NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Aid for a small business
10 Dev of “Slumdog Millionaire”
15 Part of a prairie skyline
19 Strict commitment 20 Sidestep
21 “Way ahead of you” 22 Compliment to a
runway model? 24 Low card in Texas
hold’em
25 Some donations 26 Stable supply 27 Starting piece on a1 or h8, say
28 ____ Slam (tennis feat)
30 Drain
31 Easily offended by foul language?
34 Kind of high ground 37 Trial
38 Breaks down 39 Spanish “sun”
40 Axel ____, protagonist of “Beverly Hills Cop” 41 X
42 Japanese roadster since 1989 44 Residence that might be named for a donor
45 Question to a tantrum thrower? 49 Costly cuts
51 First two words of “Green Eggs and Ham”
52 ____ fixe
53 Malbec and syrah, e.g.
54 Role model 55 Wet-nap, for one 57 Friend with a rhyming description 59 Sighting aptly found in “Are you for real?” 61 “Anything you’d like to ____?”
63 Relics proving how Noah steered his boat?
68 Something to do for recovery?
69 Pacific island ring 70 Neil with the hit “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do”
71 Carries out
73 Actor Elwes of “The Princess Bride”
75 Trade blows
77 Mild
79 Driver’s org., no matter how you slice it?
80 Relent
83 Prepared for a field trip?
86 Interjections akin to “Yeah, su-u-ure!” 87 Bygone forensic spinoff
89 Android alternative
90 Quits at the last minute
91 Org. that awards the Safer Choice label 92 World capital established in 1535 93 Jackanapes
94 Rap producers’ favorite vegetables? 95 Masters of slapstick?
100 Retinal receptor
101 Drink after drink? 102 “To live without ____ is to cease to live”: Dostoyevsky
103 Sign of summer
104 Stow cargo
108 Get into gear
109 Title for an oral surgeon’s handbook?
113 Certain sexual
preferences
114 Italian automotive
hub
115 Subject of many an
off-season rumor 116 “Young Frankenstein” character played by Teri Garr
117 Tee type
118 4th order?
Down
1 ____ Rudolph, portrayer of Kamala Harris on “S.N.L.” 2 Role model
3 Amigo
4 Rules’ partner, for short
5 El Dorado treasure
6 Like apple seeds, if eaten in huge quantities
7 Fresh from a keg
8 Sore
9 Org. that sponsored the design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial 10 MXN, on a currency chart 11 Adele and Cher, e.g.
12 ____ and Caicos 13 Part of a dean’s address 14 “I’d rather pass” 15 Shooting sport 16 All together now 17 Farm-to-table consumer 18 Word that sounds like its first letter 21 Elba who played Macavity in 2019’s “Cats” 23 One end of the Politifact meter 29 Willing subject 30 “Don’t be rude
... greet our guests!” 31 Loonie or toonie 32 Some are named for kings and queens 33 Stately street liners 34 Coat from a goat 35 High point of Greek civilization? 36 Emeritus: Abbr. 37 “It’s me ... duh!” 40 “Just sayin’,” in shorthand 41 Needless to say 42 Mississippi ____ pie 43 Released 44 Thingamabob 46 Brink
47 World No. 1 tennis player between Navratilova and Seles
48 Lived in a blue state?
50 One might be hard
to sit for
54 Pipes at some bars 56 Brings out 58 Downfall in many an Agatha Christie novel
60 Buzzed hairstyle 62 Stops harping on something
64 Like a sparsely attended party 65 See 66-Down 66 With 65-Down, “Ditto”
67 Pelvic exercises 72 Give attitude
74 Instruction for a course?
76 Earnings
78 Drew back
80 “Sorry to intrude …” 81 Certain monkey …
or monk 82 “Jackpot!”
83 One needing new, unburned pants? 84 De-lights?
85 Oil-rich state, for short
88 Appliance with apps 92 Yearns (for)
93 Fashionable pair 94 Cover for “little piggies”
96 “Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk” is the last short story he wrote 97 “Take that!”
98 Kind of chemical bond in salts 99 Vivacious quality 100 What a meta clue
might do to itself 103 Chicago mayor
Lightfoot 104 Brick made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene 105 New ____
106 Showy basket
107 Lifesavers, for short 108 Piece of equipment for gold medalist Lindsey Vonn
110 Marauder of old
111 Lifelong bud,
slangily
112 Partner of hem