NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD: PARONOMASIA

ACROSS

1 Like most seamen, supposedly

5 Writer who said “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood” 10 Holiday celebrating

the arrival of spring 13 Islam's final pillar 17 Nonirons

19 Two make a Hamilton 20 Handel's “Messiah,”

e.g.

22 Narrow passages

for killer whales? 24 Kitchen nooks

25 Zodiac feline

26 Backs down

27 Fable about smoked

salmon?

28 Kvetches 30 Balneotherapy site 32 “Yeah, right”

33 Raised some

vegetables? 35 Decrease in the number of people named Gerald?

40 Hot Wheels maker 41 Are no longer

42 Mother ____

43 Gulager of “The Return

of the Living Dead” 44 In amongst

45 Number of bits

in a byte

48 Gradually diminishes 50 Abstract artist Mondrian 51 First mass consumer

product offering Wi-Fi 53 Sticks for breaking

things

54 Belts for a Chinese

leader?

57 Chaney who was called “The Man of a Thousand Faces” 58 Oakland's Oracle,

for example

60 Not budging 61 Cry from the mizzen top 62 Conveyance in “Calvin and Hobbes” 63 Overused

65 Storm harbinger, maybe 66 Gave a pick-me-up 69 Josip Broz, familiarly 70 Like many a campfire story 72 Responsibility lesson for a child 75 Inventors' diaries? 77 So-called

“Island of the Gods” 78 Ordinary Joe 80 Impose 81 Afterthought indicator 82 Well-known Cuban export 84 Fancy collar material 85 Lao-____ 86 Crucifixion letters 88 Guerre's opposite 90 MGM's lion, e.g. 92 Cloudophobia? 95 Opposite of a strong boil? 97 Pandora's release 98 Like Verdi's

“La donna è mobile” 99 As-yet-undeciphered Cretan script

100 What brings the rocket to the pad? 104 Archaeologists' study 106 Managerial exec 109 Mark Twain farce about a painter who fakes his own demise 110 Jewelry for the oracle at Delphi? 112 Versatile 113 Subleases

114 Arafat of the P.L.O. 115 What Simon does 116 Classic British roadsters

117 Rank things

118 Trix alternative

DOWN

1 Not reporting as instructed, maybe 2 Induce ennui in 3 Fuss about “The West Wing” actor Rob? 4 Old English letter 5 Electricians 6 Several Russian czars 7 Resident of Riga 8 Cousin of a highboy 9 Part of a road test track 10 List heading 11 Runner Liddell depicted in “Chariots of Fire” 12 Pub container

13 It might pick up a passing comment 14 Contrived 15 Beverly Hills ____ 16 Kid

18 Colorful shawl 19 Neighbor of Palisades Park, N.J. 21 Chanteuse O'Shea 23 Declining because of age

27 China's Chou En-____ 29 Best

31 Early arrival 33 Service with more than a billion users 34 Recurring role for Stallone

35 Groks 36 Philatelist's item 37 Turn's partner 38 Hebrew leader 39 Wack

41 Small undergarments? 46 Like some sprains and champagnes 47 Rev

49 Carried cash around? 50 Schoolmarmish 52 Superman's birth name 55 Morales of “NYPD Blue” 56 Some Poe works 59 Mulligan

60 Un-to

62 Legal pause 64 “Come on in!” 65 Home, in slang 66 Buoyant cadences 67 “That is,” to Caesar 68 At a frantic pace 69 ____ bulb

71 Wood often used for bow-making 72 Help with the harvest? 73 V.I.P. at the Oscars 74 What's human, they say 76 Needle-nosed fish 77 Grocer's wheel 79 “____ de Lune” 83 Garfield's girlfriend in “Garfield”

86 Tepid approval 87 Small, biting fly 89 Lined with trees 91 Playwright Sean who wrote “Juno and the Paycock” 93 Lets out, e.g. 94 Step on it

95 All thumbs 96 Second and fifth 99 Career employee 100 G.I.s of concern 101 Cuba, por ejemplo 102 Drink disliked by Buzz Aldrin [true fact!] 103 Strangely enough, they're often even 105 Hershey chocolate

107 Doing the job 108 Shrek, for one 110 Voting affirmatively 111 Arctic explorer John