New York Times Crossword
Aimee Lucido, of Berkeley, Calif., is a full-time crossword constructor and an author of children’s books. Ella Dershowitz, of New York City, is an actor. A mutual friend introduced them, and Ella says, ‘‘We bonded immediately through being artsy puzzle p
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1 Confound
6 Sarcastic internet
laughter
10 Most Times Square
signage
13 Performance check
17 Dark hair and a warm
smile, for two
19 Samoan capital
20 To’s opposite
21 Full-length
23 Something that bugs
criminals?
25 Blabberer
27 Duplicitous
28 Musicianship
30 ____ dress
31 Pasture
32 Signed off on
33 Ukr. or Lith., formerly
34 Places for
development
36 Corn kernel, e.g.
38 Actress Merrill
40 Genre for BTS or
Blackpink
43 Added to the staff?
45 Alerts
48 ____ of lies
49 Aquafina : PepsiCo ::
____ : Coca-Cola
52 #$%& and @%¢!
55 Practice whose name means, literally, ‘‘union’’
57 Words before ‘‘before’’
58 ‘‘Deck the Halls’’
contraction
Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). 59 Symbol on the Connecticut state quarter
60 Stop along the
highway
61 Quite
64 Finished brushing
one’s teeth, say
66 Racial-justice movement since 2013, in brief
67 ‘‘Really, though?’’
68 Word in many font
names
69 Betray . . . or a hint to four answers in this puzzle
73 ____ the Cat (fictional feline of children’s books)
74 Thin incision
75 Some $200 Monopoly
properties, in brief
76 Set of 50 on the Argo,
in myth
77 Coaxed (out of)
79 Insurance giant bailed
out in 2008
80 Word before cap or
pop
81 Awesomest bud
82 Spirit in Arabian myth
83 Arizona county or its
seat
85 Pushing up daisies
90 Neighbor of
Mozambique
92 Nonwriting credentials for Conan Doyle and Chekhov, informally
93 Seller’s need
95 Artificial habitat
97 Abolitionist Lucretia
98 The avant-garde ‘‘artists’’ Congo and Pierre Brassau 100 Hedy of the 2017 documentary ‘‘Bombshell’’
103 Kind of chip
105 Question of
perplexion
108 ‘‘The Raven’’
writer’s inits.
109 Like
110 Big believer in the freedom of assembly?
112 Press ____
113 What the beleaguered are behind
115 Classic folk story that teaches a lesson of sharing
118 Be up for some
biking?
120 Fast runners
121 Advanced math
degree?
122 Ninny
123 Sternutation
124 Real cutup
125 Landscaper’s supply
126 In the past
127 ‘‘As You Like It’’
forest
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1 Novelist Margaret
2 Absorb the beauty of,
as a scene
3 Lacked the gumption
to
4 Gladly, old-style
5 Jazzy James and Jones
6 First law-enforcement org. in the U.S. to hire a female officer (1910)
7 Nail-polish brand
8 List of performers 9 Star man?
10 Half of a ’55 union
merger ‘‘That’s enough
arguing out of you!’’ Lip-puckering Things that may be
rubbed after din-din Playwright Will who was a 2005 Pulitzer finalist
Crew implement One getting special
instruction
Ink holders in pens
and squid
‘‘Just like ____!’’ Like morning people vis-à-vis night owls, around dawn Response to ‘‘How
bad was it?’’ Extends, in a way Lead-in to call Cause for an onslaught of yearly txts
39 ‘‘If the pessimists are
right . . .’’
41 Stroke
42 East: Ger.
44 Wednesday, but not
Friday
46 Accelerator particles
47 Overwhelm
48 Some tax breaks
50 Boos and cheers
51 Light
53 Latin list ender
54 Some Hershey
candies
56 Bought in
61 Time-consuming
assignment to grade
62 Xanax alternative 11
12 13
14
15 16
18
22 24
26
29 35 37 63 Monthly publication of the National Puzzlers’ League, with ‘‘The’’
64 More convinced
65 ‘‘The Magic School Bus’’ was its first fully animated series
66 Sound at the end of December, appropriately?
67 Beach with a girl who
‘‘swings so cool’’
70 Part of many a
corsage
71 Bite site 72 Job to do
78 High-quality
cannabis, in slang
80 ‘‘Success!’’
81 Decorate
82 ‘‘I. Can’t. Even.’’
84 Spain’s Duchess of
____
86 Classic novel with the line ‘‘You must be the best judge of your own happiness’’
87 Environmental
opening 88 When repeated, a
reproof
89 Overturned
91 Most chiffonlike
94 Figure out
96 Not thinking
97 The Supremes’
record label
99 Bad temper
100 Makeup target
101 Where a ‘‘Married at First Sight’’ contestant meets his or her mate 102 Language in which ‘‘kia ora’’ is a greeting
104 Up on
106 Confused responses
107 Fight site
111 Long runs?
113 ‘‘A man’s character is
his ____’’: Heraclitus
114 ‘‘Suds’’
116 Prefix with classical
117 Prof’s degree
119 Post on Insta