NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Christina Iverson, of Ames, Iowa, is a stay-at-home mom with two young kids. Jeff Chen is a writer and professional crossword constructor in Seattle. This puzzle’s theme started with the vague concept of moving pieces and morphed from dominoes to magnets and finally to jigsaws (“all interests of my son,” Christina says). This is the pair’s second Sunday collaboration. — W.S.
Note: When this puzzle is done, insert the five shaded jigsaw pieces into the box at the bottom to get a three-word phrase, reading across, for what jigsaw puzzles provide.
ACROSS
1 Part of a pie or the earth
6 Style that
makes waves
10 Doe in a court
case
14 Flubs
19 Keister
20 China holder? 21 Axe target
22 Some Madison
Avenue workers 23 End of many a sports broadcast
24 Freestyles,
perhaps
25 Barflies
26 Botch
27 ‘‘First, you’re going to want to dump out the box and ____’’
31 Francis of old
game shows
34 Bounded
35 Capital on a 126-mile-long canal that’s used as a skating rink in the winter
39 English
breakfast, e.g. 40 “What’s most useful next is to ____’’
45 College-app
component
46 Role for “Ronny”
Howard
48 Joshes
49 State flower of
Utah
50 One of the B’s in
BB&B
51 Field work of
note in 1979
54 Rifle, in frontier
lingo
57 ‘‘To connect things up you’ll have to ____”
63 Ones getting
the crumbs?
66 Bonnie with five Top 40 hits in the 1990s
67 Euphoric feeling 71 Love to bits
72 More like a dive bar or certain bread
74 Beehives, but not hornets’ nests
75 Daredevil’s
hashtag
76 Very in
78 One of the B’s in
BB&B
79 Good name for
an investor?
82 High-end Italian
auto, informally 83 ‘‘As you go, make sure you exercise your ____’’
88 At peace
89 Little bouquets 90 ‘‘ka-POW!’’
93 ‘‘With patience and perseverance you’re sure to ____’’
97 Course goal
100 Songs that can
be trilling?
102 Castigates
103 Fairy-tale figure 105 Confer, as
credibility
106 Gets wild and
crazy
108 Legendary
109 Leave skid
marks, maybe 111 N.F.L. standout 113 Homes for high
fliers
114 Instruction to drivers leaving cars at a garage 115 ‘‘C’mon,
slowpoke!’’
116 Ends, as a
mission
117 Mary Poppins,
for one
118 Pick up on
DOWN
1 O-line anchor
2 Feel regret
3 Trojans’ sch.
4 Distinctive part of a cookie cutter
5 ‘‘Tap tap tap . . .”
activity
6 Get into a lot
7 Jacob’s brother,
in the Bible
8 Moved like waves or muscles
9 A certain
degree
10 St. ____ University (Philadelphia school)
11 Rescue dog, for
one
12 Response to the
Little Red Hen 13 Language
related to Manx
14 Egg, e.g.
15 Keats, for one 16 Sounds in a yoga studio 17 Government economic org., at any rate? 18 ____-Cat
28 Big suit
29 Derby, e.g. 30 Menial laborer,
metaphorically 31 Loads
32 Take back, for
short 33 Retreat 36 ‘‘Was it ____ I saw?’’ (classic palindrome) 37 Mists, e.g. 38 Feeling it after a
marathon, say 41 Approves 42 Perspective 43 Achievement for Whoopi Goldberg, in brief
44 Like cioccolato
or torta
47 Titus and
Tiberius
50 Bosom buddies 52 Staple of skin
care
53 Sought office
55 U.P.S.
competitor
56 Steady, maybe 58 Wrath
59 Exercise program since the 1990s
60 Sharp, on a TV,
informally 61 Peak sacred to the goddess Rhea
62 Noshed on
63 ‘‘You’ll ____ for
this!’’
64 Words with a
ring to them? 65 Letter between foxtrot and hotel in the NATO alphabet 68 How people often scroll through social media
69 ‘‘That’s gotta
hurt!’’
70 ‘‘The Puzzle
Palace’’ org. 72 More
straight-faced 73 Creamy Italian
dish
76 Word that becomes its own opposite by putting a ‘‘T’’ at the front
77 Singer whom M.L.K. Jr. called the ‘‘queen of American folk music’’
80 Play again, as a
TV special
81 Companion in
Brittany
84 Brain diagnostics,
for short 85 Used as a rendezvous point
86 Devote
87 Name suffix meaning ‘‘mountain’’
90 Fir tree
91 ‘‘Is it still a
date?’’
92 Roman goddess
of wisdom
94 Prefix with
color or state 95 Sugar ending 96 W.W.II fighters 97 Apps made with jalapeños and cheese 98 ‘‘You agree?’’ (*nudge, nudge*)
99 Gathers some
intel
101 Actor Brody 104 Singer Willie 106 Annoying
107 Grannies
110 Blood line
112 Temporal ____