New York Times Crossword
FAMILIAR SURROUNDINGS
Michael Lieberman is an appellate attorney in Washington, D.C., currently on parental leave after the birth of his first child. Although this puzzle isn’t Father’s Day-themed, he says it’s nice that his first Sunday puzzle will run on his first Father’s Day as a father. About five years ago, he and his wife started solving the Sunday Times crossword together, first on paper, then on a tablet. Michael now does the Times puzzle every day. His wife, though, favors the Spelling Bee. — W.S.
1 Home for the Devil
6 Fairy-tale villain
10 Ballet-inspired fitness
method
15 Web designer’s code
19 Dream interrupter,
maybe
20 Pitcher Hershiser
21 They might dog a dog
22 ‘‘____ there!’’
23 Prisoner accidentally causes a power outage?
26 Police unit, informally
27 ‘‘Hoo boy!’’
28 ‘‘Your guess is as
good as mine’’
29 Small songbirds
30 In a manner of
speaking
31 Kind
33 Year, in Brazil
34 Cherokee and Navajo
37 Southern university beefs up campus security? 42 Unlike bread on
Passover 45 Pierce-Arrow
competitor
46 Popular Hyundai
47 ‘‘O mio babbino caro,’’
e.g.
48 Key part: Abbr.
50 Keenness of judgment
53 Chinese zodiac animal
54 Fellow imposes a strict palm fruit regimen?
ACROSS
59 Something that can
be tried or cracked
60 Dead giveaway?
61 Put away some
groceries?
62 ____ school
63 Convenient transport
through urban traffic
64 Go bad
65 One seeing things
with a critical eye? 67 ____ cannon (sci-fi weapon)
68 Good spice to add to
guacamole (try it!) 71 Wizard of ____ (nickname for a good massage therapist)
72 U.F.C. fighting style
73 Heretics flout them
77 Early Ron Howard
role
78 Actress de Armas writes ‘‘Mr. Gas’’ and ‘‘Ms. Rag’’? 82 World’s best-selling musical artists of 2020
83 Target of a pop-up
blocker 84 Financial planning
option, for short 85 Like the verse ‘‘Roses are red, violets are blue . . . ,’’ in brief
86 Body of water that’s home to the world’s largest marine reserve
88 The Cougars of the
N.C.A.A.
91 New York has 28 of them 94 Smartphone advises on poker bets? 98 High-hat attitude
99 ‘‘Told you so’’
100 Off-road ride, for short
101 Org. whose plans are up in the air? 104 Georgia-based insurance giant
106 Unnamed somebody
109 Ones making you duck down? 111 Kinks song that Weird Al Yankovic parodied as ‘‘Yoda’’ 112 Doctor acquires antibiotics?
115 A short one by Ogden Nash reads ‘‘Parsley/is gharsley’’ 116 Macabre illustrator Edward
117 One kind of plastic
118 Indian wedding
adornment
119 Even ____
120 Connecticut-based
insurance giant
121 Break
122 Work from Roxane
Gay or Jia Tolentino 1 Snacks from some
trucks 2 Honolulu’s ____
Stadium
3 Sought feedback from
4 Willy, in ‘‘Free Willy’’
5 Telecom with a pink
logo
6 Reaction to a stomach
punch
7 Chow
8 Add new caulking to
DOWN
9 Roosevelt credited with saying ‘‘No one can make you feel inferior without your consent’’ 10 Closest of pals, for
short
11 Hillary Clinton vis-àvis Wellesley College 12 Move to a new table,
maybe 13 Hip-hop duo ____
Sremmurd 14 What ‘‘. . .’’ may
represent
15 José Martí, by birth
16 Social media pic designed to attract sexual attention
17 False
18 Some strong solutions
24 DuPont patent of 1938
25 Skip it
29 Boston airport
32 Work in the kitchen?
35 Abounded (with)
36 St. Kitts, St. Lucia and
St. Vincent 37 Saint on the big
screen 38 Pulitzer winner ____
St. Vincent Millay
39 Spur
40 Shake an Etch A
Sketch, e.g.
41 Full
42 How kids might
describe dad jokes
43 Important stretches
44 ‘‘____ Too Proud’’ (hit musical about the Temptations)
49 Visits overnight
51 Ingredient in a
Negroni 52 Sporty trucks, in brief
55 Lots
56 Lets hit it!
57 What ‘‘. . .’’ may
represent
58 ____ March
59 Word that appears with confetti when texted on an iPhone
63 Big name in
synthesizers
65 Cardamom-spiced brew
66 !!! 67 They may be checked
at the door
68 Yoga pose with an
arched back
69 ‘‘High-five!’’
70 Like fuchsia and
turquoise
71 Actor Aziz
74 Spanish hand
75 Spanish love
76 Application figs.
78 Practiced
79 Birds’ bills
80 What an integral can
be used to calculate 81 One of the Obamas
83 Jellied garnish
87 Low bows
89 Kind of question
90 Old wheels
92 ____ Park, Colo.
93 Raw deal from a
restaurant?
95 Categorize
96 ‘‘There’s no one on
me!’’
97 Document with two accents 101 Water clover and adder’s-tongue 102 Fight setting
103 Purity test
104 Popular dog 105Down
105 See 104-Down
107 Daughter of Ned Stark on ‘‘Game of Thrones’’
108 Smelt things?
110 Payment often made around January 1 112 Tour grp.
113 Little eggs 114 Business-card abbr.