new York Times sundaY crossword
Across
1 Patron of the high
seas
7 Metric in digital
journalism
13 Some marble works 18 Den mother
19 Make less stuffy 20 Opening
21 Reason for an ejection
in the M.L.B. 22 Reason for an ejection
in the N.B.A.
24 Bank takebacks, for
short
25 Snug as a bug in a rug 27 Make mention of 28 N.F.L. star ejected
from 102-Across 29 “Right on!” 30 Actress/singer
Janelle 31 Rudimentary 32 Treats, as a sprain 33 Reason for an ejection
in FIFA
37 The Bronx Bombers,
on scoreboards 38 Intent
39 Soon
40 Student taking Torts
or Property 43 Snowshoe-hare
predator
44 Brian with the album “Before and After Science”
45 Shorten
48 N.B.A. star ejected
from 105-Across 51 Sound heard in
Georgia? 53 Musician’s skill 54 Onetime Sprint
competitor
56 Burn a perfume stick
in
57 Meursault’s love in Camus’s “The Stranger”
58 Reason for an ejection
in the N.F.L.
61 “Love, when we
met, ____ like two planets meeting”: Ella Wheeler Wilcox 62 Sepals of a flower 63 Rolls up
64 M.L.B. star ejected from 87-Across 65 Belief in one’s role as a savior 67 Anatomical lashes 68 Drum held between the knees
69 On fire
70 ____ milk 71 English dialect in which “food shopping”is“makin’ groceries”
72 Aries and Taurus 73 Result of a judicial conflict of interest 76 Kabuki sash 77 Bloke
79 Polish up, in a way 80 “Actually, come to think of it ...”
83 Skill
84 Part of a“fence”in the game Red Rover 87 Seeming opposite of “Ignorance is bliss” 92 Pollyannaish 95 Mends, in a way 96 Some flaws in logic 97 Plays charades, say 98 Tweeter’s “Then again ...”
99 Set down
100 Fruity soda brand 101 A Musketeer
102 Entry fee
105 Stew that’s decidedly
not very spicy
107 Durkheim who helped found the field of sociology
108 Browned at high
heat
109 Hit from behind 110 Array in a cockpit 111 Butterfly-attracting flowers 112 Actress Jean who played Joan of Arc in “Saint Joan”
Down
1 Well formed 2 “Receiving poorly,” in CB lingo 3 Retreats 4 Grazing land 5 Organization of Afro-American Unity founder
6 1960s group with a fabric-related name, with“the”
7 Joe can provide it 8 Bell-shaped flower 9 Writer/critic ____ Madison III 10 Hebrew“shalom” to Arabic “salaam,” e.g.
11 “Seven Samurai” director 12 Unchanging 13 Pinch
14 Drop from one’s Facebook circle 15 Poker-faced 16 Armistice
17 They may hit the ground running 18 Respectable 21 Genius
23 Head turner? 26 It gained independence from France in 1960 30 Principal 31 Discombobulate 34 King of morning TV 35 Poet who invented the terza rima rhyme scheme
36 Bay of Biscay feeder 41 Easter activity 42 “Move on already!” 43 Rodeo ring? 46 Politico Abzug 47 Members of the flock
48 Of base 8
49 One getting onboarded 50 Made into law 51 Bargain hunter’s delight 52 Margaret Atwood’s “____ and Crake” 55 Standard of living? 57 Country south of Sicily 58 Amazon Prime competitor 59 Ireland, to poets 60 “Rainbow”fish 62 Tax pros, for short 63 They’re located between Samoa and Vanuatu 66 Entrance to a cave 67 Revolutionary group 68 Language family that includes Xhosa and Zulu 71 Monastery garb 74 Metonym for local government 75 They’re only a few stories
77 Noted Belle Epoque locale 78 Psyche’s beloved 81 Suggests 82 Typical summer intern 84 Forming an upward curve
85 Like oral history 86 FIFA star ejected from 65-Across 88 Choice of cheese 89 ____ Stark, Oona Chaplin’s “Game of Thrones” role 90 Russian ethnic group 91 Church title 92 Partitioned, with“off” 93 People of southcentral Mexico 94 Director Coppola 100 Author Jonathan
Safran ____
101 Land parcel
103 ____ Moines 104 Pique
106 Literary fairy queen