New York Times Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Rock subgenre named
for its vocal aesthetic 8 Like some space-saving
beds
14 Styles that are picked,
informally
18 Amateur
20 Disinclined (to) 21 Royal figure of sci-fi 22 Grammy for Kendrick Lamar’s ‘‘DAMN.’’ or Cardi B’s ‘‘Invasion of Privacy’’
24 Shuts down 25 American, abroad 26 Apt name for a worrier 27 Moving toward
equilibrium, in biology 29 Legerdemain
31 Horse color
34 Prepares for a Ms. Olympia competition, say
36 Tiny foragers
37 ‘‘Here’s an example ... ’’ 41 Insect with distinctive
pincers
44 Without stop
45 Subj. for some future
bilinguals
46 Sources of music in
musicals
50 Splinter group 51 Brewing brothers 54 Capital of Japan’s
Hyogo Prefecture
55 It might be broken in
overtime
56 Waits to publish, as an
article
59 Second-rate
61 Pronoun pairing 63 Loop trains 64 Hornswoggle 67 De-creased
69 Luxury Hyundai 70 ‘‘Still da ____’’ (Trina
title track of 2008) 72 Fluster
74 Kind of squash
77 One using cloves or
garlic
79 What gets filled at a
shell station? 80 Monthly condition, for
short
83 Hairstyle protectors 85 Tabbouleh topping 87 Build, as interest 89 Kind of test
90 Board figure, informally 92 Recipe unit
95 Goddess in a peacockdrawn chariot 96 Marilyn Monroe wore a fuchsia one while singing ‘‘Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend’’ 99 Beverage that was a medieval source of nutrition
100 ____ President
101 Literary protagonist
raised by wolves 102 ‘‘The Sound of
Music’’ household 105 ‘‘Horned’’ creature 107 Turn one’s back on 109 Laces (into)
110 Apelike
112 University of
Montana city
115 Weasel word?
118 ____ Fielding, co-host of ‘‘The Great British Bake Off’’ beginning in 2017
119 Suffering from a losing
streak, in poker slang 122 Secret exits represented five times in this puzzle’s grid 125 ‘‘Bus Stop’’ playwright 126 Camping shelter 127 Advocates
128 Romanov ruler
129 Vulnerable
130 Most likely to inspire
‘‘thirst’’
DOWN
1 Twins, e.g., for short 2 Site with tech tutorials 3 Gets out of a grave
situation?
4 Scores for place-kickers 5 Mental health org. 6 They’re thumped at
supermarkets
7 Balls
8 Overly simplistic 9 Bake-off equipment 10 Major-____ (pro
ballplayer) 11 OB/GYNs, e.g. 12 Application
13 Royal pain
14 Circus apparatus 15 Laugh or cry, say 16 ‘‘Old MacDonald Had
a Farm’’ sounds 17 N.Y.C. retailer with a famed holiday window display 19 Rum ____ Tugger (cat
in ‘‘Cats’’)
23 Like a romantic evening
stroll, perhaps 28 [someone else’s error] 30 Cause chaos
32 —
33 ‘‘That’s it?’’
35 Camping shelter 37 Only person to win an Oscar, Emmy and Tony in the same year (1973)
38 Kitty ____, stunt performer once known as the ‘‘fastest woman in the world’’ 39 Four-limbed animals 40 ‘‘Raiders of the Lost
Ark’’ biter
42 Plato’s P
43 Halloween decorations that can be made with cotton balls 46 Heavy metal’s ‘‘Prince
of Darkness’’
47 ‘‘Am ____ only one?’’ 48 Level
49 Some skin-care
products
52 Power up
53 A.L. East squad: Abbr. 57 Slice, for one
58 Give the ____ 60 Stopover
62 —
65 —
66 Put on ice
68 Traffic control org. 70 Disco ____ (iconic garment for Lady Gaga)
71 ‘‘Chandelier’’ singer, 2014 73 Longtime record label 74 Annexes
75 Rube Goldberg
machines, e.g.
76 Like some vaccines 78 A, in Berlin
80 Incline
81 Expansive work of art,
usually 82 Disreputable
84 Annual Austin festival,
familiarly
86 ‘‘This is too much’’ 88 One to be dethroned 91 One being coddled,
maybe
93 Lacking any adulteration 94 Zing
97 One who may have
attachment issues? 98 Small Nintendo
console, once
100 Spring month in
France
102 ____ 1, Yuri Gagarin’s
spacecraft
103 Cries in a tattoo parlor 104 Frothy coffee
invented in Greece 105 —
106 Sign of resistance 108 Some bank deposits 110 Foul mood
111 Pelicans’ home,
informally
113 —
114 Girl in a tartan
116 Miner discoveries 117 Relative of ‘‘Hey!’’ 120 March Madness
‘‘trophy’’
121 Road goo
123 Maliciously reveal personal info about online
124 ‘‘Mais ____!’’