N.Y. Times Crossword – Sunday, August 20, 2017

By: Ruth Bloomfield Margolin
Theme: Found in Your Inbox (Add “RE” to the front of each theme answer)
Difficulty (0-10):  5
Time: 52:43

ACROSS DOWN
1 Matisse, e.g., stylistically 1 Online help
6 H. H. Munro pseudonym 2 “Are you some kind of ___?”
10 XXX 3 Lone Star State sch.
14 Back up on disk 4 Guest
18 Cons 5 Perfume compound
19 Juicy 6 Inspector Clouseau’s employer
20 Seats by the orchestra pit, perhaps 7 “A Navel” artist, 1923
21 Film excerpt 8 Wine-and-cassis drink
22 Re: ___ (suitor’s subject line) 9 See 53-Across
25 25, 27, 29, etc. 10 Dalmatian, e.g.
26 The first pope, to French speakers 11 Lilylike plant
27 Words before fat and lean, in a nursery rhyme 12 Tot’s “Lemme up on your shoulders!”
28 The Gabor sisters, e.g. 13 Old-fashioned gunfight locales
29 Re: ___ (stingy date’s subject line) 14 Like the people who invented golf
34 Hairstyle rarely seen in the military 15 Astronaut after whom Buzz Lightyear was named
37 Apply to 16 Couch potato
38 Formally chooses 17 Some home printers
39 The crystal in some crystal balls 19 Title Seuss creature
41 Carrier to Seoul, for short 23 “Stop!,” to a cop
42 The lowest of the low 24 Lowly worker
44 Catering staple 30 Bugged
45 Re: ___ (song lyricist’s subject line) 31 Short and detached, in music: Abbr.
49 Part of a locust tree 32 Surefire
53 Place to say 9-Down 33 Expert on meters and feet
55 Help 34 An official color of the Miami Dolphins
56 Quenched 35 Roll up
58 World leader who proclaimed “Women hold up half the sky” 36 Tirade
59 Bathday cakes? 40 Den, often
61 Kind of diagram 42 Gucci or Givenchy, e.g.
62 Dwellers on the Arabian Peninsula 43 The first “A” in Reddit’s A.M.A.
65 Re: ___ (film director’s subject line) 46 Mesmerized
69 Re: ___ (sales agent’s subject line … with an attachment) 47 “You bet!,” in Yucatán
72 Peanut butter choice 48 Radiuses’ neighbors
73 Municipal regs. 50 Marriott competitor
75 Prefix with liberal or conservative, but not moderate 51 Third one’s a harm?
76 Slippery sort 52 Wine’s aroma
77 One is usually set by a chair 54 China setting
80 Purpose 57 Doofus
81 Talk smack about 60 Novelist Seton
85 Baseball exec Bud 61 Mesa ___ National Park
88 Re: ___ (duster’s subject line) 63 Moaning Hogwarts ghost
91 Tony winner Hagen 64 Not even close
92 $$$$, on Yelp 65 The Red Baron and others
94 “Selma” director DuVernay 66 Northern Montana tribe
95 Greek gods’ drink 67 Poker player’s tic, perhaps
97 “Down,” at a diner 68 ___ Python
100 Pithy observations 70 Depose
103 Best-of-the-best 71 Cubbie or Card
104 Re: ___ (prison librarian’s subject line) 74 From the top, to a musician
108 Hansen of a 2016 Broadway hit 78 Sierras, e.g.
109 Sidney who directed “12 Angry Men” 79 Want ad letters
110 Actress Arquette 80 Take the heat from?
114 The Destroyer, in Hinduism 82 Motorcade unit
115 Re: ___ (celebrity physician’s subject line) 83 Lee of Marvel Comics
119 Mark Zuckerberg when founding Facebook, e.g. 84 Storied also-ran
120 Eliminated by a ref’s decision 86 Apple product discontinued in 2017
121 Heavenly hunter 87 Tennis’s Steffi
122 Monastery figure 89 Through with
123 European capital 90 Like some training
124 Repair shop figs. 93 Quarantine
125 Stuff 96 “Is that even possible?”
126 Simple, as a question 97 Must pay
98 Main forces?
99 See the world
100 Tea times: Abbr.
101 Ransom note writer
102 Deseret News reader, e.g.
105 “Turn up the A/C!”
106 Must have
107 Paris’s Musée d’___
111 Fleet on Fleet Street
112 With 117-Down, Mesabi Range output
113 Regarding
116 Thick coat on a cold day?
117 See 112-Down
118 Small inlet

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