N.Y. Times Crossword – Sunday, August 13, 2017

By: Eric Berlin
Theme: The Magic Show
Difficulty (0-10):  5
Time: 49:59

ACROSS DOWN
1   Bit of a Bollywood soundtrack 1    Go gaga
5   Hawaiian giveaway 2    Not quite closed
8   Home of van Gogh’s “The Starry Night,” informally 3    Bunch of friends
12  Walgreens competitor 4    Truisms
19  Greek warrior of myth 5    ___-di-dah
20 Person from Calgary or Edmonton 6    QB Manning
22  Source of material for a baseball bat 7    Arabic for “son of”
23  Magic trick performed at 78-Down
25  Company accountant’s responsibility 9    Missouri River native
26  Concern for wheat farmers 10  Hurt badly
27  Nickname for an Oxford university 11  Latin years
29  Puzzle-loving group 12  Output of N.W.A or DMX
30  Sugar found in beer 13  “This ___ test”
34  Mouselike rodents 14  Herbs related to mints
36  Sometimes-stinky pair 15  English lengths
39  Adds to 16  Baseball’s Hank
43  Agcy. that cares what airs 17  Physicist Bohr
46  Mauna ___ 18  Crème ___ crème
47  Magic trick performed at 119-Across and 104-Down 21  They can be inflated or shattered
49 Burden for Jack and Jill 24  Lesley of “60 Minutes”
50  Female org. since the 1850s 28  Manipulative type
52  Lee of Marvel Comics 31  Lane in Metropolis
53  Pals around (with) 32  12:50
54  Coca-Cola brand 33  Schindler of “Schindler’s List”
55  ___ duck (Chinese entree) 35  Officers below capts.
57  “Carmina Burana” composer Carl 36  Relief carving
59  Grant-making org. 37  Shout of pain
60  Like most doors 38  Talkative birds
61  Followed closely, as a set of rules 40  “Yuk!”
63  Zest source 41  Relative of pop?
65  Feudal vassal
67  Magic trick performed at 123- and 124-Across 43  Long tooth
71  Word repeated before “everywhere” 44  Give as an example
72  Online “Very funny!” 45  Wearing, with “in”
73  Basic gymnastics flips 48  Prefix with structure
76  Comic Aziz of “Master of None” 49  Décor of many dens
79  “Is that true about me?” 51  Onetime honor for cable TV shows
81  Movies with big budgets and no audience 54  Mozart title character
83  At the proper moment 56  Part of P.E.I.
84  Simple percussion instrument 58  Some dental work
85  Greenish-blue hues 60  Titter
87  Musical based on Fellini’s “8 1/2” 62  South American monkey
89  Ready to take part 64  Old war zone, briefly
90  Escape maker 66  Tangled up
91  Magic trick performed at 55-Across 68  Ill-defined situation
94  Blue, on some maps: Abbr. 69  Offspring
95  Onetime White House nickname 70  Front
96  Apt anagram of IS A CHARM 74  Director of 1957’s “12 Angry Men”
97  Eight-line poems 75  Looks like
99  Hullabaloo 76  Name on some boxes of film
100 Four-string instrument 77  Neophyte, informally
102 Kind of jar 78  Provide part of a coverage policy for
105 Crisp fabric 80  ___-pedi
109 Tequila source82  
113 “Whenever you want” 85  Reproves
115 Magic trick performed at 15-, 16- and 17-Down 86  Dweller in a virtual “City”
119 Skinny sort 88  Great Lakes city
120 Hydrogen has one 91  Greek X
121 Architect Saarinen 92  J.Crew competitor
122 Swiss and others 93  New York archbishop Timothy
123 First name in jazz 96  Furs from rabbits
124 Bad: Prefix 98  Got a move on, with “it”
125 Prohibitionists 99  “I would ___ surprised”
101 Stand-up comic Williams
103 Literary collection: Abbr.
104 Vaccine holder
106 Run away
107 Tumbled
108 Stuntman Knievel
110 The New World: Abbr.
111 Be inconsistent
112 Book of Mormon book
114 Fannie or Ginnie follower
116 Suffix with dull
117 Small dog

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