NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
“UH, WHAT?”
ACROSS
1 Like a bull in a china shop
7 Blue
11 Band whose songs are featured in a hit 2001 musical and 2018 movie
15 Tube tops 19 Where Hemingway wrote “The Old Man and the Sea” 20 Instrument whose name sounds like a rebuke of Obama’s dog 21 Case load?
22 River that formed an extension of the Mason-Dixon line 23 One who’s just moved from Portland?
26 Bit of baseball gear 27 “Jeez, I heard you already!” 28 Number
29 Game played with a dog
30 Peak
31 Tennis great who wrote the 2009 tell-all “Open”
32 Major science journal 33 Satchel for a guy 35 Convert a morgue worker into a spy? 37 Google ____ 38 Pre-euro currency 39 Smooch
40 Leave gobsmacked 41 Common plural verb 42 Staple of many a “Real Housewives” episode 44 One of the Leewards 48 LeBron basketball sneaker, e.g.?
51 Foe in “Wonder Woman”
55 –––
56 Ready for the recycling
bin
57 Field trip chaperone 59 Surrender 60 Celebrity chef Oliver 61 Hunger for
62 Will of “Arrested Development” 64 Determined to do 65 Flower said to cover the plains of Hades 68 Brand of 33-Down 69 Intense blowback against a signature Trump policy proposal?
72 Large mobile devices, to use a modern portmanteau
74 Hair net 75 Amazon threat 76 Muppet eagle 79 Highest draft category 80 Garbage barge 81 Tour de France setting 82 Bad person to get paired with for a class assignment? 87 Bender 89 “Present!”
90 Like more
91 Gulf mogul 92 Rulers during the Time of Troubles 93 Jewish mysticism 94 Harmonized 98 Triple-A requests 99 Nickname for a superserious congressman? 101 Trainer of Rey in “The Last Jedi”
102 Eager
103 Fixtures in every Vegas casino
104 Ontario city across the river from Buffalo, for short
105 Craftsy online store
106 Cay
107 For takeout 108 Exemplar of cruelty
DOWN
1 Follower of “ah-ah-ah”
2 Fun adventure 3 Colored layer 4 Hungarians, by another name
5 Noses around 6 Northerner
7 One of the Gilmore Girls
8 Old sports org. with the Kentucky Colonels 9 U.S. food giant 10 Suck-up
11 Red with embarrassment 12 Fad toy of the 1990s 13 Tendency 14 What’s better when it’s fine? 15 Awaken 16 Yellowfin 17 Workers who are always retiring? 18 “Take that!” 24 Strain
25 Tweet, e.g. 29 Language of Omar Khayyam’s “Rubáiyát” 31 Glows
32 Caution on an airplane wing
33 Dip for mozzarella sticks 34 Affecting radically 35 x
36 Biceps exercise 37 Attack on a big scale 38 Uncool
42 Gig for an aspiring electronic musician 43 Root word?
44 Citation
45 What “…” may represent
46 What “#” means in chess notation 47 Slim 49 Surrendered 50 “Take a hike!”
52 Like an uncorrupted file
53 Academy Awards prop 54 Popular Belgian brews, informally
58 Hurt
60 Ballet jump 63 Music genre at a rave 64 Provider of green juice?
65 Bother
66 Put away 67 Vietnamese brothand-noodles soup 70 “Yeah, right” 71 Academy Awards prop 73 Garden toilers 76 Saliva
77 Words from a T.S.A. agent before a patdown
78 Punk rock hairstyles 80 Guarantee 81 U.S.P.S. package status 83 Purchase at a sports stadium 84 Sophisticated 85 How whiskey is often served 86 Financially solvent
87 Blue man group? 88 Something made to be destroyed 91 Where soccer was invented: Abbr. 93 Hitchcock triple feature?
94 Should that be the case
95 “Hey ____” (start of a phone voice command)
96 R&B great Redding 97 A bit of disputin’ from Putin?
99 Chairlift item 100 Clickable tag on BuzzFeed beside “LOL” and “WTF”