THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE CROSSWORD
LETTERPLAY
By Tina Labadie/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 19
Across
1 Homes that may have
butlers
7 Singer Dylan of the Wall-
flowers
12 Supporting beams
18 Bear or boar
19 Bees, e.g.
21 Gleaming
22 The “C” of AMC Theatres
23 The whole package, collo-
quially
24 Sevastopol is its largest city
25 Not true?
27 Visitor to a website, in
analytics lingo
29 “Time ____ ...”
30 Concedes
33 Santa ____ , Calif.
34 m, to Einstein
35 B.C. neighbor: Abbr.
38 Think creatively
40 XL or 11C
42 Beer named for a founding
father
45 W-2, for one
47 WWI helmet, informally
51 2004 Will Smith sci-fi film
52 D.S.T. starting time... or a
hint to 42-Across
54 Weightlessness... or a hint
to 118-Across
56 ____ Compton, first
woman to cover the White
House for a TV network
57 Rating unit
60 Libya’s Gulf of ____
61 Reporter’s credit
62 TV tavern
64 Mimic
66 “Royal” bird
67 In
68 Top credit rating... or a hint
to 25-Across
71 23rd in a series... or a hint to
27-Across
73 Trust in
76 Fails to be
78 Keen
79 Google ____
83 Holds in high regard
84 Old lab burners
86 Water bird with a haunting
call
88 Bit of HI gear?
89 Cops... or a hint to 115-Across
90 Club for farm kids... or a hint
to 97-Across
91 Pouch on a string
93 Game with L- and T-shaped
pieces
96 Locale for a West Coast wine
tour
97 Secretive
99 R.&R. settings
101 Crystal-clear
103 “O, ____ fortune’s fool!”:
Romeo
104 Singer King with the 2014
hit “Ex’s & Oh’s”
108 Body feature of a mammoth
110 Holy ____
112 It might be taken to the
airport
115 Spelling aid?
118 Baseball announcer’s call on
a home run
121 Nigerian city of 3.5+
million
122 Set on the ground
125 “Jeopardy!” fodder
126 This evenin’
127 Video-call glitch
128 “I kid you not!”
129 Rate
130 Like the Xbox One X vis-à-
vis the Xbox One
131 Makes some Z’s
Down
1 Colorful parrot
2 Santa ____
3 Jazz singer born Eunice
Kathleen Waymon
4 Warning sign
5 Commercial follower of “-o-”
6 A-game or b-ball, e.g.
7 The “you” of the song lyric
“I’m begging of you, please
don’t take my man”
8 Part of the knee, for short
9 D.I.Y. buy
10 “Magnum, P.I.” setting
11 Sauvignon ____
12 Where one might turn on
the jets
13 D&D monster
14 Pelvis bone
15 Gregor ____ , Kafka
protagonist
16 Some genealogical work
17 Pioneering mail-order
company
19 Introductory courses
20 Mixes together
26 Not looking good
28 Ctrl + Q
31 First couple of the early
1910s
32 “Shut your trap!”
36 Apply with a Q-tip, say
37 Kerfuffl es
39 Wore down
41 RNA polymerase, e.g.
42 Thailand, once
43 River through Tuscany
44 Reaches
46 Bone fi ller
48 No. 2 on a table
49 Bone-dry
50 A great deal
53 How-to go-to
55 Obtain
58 YouTube or Gmail
59 “Phew!” feeling
61 They’re fi lled with X’s
63 Engraving instrument
65 Lean against
69 Whirlybird whirlers
70 Like some plants and
physicals
72 Personal story, informally
73 One calling a ‘‘T’’
74 Turnoff
75 Wash up
77 Certain fossil preserve
80 The art of music?
81 Vegetables that make a
fi tting addition to alphabet
CL
C
L AT S
SOP
OP
D ISTIBUTIN G
C O.
C O.
soup?
82 (Oh, well)
85 “Tsk, tsk!”
87 Classic soda brand
92 ‘‘Oh, I see!’’
94 Small-screen entertainers?
95 Ibn ____ (former Mideast
king)
97 Responsibility of a personnel
director
98 Japanese noodle
100 Young salmon
102 Like hawks
104 Hit 1979 musical in which a
character’s mistress is one of
the main roles
105 University of New Mexico
team
106 Bank deals
107 ____ Vedder, lead singer
of Pearl Jam
109 Garden-variety
111 Some I.R.A.s
113 Licoricelike fl avor
114 Rap producers make them
116 The “O’s” of Cheerios
117 Old ____ , Conn.
119 Spinach is rich in it
120 El ____
123 Drop o’ the mornin’
124 Cheer to a matador
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