New York Times Sunday Crossword
Power-ups
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Not fine Expedition Savory jelly Tacks on Mollycoddle Sight on an English farm
21 Slacker role for Jeff Bridges in ‘‘The Big Lebowski’’ 22 Superenthusiastic 23 Spelman College graduate, e.g. ‘‘____ is an emotion in motion’’: Mae West
See 30-Across Morning weather phenomenon
See 33-Across With 25-Across, get as much approval from an audience as possible Dalmatians, e.g. With 29-Across, like a deer in headlights N.Y.C.’S first subway line
Singer Mann Michelangelo masterpiece Sunset Boulevard sight
Utah mountain range
What people tend to do when a rush-hour subway train arrives See 50-Across
See 53-Across With 47-Across, not change anyone’s mind, say
52 Forest of Fangorn
resident, in fiction 53 With 48-Across, stops wasting time Dawn Eternally damned Promptness Default consequence Have an influence (on)
Iraqi port city Mathematical concepts suggested eight times in this puzzle
74 ‘‘I’m telling the
truth!’’
75 One of the Seven
Dwarfs
77 Yeats’s ‘‘The Lake
____ of Innisfree’’ 24
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35
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40 42 45
47 48 50 57 59 61 63 65
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80 83 85 86 88 90
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115 116 118
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129 130 1
2 3
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7
Bad place for a fly, in a saying Showy shrub Arch supporter See 90-Across Flat-topped cap See 92-Across With 85-Across, uncomfortably accurate
With 88-Across, sacrificed
Place that processes ore
Eponym of the world’s largest church
Some team-bonding trips
State whose capital is Dispur
Drum that can be played with a brush Hypotheticals See 113-Across Cleans, as a deck See 116-Across With 107-Across, bad sort of competition ‘‘Freak on a Leash’’ metal band With 112-Across, ‘‘Your misfortune is nothing special’’ Jocular lead-in to ‘‘macation’’
List ender Abstract artist de Kooning known for her portraits Obsessive cleaner, say Important faculty for school Brought home Lively French dance popular in the Baroque era
Big name in nail polish
Rug rats
Brand whose sales skyrocketed after the release of ‘‘E.T.’’
DOWN
Person who’s being used
Sister of Laertes They’re scored from 1 to 5
What’s found at one end of a rainbow Comfy-cozy Sources of Norse mythology More throaty 8 9 10 11
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37
Pale
Ukr., e.g., once Spanish ‘‘I love you’’ Kind of cuisine that’s often eaten with one’s hands Tied, in scores ____ vide (culinary technique)
Do some heavy lifting
‘‘Don’t pay attention to that’’
Idle gossip Convince Cracks
Actor Dev of ‘‘Lion’’ Lick (up)
Stop the flow of House call? Playful growl Run-____ (hip-hop trio) Alternative to an ellipsis
Answer Below 39 41 43
44 46
49 51 53
54 55 56 58 60
62 64
Some clickbait articles Potentially risky thing to drop in a relationship ____ Woo-shik, co-star of 2019’s ‘‘Parasite’’
____ cuisine Sanders who played in a World Series and two Super Bowls Charon’s domain Lead-in to self They might be caught in the rain ____ Bator Stun, in a way Hard-hit line drive One variety of love Broadway’s ____-Fontanne Theater
Heckle
Part of a hammer 66 67
68 71 72 73 76 79
81 82
84 86
87 89
91 92
Butter alternative ‘‘There warn’t no home like a raft ...’’ speaker
Lavish celebration Hard Italian cheese Level, for one Isolated components Deviation in flight Exterminator’s target
Was bested by Title horror film locale
Wrote poorly They have your life hanging by a thread They might involve impersonating a dealer Kingdom east of Babylonia Mini-albums, in brief Ship with three banks of oars 93 95 97 98
99 100 102 104 108
110 111 114
116 117 120
122 124
Fly catcher Dead Sea Scrolls sect Envelope abbr. Juggling, singing, magic, etc. Scholarly
Tells off
Just peachy ____ Pro Dental covering similar to a crown Water pipe Dishonest attack Foe of the Morlocks, in sci-fi
Major export of Tuscany
Place to hang holiday lights Something drawn by a jerk, maybe Sanctuary
What a digitigrade stands on