New York Times Crossword
BORDER CROSSINGS
ACROSS
1 “For more ____ ...” 5 Some unwanted mail
9 Terse bit of advice
13 Half of an ice cream brand with a fake Danish name
19 Work up a sweat 20 Rent
21 Like tap water in
a restaurant
22 Iris part
23 Wing it [Africa] 25 Blue
26 Chew out 27 Après-ski drink 28 Complete rip-off [Asia] 30 Barrel-flavored, as wine 31 Washington, D.C.,
legalized it in 2014 32 Wealthy king of
legend
33 Recess
36 Charge for
admission
37 See 101-Down 38 Quaint
contraction 41 Record company [Central America] 45 Two-time third-party presidential candidate 47 “The Walking Dead” channel 48 Beyond great 49 Baking measure 50 Cerebral
51 Take in
53 ____ shoots (salad ingredient) 54 One of five for a dolphin 55 Supple leather
56 Proboscis, informally 58 What subjects and verbs must do [Europe] 62 Ancho pepper, before drying 65 Puzzled
66 Sort by urgency of need [Europe] 70 Misgiving 74 Where meditators look
75 ____ candy 76 Planet where the cry “Shazbot!” is said to have originated 79 Food-chain link 80 Treats prepared on an open fire 81 Part of OED: Abbr. 82 Organic fertilizer 84 Hold up
85 Male 91-Acrosses 86 T-shirt size [South America] 90 Not to mention 91 Forest ranger 92 Shapes made by thumbs and index fingers 93 Glossed over 94 Like some toy cars 97 Sportage maker 98 ____ Cochran, Mississippi senator from 1978 to 2018 99 First month of the year without a U.S. federal holiday [Asia] 102 Dismissed out of hand
106 Want badly
107 Sit at a red light, say
108 Biblical outcast [South America] 109 Exclamation from a cheek pincher
110 Org. behind the New Horizons project
111 One whose job prospects go up in smoke? 112 Responsibility 113 Biggest U.S. union, familiarly 114 Set of two 115 City north of Des Moines 116 Resident of the Palazzo Ducale
DOWN
1 Hankering 2 Manhattan neighborhood west of the East Village 3 Order 4 Cranky codger 5 “Reach for the sky!” 6 Sandwich often served with rémoulade sauce 7 Killer of the Night King on “Game of Thrones” 8 “Throw ____ bone” 9 Key of Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” 10 Black pie-crust component 11 Lead-in to many a joke on “The Daily Show” 12 Senator who once served as an editor of The Harvard Law Review
13 Hurt
14 Many Omanis 15 Group seen in gathering clouds? 16 Discovery that might cause a rush 17 Wellsian race of the future
18 Gram 24 Objects in one of Jesus’ miracles 28 Singer Lisa 29 Top of the line 31 Fruit with an obovate shape 33 Media for scientists 34 Unit of brightness 35 Raw material for Cadbury 36 Popular Amazon Prime dramedy from Britain 39 Kind of column seen on the Jefferson Memorial 40 “Funny Girl” composer Jule 42 Copy 43 Vaper’s device, informally 44 Nutritional snack from Clif
45 Trig, for calc, e.g. 46 Relaxed 50 Some wetlands 52 Snack with a recommended microwave time of just three seconds 54 Theater impresario Ziegfeld 55 Abbr. in a genealogical tree 57 ____ Strait, separator of Australia and Papua New Guinea 59 What one is in Paris?
60 Kylo ____, “Star Wars” antagonist 61 Candy-heart phrase 63 Raises one’s paddle, say 64 Each verse of “Deck the Halls” has 32 of them 66 Host Tyler of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”
67 Dishearten 68 Scottish tradition before battle 69 “We Three Kings” subjects 71 Deodorant brand 72 Sierra ____ 73 “Whoops, sorry about that!” 77 Sensationalist newspaper 78 Openings under desks 81 Observance first celebrated in 1970
82 Big to-do
83 Like “Saturday Night Live” 86 Put up with 87 Pull back 88 Mother of 60-Down 89 Item in a toxic internet “challenge” 91 Region around the Beltway, informally 95 Just for laughs 96 Put on a show 97 Work with one’s hands 98 Poppycock 99 Classic computer game set on an abandoned island 100 Michelle of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” 101 With 37-Across, Ingrid Bergman’s role in “Casablanca” 102 Tricky pronoun to use
103 Wine opener? 104 ’60s dance craze that evolved from the Chicken 105 Join
108 Helper during taxing times?