N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Impersonate
6 Bump on a log
11 Get into one’s birthday suit
16 Fruit drinks
20 Home of the isle of
Tortuga
21 “____ often costs too
much”: Emerson
22 Word before rock or
football
23 Song word repeated
after “Que”
24 Charming sort?
26 Olympics projectiles
27 People in charge:
Abbr.
28 ____ Lingus
29 Lucy’s last name on “I
Love Lucy”
31 Like gasoline
nowadays
33 30-year host of
late-night TV
37 Legal field concerned
with long-term care
39 Commotion
40 Televangelist Joel
42 Prima ballerina
46 Some team
competitions
49 The “e” in Genoa?
50 With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do?
52 “Gangsta Lovin”’
rapper, 2002
53 Yoga-class instruction
55 Food packaging
reassurance
56 Good “Wheel of Fortune” buy for REVERSE ENGINEER
57 Sold (for)
59 Toward the back
60 Where dominoes
were invented
62 Rule
64 Jazz guitarist
Montgomery
66 Some U.N. officers, for
short
67 Super Bowl LV champ
68 Took a swing, say
70 Basketball box score
column 74 Addiction-treatment
locale
76 Leadoff selections?
77 Something to file
78 French article
79 Sweet pea
81 Volkswagen model
inits.
82 Give wrong
information
83 Boring tool
85 Emmy-winning
journalist Finch
87 Website with a Seller
Handbook
91 “How ____ ... “
92 Encrypted URL
component
94 Red-handed, say
96 Make haste
97 See 50-Across
99 Brand that stylizes its name with a lowercase second letter
100 What a button on an
armrest may control
104 Serenade
105 “____ Pal,” early episode of “The Jetsons”
108 Shrinks
109 1980 event in
Washington
111 Be completely
candid
114 Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw
117 It may be taken in by a
traveler
119 Half of sei
120 Treat thought to be stamped with symbols of the Knights Templar
121 “We ____ please”
123 Within arm’s reach
128 Something commonly left in an operating room
129 Going by
130 Where the Volta River
flows
131 Tea go-with
132 Pull down
133 Those opposite the center and guards, in N.F.L. lingo 134 More teed off 135 Scattered
DOWN
1 Sounds at a sauna
2 Limit
3 20-20, e.g.
4 Hit TV show created
by Donald Glover
5 Something close to a
colonel’s heart?
6 “Today” competitor,
for short
7 —
8 Those against
9 Come back again
(again ... again ... )
10 Harp-shaped
constellation
11 Got ready to ride, with
“up”
12 Vacuum tube type
13 “Hi” follower
14 Rack up, as charges
15 No-hassle
16 Countless
17 —
18 Slips
19 Holder of merit badges on a scout uniform
25 Jon of “Two and a Half
Men”
30 —
32 Gone-but-notforgotten
33 L.L. Bean competitor
34 Plant family that jasmine and lilac are part of
35 Safe space
36 Announcement
maker of yore
38 In early 2001, one of its executives notoriously said, “From an accounting standpoint, this will be our easiest year ever”
41 ____ Minella (Muppet)
43 Pot grower’s remark?
44 What snakes grow as
they age
45 Corrects, as text
47 They used to be a
“thing”
48 Floor coverings that
feel good on the feet
© The New York Times
51 Politician’s concern
54 Detective Lupin
55 Present-day saint?
58 Surprise ending
59 Sparkling-wine
variety
61 Scolded, as in a library
63 Big name in nail polish
65 —
69 Drive
70 Sets aside
71 Popped in for just a
moment, perhaps
72 The Ikea logo shares
the colors of its flag
73 Lead-in to “of mind”
or “of war”
75 Advocate for the better treatment of elves, in Harry Potter
80 Determination from
Santa
84 Big tournament news
86 Bare
88 —
89 Spots for window
boxes
90 Verbal cringe
93 The St. Lawrence River’s misnamed ____ Islands
95 Far from friendly
98 Fatigued over time
99 Set of rules popularized by “How I Met Your Mother”
101 Doctor’s orders,
maybe
102 Best ____
103 Shaving brand
106 “Let me get this
out ... “
107 Lead-in to -scope
110 Small lab bottle
112 Loud, as a stadium
113 Former second lady
Cheney
114 It often has its kinks
115 Sight from a Seattle
ferry
116 Bike ride setting
118 Rides
122 Millennium start
124 See 126-Down
125 Take a ____
126 With 124-Down,
feature of van Gogh
127 Get hitched to