New York Times Crossword Puzzle
LET’S GET LITERATURE
ACROSS
1 Precursor to a circuit
breaker
5 _____ bar
10 Pointed remark
14 Common spa descriptor 19 ‘‘Hello there, sailor!’’ 20 Gourmet mushroom with poisonous lookalikes
21 Somewhat
22 Core workout
challenge
23 Looks up from reading
‘‘Frankenstein’’?
27 Moody North
Yorkshire setting
28 Handy
29 Restless
30 Split hairs?
31 Words exchanged during an ‘‘altar’’cation
32 Revise
33 Reads ‘‘Catch-22,’’ ‘‘Closing Time’’ and ‘‘Something Happened’’ — and doesn’t stop there?
39 Atmospheric driving
hazard
42 Came to
43 Assistant
44 The joy of text?
45 Expression of a grump 47 Cheeky remarks ... or something near the cheek
48 Kendrick Lamar’s 2017 best rap album Grammy winner
50 ‘‘Aquaman’’ actor Jason 52 English indie-pop
singer Parks
53 Sleek reef swimmers
55 Borrows ‘‘The Color Purple’’ from the library instead of ‘‘The Flowers’’?
60 1960s activist Bobby 62 Word with play or
fight
63 Belgrade resident
64 See 36-Down
65 First in a line of 13
popes
67 Strands
69 Lifewater and Elixir
brand
71 ‘‘Wow!’’
74 Fashion guru Tim
76 ‘‘_____ the spirit!’’
78 D.E.A. target
81 Listens to ‘‘Tom Jones’’
on audiobook?
85 Matterhorn range
87 Wheely good
invention?
88 Off
89 _____ tube
91 H
92 Conclude by
94 Dawson in the Pro
Football Hall of Fame 95 ‘‘Chat another time!’’
in an I.M. 97 Bolt in a sprint
99 Director Guillermo
_____ Toro
100 Reads ‘‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’’ so many times its spine splits?
105 Cryptids on snowy
mountains
107 Mars bar with shortbread and chocolate
108 [sigh]
109 Pilot green-lighter,
in brief
111 ‘‘Ask away!’’
113 Iconic scarecrow
topper
117 Donates some copies of ‘‘King Lear’’ to the Renaissance Festival? 120 Still
121 Curling locale
122 Musical with the song ‘‘Another Suitcase in Another Hall’’
123 _____ Rachel Wood
of ‘‘Westworld’’
124 Castles, essentially 125 Chances
126 Not let lapse
127 It can be outstanding
DOWN
1 ‘‘Octopuses can use
tools,’’ e.g.
2 ‘‘This is not good!’’
3 Words said while shaking one’s head in disgust
4 One might be found next to a neck pillow in an airport shop
5 Suave
6 Decant
7 Painting and
filmmaking
8 Person in a head set? 9 Keebler cookie with shortbread and chocolate
10 Send away
11 Biblical analogue of
Aron in ‘‘East of Eden’’ 12 High-_____ (kind of jeans or apartment building)
13 South Korean ‘‘Princes
of Pop’’
14 Jimmies and corkscrews 15 Debbie of ‘‘Fame’’ and
‘‘Grey’s Anatomy’’
16 Things often next to napkins in place settings
17 Spanish Agnes
18 Absolut alternative
24 Put in order
25 Text-writer’s segue
26 Philosopher David
31 Alternative to a
diaphragm
32 Like games marked
1->99
33 Strong wind
34 Pains for preschoolers 35 Chivalrous avatar of
Vishnu
36 Sounds from a
64-Across
37 Saint associated with
a ‘‘fire’’
38 Birds on Canadian
dollars
40 Big-eyed hatchling
41 1989 film for which Denzel Washington won best supporting actor
46 Follower of ‘‘So’’ or ‘‘lo’’ 49 Patronized a restaurant 50 Homes for cattails and
bulrushes
51 Childhood friend
54 Blueberry-picking girl
of children’s literature 56 ‘‘Yuck!’’
57 ‘‘You’re right about
that!’’
58 ‘‘You’re not right about
that!’’
59 ‘‘Chiquitita’’ singing
group
61 Endurance, so to speak 66 Scarfs down
68 Norm: Abbr.
70 Geological span
71 Chose
72 QB’s protection
73 Very rarely
75 Ancient home of a
mythical lion
77 Delphic prophet
79 Barbershop specialty 80 Fiber-_____
82 ‘‘I’m in favor’’
83 Rat
84 The Big Easy
86 Sound
90 Fabric made from jute 93 Med. exams with intradermal injections
95 O’er yon
96 ‘‘The Muppets’’ villain
Richman
98 Macroalgae
101 Costa _____
102 Baby birds?
103 Deuces
104 Cold War pact city 106 Use, as influence
109 ‘‘Here I come,
weekend!’’
110 In _____ veritas
111 Reported
112 Back
113 Abrade, in a way
114 Head: Fr.
115 Horse with endurance 116 Billowy dress style 118 To’s counterpart
119 Broadway, for one:
Abbr.