NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
READY, SET … GETS LOW! BY NANCY STARK AND WILL NEDIGER
Across
1 Palindromic band with the palindromic song title “SOS” 5 Place for an oxygen tent, for short
8 A whole bunch 13 High-level H.S. math
class
19 Exploit
20 Dandy
21 Like many barrels 22 “Yay!”
23 Cheer for beer on campus? 26 Milan-based fashion brand
27 Skate effortlessly 28 Put down in print 29 Part of a strip
31 West of Chicago 32 Discerning judgment
33 Author Calvino 35 Played the fall guy? 37 Half-____ (rhyming order)
38 Hoot at an outof-focus nature photograph? 43 Chicago university 46 Small three-legged table
47 Two-time best actor, 1954 and 1972
48 “____ Old Cowhand” (Bing Crosby hit) 49 Put away
52 “If you ask me,” briefly
53 Something populists revile 54 Antsy feeling when one is out of cellphone range? 59 Sport ____
60 One of the dames in 2018’s “Tea With the Dames”
61 Like the lion slain by Hercules
62 Cans
66 “Tilted Arc” sculptor Richard
68 Jackie on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
70 Places to sleep 71 Spanish-omelet ingredient
72 Isaac’s firstborn 73 Fought
75 Bête ____ 77 Counterpart of frost 78 Where a demanding dockworker gets supplies?
82 Snack item with a salient anagram? 85 Word that’s its own synonym in reverse 86 Symbol of danger or anger
87 Boot
88 Discriminating against elders 89 They’ve got talent 92 “Ditto!”
94 Landing in Rotterdam? 98 Curry or Rice 99 Snack items with their name on the top and bottom
100 Result of union
negotiations, often 101 Lotion-bottle abbr. 104 Native seal hunter 107 Part of a college application, informally
108 Unfeeling
110 Roaster or toaster 112 It’s not legal
114 Piano that plays only a certain three notes?
117 Slips
118 “Fingers crossed!” 119 Wrath
120 A long time ago
121 Willie Mays phrase 122 A little tight
123 Pseudoscientific
subj.
124 Charon’s river
Down
1 “Waste not, want not,” e.g.
2 It has a button in the middle
3 Show to be untrue 4 Reason that some students struggle in school, for short 5 “____ were you …” 6 Joint effort, slangily
7 Requiring difficult pedaling, say 8 Exclusive 9 Phone 10 Pseudonymously 11 Manny’s last name on “Modern Family” 12 Slip through 13 “Of course!” 14 Bill padding 15 Time out? 16 Stuffed and deep-fried rice balls, in Italian cuisine 17 Name-tag holders 18 Political system with a paramount leader
24 Vocal quintet? 25 More or less
30 Work well together 34 Translation of the French “vivre” or German “leben” 35 Rested 36 World capital settled by Vikings circa the ninth century 38 Scourge 39 Apt rhyme for “constrain”
40 Martin Sheen’s real first name 41 Name of seven Danish kings
42 “Le ____,” Matisse work that hung upside down at the Museum of Modern Art for 47 days 43 Neglect
44 Acts dramatically 45 Bakery/cafe chain 50 Like a bowl
51 Cheat, informally 53 Refusing to answer directly
55 Suggested intake level, for short 56 Glass fragment 57 Correct
58 “Two Sisters” or “Two Young Girls at the Piano”
63 Struck
64 Exceedingly
65 Site of a 1976 South African uprising
67 Quaintly countrified
69 Virtual animals in an early 2000s fad 71 “____ Got the Whole World in His Hands” 73 Attended 74 Alternative to a snake
76 They catch waves 79 Nickname on “The Addams Family” 80 Shakespeare’s “You, too?”
81 Bugs Bunny, e.g.
82 Sob stories 83 Christina of pop
84 “Here, move over” 89 Not much at all 90 Trattoria dumplings
91 New England fish 93 Dork
95 “Catch-22” pilot 96 Cloth that may get a lot of tears
97 Handy types 101 Meager 102 Walker ____, 1962 National Book Award winner
103 Shipping option
105 Sundance state
106 Place for un béret 108 Concessions
109 It beats a deuce
111 Stock sounds
113 Bit of sun
115 Short flight
116 Informal affirmative