New York Times Crossword Puzzle

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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