New York Times Crossword
Barbara Lin is a computer engineer in West Chester, Pa. She says her work is like constantly solving puzzles. ‘‘The difference is that in engineering, there’s no answer key.’’ She has been constructing crosswords for about a year and a half. This is her third puzzle for The Times and her first Sunday. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Enjoy the sun
5 Completely committed 10 One to whom you tell
everything
13 Hit show with the series finale ‘‘One for the Road’’ 19 Predator of the Pacific
Northwest
20 ____-Grain (breakfast-bar brand)
21 Singer Carly ____
Jepsen
22 ‘‘Give me a minute’’ 23 Iditarod, for one?
26 Intertwine
27 Show stoppers?
28 German ‘‘please’’
29 Bronze that’s not winning any awards?
30 Station
31 One driving kids
around in a Subaru? 33 B-side to the Beatles’
‘‘Ticket to Ride’’
36 Ginger, e.g.
37 Turn down
40 Longtime home for
Terry Gross
41 Boasts
43 In the same family
47 Letting out all the stops to drown out the other instruments?
52 Set on edge
53 Having the least give 54 Large in scope
55 It’s sometimes
covered in velvet 56 William who wrote
‘‘Shrek!’’
57 Not on point
59 Slip of the fingers
61 Angsty genre
62 Cocaine and guns, in
a Pacino movie? 67 What Consumer Reports lacks, unlike most other magazines
69 Buzz Lightyear and
Woody, e.g.
70 Massive, in poetry
71 Whine connoisseurs? 74 Party symbol since
1870
76 ‘‘Is that really
necessary?’’
78 Jackson known as the
‘‘Queen of Gospel’’ 80 Sidestep
81 Troops who are worried about sun protection?
84 Like this clue
85 Basketball player, in
old slang
86 Brain wave chart, for
short
87 Like most prime
numbers
88 All right
89 New York’s iconic
____ Building
93 Give mom’s mom the
stink eye?
99 Decorative
pillowcases
104 Sorry state
105 Juuls and such
106 Bug
108 Quick tennis match 109 ‘‘Twelve Days of Christmas’’ musician who invites sympathy?
111 When 13-Across aired for most of its run 112 Stick in a boat
113 Land in the so-called ‘‘Roof of the World’’ 114 Take into account? 115 Affectionate refusal 116 Fade away
117 Morning ____
118 Where a sloth spends
most of its life
DOWN
1 Meals
2 French Foreign Legion,
par exemple
3 Scallywag
4 Hummer’s instrument
5 Poet Carson
6 Totes
7 Inc., in London
8 Classic Isaac Asimov collection of short stories
9 Ball of vinegared rice
topped with raw fish 10 Angels’ opposites
11 Side of a diamond
12 Charge
13 Penny pinchers
14 Express displeasure
with on the road
15 ‘‘Oklahoma!’’ aunt
16 Excel function that
uses a calendar
17 Puerto ____
18 Medical tube
24 Teeny
25 GPS suggestions:
Abbr.
29 What a left parenthesis suggests in an emoticon
31 Resolute
32 Suffix with switch
34 Wraps up
35 Big name in music
streaming
37 ‘‘Fiddlesticks!’’
38 ‘‘So much for that’’
39 Suffix with auto
41 Middle: Abbr.
42 Where Simone Biles
won four golds
43 Creative class
44 Crunchy green side
dish
45 Part of an agenda
46 Infamous emperor
47 Tiebreakers, briefly
48 Canceled out
49 Apple variety
50 A collar might hide it 51 Winters or Somers
52 Italian dumplings
55 Busy time at the
I.R.S.: Abbr.
58 ‘‘One Mic’’ rapper
59 Non-U.S. M.L.B. team,
on sports tickers
60 More scrumptious
63 Arundhati ____, winner of the 1997 Booker Prize 64 Inner: Prefix
65 What orchids may
grow without
66 Lyre player of myth 67 Michelangelo’s ‘‘The
Creation of ____’’ 68 Peacenik
72 What might come
down to the wire? 73 Opinion
75 Sorento or Sedona
76 G.I. fare
77 Former Mideast grp.
79 It helps turn a pond
green 81 Word-processing
command 82 On tenterhooks,
maybe
83 The ‘‘M’’ of MHz
85 Bar freebie
88 The A.P.’s Female Athlete of the Decade for the 2010s, familiarly 89 Trim 90 Trim
91 Dutch brewery
92 Car-sticker fig.
93 [Not again!]
94 Slowly, in music
95 Correct
96 Perez of ‘‘Do the
Right Thing’’
97 Nurse back to health 98 Mouth-puckering 100 Focus of ‘‘Ocean’s
Eleven’’
101 How some bonds are sold
102 Irish novelist ____ Binchy
103 Bender
106 Gradual deterioration 107 Without much thought
109 ____ hook (rock climbing technique) 110 Big step for a startup, in brief