New York Times Crossword Puzzle
No. 0917
DETOURS AHEAD
By Adam Wagner Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
1 Chat chuckle
4 Less than one’s best, in sports lingo
9 ____ Stadium, venue with a cushioned acrylic surface that is the largest of its type in the world
13 Wholesale
17 Inits. associated with accessibility
18 Submitted after the deadline
20 Some ring finishes, for short
21 ____ research, source of ‘‘dirt’’ on a political rival
22 Dickens clerk DETOUR: Theatrical success 25 Formidable-but-awesome behavior
27 DETOUR No. 1
28 It comes out on top
30 Family name in folk music
31 Parts of some choral arrangements?
32 Boosler who was the first woman to have an hourlong comedy special on cable TV
34 Big name in health care
35 What a sleepy head might do 36 Stagger
37 Dentist’s command
39 ‘‘That sucks’’
40 Composer Strauss, the brother of Johann
43 ‘‘Glass Onion’’ director Johnson
45 Homeland Security concerns DETOUR: Computer-port inserts
48 Cry stressed on its second syllable
49 Purpose
51 Bygone auto inits.
52 DETOUR No. 2
53 Present-day auto inits. 54 Pharaoh who founded Egypt’s 19th dynasty
56 ‘‘Get out!’’
58 Things settled over drinks 60 Shakespearean verb
62 A head
63 Mums’ mums
67 ____ cloth (sandpaper alternative)
68 They’re laid in Australia DETOUR: They feel your pain
70 Gas whose name comes from the Greek word for ‘‘foreigner’’
71 Common first word for an infant
72 Taxpayer’s ID
74 DETOUR No. 3
75 Lose one’s balance?
77 Hebrew greeting
80 ‘‘It’s a thumbs down from me’’
82 ‘‘O patria ____’’ (Verdi aria)
83 Metropolis with a Little Havana neighborhood
84 Major ref.
86 Mineral used in glass production
87 Texted shrug
88 Photographer’s setting DETOUR: Come in handy
90 Grps. that liaise with superintendents
91 Fermented drink from Russia
93 Embargo
94 DETOUR No. 4
95 Bird embodied by the Egyptian god Thoth
97 Cells are covered in it, in brief
98 Studio Ghibli genre
100 Trickster
102 What some emails, checks and balls do
105 Wholesale
107 Jane who says, ‘‘I need not sell my soul to buy bliss’’
108 Golden
110 Classic game of bluffing
112 Feature of some sweatpants DETOUR: Well-known musical group with a place name
115 Then
116 Puts together
117 DETOUR No. 5
118 Brown, for one
119 N.A.A.C.P. and A.C.L.U., for two
120 Component of a beekeeper’s suit
121 Stuffs with bacon fat, say
122 Caustic cleaner
DOWN
1 Titration station
2 Something typically found in a barnyard
3 Lead-in to delivery
4 Hunt-and-peck types?
5 Chewed (on)
6 Meeting spot for a union
7 Company that owns Bloomingdale’s
8 Neighbor of Djibouti: Abbr.
9 In check
10 Reggae forerunner
11 Jumble
12 Early victim of identity theft?
13 Israel’s Dayan
14 Photographer’s setting
15 Suddenly appears, with ‘‘up’’
16 ‘‘And, uh, that’s what happened’’
19 ‘‘Come On ____’’ (1982 hit)
23 Michael who was knighted in 2000
24 Related thing
26 Substitute
29 Face ____
33 Noggin
36 Containing graphic content, say
38 Diamond imperfection?
40 Vaccinated, to Brits 41 ‘‘Wowza!’’
42 Seethed
43 Parts of drinking or reading glasses
44 Access points
46 Express some intense emotion
47 Goal that sends a game into overtime
50 Bit of cereal
51 CVS competitor
55 Make more powerful, with ‘‘up’’
57 Series segments, informally
59 Five-time winner of the Copa do Mundo
61 ‘‘Love It or List It’’ airer 64 Inability to recall the names of everyday things
65 Restriction on some wedding invites
66 Running kicks?
68 William Phelps ____, inventor of the stop sign and the crosswalk
69 Henrik Ibsen play
70 Motion-sensing Microsoft gaming devices
72 Literary character who transforms into an insect
73 Backyard toy that attaches to a hose
75 Some hair products
76 Busy time at a cafeteria
78 Small towns
79 ‘‘Calvin and Hobbes’’ character based on ‘‘every jerk I’ve ever known,’’ per Bill Watterson
81 ____ Maria
83 Bite-size Tex-Mex snack 85 Enlighten
88 Elle or Dakota of Hollywood 89 Slippery sort
90 Resolution units
92 Flashcard words
93 Leave high and dry
96 Snoozefest
97 Not easily accessed
99 Conventions
101 ‘‘Ooh, that’s bad’’
102 Iraqi city near the Tigris and Euphrates
103 Peripheral
104 Amazon’s domain
106 Lambert or Levine of pop
109 Sin that sounds like two letters
111 Many ’90s music purchases
113 Code of the world’s busiest airport
114 Stain, maybe