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THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE

STRETCHING EXERCISES By Jeremy Newton Puzzles Edited by Will Shortz Jeremy Newton

ACROSS

1 Muhammad Ali's ‘‘Me! Whee!,'' e.g. 5 ‘‘S.N.L.'' alum Hartman

9 Start off on the wrong foot, maybe? 13 Contaminate 19 What may be in a star's orbit

21 Throw with power 22 Alleviate

23 Sheep's milk product that's often grated 25 Classic name for the land north of England

26 Course taken in shorts, often

27 ‘‘Ya don't say!'' 28 765-foot-long ‘‘water coaster'' on Disney cruises 30 Countertenor 31 SWAT team or Navy SEAL group, e.g. 34 Name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet

37 Epitome of smoothness

39 ‘‘Roots'' author Haley

40 Shocker, at times 41 & 44 It goes around every hour

46 Gaming novice, slangily

48 Secured skates, with ‘‘up''

50 Float component 51 Act as a blueprint for, as DNA for proteins

53 Brawled, in the backwoods

55 ‘‘Howdy, everybody!''

57 Withstand

58 Fly off the shelves 59 Like bread made from almond flour 61 ‘‘Oh, hell yes!'' 64 Turn red, say 65 Certain formal duds 66 Nice round number?

67 Bollywood megastar Aishwarya ____ 68 ‘‘My dear man'' 71 Grammy category won multiple times by Kendrick Lamar 77 Racy selfie posted for likes on social media, in modern lingo

80 Not a problem 81 Kennel club category

82 Makeup table 83 ‘‘Dead serious!'' 85 ‘‘And, uh, that about covers it'' 86 Supporting role 87 New students at Princeton or Yale in 1969

88 There's a famous ‘‘half'' one in Yosemite National Park

90 Vessel protected by Hera

91 Uninteresting 92 Encouraging cry 94 Bottom

96 Saves, with ‘‘away'' 98 ‘‘Ain't dead ____!'' 99 They often come to professors with excuses

102 Hoodwink

104 Get snake eyes, say 107 Lacking experience

108 Aligns, in a wood shop

112 Set straight

113 Oscar winner for his role as a Mexican narc in ‘‘Traffic'' 117 Price to pay, informally

118 Major piece 119 Miniature for a World War II buff 120 Were running mates?

121 Quite a jerk 122 Make an appearance

123 Recess for prayer

DOWN

1 Verve

2 It's 50/50

3 ‘‘That kinda stuff'': Abbr. 4 Buckaroos

5 Mint

6 Fictional pilot with the line ‘‘You like me because I'm a scoundrel''

7 ‘‘Here ____ again'' 8 Milk for un café 9 Onetime MTV reality series filmed near Hollywood

10 Recall regretfully 11 Auditing org. 12 Courtroom statements

13 Bone to pick 14 Lighter than lite 15 Word after soul or solid

16 ‘‘You, too?!'' playfully

17 Smart

18 Wood that's resistant to warping 20 Mountain chain that stretches from Kazakhstan to the Arctic

24 Do a waving motion by the ocean, say 29 ‘‘That proves it'' 32 Shade similar to verdigris

33 Distinguish oneself 34 Positioned to win 35 Shared with for quick feedback

36 Cut into

38 Region with a Unification Flag for sporting events

41 Pen pa?

42 Just hanging out 43 It really blows 45 Knucklehead 47 Flinch (at) 49 Ending for a dean's address

50 Cable network with movies like ‘‘Sharktopus'' and ‘‘Mansquito'' 52 Least klutzy 54 Made a boo-boo 55 ‘‘I won't ____ it!'' 56 Pending

58 Risqué communiqué

60 Ancient home to Priam's Treasure 62 Out of practice 63 Quick refresher 68 Visibly scornful 69 Cold that just won't go away? 70 Superpopular 71 Gooey spread 72 Where gymnast Simone Biles won four golds

73 One-celled organism

74 Enter unannounced, in a way 75 Photog's setting 76 Name of the girl on ‘‘Game of Thrones'' who said ‘‘A girl has no name''

77 Spot between programs, e.g.

78 Beehive material 79 Annual May race, informally 84 One of three char- acters in ‘‘M*A*S*H'' 85 Ones behind the scenes

87 Consider, with ‘‘on'' 89 High-priority item 92 Vocalist's asset 93 Directly criticized on Twitter with an ‘‘@''

95 Gillette razor name 97 Literature Nobelist Bellow

99 Bit of faulty logic 100 Sandwich suppos- edly named after low- income New Orleans workers

101 Begins a triathlon 103 Like the clue for 103-Down?

104 Teased incessantly 105 Kind of cavity 106 Hard vehicle to park

109 Telenovela, e.g. 110 Some drink dispensers

111 Extend (out) 114 Org. with lots of money to waste? 115 Order member 116 ‘‘Ver-r-ry interesting!''

PUZZLES

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