THE SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Sadistic feline character in a Scott Adams strip
8 Out
14 Concern for a P.R. team 20 Trembling
21 Land, as a fish
22 The Red Baron, for one 23 “The operation was a
success!”e.g.? 25 Unimportant-sounding
dessert
26 Novelist/poet Cisneros 27 Posthumous award? 28 Cause of death in many a
murder mystery 29 Lampoon
31 Kidney-related
33 Montana, in the 1980s 34 “Let’s get going!”
36 People who start arguments
out of nowhere?
40 Metal in galvanization 41 Comes after
42 Embedded design
43 Stud fees?
45 Lighthearted movie 46 Painter Velázquez 48 Network that once advertised its prime-time block as “Must See TV” 51 Bygone car company that bore its founder’s initials 52 City with views of the Mediterranean and Mount Carmel 54 Officers who woke up on the wrong side of the cot? 57 No longer plagued by 58 The “R” of the Bay Area’s BART 59 Material for some suits 60 One who’s unfaithful? 63 They’re written in chess notation
64 Loose and flowing, as a dress 66 Unit of stamps
67 Felt bad
68 What’s the holdup? 69 Soirees where people are dressed in their finest board shorts?
72 “Holy guacamole!” 73 Response to a breach of movie-theater etiquette 76 Airport monitor, for short 77 Supports
78 Island whose name rhymes with 72-Across 79 Chef’s topper
81 ____ kebab 83 Tailors’measurements 85 Be awesome
86 Got 101 percent on an exam, say?
91 “Don’t touch that ____!” 92 Really bothered 93 Stuntwoman Kitty known as “the fastest woman in the world”
94 One of a pair on the table 96 Hotheaded ones? 98 Site of a noted oracle 101 How a tandem bicycle is built 104 “Well, all right then” 105 Why someone might practice deep breathing every five minutes?
107 ____ Mae
108 Multiparagraph blog comment, maybe
109 Nit pick? 110 Celsius with a namesake temperature scale 111 Knit pick? 112 Intrigued by
DOWN
1 Mama ____ 2 Shade similar to turquoise 3 Makes aware of 4 March Madness tourney, with“the”
5 Flip inside out
6 Put a bluffer in a tough spot 7 Give a whirl
8 Son of 62-Down 9 Muppet who sings “I Refuse to Sing Along” 10 Humorist David 11 One-percenters and the like 12 ____ Creed 13 Demolition material 14 Like some granola bars 15 Amazon predator 16 Dublin alma mater of Oscar Wilde
17 “Don’t worry, that only looked painful!” 18 Early accepter of mobile payments? 19 Haughty looks 24 Doesn’t go straight 28 Requiring a lot of attention, say
30 Go on a rampage
32 Off the beaten path 34 Industry magnate 35 “Hands off!” 37 Adidas competitor 38 A.O.C., e.g.
39 Grab (onto)
44 Any member of the Twelver branch of Islam 46 Hornswoggled 47 Author Murdoch played onscreen by Kate Winslet and Judi Dench
48 Faux pas
49 Begin to develop 50 Quartet that performed at Woodstock, for short 53 Revenue sources for podcasts 54 Squirrels away 55 “Good to go!” 56 Stand up at the altar 57 Biodiverse habitat 58 Gets going, so to speak 60 Abbr. that begins some entry-level job titles
61 Start of a conclusion 62 Goddess who cursed Echo to just repeat the words of others 63 Ingredient that turns a Black Russian into a White Russian 64 Entrance 65 Roman triumvirate? 67 German city where Charlemagne was buried 68 Do a favor for a vacationing friend, maybe
70 Four for a grand slam, briefly 71 They often end on a low note 72 Many a Dickensian child 73 Water heater? 74 Polynesian performance
75 Last-eaten part of a loaf, often 78 Women’s History Month: Abbr. 80 “Supplies are limited!” 81 Paste used for home repairs 82 Frequent result of wearing a bike helmet 83 Getting three square meals a day
84 Office worker 86 Appetizer often served with mint chutney 87 Pioneer Day celebrant 88 Like urban legends, again and again
89 Figure out
90 Only state capital that shares no letters with the name of its state
95 Animal whose genus name, Phascolarctos, means “pouch bear” 97 What contacts contact 99 Zest
100 Cache 102 Direction for one who’s been in Benin to go to Togo 103 Popular name for a blackand-white pet
105 W-2 ID
106 “How ____!”
Answers will appear next week