NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD ANSWERS
Tony Orbach, of Montclair, N. J., is a construction- project manager, saxophonist and crossword constructor. Tony’s love of puzzles runs in the family. ‘‘ My father was a big crossword solver, and as a teen, I would look over his shoulder and help.’’ Tony once made a Puns and Anagrams crossword for his dad. ‘‘ He loved it and made me one in return.’’ By ‘‘ my father,’’ incidentally, Tony means the actor Jerry Orbach of Broadway and television fame. — W. S.
ACROSS
1 Impromptu musical get- together, informally 8 Counting tools 13 Most up to the task
19 Not much 20 Oddball 22 Commotion 23 Archaeologist’s assertion about a finding? 25 Jackson not in the Jackson 5 26 Benchmark: Abbr. 27 Members of the genus Lepus 28 Some overseas seasons 30 Common vinaigrette ingredient 31 Russian pancakes 33 Swim- team guru?
36 Geri ____, late jazz pianist 38 Authority 39 Used to be 40 Hire Phil Collins’s longtime band for a gig? 44 Brand that comes out a head? 45 Explosive sound 49 Curtain- call actions
50 One of 32 in the Thai alphabet 51 The Serengeti, e. g.? 54 TV journalist Curry
55 Long 56 Press 57 Covers with goo 58 Speck 59 Quits 62 Shadow during an eclipse 63 Knowing everything that’s available to view on Netflix? 67 Look forward to 68 Clay- based 69 Unpleasant 70 Clishmaclaver or bavardage, to use some fancy language 72 Trim
73 A/ C measures 74 Hwy. offense 77 Amenity offered at an internet cafe? 79 Nickname for baseball great Ernie Banks 81 Gets out in dodgeball, say 82 Sticks in 83 Yes, in Brest 84 Bit of reading at a bar mitzvah? 86 Director Lee 87 Entertain 89 Deconstruct for analysis 90 Stand- up’s bombs? 95 Keys near G’s 98 Actor Rutger of ‘‘ Blind Fury’’ 99 Keister 100 Less friendly 101 Assistance 104 Peninsula shared by Italy, Slovenia and Croatia
106 Art- shop worker’s manual? 110 Urbanize 111 Spit it out! 112 Part of a canopy 113 The plus side 114 Cuisine that specializes in beef barbecue 115 No- parkingzone fixture
DOWN
1 Pokes
2 Bushels
3 ‘‘ Whoa!’’
4 Geneviève, for one: Abbr. 5 Imprinting indelibly
6 M. I. T.’ s business school 7 Mathematician Poincaré with a famous conjecture 8 Flabbergasts 9 ____ E. King, singer and co- composer of ‘‘ Stand by Me’’ 10 River islet 11 Ye olde news announcers 12 ‘‘ Same here!’’ 13 Knee part, for short
14 Fan group? 15 Like ‘‘ alter ego’’ and ‘‘ alma mater’’ 16 Prayer hands, for one
17 ‘‘. . . or ____ think!’’
18 Part of
L. G. B. T. Q. 21 Short race, for short
24 Your: Fr.
29 ‘‘ When the country was fallin’ apart, Betsy Ross got it all ____ up’’ (‘‘ Maude’’ theme lyric) 32 Albanian coins 33 Something that’s often rigged
34 TV’s Burrell and baseball’s Cobb 35 Looks longingly 36 Band that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest 37 Minnesota’s state bird 38 Orlando- toMiami dir. 41 Role for Patti LuPone and Madonna 42 Brand X 43 Flock member 44 Spotted bean 45 ‘‘ Well, I’ll be,’’ to a Brit 46 Offspring of a 43- Down 47 Taiwanese PCs 48 Big butte
51 A dime a dozen, say?
52 It can help you get a grip 53 Drops ( down) heavily
55 Beautifully worded
56 Joe Jackson’s ‘‘____ Really Going Out With Him?’’
58 Van Gogh painting that once fetched a record amount at auction
($ 53.9 million) 59 Hair- pattern protector 60 ____ nous 61 Get in gear? 63 Dubbing need 64 Used a stun gun on
65 ____ pants
66 Take a dive, maybe 67 Digital- imaging company that used to make film
71 Apt rhyme for ‘‘ baloney’’ 73 Dating notation: Abbr.
74 Start of a seasonal request
75 ‘‘ Fluff Yeah’’ slipper sandals, e. g.
76 ‘‘ Gotcha’’ 78 Helical bit
79 Be off the mark
80 GPS calculation: Abbr. 81 Exam for H. S. jrs. 84 Original tale of robot rebellion 85 Boxed a bit 86 Untethered 87 Biblical mount 88 Team spirit 90 Spanish term of affection between young women 91 Spring in northern Africa 92 Many rescues 93 Goosefleshinducing, maybe 94 Some coin tossers
95 Serve well? 96 Liquor- store purchase 97 Suspicious 100 Where Shiraz is located
102 Pic to click 103 Corp. division 105 Exclamations of regret 107 Combine 108 Green of ‘‘ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’’ 109 Always, in verse