New York Times Crossword No. 0309
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ACROSS
1 Favors
5 Slathered in sauce,
in restaurant-speak
8 Letters on security
camera footage
12 Big flings
18 ‘‘Pet’’ you wouldn’t take to the vet
19 Cosecant’s reciprocal
20 Cookie with its name
on it
21 One of four on a
diamond
22 I visited the cardiologist, who...
25 Bull-headed?
26 Club assistant
27 Apt letters that complete this word: P__RPO__ __
28 Nailed
30 Partner of Hoda
on ‘‘Today’’
31 I visited the dermatologist, who ...
35 ‘‘The greatest as well as the most elegant of Roman philosophers,’’ per Voltaire
38 Rob in Hollywood
39 Fashion something
fashionable, maybe
40 Uninspired
41 Revealing word
45 Like a money-back
guarantee
47 I visited a dentist and
nowI...
51 Otis of elevator fame
55 Set forth
56 Prattle
57 Sorry ass?
61 Equivalent of 32,000
ounces
62 Pinches
64 Scenario before a tworun home run, say
65 Lived (in)
67 Alternative to foil or
saber
69 I visited the anesthesiologist and now I’ve . . .
73 Bitter brews
74 Gets in shape?
76 Home of the 123-story
Lotte World Tower
77 Natural decorations
on some bookshelves
79 Pique
80 Hunt
82 Lovelace of early computer programming
84 California wine valley
87 One with a landlord
89 I visited a sleep
specialist, who . . .
92 Double-wide, as a
garage
96 Professional who works a lot
97 Skin
98 Soul seller
100 Change positions, as
in volleyball
102 Takes the blame for
105 I visited the radiologist, who...
110 Rude ... or, without its first two letters, rude person
111 ____ beer (nonalcoholic beverage)
112 MSNBC competitor
113 Slowly cook, in a way
118 Prenatal tests, in
brief
120 I visited the podiatrist and now I ...
123 Call
124 Filled, folded food
125 Female French
friend
126 O, in hangman
127 Meager
128 Part of most musical
notes
129 Cribbage marker
130 Mathematician
Noether
DOWN
1 Rock band with a slash
(but not Slash)
2 Like much of Iran
3 Sue Monk ____, author of ‘‘The Secret Life of Bees’’
4 Castle material, maybe
5 GameCube successor
6 Result
7 Actress Thompson
of ‘‘Creed’’
8 It’s totally corny
9 Step in origami
10 Educational forum
11 Gave a thumbs-down
12 ‘‘Whaddya mean?’’
13 Kind of keyboard
14 Setting for some postrun refreshments?
15 ____ Barbarino, John Travolta’s role on ‘‘Welcome Back, Kotter’’
16 Heretofore
17 Car that Brits call a
‘‘saloon’’
19 Mascara mishap
23 Proctor’s
pronouncement
24 ____ Lingus
29 The ‘‘Do’’ in ‘‘Do-ReMi’’
32 Went under
33 Asia’s disappearing
____ Sea
34 Old yeller?
35 Bamboozles
36 Having two equal
sides
37 Behaved like the lion
in Oz
40 Caribbean musical
genre
42 Long quest
43 Roth ____
44 It’s involved in kissing and telling
46 Wheelless vehicle
48 Hint to the number of ingredients in Triscuits
49 Web-page code
50 Allowed to be
borrowed
52 Puts the pedal to the
metal
53 Spanish salutation
54 They might come out
of the woodwork
58 U.S. fair-hiring inits.
59 ‘‘We doin’ this?’’
60 Eleven, in El Salvador
63 It might be a stretch
64 Olive ____ of
‘‘Popeye’’
66 Pack of dogs?
67 Man’s name that becomes a distance if you move the first letter to the end
68 Sponge feature
70 Ridiculously
71 Bean variety
72 Have over
75 Erupt
78 [Forehead palm
smack]
81 Corp. shuffle
82 ____ Max, singer of the 2018 hit ‘‘Sweet but Psycho’’
83 Neighbor of Md.
85 Non-stereo
86 Button on social
media
88 Leo, for one
90 Swear
91 Do some engraving
93 ‘‘SportsCenter’’
anchor Linda
94 Swears
95 Knocking
onomatopoeia
98 Like a comeuppance,
perhaps
99 ‘‘Lemme, lemme!’’
101 Ancient Greek area
north of Thessaly
103 Color-blending
technique
104 Title for a French
priest
105 Lasting bad memories, so to speak
106 Got tagged
107 Anxiety condition,
for short
108 Open, as a
toothpaste tube
109 Garden statuette
114 Long
115 Express-lane unit
116 Quilter’s line
117 Current event?
119 ____ vs. ____ (Mad
strip)
121 Paul ou Paulette
122 Fix