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Best Picture Adaptations by NYTimes

Across

  1. 1. 2013 Best Picture nominee in which a main character isn't human
  2. 4. Airplane part
  3. 9. "Hairspray" mom usually played by a man
  4. 13. Leg presses work them
  5. 18. 60 minuti
  6. 19. Successors to Cutlasses
  7. 21. Best Picture adaptation about ... a search for the perfect brew, with "The"?
  8. 23. Disney Channel's "___ and Maddie"
  9. 24. ... inaudible metrical poetry, with "The"?
  10. 26. Northeast Corridor train
  11. 28. Like groaners
  12. 29. River islet
  13. 30. 1988 chart-topping country album
  14. 32. Game for bankers?
  15. 33. Psychedelic
  16. 37. ... a fat Eastern monarch?
  17. 43. One in a no-blinking contest
  18. 45. Second draft
  19. 46. Neighbor
  20. 48. Extended rental?
  21. 49. Sea urchin, at a sushi bar
  22. 50. ... fools accompanying a pack of wild animals?
  23. 56. King's handful
  24. 59. Chance occurrence, old-style
  25. 60. Bad sound in a changing room
  26. 61. Vegas-to-Denver dir.
  27. 62. Part of a city network
  28. 63. "Relax"
  29. 64. Reusable part of a common thank-you gift
  30. 67. ... a reed and percussion duet?
  31. 71. Group standing at the U.N.
  32. 74. Treat with a "Golden" variety
  33. 75. They rank below marquises
  34. 79. Words before and after "what"
  35. 80. O.T. book before Jeremiah
  36. 81. Chorus line?
  37. 82. Obstacle in road repairs, maybe
  38. 84. ... an éclair or crème brûlée, with "The"?
  39. 90. Previously
  40. 91. Spork part
  41. 92. Daughter in E. M. Forster's "Howards End"
  42. 93. Neighbor of Irkutsk on a Risk board
  43. 96. Badger
  44. 99. ... gorgeous fur?
  45. 103. Shred
  46. 105. Lit ___
  47. 106. Safari sight?
  48. 107. Singer DiFranco
  49. 108. Like a portrait that seems to be watching you
  50. 110. Winnower
  51. 113. ... cooties from hugs and kisses?
  52. 121. Blender setting
  53. 122. ... a salon woman I go to?
  54. 123. Tush
  55. 124. Set of anecdotes
  56. 125. A while, in hyperbole
  57. 126. Olympian with a bow
  58. 127. Jet similar to a 747
  59. 128. Benedictine title

Down

  1. 1. Chihuahua greeting
  2. 2. Country singer Church
  3. 3. * * * *
  4. 4. Honeydew cousins
  5. 5. U.S. women's soccer star Krieger
  6. 6. Volume measure
  7. 7. Cause of boiling over
  8. 8. Sarge, e.g.
  9. 9. Jet
  10. 10. Stand up to
  11. 11. Bit of safari equipment
  12. 12. Enlightened Buddhist
  13. 13. "Enough is enough!"
  14. 14. "___ voce poco fa" (Rossini aria)
  15. 15. PIN point
  16. 16. One having a ball?
  17. 17. G.R.E. takers: Abbr.
  18. 20. Ice cream order
  19. 22. Juniors, maybe
  20. 25. Writer ___ Stanley Gardner
  21. 27. 1880s-'90s veep ___ P. Morton
  22. 31. Step ___
  23. 32. Half of a Vegas show duo
  24. 34. Shroud
  25. 35. ___ Drive (street where Harry Potter grew up)
  26. 36. Dweller along the Mandeb Strait
  27. 37. Bridge support
  28. 38. "As such ..."
  29. 39. College campus offering
  30. 40. Like carpaccio or crudités
  31. 41. Geisha's accessory
  32. 42. Metaphorical low point
  33. 44. Physicist Nathan who postulated wormholes
  34. 47. Attempt at a dunk tank
  35. 51. Spiced teas
  36. 52. The White House's ___ Room
  37. 53. Peeping Tom's spot
  38. 54. Modern encyclopedia platform
  39. 55. Muses
  40. 57. Simon of the "Mission: Impossible" films
  41. 58. It circles the globe
  42. 63. Merino mother
  43. 64. Stethoscope's place
  44. 65. War on Poverty agcy.
  45. 66. Main ingredient in queso relleno
  46. 68. Bite
  47. 69. Like candied apples
  48. 70. Gillette razor name
  49. 71. Liquor purchase
  50. 72. Ring around the collar?
  51. 73. Chief Theban god
  52. 76. Hightailed it
  53. 77. Peaceful protest
  54. 78. Apt anagram of SNAKE
  55. 82. Slip
  56. 83. Quash
  57. 85. Peachy
  58. 86. Things zygotes come from
  59. 87. Penpoint
  60. 88. Commission, e.g.
  61. 89. "You're stuck with me"
  62. 94. What stars do
  63. 95. Hilton alternative
  64. 97. Equilibrium
  65. 98. Sancho Panza, e.g.
  66. 100. About 3/4 of a football field
  67. 101. ___ Heep (Dickens villain)
  68. 102. Like some sponsorship packages
  69. 104. One taking a long shot?
  70. 108. Prefix with spore
  71. 109. "Slow Churned" brand
  72. 111. Antipasto pairing
  73. 112. Reason for a class struggle?
  74. 113. TV inits. since 1975
  75. 114. Photographer's asset
  76. 115. Certain fraternity chapter
  77. 116. "Wowie!"
  78. 117. Musician's asset
  79. 118. Lapel attachment
  80. 119. Suffix with subsist
  81. 120. Never, in Nikolaus

This puzzle was published on Sunday, May 29, 2016 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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