the sunday new york times crossword
Across
1 Like most seamen, supposedly
5 Writer who said “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood” 10 Holiday celebrating the arrival of spring
13 Islam’s final pillar 17 Nonirons
19 Two make a Hamilton 20 Handel’s “Messiah,” e.g. 22 Narrow passages for killer
whales?
24 Kitchen nooks
25 Zodiac feline
26 Backs down
27 Fable about smoked
salmon?
28 Kvetches 30 Balneotherapy site 32 “Yeah, right”
33 Raised some vegetables? 35 Decrease in the number of
people named Gerald? 40 Hot Wheels maker
41 Are no longer
42 Mother ____
43 Gulager of“The Return of
the Living Dead”
44 In amongst
45 Number of bits in a byte 48 Gradually diminishes 50 Abstract artist Mondrian 51 First mass consumer
product offering Wi-Fi 53 Sticks for breaking things 54 Belts for a Chinese leader? 57 Chaney who was called “The Man of a Thousand Faces” 58 Oakland’s Oracle, for example
60 Not budging 61 Cry from the mizzen top 62 Conveyance in “Calvin and
Hobbes”
63 Overused
65 Storm harbinger, maybe 66 Gave a pick-me-up 69 Josip Broz, familiarly 70 Like many a campfire story 72 Responsibility lesson for a child
75 Inventors’ diaries? 77 So-called “Island of the
Gods”
78 Ordinary Joe
80 Impose
81 Afterthought indicator 82 Well-known Cuban export 84 Fancy collar material 85 Lao-____
86 Crucifixion letters 88 Guerre’s opposite 90 MGM’s lion, e.g. 92 Cloudophobia? 95 Opposite of a strong boil? 97 Pandora’s release
98 Like Verdi’s “La donna è mobile” 99 As-yet-undeciphered Cretan script
100 What brings the rocket to
the pad?
104 Archaeologists’ study 106 Managerial exec
109 Mark Twain farce about a painter who fakes his own demise
110 Jewelry for the oracle at
Delphi?
112 Versatile
113 Subleases
114 Arafat of the P.L.O.
115 What Simon does
116 Classic British roadsters 117 Rank things 118 Trix alternative
Down
1 Not reporting as instructed,
maybe
2 Induce ennui in
3 Fuss about “The West Wing”
actor Rob?
4 Old English letter 5 Electricians
6 Several Russian czars 7 Resident of Riga
8 Cousin of a highboy
9 Part of a road test track 10 List heading
11 Runner Liddell depicted in
“Chariots of Fire”
12 Pub container
13 It might pick up a passing
comment
14 Contrived
15 Beverly Hills ____
16 Kid
18 Colorful shawl
19 Neighbor of Palisades Park,
N.J.
21 Chanteuse O’Shea 23 Declining because of age 27 China’s Chou En-____ 29 Best
31 Early arrival
33 Service with more than a
billion users
34 Recurring role for Stallone 35 Groks
36 Philatelist’s item
37 Turn’s partner
38 Hebrew leader
39 Wack
41 Small undergarments? 46 Like some sprains and
champagnes
47 Rev 49 Carried cash around? 50 Schoolmarmish 52 Superman’s birth name 55 Morales of“NYPD Blue” 56 Some Poe works 59 Mulligan
60 Un-to
62 Legal pause
64 “Come on in!”
65 Home, in slang 66 Buoyant cadences 67 “That is,” to Caesar
68 At a frantic pace
69 ____ bulb
71 Wood often used for bowmaking 72 Help with the harvest? 73 V.I.P. at the Oscars 74 What’s human, they say 76 Needle-nosed fish 77 Grocer’s wheel
79 “____ de Lune” 83 Garfield’s girlfriend in “Garfield”
86 Tepid approval 87 Small, biting fly 89 Lined with trees 91 Playwright Sean who wrote“Juno and the Paycock”
93 Lets out, e.g.
94 Step on it 95 All thumbs
96 Second and fifth 99 Career employee
100 G.I.s of concern
101 Cuba, por ejemplo
102 Drink disliked by Buzz
Aldrin [true fact!]
103 Strangely enough, they’re
often even
105 Hershey chocolate 107 Doing the job
108 Shrek, for one
110 Voting affirmatively
111 Arctic explorer John