New York Times Sunday Crossword
Made To Order
ACROSS
1 Miss
5 More than excited 10 Grub for a grub 14 Elliptical
18 Where a phone
might be tapped 19 Last Oldsmobile
model
20 Site of the Bocca
Nuova crater 21 Regional flora and
fauna
22 Facial feature of a
Lego man? 24 Sparkling Italian
wine
25 With 81-Across, flashy basketball play
26 Completely remove 27 Blew off steam? 29 “Hold your horses” 31 Word before job or
joke
33 M.C. during a power
outage?
37 Regulus is its bright
est star
38 Small change? 40 Most eccentric 41 Formerly
42 What means most in
the end?
43 Some somber music 45 “So what?” 46 Tailor’s measure
ment
48 “The elite fighter pilots may skip the rest of the lecture”? 53 New Cub Scout 54 Hairy hunter of
Genesis
55 Looney Tunes devil,
for short
56 Hostile declaration 59 Decision
60 Expense for a politi
cal campaign
62 List of available
courses
64 What the abscissa and ordinate are measured from 66 Take in
67 Drive a getaway car through Australia’s outback?
72 Cousin ____ (“Jimmy Kimmel Live” regular)
74 Major account 75 Nickname of a 2010s
pop idol, with “the” 76 Bird in Liberty Mutu
al commercials 77 Work mates 79 Answer
81 See 25-Across 84 When Caesar is told to “Beware the ides of March”
87 Give in
89 What you might do after the movie previews are finally over?
93 Yeshiva instructor 94 Civil War side: Abbr. 96 Group who ought to
know better?
97 Rx prescribers 98 Pioneering program
mer Lovelace
99 Fish whose name means “very strong” in Hawaiian
103 Put away
105 “The devil’s lettuce” 106 Where spaghetti and orzo rank in terms of their suitability for making necklaces? 109 Resident of Japan’s
“second city”
111 ____ Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table
112 Martin ____, star of 1960s TV’S “Route 66”
114 Opera singer Flem
ing
116 Play with, as a toy
mouse
118 To boot
120 One who believes exclusively in a sea god?
122 Political columnist
Molly
123 Noted Christian 124 Role in the 2005 hit musical “Jersey Boys”
125 Electric-flux symbols 126 “Pretty please?” 127 Like child’s play 128 County on the
Thames
129 Legal postponement
DOWN
1 What Winthrop speaks with in “The Music Man”
2 Give in
3 Musicians’ slip- ups 4 Hang-ups
5 Fannie ____
6 Isaac Newton, by
hobby
7 Classic soda brand 8 Source of the word
“galore”
9 Xbox and Gamecube 10 Cause
11 Long- distance travel
ers, informally 12 Composer Dvorak 13 Passed out
14 De- squeaked
15 Thick cloud above a
peak
16 Took in
17 ____ of the land 21 System used in com
puter code
23 Frist’s successor as Senate majority leader
28 That, in Spanish 30 Quizzical utterances 32 Actress Conn of
“Grease”
34 Popular tablets 35 Antique- shop deal 36 Stovetop item 37 Where a herd might
be heard
Answer Below 39 Aretha Franklin’s Grammy-nominated sister
44 Thingamajig
47 Kind of order for the circled letters in this puzzle
49 Swedish Air Force
supplier
50 Guys
51 Making a clerical
error?
52 Exercise in dexterity 53 Grease
57 Cry from a nursery 58 The king of dia
monds carries one 61 It might be glassy or
icy
63 Ragtime great Blake 65 Shrub that produces a crimson- colored spice
67 Two-time Emmy
winner for “30 Rock” 68 Common thing to lie
about 69 Rule that ended in
1947
70 Prime cut
71 “____ is life” 72 Carving in a cartou
che
73 Business whose patrons are often fighting 78 Entanglement 80 No. 44 82 Completely embar
rasses, slangily 83 Piece of music that evokes the countryside
85 Certain percussion
player
86 Home of the Komo
do dragon 88 Knuckleheads 90 *Swoon* 91 Southwestern ski
resort
92 Prime meridian std. 94 Absurd pretense 95 20-Across’s island, to
locals
100 Sum total: Abbr. 101 Storehouse
102 ____ polloi
104 Voting district 107 Like the newspaper
Al-shabiba
108 Ancient empire
builders
110 Something to play
for
113 Some are shockers 115 Online handicrafts
marketplace
116 Part of many a post
card, briefly
117 Gardner of old Holly
wood
119 Nine- symbol mes
sage
121 Word often spoken
in pig Latin