N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Art of riding and training a horse
9 “Mea culpa”
14 Campania’s capital 20 Put in other words
21 Bob Marley’s “____ You
Be Loved”
22 Mark in the World Golf
Hall of Fame
23 Lacking
self-assurance
24 Onus for a magician’s
disappearing act?
26 Study of how gels
gel?
28 All together
29 Little, to a Scot
30
31 Fizzle (out)
33 Miscellaneous task
37 Irish writer Behan
39 Increased, with “up” 44 Actress Polo
45 Pablo Neruda’s “____
to Wine”
47 They’ll put you head and shoulders above everyone else
49 Constellation almost
above the North Pole 50 Autobiography subtitled “The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban” 53 Red card
54 ____ Khan, prime minister of Pakistan beginning in 2018
55 Sports broadcast
feature
56 Angry Wisconsin
sports fans?
59 Fire sign?
61 Like n, where n = 2k (and “k” is a whole number)
62 Unagi, at a sushi bar 63 President Bartlet of
“The West Wing”
64 Singer Astley
66 Total-itarian?
69 Law enforcement,
slangily 71 Tajikistan, e.g., once:
Abbr.
73 “How was ____ know?” 75 Loll
77 Many a marble bust 80 Getting “Amscray!”
under control?
85 Like yoga instructors
87 Greet the day
88 One of the Earps
89 –
91 Bathroom-cabinet
item
92 Certain bridge
positions
94 McEachern a.k.a. the
“Voice of Poker”
95 Cake topper
96 Wealthiest professional sports org.
98 Abrogates
100 Party animal?
102 Reveals
104 Reply to an oversharer 105 One in a hundred:
Abbr.
106 Parrot
110 Power of a cowboy’s
shoe?
116 Odysseus’ wife whispers sweet nothings?
119 Bliss
120 With wisdom
121 In a sense, colloquially 122 Activity for some pen
pals
123 Port on the Black Sea 124 Colorful food fish
125 Giveaways during
some pledge drives
DOWN
1 What the doctor ordered
2 Where Johnny Cash
shot a man, in song
3 Bruins legend Phil, to
fans
4 “Cut it out!”
5 Pronounced with
authority
6 Twitter handle starter 7 Davis of “Thelma &
Louise”
8 Icelandic saga
9 Chicken ____ (discontinued fast-food snack)
10 Dramatic accusation
at a dentist’s office? 11 Stickers
12 City council
representative: Abbr. 13 Onetime White House
inits.
14 Lunchtime liaison
15 Bands you might
listen to in the car?
16 Salt’s musical partner 17 Where “khop jai”
means “thank you”
18 God who “loosens the limbs and weakens the mind,” per Hesiod 19 Call at home
25 Not gross
27 Île be there?
31 ____ paneer (dish with
puréed spinach)
32 Way in
33 “The Adventures of Milo and ____” (1989 film)
34 Cyber Monday
offerings
35 She might take care
of a kid on a sick day 36 Rock star who wrote the poetry collection “The American Night” 37 Contradict
38 “Mon ____!”
40 36-Down’s anagrammatic nickname
41 “Gay” city in a Cole
Porter song
42 Hallmark.com
purchase
43 Opposite of “takes
off”
46 Something to leave to
beavers?
48 Precipitous
51 Grammy-nominated
D.J. Steve
52 Thomas ____ Edison 57 Join with rings
58 Smudge
60 Vaper’s purchase
65 Neighborhood where you might get kimchi, for short
67 Goddess of the dawn 68 Obama chief of staff
Emanuel
70 Campaign pros
71 ____ Gilbert, co-developer of a Covid-19 vaccine
72 Smile with one’s eyes,
per a modern coinage 74 Long past
76 Some fencing swords 78 Something to play
fetch with
79 “Well, golly!”
80 Biting
81 Spongy toys
82 Resets to zero, as a
scale
83 ____://
84 John Winston ____
Lennon
86 Professor ’iggins
90 Eaglelike?
93 Appetizers filled with
potatoes and peas
97 One of the Jacksons 99 Word following
English or green
101 Kind of wonder?
103 Cred
105 Campaign (for)
106 Itself: Lat.
107 World’s oldest
alcoholic beverage 108 Pulitzer-winning playwright from Independence, Kan. 109 Seriously annoys, with
“off”
110 Tora ____, Afghanistan
111 Not overlooked
112 Defendant’s plea, for
short
113 Determination
114 Fork point
115 Storied caldron
stirrers
117 Spanish “that”
118 Admit (to)