NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Aimee Lucido, of Berkeley, Calif., is a full-time crossword constructor and an author of children’s books. Ella Dershowitz, of New York City, is an actor. A mutual friend introduced them, and Ella says, ‘‘We bonded immediately through being artsy puzzle people.’’ When Ella moved to San Francisco they became close. Now that she’s back in New York, the two stay in touch by making puzzles together. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Confound
6 Sarcastic internet
laughter
10 Most Times Square
signage
13 Performance check
17 Dark hair and a
warm smile, for two
19 Samoan capital
20 To’s opposite
21 Full-length
23 Something that
bugs criminals?
25 Blabberer
27 Duplicitous
28 Musicianship
30 ____ dress
31 Pasture
32 Signed off on
33 Ukr. or Lith.,
formerly
34 Places for
development
36 Corn kernel, e.g.
38 Actress Merrill
40 Genre for BTS or
Blackpink
43 Added to the staff ?
45 Alerts
48 ____ of lies
49 Aquafina : PepsiCo
:: ____ : Coca-Cola
52 #$%& and @%¢!
55 Practice whose name means, literally, ‘‘union’’
57 Words before
‘‘before’’
58 ‘‘Deck the Halls’’
contraction
59 Symbol on the Connecticut state quarter 60 Stop along the
highway
61 Quite
64 Finished brushing
one’s teeth, say
66 Racial-justice movement since 2013, in brief
67 ‘‘Really, though?’’
68 Word in many font
names
69 Betray . . . or a hint to four answers in this puzzle
73 ____ the Cat (fictional feline of children’s books)
74 Thin incision
75 Some $200 Monopoly properties, in brief
76 Set of 50 on the
Argo, in myth
77 Coaxed (out of )
79 Insurance giant
bailed out in 2008
80 Word before cap
or pop
81 Awesomest bud
82 Spirit in Arabian
myth
83 Arizona county or
its seat
85 Pushing up daisies
90 Neighbor of
Mozambique
92 Nonwriting credentials for Conan Doyle and Chekhov, informally
93 Seller’s need
95 Artificial habitat
97 Abolitionist
Lucretia 98 The avant-garde ‘‘artists’’ Congo and Pierre Brassau
100 Hedy of the 2017 documentary ‘‘Bombshell’’
103 Kind of chip
105 Question of
perplexion
108 ‘‘The Raven’’
writer’s inits.
109 Like
110 Big believer in the freedom of assembly?
112 Press ____
113 What the beleaguered are behind
115 Classic folk story that teaches a lesson of sharing
118 Be up for some
biking?
120 Fast runners
121 Advanced math
degree?
122 Ninny
123 Sternutation
124 Real cutup
125 Landscaper’s
supply
126 In the past
127 ‘‘As You Like It’’
forest
DOWN
1 Novelist Margaret
2 Absorb the beauty of,
as a scene
3 Lacked the gumption
to
4 Gladly, old-style
5 Jazzy James and
Jones
6 First lawenforcement org. in the U.S. to hire a female officer (1910) 7 Nail-polish brand 8 List of performers
9 Star man?
10 Half of a ’55 union
merger 11 ‘‘That’s enough
arguing out of you!’’ 12 Lip-puckering 13 Things that may be rubbed after din-din 14 Playwright Will who was a 2005 Pulitzer finalist 15 Crew implement 16 One getting special
instruction
18 Ink holders in pens
and squid 22 ‘‘Just like ____!’’ 24 Like morning people vis-à-vis night owls, around dawn 26 Response to ‘‘How
bad was it?’’ 29 Extends, in a way 35 Lead-in to call 37 Cause for an onslaught of yearly txts
39 ‘‘If the pessimists
are right . . .’’
41 Stroke
42 East: Ger.
44 Wednesday, but not
Friday
46 Accelerator
particles
47 Overwhelm
48 Some tax breaks
50 Boos and cheers
51 Light
53 Latin list ender
54 Some Hershey
candies
56 Bought in
61 Time-consuming assignment to grade
62 Xanax alternative 63 Monthly publication of the National Puzzlers’ League, with ‘‘The’’
64 More convinced
65 ‘‘The Magic School Bus’’ was its first fully animated series
66 Sound at the end of December, appropriately?
67 Beach with a girl who
‘‘swings so cool’’
70 Part of many a
corsage 71 Bite site
72 Job to do
78 High-quality
cannabis, in slang
80 ‘‘Success!’’
81 Decorate
82 ‘‘I. Can’t. Even.’’
84 Spain’s Duchess of
____
86 Classic novel with the line ‘‘You must be the best judge of your own happiness’’
87 Environmental
opening 88 When repeated, a
reproof
89 Overturned
91 Most chiffonlike
94 Figure out
96 Not thinking
97 The Supremes’
record label
99 Bad temper
100 Makeup target
101 Where a ‘‘Married at First Sight’’ contestant meets his or her mate 102 Language in which
‘‘kia ora’’ is a greeting
104 Up on
106 Confused responses
107 Fight site
111 Long runs?
113 ‘‘A man’s character is
his ____’’: Heraclitus
114 ‘‘Suds’’
116 Prefix with classical
117 Prof ’s degree
119 Post on Insta