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The New York Times Crossword Puzzle: U-haul

- BY CHANDI DEITMER AND TAYLOR JOHNSON / PUZZLE EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

ACROSS

1 Conceal

5 ____ Kola (Peruvian beverage partly owned by Coca-cola) 9 Brittney who blocked more shots individual­ly in 2012 than any entire N.C.A.A. women’s team

15 Tap alternativ­e 19 From the top 21 Yoga mat, at times 22 I–

23 Home to the Cedar Point amusement park, a mecca for roller-coaster enthusiast­s 24 Enjoy a La-z-boy recliner?

26 Head exec? 28 Supplement­s 29 “That was ... really bad”

31 What a pump might squeeze

32 Burns a little 33 Affectedly shy 34 Captain Hook’s No. 2 36 “How I Met Your Mother” narrator Bob 38 Yard-sale condition 39 Navy and others 41 Scratching-post scratcher 43 Tantalizin­gly detailed 45 Six-foot runner? 46 “My luggage has gone missing!”? 49 Germs from day care, e.g.?

54 Metallic fabric 55 Develop further, with “out”

57 Prince William, to Charles and Diana 58 They’re found beneath sink holes 61 Jousts with 63 Refrain from sports? 64 Simple sandwich 65 “Likewise” 66 Vegetable with striped and golden varieties

67 Like a jiggly tooth 69 Grp. regulating pesticides 70 Request for oneon-one time in the “Bachelor” TV franchise ... or a phonetic hint to four pairs of answers in this puzzle 76 Website-feed inits. 77 Committee head? 78 Only

79 Dog breed associated with the British royal family 80 Nowhere to be found, for short

81 The Lions, on scoreboard­s 82 Mexican garments, as they’re spelled in Mexico

84 Like some hats and sheets

85 Comprises 88 Carried

89 Bodily function? 90 Things to avoid when baking desserts? 92 Sadness at the last Boston cream being taken, e.g.? 97 Annual gala host, with “the”

98 Went down an Olympic track 100 Bother

101 Sea eagle

102 It’s one foot long 104 Swell

106 Had down 108 Amer. currency 109 Remains in a hearth 111 Big time?

112 Farm connector 114 Area for note-taking 116 My garden waterer that’s seen better days? 119 Shopping destinatio­n for your underwear needs? 121 Tilt-a-whirl, e.g. 122 The burdens we carry

123 Barre bend 124 Stashes (away) 125 Foil alternativ­e 126 Kitsch

127 Hit the paper-plane icon, say 128 Assemble in one large body

DOWN

1 Book that follows Zechariah

2 Got too old

3 Gave permission 4 One meaning of “X” 5 Wrath

6 “Easy!”

7 Award won by Don Draper on “Mad Men” 8 Gladys Knight and Norah Jones, for two 9 Platoon members, for short 10 Networking aid 11 Half-baked 12 Evening, in advertisin­g 13 Northweste­rn follower 14 Crossfit bits

15 One who’s barely acting?

16 Board game popular in Japan 17 Certain trig ratios 18 Preschoole­rs 20 “Darn!” 25 Woo-woo films? 27 Intended

30 High register 35 “Who ____?” 37 “____ who?”

40 Deli assortment 42 Comedian who said: “I once spent a year in Philadelph­ia. I think it was on a Sunday.”

44 Mother rabbit 45 Throws, in a way 47 Prized metamorphi­c rock

48 Urban scavenger 50 Author Mario Vargas ____ 51 Drive home? 52 Singer Knowles 53 Head doc? 56 More than cracked

58 Donor group, for short

59 Title for multiple Marias and Annas in history 60 Pillage 61 Letter-shaped beam 62 Equipped, as a factory for production 68 Miner discoverie­s 69 Subspecies adapted to a specific environmen­t 71 Timely thing to arrive on 72 Packed away 73 Newspaper debut of 9/15/82

74 Vapes

75 Pulled off

80 It may be dropped for emphasis 81 Fratty type, colloquial­ly 83 Event with barrel racing

84 Close rival, in a sense

86 “Show it here!” 87 The Cards, on scoreboard­s

89 Mr. Wednesday’s true identity in Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” 91 Secretly, from the Latin

93 Given shelter 94 Salad green also known as “rocket” 95 Brooks no debate 96 Ripe-strawberry feature 99 Comedian/tv host Nikki

102 Reply to “You dig?”

103 Stick (by)

105 Big name in baseball cards 107 Cartoonish baby cries 109 Infinitive of the French “suis” and “sommes” 110 Slovenly sort 111 Former Israeli P.M. Barak 113 Relative of wild cabbage 115 Wander

117 Focus of the Human Genome Project

118 Suffix with darned 120 Titular character portrayed by Jason Sudeikis

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