New York Times Crossword

CRAFT SHOW No. 0816

Ruth Bloomfield Margolin, of Westfield, N.J., serves on the boards of several community nonprofit groups. For the past three years she has given talks at area libraries on crossword construction — lately adding Zoom presentations to her repertoire. Ruth created a crossword for her son’s July wedding (now postponed), which included the couple’s favorite board game, Pandemic. Whoops! She’s revising that puzzle now to feature only “fun” things. — W.S. ACROSS 1 Front

7 Spanish rice

12 Little sucker?

15 Smallish batteries

18 Like a seacoast after a

storm, maybe

19 Ferris Bueller’s

girlfriend

20 ____ B. Wells, civil

rights pioneer 21 ____-mo

22 S as in soup?

23 Kind of drawing 25 Icarus’s downfall

26 Skip work for health

reasons

28 Words after ‘‘Ooh,

ooh!’’

29 Beau, to Brigitte 30 Verbal stumbles 31 Baseball catcher

32 Ire

34 Boy band with two members who previously starred on ‘‘The Mickey Mouse Club’’

36 Little suckers 37 Headgear for a

tailgater

39 One of the Arnazes 40 ‘‘… but it’s up to you’’ 43 Famously green shampoo

45 Rap’s Shakur

47 Pope after Benedict

IV 48 Winter vacation

destination 51 Parades

54 Barely beat

55 Goals

56 Silverback gorilla, e.g. 58 Moreno with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony 60 Drag-racing vehicles 62 ‘‘____ trap!’’

63 Meager

65 Tired

66 In perfect order … or, as two words, what’s formed by applying the answers for the five italicized clues to the circled letters 70 Dined at home

71 More skeptical 73 ‘‘Hamilton’’ actor Leslie

____ Jr.

74 Break down, to a Brit 76 Theory

77 Sea ____

79 Prefix with -plasm 80 Piece paid by Pisans for a piece of pizza, previously

82 Safe places 84 Multi-episode

narrative 87 Crucifix inscription 88 Relentlessly question 90 En ____ (as a whole) 91 Having tattoos 92 Event that’s a bit off? 94 The butler,

stereotypically 97 It gives Ford an ‘‘F’’:

Abbr. 99 Buff

100 First Alaskan on a major U.S. party ticket

101 E-4, E-5 and E-6, in the U.S. Navy, in brief

102 Successors to LPs 105 Part of Canada above Alta. and Sask.

106 One of the Gandhis 109 Where to get a mullet trimmed 112 ‘‘____ get it now!’’ 113 Civic center 115 Colored ring 116 Washington’s Sea____ Airport 117 Non’s opposite 118 Ban … or bandit 119 By and large 120 College entrance exam org.

121 Hosp. V.I.P.s 122 Author Zora ____ Hurston

123 Son of Aphrodite DOWN 1 Compete in one leg of a

modern pentathlon 2 Loud, as the surf

3 Chills

4 Not incl.

5 Set the boundaries of 6 Perfect

7 Smart ____

8 Painter of the ‘‘Four Freedoms’’ series, 1943

9 Sound from a cheering

crowd 10 Even 11 Pinnacle 12 ____ Chemical Company, onetime maker of VapoRub 13 Writer Serwer of The

Atlantic

14 Event planner’s need 15 Attempts

16 They’re listed by

degrees

17 ____ boom

19 Struck, old-style 24 Bygone Apple

messaging app 27 Members of a blended

family

33 Move, in Realtor

jargon 35 Airport logjam 36 Rick, Ilsa and Victor had one in ‘‘Casablanca’’ 37 First lady between Eleanor and Mamie 38 Fanny

40 Accented cheer 41 Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, for two

42 Restricted zone 44 ‘‘Ba-dum-tss’’ 46 Education support

grps.

48 ____ Paulo, Brazil 49 Sea route, e.g. 50 ‘‘Frozen’’ queen 52 Endless YouTube

viewing, e.g.

53 French island off the coast of Newfoundland 57 Tropical yellow fruits 59 Writer Rand

61 New York city with a marina

62 Suffix with tour or Tory

64 ____-El (Superman’s birth name)

65 Conflict during which the Lusitania was sunk: Abbr.

67 Fateful date

68 What’s left at sea

69 Dig in 72 Flat, round bread

cooked on a griddle 75 Noted congresswoman from the Bronx, familiarly

78 After-bath application 79 Anatomical sac 81 Hoped-for response to an SOS

83 Lien holder, e.g. 85 Ahab’s father in the

Bible

86 Desert’s lack 89 Hogwarts professor who was secretly a werewolf

91 ‘‘Awkward Black Girl’’

creator and star 92 ‘‘Who cares?’’ 93 Slapstick silliness 95 Gary who created

‘‘The Far Side’’ 96 Award to be hung 98 Start of a playground

joke

99 U.S. govt. bond 101 Compass letters 102 Unisex fragrance 103 ____ Street, Perry Mason’s secretary 104 Strong ropes used to support masts

107 Verb preceder

108 Bad things on motorists’ records, for short

110 ‘‘Dies ____’’ (hymn) 111 Curb, with ‘‘in’’

114 The Jazz, on scoreboards