New York Times Crossword Puzzle
No. 1118
ACROSS
1 Era of ignorance 9 Elevators in
an office building? 14 Houston
squad, casually 19 Eaglelike
20 Mississippi River bottom
feeder
21 “Wouldn’t
that be nice!”
22 Satchel for a homicide
detective?
24 Joe of “GoodFellas” 25 Something found at the top of many a Google search page
26 Manufactured
27 Baking soda has many
of these
29 Tush
30 Danny Ocean’s ex-wife in
“Ocean’s Eleven” 31 Unseasonal wear on a winter vacation?
34 Map
36 Parisian waters
37 Jewish
mourning period 38 Zoom, e.g.
39 Baseball stats sometimes
called 39-Down
42 Jerk
46 Static
48 Swiss canton that was home to William Tell 49 Variety of stud poker,
familiarly
50 Berry with two diacritics in its name
51 “Get ____!” 52 Late-morning meal for a
TV family?
58 Dorm overseers, for short 59 Sports event with two diacritics in its name
60 Cry after “Company” 61 Who wrote, “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king”
64 One way to buy mustard
cheaply?
67 Like the number
i, mathematically 68 Burns writing
69 Strong bond
70 A pillar of Islam
71 Emails such as “Click this link to become an Apollo astronaut”?
77 Erie Canal city
80 ____ Spiegel, co-founder
of Snapchat
81 “Darling, won’t you ____ my worried mind” (“Layla” lyric)
82 Peter’s chief of staff on
“The Good Wife” 83 Down-ontheir-luck sorts
84 Hit the hide
off the baseball 86 Beauts
87 Backgrounds
in theater 88 Tempur-Pedic rival 90 Seawater compound 92 Neophytes
93 Collection of
Yule-centric posts? 98 Boxing venue
99 Nagy of
Hungarian history 100 Wooded valley
101 Bird on Walden Pond in
“Walden”
102 Like services covered by
a health insurer
105 Drops
107 Utensil for eating some
cured meat?
110 Link with
111 Brainpower
112 See to it
113 When a happy hour
might start
114 Haven
115 Seizure cause
DOWN
1 Deaden acoustically 2 Blue shade
3 Kingdom in “The Prisoner
of Zenda”
4 Leg-pullers
5 Div. for the
Red 106-Down
6 Secures with a band 7 S.A.S.E., e.g.: Abbr.
8 They require stitches 9 What the
rotator cuff rotates 10 School extension? 11 Neutral shades 12 Word from the Latin for
“noose”
13 One caught
by a 12-Down
14 Nurse
15 Can-can dancing? 16 Formula for
slope in math
17 Costa Rican president who won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize
18 Stuffed ____
20 Clay and oil,
for artists
23 “For heaven ____” 28 Some ways
on Waze: Abbr.
32 Split personality? 33 Branch of Islam 34 Appurtenance for a
cartoon Neanderthal 35 Mannheim mister 39 Delmonico
steak cuts
40 Document listing
technical specifications 41 TV network with
a science-y name 43 Prefix with puncture 44 More sensible
45 One is roughly the mass of a speck of dust 47 Festoons with Charmin,
for short
49 Charged up
53 Laura of
“Big Little Lies” 54 Confucian philosopher
____ Hsi
55 Really trendy
56 Hit just beyond
the infield
57 Hightail it, saltily 62 Ocean froth
63 “The Simpsons” bar 64 Asian fruits used in Western alternative medicine 65 Norwegian king near the end of the first millennium 66 Non-____ (food label) 67 Western powwow held every year or so
70 “Come again?”
72 Limit
73 “Fancy that!”
74 People like you
75 Orfeo in Gluck’s “Orfeo
ed Euridice,” e.g. 76 Not catch 78 Crescent-shaped Italian
pastries
79 Piedmont
wine town 85 Alternatives
to gelcaps 86 Semiliquid stuff 87 Neural junction
89 So-so filler? 91 Lunkheads
92 Holiday glitter
93 Flora and fauna 94 Plaster for painting 95 Animal used to guard sheep and goats
96 Spanish crockery 97 Munchkin 98 “____-Tikki-Tavi” 103 Misreckons
104 “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is ____”: Churchill
106 See 5-Down
108 Numerical prefix 109 Much Top
40 music now