N.Y. Times Crossword – Sunday, September 24, 2017

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By: Alan Arbesfeld
Theme: U.S.  State Abbreviations
Difficulty (0-10):  1
Time: 42:40

ACROSS DOWN
1 Tennis world since 1968 1 Footnote abbr.
8 St. Louis Arch, e.g. 2 Take stock?
15 Gasoline may make it go 3 Fragrant compound
20 Impersonated 4 Pitted fruit
21 Performing, perhaps 5 Icelandic letter
22 Change of locks? 6 Powerful engine
23 “Try not to miss Bangor and Lewiston”? 7 Cruising
25 “___ de Lune” 8 Be successful
26 Player of TV’s Det. Tutuola 9 The slightest amount of
27 Publication read by drs. 10 Oscar-winning foreign film of 2005 set in South Africa
28 Kind of torch on “Survivor” 11 Tiny-scissors holder
29 Private eye, slangily 12 Nutsy
30 Where Spartacus was from 13 Competing with
32 Rite for a newborn Jewish boy 14 Thirst
34 2:00 in New York vis-à-vis St. Louis? 15 Firmly in place
36 Chopper topper 16 Have a connection
38 “___ ’em, boy!” 17 Turbaned teacher
40 Fifth wheel 18 Loathing
41 Part of a full house 19 Like some myths
43 Haunted house sound 24 “You’ll have to pay for me”
45 Duds 29 Stylish
47 Be sociable, say 31 Unit of firewood
50 Whistler from two Eastern states? 33 “Freedom ___ free”
53 Financial institution whose parent company is Canadian 35 Commercial lead-in to Pen
55 Name in a Salinger title 37 Walter ___, Dodgers owner who moved the team from Brooklyn to L.A.
56 Cheers after a go-o-o-oal! 39 Submits, as a phone report
57 Quaint store descriptor 41 Previous incarnations
59 Just beat 42 Part of a recovery effort
60 Put away 44 Writer of “The Gnat and the Bull”
61 ___-equipped 46 ___ Conference
62 “I’m such a klutz!” 47 Added up
64 Sportscaster Al 48 City just east of LAX
68 “We shouldn’t sell our Fort Wayne home”? 49 Vintage Jaguars
72 How a B.L.T. might come 50 Apology start
73 Rice-A-___ 51 Oktoberfest music
74 Public image, briefly 52 First-rate, in British slang
75 Farm female 54 Buyer of a dozen roses, maybe
77 Reebok rival 58 Former parent co. of Gramophone and Parlophone records
78 Navy commando 61 Ideology
80 It means “farmer” in Afrikaans 63 Again, in Mexico
82 Hydroxyl compound 65 Getting help getting clean
83 Airbnb offering 66 Dijon darling
86 “Sooner this, Sooner that … can’t you talk about any other subject?”? 67 Avoid puddles, say
89 Imparter of umami taste, in brief 69 Pointer’s pronoun
90 Exact look-alike 70 Sister of Helios
93 Resort near Snowbird 71 Ancient fortuneteller
94 Middle-___ 72 In the 70s, say
95 Big 2016 film set in Polynesia 76 Yellowstone grazer
96 Cab alternative 79 Unadon fish
98 Follows 81 Armchair accompanier
100 Deal another blackjack card to a young Salem woman? 82 Things painted in the spring
104 Take from the top 84 So darn cute
106 “Consider it done” 85 Like some fertile soil
110 Tomorrow 87 Status
111 Architect Saarinen 88 They may block passage
113 Some young ‘uns 91 Start to form?
115 Grammy-winning singer of “Shepherd Moons” 92 Single, for one
116 A-lister 95 Art ___, longtime Cleveland Browns owner
117 Midwest state secedes and will join the United Kingdom? 97 Pressure indicator on a map
120 Whale food 99 Iger’s predecessor at Disney
121 Place 100 Hardly sophisticates
122 Direct route 101 Sluggish
123 Overused 102 Actress Shire
124 Directed 103 Quattro + tre
125 Having braids 105 Fabulist’s confession
107 Diarist Nin
108 Jeff ___, leader of the Electric Light Orchestra
109 Got on board
112 Licentious sort
114 Word with ceiling or financing
117 C.I.A. forerunner
118 Tour de France time
119 “Who’da thunk it?!”

 

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