NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Jesse Goldberg is a software engineer in San Francisco. Last year, finding himself between jobs, he tackled a big project he’d been thinking about for 30 years — creating an app to assist in designing and filling crossword grids. The result, Crosserville, is available online (free for now). Jesse isn’t the first person to build a crosswordconstruction app, but his is a highly versatile one. This is Jesse’s second puzzle for The Times. — W.S. ACROSS
62 Affixes, as a cloth
patch
64 Something that’s gone bad if it floats when placed in a bowl of water
65 ‘‘If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. ____?’’
71 Word mistakenly heard at a Springsteen concert
74 Under way
75 Beethoven’s Third 79 Reverse
81 Tons
82 Seriously hurt
86 Move quickly,
informally
87 ____ o’clock (when
happy hour begins) 88 Host’s offer at a
housewarming
89 Spongelike
91 Focal points
92 ‘‘I enjoy cooking with wine. Sometimes I ____’’ 96 ‘‘Same here’’
99 Word with noodle
or nap
100 ____ lepton (elementary particle)
101 ‘‘The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for ____’’ 108 Stamps (out)
113 One of Abraham Lincoln’s is in the Smithsonian ‘‘Welcome to the
Jungle’’ rocker 1 Certain music royalties collector, for short 6 Viva ____ (aloud) 10 Dirty look 15 Even once 19 Part of R.I. 20 Big exporter of
saffron 21 Sci-fi intro to
‘‘forming ’’ 22 Foul 23 ‘‘Enjoy the food!’’ 25 Sportscaster who memorably asked,
‘‘Do you believe in miracles?’’
27 Crush
28 Emmy-winning FX series created by Donald Glover 29 ‘‘Curses!’’ 30 Challenger
astronaut Judith 31 ‘‘With enough
butter, ____’’ 34 Commanded 36 Fuel-economy
authority, for short 37 Main artery 38 ‘‘A party without
cake is ____’’ 48 Retin-a target 49 Healthful property
of a beach town 50 Chicken or veal
dish, in brief 51 Merit 55 Boardroom plot? 57 Hangout rooms 58 Pair of quads 59 The Powerpuff
Girls, e.g. 60 Filmmaker with a 114
distinctive style 115 Born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth
117 Cause of a smartphone ding, perhaps
119 Chef quoted in this puzzle’s italicized clues
120 Guitar part
121 Member of la
famiglia
122 Letters on an F-22
Raptor
123 One given
onboarding
124 1975 Wimbledon
champ
125 Like voile and
chiffon
126 What may make
the grade
127 Direct
DOWN
Shady spot Less-than-subtle
basketball foul Temporary road
markers
‘‘I don’t give ____!’’ Pharmaceutical
picker-upper
6 Penthouse perk
7 ‘‘Coffee ____?’’
8 Stone memorial
9 Suffix with exist
10 Actor Jason who was once on Britain’s national diving team
11 Four-stringed
instruments
12 Financial adviser
Suze
Dry with a twist
Milk: Prefix
NASA spacewalk Try to win 1 2
3
4 5 13 14 15 16 17 Page who became the first openly trans man to appear on the cover of Time magazine (2021)
18 L.A. neighborhood referenced in
Tom Petty’s ‘‘Free Fallin’ ’’
Coolers
Comedian Minhaj How some bonds
are sold
Himalayan legends Fetch
Provided tunes for
a party, in brief Backbone of Indian
classical music Earth tone
Body sci.
Toon first introduced in the 1945 short ‘‘Odorable Kitty’’ Neighbor of Oman:
Abbr.
Japanese honorific Florida attraction with 11 themed pavilions
45 ‘‘His wife could
____ lean’’
46 Family name in Steinbeck’s ‘‘East of Eden’’
47 ‘‘That’s it for me’’ 52 Exist
53 Outfit
54 Drink garnished
with nutmeg
56 Quizzical responses 58 Part of NGO: Abbr. 61 Change from portrait to landscape, say
62 Neither red nor
blue: Abbr.
63 Benchmark
66 Locks-up shop? 24 26 28
32 33 35
38
39 40 41 42
43 44 67 Any set of elements in a column on the periodic table
68 Japanese port near
Sapporo
69 War zone danger, for
short
70 ‘‘A Room of One’s
Own’’ novelist
71 Mac
72 Gastric acid, on the
ph scale
73 Tribute in verse
76 Classic Langston
Hughes poem 77 First name in fashion 78 Saharan
80 Snacks that sometimes
come in sleeves
82 Words to live by
83 The Cardinals, on
scoreboards
84 Large Hadron
Collider bit
85 Many a rescue dog 89 It’s not the whole
thing
90 Mount ____,
California volcano 93 Critical 94 Rank for a rear
admiral
95 What the Unsullied warriors are on ‘‘Game of Thrones’’ 96 She turned Arachne into a spider after losing a weaving contest
97 Wags a finger at
98 Separate
102 Tough period of the
school year
103 Bayt ____ (destination for a Muslim pilgrim)
No. 0725
104 Krispy ____
105 Crooner Mel
106 Handy
107 Caffeine-rich nuts 109 Still alive, in dodge
ball
110 Laissez-____
111 N.J. city on the
Hudson
112 Meal at which parsley is dipped in salt water
116 Serious divide
118 Candy-aisle name 119 Protrude