N.Y. Times Crossword – Sunday, September 17, 2017

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By: Mark Maclachlan
Theme: Looping Answers
Difficulty (0-10):  5
Time: 55:37

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1 Naval engagements 1 Grain containers
8 Setting a world record, e.g. 2 Theatricalize
1 “The Hallucinogenic Toreador” artist 3 National ___ Day (last Friday in April)
16 Evidence in an arson investigation 4 Football formation
19 “No point arguing with me!” 5 007, for one: Abbr.
20 Some rounds 6 ___ monkey
21 “The only beauty that never fades,” per Audrey Hepburn 7 Cocky walk
23 Fancy French shellfish dish 8 Copyright concern
25 Beer parlor 9 Symbol for a break
26 “Then again …,” in a tweet 10 ___, amas, amat
27 Collection of Hindu aphorisms 11 Taquito wrap
28 Palindromic bird 12 What may grow with interest
30 It’s got you covered 13 Barley wine, e.g.
31 Tennis’s Novak Djokovic, by birth 14 Burton of “Reading Rainbow”
32 Rex Tillerson’s alma mater, for short 15 “Totally understood”
34 Proteins responsible for mad cow disease 16 Blessed
35 Special ___ 17 Frequent director of De Niro
37 It’s got you covered 18 Pigment in red blood cells
39 Carved emblem 22 “Star Wars” droid
41 Keys for Keys? 24 Letters on N.Y.C. trains
44 German pronoun 29 Together
46 South American plains 33 Swiss folk hero with a crossbow
48 Tikkanen who won five Stanley Cups 34 Dig for answers
49 All together, as a family 36 After-dinner drink
51 Classroom item 38 Speed skater Karin who won eight Olympic medals
54 Schoolboy 40 Scratch
55 More chichi 41 Celestial object that emits radio waves
57 Get a bite? 42 Drawn
58 Team finale? 43 Poisonous snakes
60 Hot spot, both literally and figuratively 44 Anthropomorphic hedgehog of gamedom
63 Roman philosopher who wrote “All cruelty springs from weakness” 45 “Don’t mind ___!”
67 Buenos ___ 47 Elbow-benders
69 Central Park’s SummerStage, e.g. 50 ___-pah-pah
73 At the limit, with “out” 51 Pair
74 Save from disaster 52 “Excuse me”
76 The same as 53 Kidney-related
78 “Homer and ___ Exchange Cross Words” (2008 episode of “The Simpsons”) 56 Dark time, in poesy
79 Music genre for Weezer or the Shins 59 Wrap-up
83 Catch like Spider-Man 61 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 …, e.g.: Abbr.
85 Child’s seat, maybe 62 Less mendacious
86 Tech overseer 64 Like the Dalai Lama
91 Reason to stop reading 65 One of the Borgias
93 Stranded cellular stuff 66 Evolves
94 ___ plane 68 The Philippines’ ___ Sea
95 Addis Ababa’s country: Abbr. 70 Author Rankin
96 Claim deposits 71 1428 ___ (horror film address): Abbr.
97 “I rock!” 72 The N.B.A.’s Curry, informally
100 Backup group for Gladys Knight 75 Singer James
102 Mahmoud Abbas’s grp. 77 Baja bear
103 Quarter deck? 80 Vermin
105 Tiny conductor of heat or electricity 81 Straight: Prefix
108 Email best not replied to 82 Signer of many a permission form
112 Mulled wine ingredient 84 Congress, with “the”
113 Extra periods at TD Garden 86 ___ wolf
114 Mythical beast with goatlike features 87 Not level
115 Jazzy Fitzgerald 88 Old outdoor dance sights
116 Premise of the film “Freaky Friday” 89 Place to try patatas bravas
118 Some positives and negatives 90 Actress Lena
121 Welcoming diners at midnight, say 92 “Relax!”
122 Singer India.___ 95 Trusts and ___ (law school class)
123 Adds water to 98 Authority
124 Director Anderson 99 Gertrude who swam the English Channel in 1926
125 Surveys 101 Brand of note?
126 “Darn it!” 102 Teen driver’s acquisition
127 A good place to start 104 The New Yorker piece
106 Western tribe
107 “Turn! Turn! Turn!” band, with “the”
109 One-named philosopher
110 Paul ___, Microsoft co-founder
111 En ___ (as a group)
112 Boast
113 Bullfight chorus
117 Homophone for the atomic number of oxygen
119 Altar constellation
120 St. Pierre, par exemple

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