New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Condiment at a pho shop

9 Got too scared, with “out”

15 Shelve

20 Big picture

21 Author/journalist Welteroth

22 “The ____ Holmes Mysteries” (young-adult detective series)

23 Nationwide competitor

24 Places where some belts are tightened?

26 Longtime surname on latenight TV

27 Rooibos by another name

28 Simpson imp

29 Stephen Crane’s “The Red Badge of Courage,” e.g.?

32 Gave the scoop

35 Its presence on Mars offers a clue to life

38 Growler’s contents

39 Actress Lena

40 Can

41 Medical gloves and N95 masks, for short

42 Pen

44 Andy Dufresne in “The Shawshank Redemption,” e.g.

48 Pear-shaped instrument

49 Buy a lot of, with “on”

51 Lawyer with absurdly exaggerated humor?

54 Where Camus’ “The Plague” is set

56 Circuit-board components

57 Count, e.g.

58 Sleep phase?

60 Coconut-covered cookie

63 It might get the weed out

64 Flagship vehicle line for Mercedes-Benz

65 Encourage

67 Dallas-to-Austin dir.

70 Test, as a new mattress

71 Harvesting machine that needs cleaning?

73 Didn’t just sit there

76 Vouch for, with “to”

79 Mythical weaver

80 Doctor’s description of the birth of triplet sons?

84 “Well, maybe”

85 Connect, as two devices

86 Rhetoric

87 Relax

89 No longer active: Abbr.

90 Golf ball’s path

91 City north of Des Moines

92 Slangy turndown

93 Cinco + uno

94 They might get all over the floor

96 Battle between Tinker Bell and Princess Ozma?

102 Cream

103 “Ready?”

104 Some Guinness records

108 Census-taking of a Midwest capital?

111 Begin

113 Bel ____ (Italian cheese)

114 Charm

115 Become aware of ... or a homophonic description of four letter shifts in this puzzle’s grid

116 Partners of hinds

117 Reaches

118 Comes clean

DOWN

1 Proceeded down a lane, maybe

2 Tick off

3 Without much thought

4 Excise surgically

5 Household robot from Amazon

6 Abyss

7 Like some towels and topics

8 Put away

9 Big name in grills

10 ____ la Cité, home of Notre-Dame

11 Smallest country in the EU, by area

12 Stacked

13 Musical artist known as the Queen of New Age

14 Interior secretary Haaland

15 Hold in custody

16 ____ nous

17 Server error

18 The Liberty Tree, e.g.

19 Some free housing recipients, for short

25 Longtime surname on late-night TV

27 Fwy. or expy.

30 Clutch, e.g.

31 Name hidden in “global economy”

32 Couleur de l’océan

33 Rhapsodize over

34 Caterpillar alternative

35 Disruption for a poolside sunbather

36 God associated with the moon

37 American ____

39 Marsupial that goes into shock when frightened

42 Kind of parking

43 Each

44 Arab leaders

45 “I spilled ____ remover on my dog. Now he’s gone”: Steven Wright

46 Dancer Charisse of “Singin’ in the Rain”

47 Wizard

48 Sci-fi daughter of Padmé

50 D as in D.C.? Abbr.

52 Some prosecutors, for short

53 Primeval

55 First name in folk

59 Some widebrimmed hats

61 Killer of the Night King on “Game of Thrones”

62 ____ Day, early collaborator with Prince

65 “r u 4 real?”

66 Serving with a meze platter

67 It’s a ball

68 Japanese honorific

69 Pries (from)

70 Icky look

71 Boots, helmets, rope, etc.

72 Prefix with puncture

73 For face value

74 One-named entertainer from Spain

75 Hand-held device used by Mr. Spock

77 Lunar New Year

78 General name for a dish?

81 Shade of red

82 Ticks off

83 Like Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts

88 Fish in a poke bowl

91 Unfairly takes advantage of, as a policy

92 WaPo alternative

93 Square figure?

95 Like a tasty cake

96 Ice-cream treat

97 They might hold on to their caps, for short

98 “Failure ____ an option”

99 Back in style

100 You can see right through it

101 Beginning of a toast

103 What concealer might conceal 105 Soaks (up)

106 Co-author of 2016’s “The Book of Joy,” along with the Dalai Lama

107 Break ... or brake

108 Inits. on the road

109 Inits. on the road

110 Darkroom item, in brief

111 Personal-ad abbr.

112 No-win situation