New York Times Crossword
Byron Walden is a math and computer science professor at Santa Clara University, “currently on sabbatical at the exotic location of my dining-room table.” He picked up his love of crosswords from his grandmother and father and is now passing it along to his 8-year-old son. This puzzle is themeless. It features longer, sometimes more challenging vocabulary than usual, with only 122 answers (versus the standard 140). — W.S.
ACROSS 1 How some stock shares
are sold
6 Caesar-salad
ingredient
13 Big name in
swimwear
19 African grazer
20 Yalitza ____, bestactress nominee for 2018’s ‘‘Roma’’ 21 Woodworking
machine
22 R. J. Reynolds product that once sponsored ‘‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’’
24 Had legs, so to speak 25 Flying class?
26 Like some leaves and
knives
27 Blast
28 ‘‘The Confessions of ____ Turner’’ (1967 Pulitzer-winning novel)
29 Scrapped
30 One who might say, ‘‘Your money’s no good here’’? 31 Overwhelming
favorite
33 Roofing material
34 Dyes that can be used
as pH indicators 35 Echo voice 36 Eponym of Aqaba’s
airport
38 Editorial reversal 39 Simmering sites 41 On the schedule 45 Chef’s creation 47 Crosses one’s fingers 49 Sophisticated 50 Subjects of four famous violin concertos by Vivaldi 52 Can’t take
54 Body part that’s also
a Hebrew letter 55 Christ, to Christians 56 Flavorful
57 Colts, maybe
59 Sch. on Chesapeake Bay
60 Interstellar clouds 62 Fundamental
dispositions
63 With 55-Down, inning
enders
65 Pourable art material 66 Creature seen basking on the shores of the Galápagos 67 Superman co-creator Jerry
69 Sports icon with the autobiography ‘‘Faster Than Lightning’’ 71 Entertainer Minnelli 75 Bitcoin and the like 77 47th U.S. vice
president 78 Comic actor whose wife left him to marry their neighbor Frank Sinatra
81 Airer of the gospel music reality competition ‘‘Sunday Best’’
82 Classic Chevrolets 84 Eaglelike
85 One with a small but
devoted fan base 87 AAA service 88 Restrained from
biting
89 Places of intense scrutiny 90 Entertainment on a diner place mat, maybe
91 Alka-Seltzer tablet,
for one
92 Early omnivore 94 Returning after
curfew, say 95 Substance used to preserve the Declaration of Independence
96 Apt rhyme for ‘‘bore’’ 97 ____ Pieces
98 Has in mind
99 Mary I or Elizabeth I
DOWN 1 Major tributary of the
Mississippi 2 Gymnastics event for both men and women
3 The ____ State,
nickname for Maine 4 Targets of formicide 5 Mythical flier
6 Isolated
7 Account
8 Popular performanceenhancing supplement for athletes
9 Freaking out
10 Good-size wedding band
11 Competed 12 Rockyesque
interjections
13 Spends extravagantly 14 Some biodiesel
sources
15 Victorian home? 16 Whole
17 Judged
18 Things taken while
waiting 20 Representative 23 ‘‘Capeesh’’
27 Whiffs
29 Org. for lightweights 30 End-of-level challenges in video games
32 Items in 18” x 18” x
1¾” boxes
34 Like the hands in the
Allstate logo 36 Keystone ____
37 ____ & the Blowfish 39 What sneers express 40 Popular dating app 42 Lake drained by the
Truckee River 43 Iniquities
44 Places of iniquity 46 Spanish ‘‘that’’
48 State capital on the
Mississippi
50 Word with roll or bar 51 Muppet wearing a horizontally striped shirt
52 Chinese port city on Korea Bay
53 Occupy, as a booth 55 See 63-Across 56 English county that’s home to Brighton 58 Weather-map symbol 61 Butter, in Burgundy 62 Doctors Without Borders and others, in brief
64 Having a low
neckline, as a dress 66 ‘‘Gotta split’’
68 Group of 18th-century thinkers that included Voltaire and Rousseau 70 Numbers of concern to showrunners 72 The ‘‘Last Great Race
on Earth’’ 73 Love match? 74 Respondent 76 South African money 77 Slo-____ fuse 78 Pan flute musician in iconic commercials of the 1980s 79 Like a jackass 80 Your current occupation? 82 Some skilled workers in ‘‘Brave New World’’
83 Lead-in to while
85 Party line?
86 Former North Carolina senator Kay ____
89 Let fly
90 Clickable list
92 W.W. II general ____
Arnold
93 Clock setting on the
Big Island: Abbr.