New York Times Crossword
Matthew Stock, who turns 25 this month, works for a math-education nonprofit in East St. Louis, Ill. The idea for this puzzle came about in January, when he was on a long road trip and passed a Honda Odyssey. He reinterpreted the name as ‘‘Honda odyssey’’ (small ‘‘o’’), which aptly described what he was on. That bit of wordplay didn’t make it into this puzzle, but similar ones with other brand names did. This is Matthew’s sixth Times crossword, and his second Sunday. — W.S. 51 Hole 97 Like many a company
52 Diagnosis softball game characterized by 99 ‘‘That stinks!’’ repetitive behavior, 100 Subj. devoting extra in brief time to idioms 53 Focus of a marathon 102 ____ milk runner’s training
103 Band aid?
54 Grand opening?
107 Truce
55 Sides (with)
109 Litter-box emanation
58 ____ school
113 Efflux
59 Dessert with some
114 Old navy? assembly required
61 117 Grammy recipient Like many a
Lisa grillmaster 63 What pro bono 118 Supermodel Kate
lawyers waive 119 Headache helper 65 General mills? 120 Took a little look 69 The British 20-pence 121 [Hey, over here!] and 50-pence coins, 122 Rough patch geometrically
71 Member of a South
Asian diaspora
72 Photo finish
75 Every last drop
76 Bank, often
78 Exams offered four times a year, for short
81 Grown-up pup
82 ‘‘I promise I won’t
laugh,’’ often
83 Certain guiding
principle
84 Texas instruments?
87 Meadow grass with
brushlike spikes
90 Fermented Baltic
drink
91 ‘‘Ugh, gross’’
92 Stag’s date?
93 Doc treating sinus
infections
94 X, in linear functions
95 Dolphins’ div.
ACROSS
1 A is one
8 Ozone-harming compounds, for short
12 Actor Guy
18 ‘‘How awesome!’’
19 Play with, as a cat
might a toy mouse
20 Naysayers
21 Five guys?
23 It might have desks
and drawers
24 Shade of purple
25 Those: Sp.
26 Green giant?
28 Ambulance driver, for
short
30 Finished first
32 ‘‘____-ching!’’
33 Just
34 Like basalt and
obsidian
37 Something sent on a
Listserv
40 Police broadcast, for
short
41 ‘‘Special Agent ____’’ (animated Disney show about a bear)
42 Main character in Larry McMurtry’s ‘‘Lonesome Dove’’
43 Apt name for a
Christmas caroler?
44 ____ Clarendon, first openly transgender W.N.B.A. player
48 Jolly rancher?
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DOWN
1 Standing on
2 Texter’s ‘‘Hilarious!’’
3 Soy something
4 Ones working block by
block?
5 Hoodwink
6 Drift apart
7 Certain Ivy Leaguers
8 Pac-12 school,
informally
9 Qualification shorthand
10 ‘‘Ple-e-e-ease?’’
11 Help when writing a
letter
12 Its national drink is
the pisco sour
13 State of disorder
14 Some vacation rentals
15 Lube up again
16 Old pal
17 Actress ____ CreedMiles 19 South American
capital Figures Statements of will? ‘‘The power of global
trade’’ sloganeer ____ Millions
Into crystals and
auras, say
Its calendar began in
A.D. 622 Inflated feeling of
infallibility
36 Letters on a stamp
38 ____ B or ____ C of
the Spice Girls
39 Actor Alan of ‘‘Crimes
and Misdemeanors’’
40 Binghamton Rumble Ponies or Birmingham Barons
41 ‘‘My b!’’
43 Sign
44 Feudal lord
45 Plots of western
films?
46 Brain-freeze cause,
maybe
47 Does a summer job?
49 Warrant
50 Magic can be seen
here Relating to land, oldstyle
They can help you see
or taste
Like the odds of finding a needle in a haystack Airline based near
Tel Aviv Deserving of a
timeout, say
Big spread 20 22 27
29 31
34 35 51 56 57 60 62 64 66 ‘‘No need to
elaborate’’
67 Like the Hmong
language
68 ____ Ng, author of ‘‘Little Fires Everywhere’’
69 12/24, e.g.
70 ____ Perlman, role for Timothée Chalamet in ‘‘Call Me by Your Name’’
73 Means of divination
74 ‘‘What ____?’’ 77 Indicate availability,
in a way
79 ‘‘Weekend, here I
come!’’
80 Side dish at a
barbecue
85 Upsilon preceder
86 Producer of the world’s most widely read consumer catalog
88 Genre for One
Direction
89 ‘‘. . . finished!’’
90 Ties
94 Android alternative 95 Exclamation after a
sigh
96 Teeny-tiny
97 Sporty wheels
98 Eccentric
99 Explorer Richard who made the first flight over the South Pole
101 Attempt to control the narrative, in a way
103 Lava, e.g.
104 Took to court
105 Omar of ‘‘Love &
Basketball’’ 106 Rolls around while
exercising?
108 Quick talk
110 What nyctophobia is
the fear of
111 Slobbery cartoon
character
112 ‘‘____ over’’ (words after letting off steam)
115 Often-contracted
word
116 Tech sch. in Troy,
N.Y.