NYT Crossword Today's Hints and Answer

1. Fancy dos

COIFS

6. "Count me out"

IPASS

11. Cantankerous captain of fiction

AHAB

15. Lab provisions?

ALPO

19. Bit of letter-shaped hardware

UBOLT

20. Attended

WASAT

21. New York university based in Manhattan

PACE

22. A "bear of very little brain"

POOH

23. Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison?

POWERCOUPLE

25. John James Audubon?

BIRDBRAIN

27. Victorian-era prescription for melancholy

SEAAIR

28. They'll make it up to you

LIARS

30. Stumble or lurch

REEL

31. Pittsburgh-to-Buffalo dir.

NNE

32. Dictionary tag: Abbr.

VAR

34. Summer camper's conveyance

CANOE

36. Emmy-winning actor Ray

LIOTTA

38. Samuel Morse?

CABLEGUY

43. Sir Edmund Hillary?

MOUNTAINGOAT

46. Lake that's home to the world's largest freshwater island

HURON

47. Bit of cacao

NIB

49. Come out on top

PREVAIL

50. Suffix with hypn-

OTIC

51. Trees commonly confused with birches

ASPENS

54. Deposit that might gather interest?

ORE

55. Cheeky

SASSY

59. Sir Isaac Newton?

MOTIONDETECTOR

62. Cattle calls

LOWS

63. "Harper Valley ___" (1968 hit)

PTA

64. TV tavern visited by Mayor Quimby

MOES

65. Shoe covering

GAITER

67. It's often rapped but never spoken

GAVEL

68. Like beds on lazy Saturdays

UNMADE

70. Cuts (back)

PARES

71. Outfit that may have a hood

ONESIE

73. Kofi ___, former secretary general of the United Nations

ANNAN

74. Like the Red Sea after a visit from Moses

PARTED

76. Rain on your wedding day, perhaps

OMEN

77. …

ETC

79. Oui : non :: ja : ___

NEIN

80. Gregor Mendel?

SEEDYCHARACTER

83. Hint

TRACE

85. Gives a thumbs up

OKS

86. Basic tenet of improv

YESAND

87. Sister to Lex Luthor

LENA

88. With love, musically

AMOROSO

91. A urinal, according to Duchamp

ART

92. Remedies

CURES

93. Henry Ford?

DRIVINGFORCE

98. Orville and Wilbur Wright?

AIRHEADS

100. Give a darn, again?

REMEND

101. Food and water, e.g.

NEEDS

103. College located in Cedar Rapids

COE

104. "That sounds awful!"

UGH

105. Noble title

EARL

108. Bit of letter-shaped hardware

ORING

110. Unexpected endings

TWISTS

115. Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung?

DREAMTEAM

118. Galileo Galilei?

STARWITNESS

120. Genesis

GERM

121. Roof overhang

EAVE

122. Weirdly spooky

EERIE

123. Church staple

ORGAN

124. "Vous ___ ici" (French map phrase)

ETES

125. Part of a wooden bench

SLAT

126. "In other words," in other words

IDEST

127. Trips around the sun

YEARS

1. Solos at a party, say

CUPS

2. The duck in "Peter and the Wolf"

OBOE

3. Future birthplace of Captain Kirk

IOWA

4. Pest whose name is a homophone for what you might do when you see it

FLEA

5. Gone to great lengths

STRIVEN

6. ___ Jima

IWO

7. One of the Fab Four

PAUL

8. Jelly you wouldn't pair with peanut butter

ASPIC

9. Arabic greeting and farewell

SALAAM

10. Canned fuel used in making fondue

STERNO

11. Broadcast to squad cars, in brief

APB

12. Slim margin of victory

HAIR

13. One chain x one furlong

ACRE

14. Amelia ___, maid of children's literature

BEDELIA

15. Its showers bring flowers: Abbr.

APR

16. Grant a mortgage, say

LOANTO

17. Where one's trip begins

POINTA

18. "Golly, that's cool!"

OHNEAT

24. Rock climber's handhold

CRAG

26. Russian crepes

BLINIS

29. Starter, perhaps

SOUP

33. Is felt strongly

RUNSDEEP

35. Firmly establishes

ENROOTS

37. Crazy Horse and fellow tribespeople

OGLALAS

38. Bite down hard

CHOMP

39. Musical tool popularized by T-Pain

AUTOTUNER

40. Personification of England, Scotland and Wales

BRITANNIA

41. Sets of points, in math

LOCI

42. "Jeepers creepers!"

YIPES

44. Pied-à-___

TERRE

45. Michigan, in Chicago: Abbr.

AVE

48. Word after you or wanna

BET

51. "And giving ___, up the chimney he rose"

ANOD

52. Nullify

NEGATE

53. ___-cat

SCAREDY

56. Like many Russian housing blocks

SOVIETERA

57. Made more enticing

SWEETENED

58. French fashion inits.

YSL

60. Oldest independent state in the Arab world

OMAN

61. Alter, as a T-shirt for a Phish concert, say

TIEDYE

66. Idealist

ROMANTIC

67. Actress Rowlands

GENA

69. She-shed's counterpart

MANCAVE

70. Like some nails found in a drugstore

PRESSON

72. Geek (out)

NERD

73. Drone or queen

ANT

75. Want from

ASKOF

76. Catherine of "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind"

OHARA

78. Uncouth

CRASS

81. Farm-share program, for short

CSA

82. Hint

CLUE

84. Self-proclaimed "Rap God"

EMINEM

85. ___ chart

ORG

89. Like many couples at theaters

ONDATES

90. McFlurry flavor

OREO

92. Something for canines to sink their canines into

CHEWTOY

93. Toil

DRUDGE

94. Wish one could take back

REGRET

95. Arrival announcement

IMHERE

96. ___ Lannister, "Game of Thrones" queen

CERSEI

97. Like professional publications

EDITED

99. Indian flatbread

ROTI

102. Trap

SNARE

106. Not just theoretical

REAL

107. It runs hot

LAVA

109. Drab color for una casa

GRIS

111. Concerning

INRE

112. Sonic the Hedgehog company

SEGA

113. Feodor I, for one

TSAR

114. Taxpayer IDs

SSNS

116. Morning times, in brief

AMS

117. Encountered

MET

119. Kind of nurse or suit

WET