NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Jesse Goldberg is a software engineer in San Francisco. Last year, finding himself between jobs, he tackled a big project he’d been thinking about for 30 years — creating an app to assist in designing and filling crossword grids. The result, Crosserville, is available online (free for now). Jesse isn’t the first person to build a crossword-construction app, but his is a highly versatile one. This is Jesse’s second puzzle for The Times. —W.S.
ACROSS
1 Certain music royalties collector, for short 6 Viva ____
(aloud)
10 Dirty look
15 Even once
19 Part of R.I.
20 Big exporter of
saffron
21 Sci-fi intro to
‘‘forming’’
22 Foul
23 ‘‘Enjoy the
food!’’
25 Sportscaster who memorably asked, ‘‘Do you believe in miracles?’’
27 Crush
28 Emmy-winning FX series created by Donald Glover 29 ‘‘Curses!’’
30 Challenger
astronaut Judith 31 ‘‘With enough
butter, ____’’
34 Commanded
36 Fuel-economy authority, for short
37 Main artery
38 ‘‘A party without
cake is ____’’
48 Retin-A target 49 Healthful property of a beach town
50 Chicken or veal
dish, in brief
51 Merit
55 Boardroom
plot?
57 Hangout rooms 58 Pair of quads
59 The Powerpuff
Girls, e.g. 60 Filmmaker with a distinctive style 62 Affixes, as a
cloth patch 64 Something that’s gone bad if it floats when placed in a bowl of water 65 ‘‘If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. ____?’’ 71 Word mistakenly heard at a Springsteen concert 74 Under way 75 Beethoven’s
Third 79 Reverse 81 Tons 82 Seriously hurt 86 Move quickly,
informally
87 ____ o’clock (when happy hour begins) 88 Host’s offer at a
housewarming 89 Spongelike 91 Focal points 92 ‘‘I enjoy cooking with wine. Sometimes I ____’’
96 99 ‘‘Same Word noodle with or here’’ nap 100 ____ lepton (elementary particle) 101 ‘‘The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for ____’’ 108 Stamps (out) 113 One of Abraham Lincoln’s is in the Smithsonian 114 ‘‘Welcome to the Jungle’’ rocker 115 Born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth 117 Cause of a smartphone ding, perhaps 119 Chef quoted in this puzzle’s italicized clues 120 Guitar part 121 Member of la famiglia 122 Letters on an F-22 Raptor 123 One given onboarding 124 1975 Wimbledon champ 125 Like voile and chiffon 126 What may make the grade 127 Direct
DOWN
1 Shady spot
2 Less-than-subtle
basketball foul
3 Temporary road
markers
4 ‘‘I don’t give
____!’’
5 Pharmaceutical
picker-upper
6 Penthouse perk 7 ‘‘Coffee ____?’’
8 Stone memorial 9 Suffix with exist 10 Actor Jason who was once on Britain’s national diving team
11 Four-stringed
instruments
12 Financial
adviser Suze
13 Dry with a twist 14 Milk: Prefix 15 NASA
spacewalk 16 Try to win 17 Page who became the first openly trans man to appear on the cover of Time magazine (2021)
18 L.A. neighborhood referenced in Tom Petty’s ‘‘Free Fallin’?’’ 24 Coolers 26 Comedian
Minhaj 28 How some
bonds are sold 32 Himalayan
legends 33 Fetch 35 Provided tunes for a party, in brief 38 Backbone of Indian classical music
39 Earth tone
40 Body sci.
41 Toon first introduced in the 1945 short ‘‘Odor-able Kitty’’
42 Neighbor of
Oman: Abbr.
43 Japanese
honorific
44 Florida attraction with 11 themed pavilions
45 ‘‘His wife could
____ lean’’
46 Family name in Steinbeck’s ‘‘East of Eden’’ 47 ‘‘That’s it for me’’ 52 Exist
53 Outfit 54 Drink garnished
with nutmeg
56 Quizzical
responses
58 Part of NGO:
Abbr.
61 Change from portrait to landscape, say 62 Neither red nor
blue: Abbr.
63 Benchmark
66 Locks-up shop? 67 Any set of elements in a column on the periodic table 68 Japanese port
near Sapporo 69 War zone
danger, for short 70 ‘‘A Room of One’s
Own’’ novelist
71 Mac
72 Gastric acid, on
the pH scale
73 Tribute in verse 76 Classic Langston
Hughes poem
77 First name in
fashion
78 Saharan
80 Snacks that sometimes come in sleeves
82 Words to live by 83 The Cardinals,
on scoreboards 84 Large Hadron
Collider bit
85 Many a rescue
dog 89 It’s not the
whole thing
90 Mount ____,
California volcano 93 Critical
94 Rank for a rear
admiral
95 What the Unsullied warriors are on ‘‘Game of Thrones’’
96 She turned Arachne into a spider after losing a weaving contest
97 Wags a finger at 98 Separate
102 Tough period of
the school year 103 Bayt ____ (destination for a Muslim pilgrim) 104 Krispy ____
105 Crooner Mel 106 Handy
107 Caffeine-rich nuts 109 Still alive, in
dodge ball
110 Laissez-____
111 N.J. city on the
Hudson
112 Meal at which parsley is dipped in salt water
116 Serious divide 118 Candy-aisle name 119 Protrude
ANSWERS APPEAR ON PAGE 55