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New York Times Crossword Puzzle

By John Kugelman Edited by Joel Fagliano

ACROSS

1 ‘‘No ____, Bob’’

5 Commuting options

10 Thunderstruck

15 Lead-in to cure or cab

19 Peace symbol

20 Absolutely necessary

21 Snack brand with a hyphen in its name

22 Simoleons

23 Oil futures?

26 The Australia-shaped ‘‘Pride of Australia,’’ for one

27 Pool side

28 Crest

29 Sack

31 Parent’s exhortation

32 Real bind

33 People who might answer ‘‘What’s up?’’ with ‘‘The sky’’

35 Castle moat?

39 ____ Scott-Heron, writer of ‘‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’’

40 Entitled guys?

41 Kind of rating system in chess

42 Audio option

43 Slangy greeting

45 Sales prospects

48 Smoky tendrils

50 Shoves, to a poker player

53 Ed of ‘‘Up’’

54 Daredevil Knievel

55 Sugar and cocoa content?

57 ____ the Orange (Syracuse mascot)

58 Scoop, so to speak

60 Braces might fix them

61 Auto company headquartered in Yokohama

63 Veg-O-Matic maker

64 Over there

65 Humble home

67 Wavy dos

70 International date line?

72 Bordeaux besties

74 They prevent accidental scribbles

76 ____ room

79 ‘‘Lights! Camera! Action!’’?

82 Biblical twin

83 Midas’s downfall

85 Reprimand to a rubbernecker

86 Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible

87 Pale purple

88 N.B.A. analyst Burke

89 Police alerts, for short

91 What goes around the head at Diamond Head

92 Preposterous

94 The ‘‘en’’ in ‘‘enby’’

95 ‘‘And ... cut!’’?

98 Personal theory that isn’t in the source material

101 Fed. statute that took down the Gambino crime family

102 Mama’s boy

103 Not working, say

104 He literally jumped the shark on ‘‘Happy Days’’

105 85 to 115, typically

109 Skier Lindsey

110 Stock prices?

114 Monthly utility bill: Abbr.

115 Rapper with seven posthumous albums

116 Persona

117 Quantum ____

118 Utility figure

119 ‘‘Killers of the Flower Moon’’ tribe

120 Wears on

121 River swirl

DOWN

1 Some email attachments

2 Beat handily

3 ‘‘I’m done talking’’

4 Called into question

5 Binary

6 Homebodies?

7 Go after

8 Actual title of ‘‘The Piña Colada Song’’

9 Drunken state

10 Comet alternative

11 Come down with

12 See 30-Down

13 Pours poorly

14 Pays (up)

15 Noodles and floaties?

16 Chess move with a French name

17 Render more youthful, as with C.G.I.

18 Sweden has more than 200,000 of them (of which only 1,000 are inhabited)

24 Sudden contractions

25 God’s first word on the first day 30 With 12-Down, world champion boxer who retired an undefeated 24-0

32 Put up with

33 Novelist Cather

34 Not authorized

35 Cut

36 Late-night host John

37 Finish behind

38 Breed of cattle

39 Swinger’s attire

43 Hinged fastener

44 ‘‘The Empire of the ____’’ (H.G. Wells short story)

46 Lions or Tigers, on a scoreboard

47 Theater sign

49 Leaf fossils?

51 Brand whose sales spiked after an appearance on ‘‘Stranger Things’’

52 Portrayer of Bob Newby on ‘‘Stranger Things’’

55 Parade sight

56 Carriers of master keys, informally

59 ____ blue

62 Garden variety?

64 At 78, she became the oldest artist to have a No. 1 dance hit 66 Inits. on a ‘‘Choice’’ label

68 Indian spice mixture

69 Necessities for retiring?

71 Org. with the tagline ‘‘No More Victims’’

73 Something furry on a fir

74 Practices mise en place

75 ‘‘____ Q’’ (rockabilly classic)

76 James Bond studio

77 Memorable time

78 Machine learning model that mimics the human brain

80 Company whose misconduct helped spawn the SarbanesOxley Act (2002)

81 Muse with a lyre

84 Record label that famously turned down the Beatles

86 Supercell, e.g., for short

90 Europeans who speak a nonIndoEuropean language

93 Can’t not

95 Encouragement at karaoke night

96 Skin condition

97 Turn on

98 What drones and anxious parents do

99 ____ Gay

100 Hub

101 Bacardi, por ejemplo

104 Part of a clock

105 Playwright William

106 Call for

107 Mortarboard tosser

108 Catch a glimpse of

111 Many an I.R.S. employee

112 Witch

113 Coltrane’s instrument

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