New York Times Crossword Puzzle
No.0912
GO UP IN SMOKE By Grant Thackray Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
1 Impersonate
6 Bump on a log
11 Get into one’s birthday
suit
16 Fruit drinks
20 Home of the isle of
Tortuga
21 ‘‘____ often costs too
much’’: Emerson 22 Word before rock or
football
23 Song word repeated
after ‘‘Que’’ 24 Charming sort? 26 Olympics projectiles 27 People in charge:
Abbr.
28 ____ Lingus
29 Lucy’s last name on ‘‘I
Love Lucy’’
31 Like gasoline nowadays 33 30-year host of latenight TV
37 Legal field concerned
with long-term care 39 Commotion 40 Televangelist Joel 42 Prima ballerina 46 Some team
competitions
49 The ‘‘e’’ in Genoa? 50 With 97-Across, emerge reborn . . . or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? 52 ‘‘Gangsta Lovin’’’
rapper, 2002 53 Yoga-class instruction 55 Food packaging
reassurance
56 Good ‘‘Wheel of Fortune’’ buy for REVERSE ENGINEER
57 Sold (for)
59 Toward the back 60 Where dominoes were
invented
62 Rule
64 Jazz guitarist
Montgomery
66 Some U.N. officers, for
short
67 Super Bowl LV champ 68 Took a swing, say 70 Basketball box score
column 74 Addiction-treatment
locale
76 Leadoff selections? 77 Something to file 78 French article
79 Sweet pea 81 Volkswagen model
inits.
82 Give wrong
information
83 Boring tool 85 Emmy-winning
journalist Finch 87 Website with a Seller
Handbook
91 ‘‘How ____ . . . ’’ 92 Encrypted URL
component 94 Red-handed, say 96 Make haste
97 See 50-Across 99 Brand that stylizes its name with a lowercase second letter
100 What a button on an
armrest may control 104 Serenade
105 ‘‘____ Pal,’’ early episode of ‘‘The Jetsons’’
108 Shrinks
109 1980 event in
Washington
111 Be completely candid 114 Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw
117 It may be taken in by a
traveler
119 Half of sei
120 Treat thought to be stamped with symbols of the Knights Templar 121 ‘‘We ____ please’’ 123 Within arm’s reach 128 Something commonly left in an operating room
129 Going by
130 Where the Volta River
flows
131 Tea go-with
132 Pull down
133 Those opposite the center and guards, in N.F.L. lingo
134 More teed off
135 Scattered
DOWN
1 Sounds at a sauna
2 Limit
3 20-20, e.g.
4 Hit TV show created by
Donald Glover 5 Something close to a
colonel’s heart? 6 ‘‘Today’’ competitor, for
short 7—
8 Those against
9 Come back again (again
. . . again . . . ) 10 Harp-shaped
constellation
11 Got ready to ride, with
‘‘up’’
12 Vacuum tube type 13 ‘‘Hi’’ follower
14 Rack up, as charges 15 No-hassle
16 Countless
17 —
18 Slips
19 Holder of merit badges
on a scout uniform 25 Jon of ‘‘Two and a Half
Men’’
30 — 32 Gone-but-not-forgotten 33 L.L. Bean competitor 34 Plant family that jasmine and lilac are part of
35 Safe space 36 Announcement maker
of yore
38 In early 2001, one of its executives notoriously said, ‘‘From an accounting standpoint, this will be our easiest year ever’’
41 ____ Minella (Muppet) 43 Pot grower’s remark? 44 What snakes grow as
they age
45 Corrects, as text 47 They used to be a
‘‘thing’’
48 Floor coverings that
feel good on the feet 51 Politician’s concern 54 Detective Lupin 55 Present-day saint? 58 Surprise ending 59 Sparkling-wine variety 61 Scolded, as in a library 63 Big name in nail polish 65 —
69 Drive
70 Sets aside
71 Popped in for just a
moment, perhaps 72 The Ikea logo shares
the colors of its flag 73 Lead-in to ‘‘of mind’’ or
‘‘of war’’
75 Advocate for the better treatment of elves, in Harry Potter 80 Determination from
Santa
84 Big tournament news 86 Bare
88 —
89 Spots for window
boxes
90 Verbal cringe
93 The St. Lawrence River’s misnamed ____ Islands
95 Far from friendly 98 Fatigued over time 99 Set of rules popularized by ‘‘How I Met Your Mother’’ 101 Doctor’s orders, maybe 102 Best ____
103 Shaving brand
106 ‘‘Let me get this out
. . . ’’
107 Lead-in to -scope 110 Small lab bottle
112 Loud, as a stadium 113 Former second lady
Cheney
114 It often has its kinks 115 Sight from a Seattle
ferry
116 Bike ride setting
118 Rides
122 Millennium start 124 See 126-Down
125 Take a ____
126 With 124-Down,
feature of van Gogh 127 Get hitched to
Style
en-us
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