NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
1 Sliver
4 Politician with the campaign slogan 30-Across
9 Word with poetry or
proportions 13 Something you might
click to open
16 Elicits a ‘‘Whoa’’ from,
say
18 Trimmed (down) 19 Wrestling star John 20 Tailor
22 Beams of one’s dreams? 25 Food served in an
omakase meal 26 Having very little
mental energy left 27 Moonfish
28 Swimmers in kelp
forests
30 See 4-Across
33 Visit a museum to see a
Rembrandt exhibit? 35 One prone to looking
down
36 His tomb is in Red
Square 37 Diamondbacks, on
scoreboards
38 Face cards? 41 Destination for
oenophiles
43 Sicily’s Parco dell’____ 45 Bug-spray ingredient 49 Bird of prey that’s
gently petted? 53 Popular pops
55 Kind of attack 56 Longtime hockey star
Kovalchuk
57 To read: Sp.
59 Gross
60 Error, in totspeak 62 Buys in
65 Look down on
67 Actor Justin sitting
poolside?
71 Adds insult to injury 73 Santa-tracking org. 74 River across the New
York/New Jersey
border
77 Some rideshare info 78 Exploit 81 Award-winning film set
in Tehran
83 Bishop’s headgear 84 Hang up the cleats, so
to speak
86 Make fun of small
orange fruits? 90 Something rectangular that might have more than four sides 91 Two-player card game 92 TV character who said ‘‘Time to hit the hay
t t ate it!’’
93 Old auto with its
founder’s monogram 94 Storage spot 97 Opposite of ‘‘avant’’ 99 Reason to reschedule 102 Mashed potatoes, on a
Thanksgiving plate?
$ t
Spanish folk music 111 Vinyl collection
112 Food brand whose sales boomed after the premiere of ‘‘Stranger Things’’ 114 ‘‘When We Were
Young’’ singer
115 Sharp
116 Fourth-quarter meltdown at an N.B.A. game in Oklahoma City? 120 Made out
121 Take home
122 Lather gatherer 123 Remained in bed, e.g. 124 Something to shoot
for
" §§ RRRR¨¨ 126 Clubs
127 ____ Bleus, nickname for France’s soccer team
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1 Boardwalk treat 2 Plugged in, so to speak 3 Actor Leary
4 Missions, for short 5 ____ State, nickname for
Massachusetts
6 Basis for an insurance
investigation
7 ‘‘Build ____ Buttercup’’ (1969 hit by the Foundations)
8 Spot for a perfume sample in a magazine, maybe
9 Green prefix
10 Staff
11 Lead-in to com or net,
but not org 12 Wrinkly-skinned fruit 13 Largest object in the
Kuiper belt
14 And the following, in
footnotes
15 His birthday is celebrated as ‘‘Children’s Day’’ in t
17 Worries anxiously 20 Mounted on
21 Angry reaction
23 Main port of Yemen 24 They’re banned in many
classrooms nowadays 29 Thing seen in the foreground of ‘‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’’
31 N.Y. neighbor 32 Calculators of old 34 Partner of starts 36 Speaking part?
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39 Paul of ‘‘Little Miss
Sunshine’’
40 Didn’t hear the alarm,
say
42 Where fruit bat soup is
eaten as a delicacy 44 Orange follower 46 Widespread
47 Nonstop flight?
48 Maori for ‘‘image’’ 50 Redeems at a casino 51 Sooners, by another
name
52 Have a home-cooked
meal
53 Like some obligations 54 Dict. listing
58 Setting for Mets games:
Abbr.
61 Gradually diminish 63 Residential suffix with
Angel
64 High-priced violin,
informally 66 All-knowing sort
#% t¨ dot in the top-left corner, in Braille 69 Mideast palace parts 70 Son of Gloucester in
‘‘King Lear’’
71 & 72 A pop
75 ____ Alonso, Mets slugger with the most home runs by a rookie in M.L.B. history (53) $# §§ ¨¨
79 People people, for short 80 Exit
82 ‘‘What’s ____, Doc?’’ (old
Bugs Bunny short) 85 Grapefruit descriptor 87 Kelly of ‘‘Live’’
88 Remark after losing 89 Nutritional figs.
95 ‘‘____ be an honor!’’ 96 Snapple competitor 98 ‘‘Socialism: Utopian and Scientific’’ writer, 1880
100 Leaning right: Abbr. 101 Four-time U.S. Open
champ
102 Four-time Australian
Open champ t 104 Maker of the MDX,
NSX and TLX
105 Bloc party?
106 Fix up again
107 Brown hue
108 Home of many
Sherpas
109 ____ Hughes, name of main roles in ‘‘Westworld’’ and ‘‘Downton Abbey’’ 110 Decade after the
aughts
113 Blossom
117 Taipei-to-Seoul dir. 118 Frequently
119 ____ Palmas