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THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ABRIDGED TOO FAR By Michael Schlossberg Puzzles Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Deets, say

5 Like pangolins and armadillos

10 Pacific weather phenomenon

16 000-00-0002, for Mr. Burns on ‘‘The Simpsons’’: Abbr.

19 Apt name for a protester?

20 Shire of ‘‘The Godfather’’

21 ‘‘What’s the ____?’’

22 Job-listing letters

23 Play about love and heartbreak in ancient Greece [1605, 431 B.C.]

27 Danger

28 Cater (to)

29 Where people might come to a happy medium?

30 Is worth it

32 ‘‘The Taming of the Shrew’’ sister

36 Wheels

37 Timeless children’s classic about country dwellers’ friendships [1908, 1881]

41 Farm cry

43 Vented appliance

44 Comedy talk show from 2003 to 2022, familiarly

45 Superlative score

48 ‘‘Great Caesar’s ghost!’’

50 Eat, baby-style

56 Timid

58 It’s symbolized by a crescent moon and star

63 Jewish folklore creature

64 Magnum opus about a young man, family and the concept of free will [1866, 1965]

70 Not according to plan

73 Celebrity chef Dispirito

74 ‘‘Go ahead, shoot!’’

75 Major and Commander, to Biden

76 Coming-of-age novel about a teenage boy and his isolation [1951, 1986] 80 Like an old apple

81 Chicken ____ (South Asian dish)

82 Phenomenon also known as data decay

86 Placid

88 Rapper ____ Thee Stallion

93 Drudges 94 Celebratory smoke

99 Veered, as an airplane

101 Just peachy

102 Tale about soldiers and treachery in southern Europe [1940, 1603]

110 Polynesian greeting

111 Kleenex : tissue :: ____ : sticky note

112 Yellow-brown shade

115 Mercury and Mars, for two

117 Grp. promoting world peace

120 College athletics channel

121 ‘‘In a nutshell’’ .?.?. or an alternative title for this puzzle?

126 Wallach of ‘‘Baby Doll’’

127 Stoat in its white winter coat

128 Lawyer’s favorite dessert?

129 Asteroid discovered in 1898

130 Name that means ‘‘king’’

131 City that lends its name to a variety of ice cream

132 Warren in the Baseball Hall of Fame

133 Fashion letters

DOWN

1 Modern kind of purchase

2 Locale for many Panhellenic Games

3 ‘‘Rapunzel’’ or ‘‘Rumpelstiltskin’’

4 Kinda getting up there

5 Poker great Ungar

6 Burner on a range?

7 Michigan liberal-arts college 8 Certain collateral

9 Convict, in old slang

10 Persian Gulf territory

11 Gamer’s headache

12 Degree in mathematics?

13 Voice role for Snoop Dogg in 2019’s ‘‘The Addams Family’’

14 Federal agent who was the inspiration for Dick Tracy

15 Nightmare

16 Addressed

17 Manatee

18 Adspeak claim of convenience

24 Gin add-in

25 German refusal

26 One of Cuba’s Castros

31 Subject line abbreviation

33 Wild group, for short

34 One of many in the ‘‘Disney Morgue’’

35 Leave gobsmacked

38 Scoreboard letters at Metlife Stadium

39 D.O.J. branch

40 Helpful connections

41 Halloween symbol

42 Busy month for a C.P.A.

46 Turn from an old pallet into a bookcase, for example

47 Title for Charlie Chaplin

49 ‘‘Toy Story’’ toy torturer

51 ‘‘I can’t believe this!’’

52 Go head to head (with)

53 Paul who painted ‘‘Cat and Bird’’

54 Advanced

55 Some F.D.N.Y. pros

57 Juicy gossip

59 Time measurement

60 One of a classic septet

61 ‘‘Key of the Nile’’

62 Act out?

65 Imitation 66 Amazon device

67 Laptop brand

68 It’s just what you’d expect

69 Bosnian’s neighbor 70 After-hours conveniences

71 Cry at an amusement park

72 Parent

77 Philosopher Rand who rejected altruism

78 ‘‘____ What ____’’ (song from ‘‘La Cage Aux Folles’’)

79 Doggy’s sound

83 Carving station option

84 Hawaiian fish also called a wahoo

85 ‘‘Shame!’’

87 Prefix with hotel

89 Exams that are essentially impossible to study for

90 ____ Gadot of ‘‘Wonder Woman’’

91 Piercing tool

92 Basis for an annual Forbes list 95 Hobgoblin

96 V8 debut of 1964

97 Music to a masseur’s ears

98 Optimizes, as an engine

100 Play-____

102 More loaded, as a wallet

103 Stadium chant

104 A.F.L. All-time Team member with a law degree

105 ‘‘No. Way!’’

106 Old-timey ‘‘listen’’

107 Default search engine for Microsoft Edge

108 Some classic jeans

109 Tethered

113 ‘‘____: The Smartest Guys in the Room’’ (2005 documentary)

114 Wackadoo

116 Protein-rich blood components

118 ‘‘Uncle!’’

119 ‘‘Downton Abbey’’ role

122 Zhuzh (up)

123 Small word for small

124 Hydrogen’s atomic number

125 Itch

PUZZLES & GAMES

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