Across
1. Goes to grab a bite, say : BOBSFORAPPLES
14. What a crop top exposes : MIDRIFF
21. “Anything else, or can I go?” : AREWEDONEHERE
22. “1984” superstate that includes America : OCEANIA
23. Early reel-to-reel devices : WIRERECORDERS
24. Expired IDs? : TOETAGS
25. “Marriage Italian-Style” star : LOREN
26. Give mouth-to-mouth to? : KISS
27. Donny who won “Dancing With the Stars” : OSMOND
29. Construction on Broadway : SET
30. Speak sharply : SNAP
31. Stockpot addition : BONE
32. Stickers forming a patch : BRIARS
33. Keep it under your hat! : HEAD
34. Petulant expression : POUT
35. Leaves mystified : BEFOGS
36. Soda brand with more than 90 flavors : FANTA
37. Ancestry : DESCENT
41. Picks up : LEARNS
42. Tommy or Jimmy of jazz : DORSEY
43. As a whole : INTOTO
44. Two for one? : HALVES
45. Case workers? : PORTERS
46. Golfing hazards : TRAPS
47. ___ pasta (farfalle) : BOWTIE
48. 2018’s debate over “Yanny or Laurel,” e.g. : MEME
49. Joey Potter’s portrayer on “Dawson’s Creek” : KATIEHOLMES
51. Travel on-line? : PARASAIL
55. Receptive to new ideas : OPENMINDED
56. Party of 13? : BARMITZVAH
58. Home arena of the Bruins and Celtics : TDGARDEN
59. Painter’s roll : MASKINGTAPE
60. Overflow : TEEM
61. Trunk fastener? : CORSET
62. Lets out : RENTS
63. Ringo Starr’s real first name : RICHARD
67. Palate cleanser in a multicourse meal : SORBET
68. Reptiles that can walk on ceilings : GECKOS
69. Casanova’s intrigues : AMOURS
70. Ran into in court? : FOULED
71. Wigs out : GOESAPE
72. On the take : DIRTY
73. ___ the Great (ninth-century English king) : ALFRED
74. Cereal ingredient : BRAN
75. Places to crash on road trips : INNS
76. Very : PRETTY
77. Purely academic : MOOT
78. Striker’s replacement : SCAB
82. Copa América cheer : OLE
83. Century in American politics : SENATE
84. Brewery sights : VATS
85. In the ballpark : CLOSE
86. Old “It cleans your breath while it cleans your teeth” sloganeer : COLGATE
88. Awfully large : ASBIGASAHOUSE
91. Takes to the sky : AVIATES
92. Paprika lookalike : CAYENNEPEPPER
93. Forerunners of combines : REAPERS
94. You can’t go back on them : ONEWAYSTREETS
Down
1. Cries loudly : BAWLS
2. Greek hero killed by a giant scorpion : ORION
3. Who once said “You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you” : BERRA
4. Win every prize in : SWEEP
5. Green housewarming gift : FERN
6. Wordsworth wrote one on immortality : ODE
7. Crank up the amp to 11 and go wild : ROCKOUT
8. Name, as a successor : ANOINT
9. Essentially : PERSE
10. Many faculty members, in brief : PHDS
11. Stan who co-created Spider-Man : LEE
12. Presented perfectly : ERRORFREE
13. Courtroom periods : SESSIONS
14. Travels by car : MOTORS
15. Touchscreen array : ICONS
16. Document kept in a safe : DEED
17. Untrustworthy sort : RAT
18. Sort of : INASENSE
19. Shiny beetle disliked by fruit growers : FIGEATER
20. You should avoid feeding on them : FASTDAYS
28. Food & Wine and Field & Stream : MAGS
31. Rock musician with a knighthood : BONO
32. Deadbeat student at TV’s Highland High : BEAVIS
33. “The Lady Is a Tramp” lyricist : HART
34. Stephen King novel with a misspelling in the title : PETSEMATARY
35. Like some tires : BELTED
36. Shade in the woods : FORESTGREEN
37. Steve who co-created Spider-Man : DITKO
38. Absorbed : ENRAPT
39. Express : STATED
40. Muddling through : COPING
41. Wearers of white hats : LAWMEN
42. Sphere : DOMAIN
44. Game featured in 2006’s “Casino Royale” : HOLDEM
45. Department of Buildings issuance : PERMIT
47. Became inseparable : BONDED
48. Selling point? : MARKET
50. Companies that need help : HIRERS
51. Didn’t bid : PASSED
52. Ancient Mexicas, e.g. : AZTECS
53. Sister of Tiffany : IVANKA
54. It may be open for business : LAPTOP
56. Unkind, as criticism : BARBED
57. German-Swiss author who won the 1946 Nobel in Literature : HESSE
59. Safer of “60 Minutes” : MORLEY
61. Satine’s profession in “Moulin Rouge!” : COURTESAN
63. Copper wheels? : RADIOCAR
64. Torch carrier’s announcement : IMINLOVE
65. Julius Caesar’s first wife : CORNELIA
66. Calls from quarterbacks : HUTS
67. Its shell doesn’t crack : SOFTTACO
68. U.S. Naval Academy mascot : GOAT
70. Small jumper : FLEA
71. Show’s earnings : GROSSES
73. James of TV’s “How the West Was Won” : ARNESS
74. Field with lots of growth? : BOTANY
76. Pan resistant to aging : PETER
77. Ars ___ (anagram of “anagrams,” aptly) : MAGNA
78. Slaloming spot : SLOPE
79. Ford Mustang, for one : COUPE
80. Valuable possession : ASSET
81. Round units? : BEERS
83. Stuff : SATE
84. What an essay presents : VIEW
85. Her 2018 album “Dancing Queen” consists entirely of Abba covers : CHER
87. Break : GAP
89. Word spoken while waving : BYE
90. Well-chosen : APT
New York Times – Nov 4 2018

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