N.Y. Times Crossword – Sunday, September 10, 2017

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By: Brendan Emmett Quigley
Theme: Size Matters
Difficulty (0-10):  4
Time: 52:58

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1 “Watch yourself out there” 1 Big party
7 Comic Sweeney 2 Photorealist painter Richard
12 ___ All-Star Race (annual event since 1985) 3 Order to a pool hustler to suck up some broth?
18 Getaway for meditation 4 “So vast is ___, so narrow human wit”: Alexander Pope
19 Rub oil on 5 Do not
21 Fruit dessert 6 Run the show
22 Spin class activity? 7 Rapper with the music streaming service Tidal
24 City with one of the SUNY schools 8 Take out, as wine bottles
25 That craft 9 “Haha”
26 TV host Gibbons 10 Due east on an old clock dial
27 What Siri runs on 11 Common female middle name
29 SC Johnson product with a lightning bolt in its logo 12 Smoking or ___
30 Wireless data and messaging company 13 Black church inits.
32 Number of appearances in a grain holder? 14 Spot on a fern frond
38 ___ Tomé (African capital) 15 TBS late-night show
39 Stuck at a ski lodge, say 16 Room with a slanted roof
41 Wallops 17 All systems go
42 Like long chances 20 Cry to kick off the weekend
44 River near the start of an alphabetical list 21 “Down goes Frazier!” sportscaster
45 Primordial universe matter 23 Relating to the abdominal cavity
47 What people sing when they don’t know the words 28 Surg. locales
49 Au courant, once 31 Nonstandard verb from Popeye
50 Storms that don’t offend? 33 Pastoral poet
53 Actress Christina 34 “___ & Stitch”
55 God, to Hebrews 35 Common opening bid in bridge
57 Staple of Hawaiian cuisine 36 Argument
58 Mammals with webbed feet 37 Fruit with greenish-yellow rinds
60 Business with a guestbook 40 TV’s “Tales From the ___”
62 French 101 verb 42 Suddenly start, as in fright
63 Appropriate rhyme for “cache” 43 Strands, as a base runner
65 Robust 44 German lament
66 RC, for one 46 Workplaces with a need for speed
67 Left college athletics, maybe 48 Government group on offspring?
69 Lesley of CBS News 50 Felon, to a cop
71 Nonsense 51 Drink holders
73 Second hand: Abbr. 52 Greyhound stop: Abbr.
74 Loads 54 Plotting (with)
76 2016 Disney hit 56 Alicia of “Urban Legend,” 1998
78 George who founded Industrial Light & Magic 59 Ex-isle of exile
79 “___-hoo!” 61 Denies
80 Position on a steamship 63 Play alone
82 Schedule inits. 64 Jerry Lewis, notably
83 Europe’s largest lake 66 “Oh, fudge”
84 Region of ancient Egypt 68 Snare drum sound
86 Makes a quick map of an Egyptian peninsula? 70 Rebel in “Henry IV, Part 1”
89 Very, in Veracruz 72 Jai ___
90 Sequel to a sequel to a sequel to a sequel 75 Green-lit
92 Action at a bris 77 Green
93 Popular website that explains the news 80 Tornado warning
94 Lille women: Abbr. 81 Raised, as a flag
95 Not debut 83 Laissez-faire
97 Mint 85 Pre-practice tests?
99 War su ___ (boneless chicken dish) 87 Lush’s favorite radio station?
100 Opening performers that are all mimes? 88 Drowse
104 Orchestra tuner 91 Santa makes millions of them every Christmas
107 Brand with a rabbit symbol 94 French month
108 “___ little confused” 96 Ingredient in an Aunt Agatha
109 It has a lock, stock and barrel 98 Blinking light
111 Take in 99 Attacks
113 Citroën competitor 100 Cast about
116 Rod-and-reel event in old Vietnam? 101 Chemistry Nobelist Joliot-Curie
121 North and South Korea, e.g. 102 Understudy’s study
122 Nurse’s outfit 103 Ticket
123 Indian appetizer 105 Ignorance, so they say
124 Prince Edward’s earldom 106 Nerve-racking
125 Belief 110 Think tank, e.g.: Abbr.
126 High as a kite 112 “Heavens!”
114 It may be pulled after a wrong turn
115 Old law
117 Do something
118 Heat
119 Heater
120 H.R. offering for employees

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