New York Times Crossword No. 0129
Michael Schlossberg is a doctor at St. Charles medical center in Bend, Ore., specializing in internal medicine. He started constructing crosswords in 2018 after reading the series ‘‘How to Make a Crossword Puzzle’’ on The New York Times’s website. This is his sixth puzzle for the paper and his first Sunday. The idea for it came to him after he heard the answer at 121-Across in conversation and thought, I bet there’s a literature-themed puzzle in there.” — W. S.
ACROSS
1 Deets, say
5 Like pangolins and
armadillos
10 Pacific weather
phenomenon
16 000-00-0002, for Mr. Burns on ‘‘The Simpsons’’: Abbr.
19 Apt name for a
protester?
20 Shire of ‘‘The
Godfather’’
21 ‘‘What’s the ____?’’
22 Job-listing letters
23 Play about love and heartbreak in ancient Greece [1605, 431 B.C.]
27 Danger
28 Cater (to)
29 Where people might come to a happy medium?
30 Is worth it
32 ‘‘The Taming of the
Shrew’’ sister
36 Wheels
37 Timeless children’s classic about country dwellers’ friendships [1908, 1881]
41 Farm cry
43 Vented appliance
44 Comedy talk show from 2003 to 2022, familiarly
45 Superlative score
48 ‘‘Great Caesar’s
ghost!’’
50 Eat, baby-style
56 Timid
58 It’s symbolized by a crescent moon and star
63 Jewish folklore
creature
64 Magnum opus about a young man, family and the concept of free will [1866, 1965]
70 Not according to plan
73 Celebrity chef
DiSpirito
74 ‘‘Go ahead, shoot!’’
75 Major and Commander, to Biden
76 Coming-of-age novel about a teenage boy and his isolation [1951, 1986]
80 Like an old apple
81 Chicken ____ (South
Asian dish)
82 Phenomenon also
known as data decay
86 Placid
88 Rapper ____ Thee
Stallion
93 Drudges
94 Celebratory smoke
99 Veered, as an airplane
101 Just peachy
102 Tale about soldiers and treachery in southern Europe [1940, 1603]
110 Polynesian greeting
111 Kleenex : tissue ::
____ : sticky note
112 Yellow-brown shade
115 Mercury and Mars,
for two
117 Grp. promoting
world peace
120 College athletics
channel
121 ‘‘In a nutshell’’ . . . or an alternative title for this puzzle?
126 Wallach of ‘‘Baby
Doll’’
127 Stoat in its white
winter coat
128 Lawyer’s favorite
dessert?
129 Asteroid discovered
in 1898
130 Name that means
‘‘king’’
131 City that lends its name to a variety of ice cream
132 Warren in the Baseball Hall of Fame
133 Fashion letters
DOWN
1 Modern kind of
purchase
2 Locale for many
Panhellenic Games
3 ‘‘Rapunzel’’ or
‘‘Rumpelstiltskin’’
4 Kinda getting up there
5 Poker great Ungar
6 Burner on a range?
7 Michigan liberal-arts
college
8 Certain collateral
9 Convict, in old slang
10 Persian Gulf territory
11 Gamer’s headache
12 Degree in
mathematics?
13 Voice role for Snoop Dogg in 2019’s ‘‘The Addams Family’’
14 Federal agent who was the inspiration for Dick Tracy
15 Nightmare
16 Addressed
17 Manatee
18 Adspeak claim of
convenience
24 Gin add-in
25 German refusal
26 One of Cuba’s Castros
31 Subject line
abbreviation
33 Wild group, for short
34 One of many in the
‘‘Disney Morgue’’
35 Leave gobsmacked
38 Scoreboard letters at
MetLife Stadium
39 D.O.J. branch
40 Helpful connections
41 Halloween symbol
42 Busy month for a
C.P.A.
46 Turn from an old pallet into a bookcase, for example
47 Title for Charlie
Chaplin
49 ‘‘Toy Story’’ toy
torturer
51 ‘‘I can’t believe this!’’
52 Go head to head
(with)
53 Paul who painted
‘‘Cat and Bird’’
54 Advanced
55 Some F.D.N.Y. pros
57 Juicy gossip
59 Time measurement
60 One of a classic septet
61 ‘‘Key of the Nile’’
62 Act out?
65 Imitation
66 Amazon device
67 Laptop brand
68 It’s just what you’d
expect
69 Bosnian’s neighbor 70 After-hours
conveniences
71 Cry at an amusement
park
72 Parent
77 Philosopher Rand who rejected altruism
78 ‘‘____ What ____’’ (song from ‘‘La Cage Aux Folles’’)
79 Doggy’s sound
83 Carving station option
84 Hawaiian fish also
called a wahoo 85 ‘‘Shame!’’
87 Prefix with hotel
89 Exams that are essentially impossible to study for
90 ____ Gadot of
‘‘Wonder Woman’’
91 Piercing tool
92 Basis for an annual
Forbes list
95 Hobgoblin
96 V8 debut of 1964
97 Music to a masseur’s
ears 98 Optimizes, as an
engine
100 Play-____
102 More loaded, as a
wallet
103 Stadium chant
104 A.F.L. All-Time Team member with a law degree
105 ‘‘No. Way!’’
106 Old-timey ‘‘listen’’
107 Default search engine for Microsoft Edge
108 Some classic jeans 109 Tethered
113 ‘‘____: The Smartest Guys in the Room’’ (2005 documentary)
114 Wackadoo
116 Protein-rich blood
components
118 ‘‘Uncle!’’
119 ‘‘Downton Abbey’’
role
122 Zhuzh (up)
123 Small word for small
124 Hydrogen’s atomic
number
125 Itch