NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD: THE INSIDE SCOOP
ACROSS
1Mess-hall patrons, in brief
4 Theater backdrop
9 Stressful work? 13Disorganized stack 17Home-screen array 19Port container
20 Clean hands, so to speak
22 Spill (over)
23 Strict sales limit, informally 24Slow-cooked entrees 25Boos-y drink?
27Olympic gymnast Raisman
29 Charge (with)
30 Involves
31Some kennel personnel
34 Only U.S. coin that does not explicitly indicate how many cents it's worth
35Eschewed pork and
shellfish, say
37Arena seating sections 38 Perfume ingredient
39Civil wrong 40Comedy character who once asked the U.N. secretary general if Disneyland was part of the U.N.
42 Org. whose initials are aptly hidden in “foreign satellite interception”
43 Really hurt
44Orders more of than
necessary
48Oktoberfest purchase
49 “Clifford the Big Red Dog”
airer
52 “Gross!”
53 Excessively
54 Checkout unit 56Eyeballs, e.g. 60“Naw, no way!” 62Hindu wedding adornment that's said to get darker the more the newlyweds love each other
64 Lifesaving mission, for
short
66Its panhandle abuts British
Columbia
67 Prudent
69Texas A&M athlete
70 One fast-tracked in an
interview pool 72Like Loki
73 Absolutely devour
74Fitting a little tight 75Home to the Great
Ziggurat of Ur 77Common jeans feature 78 “Whoop-de-____” 79Subject of 1960s-'70s
addiction research 80 Purges
82Things that perceptive
people might pick up 86Picture taker? 88Sound in “Old MacDonald
Had a Farm” 89Windy part of a kite? 90The “A” of the ACT UP
organization
94 Thunderous sounds 95Piece of info 97Body of water adjoining
Korea Bay
100 ____-de-camp
101 Proceeds 103Putting together 104Hardly worth mentioning 106ID whose first five digits
are sometimes ignored 107 Keister
108 Flight segment
111 Demographic group 113Tiny member of a swarm 114Big Ten school that plays home football games at Beaver Stadium
115 Much like 116What hits the ground
running?
117Seat in the London Stock
Exchange?
118At the earliest chance 119They get high by the beach 120Airport screening inits.
DOWN
1Winter house-warming
option
2“That's my goal” 3 Powerlifter's helper 4Marine predator often seen
near shorelines 5First Nations people 6Best Melodic ____ Performance (Grammy category)
7“My concern is ... ” 8Variety used to make
Bordeaux wine
9Dot on a die
10Musical artist Yoko 11Joins those on the stage 12Counterparts of eves 13With 61-Down, like some gossip ... as represented phonetically by each set of shaded squares? 14 Like a bathroom directly
connected to a bedroom 15Feigns indignation
16 Bug
18 Address 19Barbecue-grill fill 21Camp bed 26Summer Olympics host between London and Tokyo 28Comics sound when
something is snatched 31Clenched, as teeth 32Recordholder for most games played in the FIFA World Cup (26) 33Modern ____ 36Trains above street level 38Delivery that can't be
returned 41“Well, don't wait out
here!”
43 Goals
45 Sun shield 46 ____-conscious 47Variety commonly found
in jellies and pies
48 Wax figures? 49Golf-tournament division 50President who campaigned on the slogan “Our best days still lie ahead” 51Real pickle
55 So ... or a word following
“so”
57Fit for a king
58 Sees red 59Word before dating or
skating
61See 13-Down 62Dance at a luau 63More open to
the elements 65 Lake-house rental 67 Unnerves
68Sea hawks
71Lyft request 73 Lithium-____ battery 76“Don't ____ me ... ”
781994 single by Hole whose cover art depicts a miniature wedding dress and veil 81Real-time PC exchanges 83Man, woman and child,
e.g.
84Little lifter 85Snore loudly 86One dropping amorous
hints
87 Trigonometry units 88B-baller in Big D
91“Am I mistaken?” 92 Turndowns
93 Hot herbal brew
94 Place to pamper pets that
purr
95Some rivers have them 96Variety that shares its name with a Mideast capital
98Game with big prizes 99“I'm not working right now,” in email shorthand
101Believer in Jah 102 Mushroom added
to ramen 105Org. with the phone number 1-800-TAX-FORM 107Cornmeal cake 109Info you might send someone when you're running late 110Liven (up)
112 Stashed away