San Francisco Chronicle

N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

- By Ashish Vengsarkar

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)

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