival 70 Hate getting ready to move? 74 ____-di-dah 75 Children’s book made into a 2012 3-D animated film 77 Singer Bareilles 78 Grunts 80 Tempo

81 Ran

83 Fancy rides 86 Cy Young Award winner Hernandez 90 Requite 92 Board pick 94 Kind of scholarship 96 Dunce cap, basically

97 Makes friends while working retail?

100 Accepts responsibility for

101 “More or less” 102 Model and TV

host Banks

103 Billionaire Carl 105 Trickster

107 Understood 108 Today, to José 109 Train-schedule abbr.

110 Dutch cheese town

113 This may be at the end of one’s rope

115 Event planner’s post-banquet task?

120 Winter athlete, not a summer one

122 Turnabout

123 Where first tracks are found

124 Wrinkled fruit 125 “To Live and Die ____” 126 Wichita-to-omaha dir.

127 Christie’s event 128 Start of a

Guinness record 129 Rough talk? 130 Our sun

131 Cheer on

DOWN

1 Pullers of Artemis’s chariot 2 Georgia of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” 3 Extent 4 Antiterrorism law 5 Unpaid debt 6 “Indeed”

7 Bad records to have 8 Company that makes products that suck 9 Streaming-media device 10 Thrill-seeker’s action 11 Utterly failed 12 Prince in “The Little Mermaid” 13 Like medium-rare steak

14 Dress (up) 15 Ending with pseud- or syn16 Young woman to call when your data gets deleted? 17 Pooh creator 18 Formal lament 26 Miser, colloquially 28 Berate 29 Reluctant (to) 35 Baby plant 38 Letters before “.gov” 39 Island neighbor of Guadeloupe 41 ____ Ingalls Wilder, author of “Little House on the Prairie” 42 Second person? 43 Be sociable 44 State in both the Mountain and Pacific time zones: abbr. 46 Locke who was called “the Father of the Harlem Renaissance” 47 Brexit exiter 48 Actress Swinton 49 “Ooh, that’s bad!” 55 Runner in Pamplona

57 One side of Mount Everest

59 What many Latin plurals end in 62 “Bull’s-eye!” 64 Relative of a xylophone 66 End-of-the-week expression

67 For face value 68 Whitney Houston hit “____ Nothing” 69 Places to swim during school? 71 ____ soda 72 Suits

73 Brief glimpse of a star

76 Slow, musically 79 Runner-up

82 Car with faulty brakes, e.g.

84 Study of birds: Abbr.

85 Star of “Your Show of Shows” of 1950s TV 87 Way down 88 Travel stop 89 Deletes, with “out” 91 Canyons

93 “The joke’s ____!” 95 Screening org. 98 Subject of the 2006 documentary “When the Levees Broke” 99 Rehearsals 104 Move in the

direction of 105 “Overall ...” 106 Home planet of Ming the Merciless

109 Gird (oneself)

111 “Half ____ is better ...”

112 ____ Park, home of Facebook 114 “M*A*S*H” actress Loretta 116 Wrigglers 117 Spanish youngster 118 Neophyte: Var. 119 Visionary 121 Cassis cocktail