Author: Simeon Seigel
Editor: Will Shortz
Across
| Zeroes, in soccer |
NILS |
| Comedic takedown |
ROAST |
| Includes |
HAS |
| Peak of revelation? |
SINAI |
| Happen next |
ENSUE |
| Lead-in to -cide |
ECO |
| *A little bit of everything |
THISTHATANDTHEOTHER |
| Org. whose initials omit its “E” (for “Explosives”) |
ATF |
| Lousy (with) |
RIFE |
| Instrument with a bell |
OBOE |
| First Muslim Nobel Laureate (1978) |
SADAT |
| Character with a famous opening line? |
ALIBABA |
| Resolve |
METTLE |
| Exposes personal information about online, informally |
DOXES |
| Cultured dessert option |
TCBY |
| Former Yankee nickname |
AROD |
| Crown, in Persian |
TAJ |
| *1957 hit by the Edsels with a nonsense title |
RAMALAMADINGDONG |
| Depot: Abbr. |
STN |
| Indian spice mixes |
MASALAS |
| Cue preceder |
PEE |
| *”Eventually …” |
WHENTHETIMECOMES |
| Casual rejection |
NAH |
| So |
ERGO |
| Adolph who purchased The New York Times in 1896 |
OCHS |
| Potentially offensive, say |
NOTPC |
| Prepare for a kiss, perhaps |
LEANIN |
| Home of some of the best drivers in No. America |
PGATOUR |
| Actress Juliette |
LEWIS |
| Middling |
FAIR |
| Risk-taker’s mantra, in brief |
YOLO |
| Hoppy inits. |
IPA |
| Upside-down parts of a roller coaster ride — represented twice in the answer to each of this puzzle’s starred clues |
LOOPDELOOPS |
| Cause of some head-scratching |
NIT |
| “You shouldn’t have!” |
AWGEE |
| Randy looks |
OGLES |
| Appreciated, as a joke |
GOT |
| Overly involved |
MESSY |
| Campus health and safety org. |
SADD |
Down
| Ex ___ (from nothing: Lat.) |
NIHILO |
| Up the creek |
INAFIX |
| “Past post” wager at the track, e.g. |
LATEBET |
| One-named singer with the 2016 #1 hit “Cheap Thrills” |
SIA |
| Winged mammal with rust-colored fur |
REDBAT |
| Not snookered by |
ONTO |
| Arthur with a statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue |
ASHE |
| Appeal, as for peace |
SUE |
| Like the responses of “yes” or “no” |
TERSE |
| Journey of the mind |
HEADTRIP |
| Have no co-conspirators |
ACTALONE |
| Gradual transition, in art |
SOFTEDGE |
| Very valuable violin, informally |
STRAD |
| Bean or noodle |
NOB |
| Marginally |
ATAD |
| “Me, too!” |
ASAMI |
| Brotherly greeting |
MYMAN |
| Depression precursor |
CRASH |
| ___ Harbour, Fla. |
BAL |
| Cured Spanish meat |
JAMON |
| Sitting meditation pose |
ASANA |
| Sign of an injury, maybe |
SWELLING |
| Artoo’s well-spoken partner |
THREEPIO |
| Measure of energy savings, as when the meter runs in reverse |
NEGAWATT |
| /3,600th of a deg. |
SEC |
| Literature Nobelist Morrison |
TONI |
| Extra-sweaty meditative exercise |
HOTYOGA |
| Kind of sense |
SPIDEY |
| Like 20, for Little League |
TOOOLD |
| Like wood prepped for papermaking |
PULPED |
| Sects’ symbol? |
CROSS |
| Subject covered in a madrasa |
ISLAM |
| Possible hurdle for getting a master’s, for short |
GRE |
| Gets hard to see through, in a way, with “up” |
FOGS |
| Does impressions of |
APES |
| Need to pay |
OWE |
| L.A.P.D. head? |
LOS |