N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Smacks
6 “Obey your thirst” or “Got milk?”
14 Tiki-bar fruit
20 Painter Rousseau 21 Admit guilt, perhaps
22 Porcelain
coating
23 Extra
24 Age 1
26 Tugboat
greetings
27 Drive in Beverly
Hills
28 Modern-day alternative to a cash till
29 Memo heading
30 Awful, in slang
33 Quarry
37 Age 5
41 ____ al-Fitr (end
of Ramadan)
42 Actor Paul
43 One of 13 in a standard game of “Jeopardy!”
44 Animal whose name is pronounced with a “y” sound by many Spanish speakers
46 ____ Rabbit
47 Many an airport
shuttle
48 Age 16
51 Rare bill
53 Unvarnished
56 Govt. lawyers
57 Battery options
58 Chris of “Jurassic World”
60 Succulent
source of syrup
62 Subj. of some
training
63 Alternative to
the pill, in brief
66 Age 18
72 Political analyst
Walter
73 “It’s whatever”
74 Award-winning
Janelle
75 Laughing gas or
quicklime
76 “The Kite Runner” protagonist
78 Goal
81 Feature of the
Pizza Hut logo
82 Prefix from the Latin for “needle”
83 Age 21
87 Built-____ (some
shelving)
89 Dwelling with a circular frame
90 Vacation isle in
the Ionian Sea
91 Parts of vintage movie collections
96 “However ... ,” in
texts
97 Hide-out spot
98 Age 65
101 Any of the six in football’s “New Year’s Six” 103 Bug
104 Possible threat to one in debt
105 Director Kazan
106 Pirate’s haul
109 ____ Picchu
110 Age 100
116 Place to store seasonal décor
117 Give the lay of
the land
118 Warmly
acknowledges
119 “Good grief!”
120 Like black-tie
affairs
121 Broad view
122 Social media
request
DOWN 1 Worrywart’s
words
2 Pertaining to the pursuit of pleasure
3 Country that counts the French president as a co-prince
4 Write-in, often
5 Church recitation, at times
6 Letters aptly found in “Obamacare”
7 ____ Pérignon
8 Glittering
9 Singer Jackson who wasn’t a part of the Jackson 5 10 Pundit’s writing 11 Stick 12 Travel lead-in to
“méxico”
13 “Hip Hop Is
Dead” rapper
14 Edible shell
15 Diplomat Kofi
16 Way to bulk up
one’s chest
17 Opposite of un
adversaire
18 Desire
19 Neighbor of
Niger: Abbr.
25 “Assumption of the Virgin” painter
30 Join a petition
31 Game whose name must be said to win
32 “Proud Mary”
band, for short
33 They follow
quarters
34 Leechlike
35 Name rhymed with “says” in Taylor Swift’s “Betty”
36 Major or May,
politically
38 It may come
loose
39 Nice Nikon, for
short
40 Went downhill
45 Janine’s boss on “Abbott Elementary”
48 “Whip It” band
49 Gawk
50 Word with ship
or shorts
51 Decorate, in a
way
52 Symbol for a
winding road
53 Way to go 54 “Good grief!”
55 John who explored the Northwest Passage
58 Tour grp.
59 Mouselike
61 Tree along Central Park’s Literary Walk
62 Head of staff?
64 Close relative of
Hindi
65 Give some
shade?
67 Years of service
68 Something on an ear ... or, in a different sense, a foot
69 About whom Lennon wrote “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”
70 Thai’s neighbor
71 Out of patience
77 Competitors who know their limits?
78 Together
79 Neighbor of
Lebanon: Abbr.
80 Tick off
83 Picnic-invitation
abbr.
84 Thermostat
setting
85 Val Kilmer’s
“Top Gun” role
86 Homophone of
“wee”
87 Wee
88 Casual refusal
91 Flowing movement between yoga poses 92 QVC alternative
93 Channel owned by Paramount, for short
94 Like red-card
recipients
95 Deceptive
argument
97 Delicately
pretty
99 Gab
100 French kisser?
102 Secluded
valleys
106 School with the mascot Big Al, for short
107 Oscarnominated Lena
108 World capital with the most appearances in the New York Times crossword
109 Non-Egyptian people who used hieroglyphics
110 “____: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World” (1997 nonfiction best seller)
111 Mess up
112 German for
“never”
113 AOL was an early one, in brief
114 Doctoral graduation cap
115 Driver’s target,
in brief