NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Action done while
saying, ‘‘Good dog’’ 4 Mischief-makers
11 It might click for a
writer
14 Fall mo.
17 Kind to Mother
Nature
18 Harris in the Country
Music Hall of Fame 19 Living ____ 20 Member of the superfamily Hominoidea 21 Noted Apple release
of 1968, to fans 23 Haphazard
25 Some crumbly blocks 26 Inits. for a theatrical
hit
27 Send away, in a way 29 Accomplished the
task
30 What wiggly lines in comics may represent
32 Cause of boom and
bust?
34 Convene for another
session
36 Up to it
37 What’s frequently
used by poets? 38 ‘‘To quote yours truly
¨¨
41 ____ dish
42 Heath
43 Desperate 45 Traditional British
entree
48 Tries for a role
49 S.F. metro
" §§s ¨¨ 51 Derby lengths 53 Equivalent of the Face With Tears of Joy emoji 56 Give a buzz 61 Inconvenience 64 Execute, as a royal
of old
67 Classic concert
chambers
68 Noted U.S. rock
group? 70 Approximately
73 See captain?
74 Studio fixtures
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77 State of equilibrium 80 Code-cracking grp. 81 Match-ending rugby
call
82 Bygone sovereign 85 Dance-a-____
87 Build on
90 Military dismissal 96 ‘‘You game?’’
98 State to be the case 99 ____ Kornfeld, music promoter for Woodstock
100 Daddy-o
102 Great Basin native 103 Stun
104 Heavy weights in
Britain
106 ‘‘Murder, ____
Wrote’’
107 Samuel ____, business partner of Marcus Goldman 109 Gradually wear away 111 Lipton competitor 113 Keypad triplet 115 Critical remark 116 Regardless of the
outcome
118 Hectic trip abroad 121 Card in a royal flush 122 Purposes
123 One runs from Me.
to Fla.
124 Seminoles’ sch.
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126 Northern ____ (curiously named apple variety) 127 Have 128 Boggy expanse
Down
1 Fare that’s eaten
hands-free
2 Wanted badly
3 Mano a mano 4 Negligent
5 Silicon Valley’s ____
Research Center 6 Candy bit that comes
in a plastic roll 7 ‘‘Battlestar Galactica’’
robots
8 Clerical vestment
9 F, in music
10 Southern region of
Mesopotamia 11 Fabric options 12 Sense of self
13 Fluent speaker of
Elvish, say 14 Uttered a sound
15 ε
16 Bugs
19 Relative of a bug 22 Churchill ____ Rooms (London tourist attraction)
23 Long ball
24 City with a Little
Havana
28 Nickname for José 31 Farthest down? 33 Anklebone
35 Least messy 39 Sorority member 40 Yang’s counterpart 44 ‘‘I Wanna Be Sedated’’
band
46 Horrid
47 Maximum degree 49 The brainy bunch? 52 Profligate sort 54 Measures of electrical
resistance
55 One of the fire signs 57 Alveolar trill, as it’s
commonly known 58 Concept, in Cannes 59 Just in case 60 Glasgow gal 61 Mischief-makers 62 ____ court
63 Stage between larva
and imago 64 Consecrates
65 Act investigated by an insurance company
66 ____ ex machina 69 QVC alternative 71 Journalist Fallaci who wrote ‘‘Interview With History’’ 72 Bindis, e.g.
75 Running behind 78 Kinda
79 Berate blisteringly 81 They can be wrinkled
or thumbed
83 Field that deals with
fields
84 The newest trend, in
slang
86 Inits. at Westminster 88 Trigger
89 Head for the hills? 90 Moved aside (for) 91 Cupidity
92 Changes from commercial to residential, perhaps 93 Words to live by 94 Wash out
95 Popular tick repellent 96 Piercing eye hue 97 Trial
101 ____ of Alexandria (wonder of the ancient world) 105 Clinch
108 Puerto Rico clock
setting: Abbr. 110 Ballpark figures, in
brief
~ §§r ¨¨ 114 Places hangers hang 117 Guff
119 Distributor of CARES
Act funds
120 ____ Moines