SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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Ginny Too, of Philadelphia, is a vice president of customer retention at Comcast. She started solving crosswords on the Appalachian Trail, sharing clues from a Times desk calendar with her hiking buddies. She has since completed the Pacific Crest Trail and the Continental Divide Trail (both running from Canada to Mexico), usually with the crossword as a companion. This puzzle was inspired by her father, whose love of silly puns spans English, Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkein.
ACROSS
1 Say “Another great thing about me … ,” say 5 Baltimore squad, casually
10 Turkic tongue
15 “I’ll return shortly,” in shorthand 18 Experience 19 Shapeshift
20 Emirati’s neighbor 21 Feast often concluded with haupia (coconut pudding)
22 Getaway driver’s plan, obviously? 24 Desires
25 Octopus’s octet 26 Staple of ’80s pop 27 Graphingcalculator button
28 “She sure runs fast!”? 30 “Human beef” and “Chicken pox pie” on a menu, one hopes 32 Preps for framing, as a photo
33 Where fairy-tale creatures often live 34 Captain and nine crew members?
37 Bust
38 Ones living a lavish lifestyle, in slang
41 Film unit
42 Like braids and some breads 45 Jaded miner’s remark? 47 Preferring platonic relationships, informally 48 Words after “Mamma mia!” in “Bohemian Rhapsody”
50 Bhagavad ____
(Hindu scripture) 51 Coke-ette?
56 Sandy springs 57 “What a pity”
59 Real ____
60 Actress Kendrick, when appearing in smaller films?
62 Time of one’s life 63 Perform better than 65 Like yesterday’s bread, compared with today’s 67 Core components 70 PC-sensitive, in a way? 74 Day before domingo 77 One of several named in a will
79 The same
80 “You realize this is a silent meditation, right?” 82 Cornucopia, essentially 83 Floral brew
85 Ring call, for short 86 Considered buying that garden tool? 90 Subject of a common phobia 93 Taiwanese tech company
94 Unswayable 95 Obvious name for a pet lion
96 “Wait … can we not play this in F sharp instead?”
98 River in a classic dad joke
99 Landlocked
African country
101 Quick-cooking noodles
102 “Mm-hmm, get a little nearer”?
106 When doubled, a rebuke
107 Spanish wine region 111 “Got it”
112 What a glass of cold water forms on a hot day 113 Parent’s encouragement to a budding chef?
115 Box
116 Inspiration for the jokes in this puzzle’s theme
117 Ancient region bordering the Aegean Sea 118 Excess
119 Sassy retort
120 Rulers used to make many crosswords?
121 Like a good day for kite-flying
122 Miffed
DOWN
1 Two halves of a platonic whole
2 Depend
3 Immeasurably long time 4 Like the “h” in “hat,” to a linguist
5 Response to hearing all the gory details 6 Campfire remnant 7 Paul ____, Hungarian mathematician with over 1,500 published papers 8 Composer’s numbered piece
9 “This is a library!” 10 Specifically
11 Hoard
12 Black and ____
(beer cocktails)
13 Like Gandhi 14 Meat-filled puff 15 Frowned-upon sound 16 Way up
17 Word with body or work
21 Successfully nested, say
23 Actor Matthew of
“The Americans” 28 Ticked off
29 Author Émile
31 Zip
32 Sheep product 34 Public transportation option around Hong Kong 35 Haunting 36 Eye-catching shades 37 German article 38 Heckles, in a way 39 Poker action 40 Long-necked instrument
43 In the style of
44 South Asian
46 Zip
49 V-six or V-twelve? 52 Figure skater Midori 53 Like Mecca and Medina
54 Pride : lion :: raft : ____ 55 Poker action 57 Cloisonné technique 58 1990s fitness craze 60 “Invisible Cities” author Calvino
61 Poet who wrote ‘‘Behold the duck/
It does not cluck” 64 Bordeaux red
66 Zodiac animal that spells another if you change its last letter to “t” 67 Long
68 Gloating winner’s exclamation
69 What surfers and guitarists can do, in slang 71 Genie’s gift
72 “____ and the Bee” (2006 film) 73 Double-knotted, say 75 Leave behind 76 Harmonious, in a way 78 Put in harm’s way 80 Sad trombone sound 81 Reason for an R rating 84 Source of confidence 87 Certain camarade 88 Fish whose left eye migrates to its right side as it ages (!?) 89 Unity
91 “Eureka!”
92 Total 93 They may be striped at ice-cream shops 97 Sub
99 Chest material
100 Padlock parts
101 What’s left of the Colosseum
102 A tourist may have one
103 “Sunday NFL Countdown” airer. 104 Assessment of a situation
105 Hindu god of death 106 10 hundos
108 Where the Nobel Peace Prize is presented 109 “Belle de ____,” 1967 Catherine Deneuve film 110 Poker action
113 Freak (out)
114 Elided agreement