NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

1 Autumn bloom

6 Ticked off

11 Cast

16 “Madam Secretary” airer 19 Really stood out 20 Bluesman Willie 21 Where the owl and the pussycat went, in poetry

22 ____ provençale 23 Classic film narrated

by Spencer Tracy 26 Position

27 “Thanks in old age — thanks ____ I go”: Whitman

28 Lead-in to bad news 29 Searched without sight 30 Show what’s inside 32 Underscore

34 Early morning setting? 35 The Bears of the Big

12 Conference 36 Remark commonly attributed to Queen Victoria

41 Digs

43 Shaggy grazer

44 Actor O’Shea 45 Third-person form of

“être”

46 “Birds in an Aquarium”

artist

47 Like some details 49 Handful

52 Fresh

54 Statement at the end

of some trailers

61 C neighbors

62 Tool that it takes two

to operate

63 Old nuclear agcy. 64 Brewery sight

65 Obeys a sentry, say 66 Skating

embarrassment 67 CDs, LPs, etc. 69 Mexican marinade 71Musician/singerwhose namemightbeshouted in mock horror? 72 Prefix with -pod 74 Frederick III, for one 76 Newspaper section 77 Toy manufacturer’s

disclaimer 81 Kurosawa who

directed “Ran” 82 Hankering

83 Mouse lookalike 84 Tikkanen who won five

Stanley Cups 85 Measure of econ. health 87 Top hat go-with

89 Fail to hold

90 Clock setting east of

Eastern: Abbr. 91 Non-apology associated with several U.S. presidents 98 Impoverished

99 The Temptations’

“Since ____ My Baby” 100 Drake or Future 104 City known for its

cheese

105 Up-to-the-minute 107 It’s often brown or blue 109 Great ____

110 Zip

111 Protest tactic … as suggested by 23-, 36-, 54-, 77- and 91-Across?

115 Continuing education

subj., often

116 Operatic baritone

Pasquale ____ 117 Give up

118 Panegyrize

119 Obituary word

120 Wyoming’s ____ Range 121 Corporate department 122 Takes a breather

1 Remains in the ground,

often

2 Not having quite

enough cash

3 Jenga construction 4 Tolkien creature 5 Debate again [sigh] 6 Soviet author Ehrenburg 7 Kerfuffles

8 “Te ____” (Rihanna gold

single)

9 Snarl

10 Crowd on a set

11 Carol Brady, to three

of her kids 12 Founder of a major

appliance chain 13 Kind of bookstore 14 Bygone game console,

in brief

15 Bistro dessert 16 Wheedles

17 Cover from view 18 Old-fashioned

weaponry

24 “Let It Go” singer, in film 25 “Game over” signal 31 What might follow me? 33 Ticket info, briefly 34 Peachy

35 Cinephile’s guilty

pleasure, perhaps 37 Model Banks

38 Place to treat yourself 39 Colorist’s concern 40 Hilo his

41 Like “@#$!”

42 Ill-fated NASA mission

of 1967

46 “You said it!”

47 Catch something 48 Surprised exclamations 49 One singing at the end? 50 Vulcans or Jawas, in brief 51 Becomes grating to 53 The one that got away? 55 Turner who led a slave

rebellion

56 “Sonnets to Orpheus”

LET'S CHANGE THE SUBJECT

BY JACOB STULBERG

Across DOWN

poet

57 Uncool sort

58 Some keys, informally 59 Doctor’s order

60 Peak NW of Athens 66 When middle watch ends 68 Fancy neckwear 70 Cannes’s Palme ____ 73 Like some bologna and

golf shots

75 Like Vivaldi’s “Spring” 76 Where the Blues play:

Abbr.

78 Was out for a bit

79 Fox News

commentator Perino 80 “I, Claudius” attire 85 Like Columbus

86 Word hitting two Triple Word Scores in Scrabble

88 First Folio, e.g. 89 Cross-Atlantic flier,

once, in brief 90 Egyptian symbol of

royalty

91 “Peanuts” character 92 Pursue eagerly 93 Climber’s concern: Abbr. 94 Goes at a leisurely pace 95 Peninsula shared by

Croatia and Slovenia 96 Humphries of the N.B.A. 97 Egg time

101 Article of apparel never worn by Winnie-the-Pooh 102 Attraction that dropped the word “Center” from its name in 1994

103 Scottish dances 105 Trial for a future atty. 106 Regarding

107 Scotland’s Fair ____ 108 Empties (of)

112 Black church inits. 113 Jellied British

delicacy

114 Hack