The New York Times Sunday Crossword | No Ruse
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 selfassurance 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 Bathroomcabinet 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 Grammynominated 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
7-25-21 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 Pulitzerwinning 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)