NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Stephen McCarthy, a native of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is a Ph.D. student studying transportation modeling in Stockholm. He got his start in puzzles by solving cryptic crosswords in Toronto’s Globe and Mail with his grandfather. Last year he began constructing American-style puzzles, incorporating some of the wordplay of cryptics in his themes and clues. This is a good example. Stephen’s last Times crossword was ‘‘Maple Leaf,’’ in June. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 What a drawbridge may bridge
5 In that case
9 Control-tower
installation
14 Pass
19 ‘‘That one’s ____’’
(‘‘My bad’’)
20 Amelia Bedelia,
e.g.
21 ‘‘Go me!’’
22 Member of a
noble family
23 2004 film about a group of MALIGNERS 25 It might be put on for stage PAGEANTRIES 27 Annual film festival where ‘‘Saw’’ and ‘‘Get Out’’ premiered 28 ‘‘____ La La’’
(1964 hit)
29 Senator, e.g., for
short
30 Avoids a bogey,
perhaps
31 Being
33 Be hopping mad 34 Cool one
37 W.W. II hero,
informally
39 Muletas are
waved at them 40 Canon camera 41 Branch of Islam 42 You might be MARVELING AT this as it whizzes by
46 Sort of SCHEMATIC for Christian education
48 Like some casts
49 City nicknamed
the Old Pueblo 51 French city near the Belgian border 52 Prefix with
colonial 53 Tightfitting 55 Toni Morrison
title heroine 56 Annual British
acting award 58 Series of questions, maybe 60 Counterpart of
elles 62 Opposite of never 64 Many relationships are INSTIGATED on one 68 Healthy eaters may give this A WIDE BERTH 72 Disrupt an online meeting, in a way 74 Mauna ____ 75 Grp. that hasn’t yet found what it’s looking for 76 Wonder Woman
and others 79 Valuable load
for a mule 81 Influence 84 Pioneering gangsta rap group 85 Burdened 86 Just 88 Preferring one’s own company, perhaps 90 They can be NOISELESS while stalking prey 93 Explorers of the UNTRAVERSED 95 Burden 96 Old cable-TV inits. 97 Fill in 98 Word repeated in ‘‘I ____, I ____, it’s off to work I go’’ 99 Lick, say 100 ‘‘____ merci!’’ (French cry) 101 ‘‘On it, captain!’’ 103 ‘‘No need to make me a plate’’ 106 Five-letter word that replaces a four-letter word? 107 1980s gaming inits. 108 Not even 111 Writing done GRAPHICALLY 115 The Trojans lacked the FORESIGHT to turn this down 116 It’s multilayered 117 You should always bring it to a competition 118 Children’s author Blyton 119 Be taken aback 120 One way to cook a 116-Across 121 Unenthusiastic 122 They know the drill: Abbr. 123 Word after hard or before short
DOWN
1 ‘‘My Two ____’’ (2015 Claudia Harrington children’s book)
2 Top 3 Appliance brand since 1934 4 Pea shooters? 5 ‘‘Sign me up!’’ 6 Complete travesty 7 Feature of many British accents 8 Binges too much, for short 9 As if orchestrated 10 Indexed data structures 11 Directly 12 Fourth person to walk on the moon 13 Do a double take? 14 Boot 15 Almost 16 What makes Shrek shriek? 17 One side in a debate
18 It may be blown 24 They may be blown 26 House Republican V.I.P. Stefanik 28 Star in Canis
Major
32 Just so
34 Hot-dog topper 35 Airline passenger
request
36 Lion ____
38 ‘‘Dear____Hansen’’ (2017Tony-winning musical)
41 Responds to
br-r-r-isk weather? 42 Like zebras and
lions
43 Voice with an
Echo
44 Rub it in
45 ‘‘It is what it is’’
and others 46 Mike Krzyzewski, to Duke basketball fans 47 Rise
50 Hot-dog topper 54 A little too silky,
maybe
56 Justin Trudeau,
by birth
57 Don’t believe it! 59 Aftmost masts
on ships
61 Gives fuel to
63 Gets a move on,
quaintly
65 Who can hear you
scream in space 66 Ending with poly67 Title meaning
‘‘commander’’ 69 ‘‘____ Meenie’’
(2010 hit)
70 Battling
71 Rings up
73 Showing the effects of an all-nighter, say 76 Give one’s
blessing to
77 It has more coastline than California, surprisingly
78 Score after seven
points, maybe 80 Certain radio
format
82 Apropos of
83 ‘‘Like that’ll
ever happen!’’ 86 ‘‘Appetizers’’ or ‘‘Desserts,’’ at a diner
87 International cosmetics company ____ Rocher
89 Content people? 91 Larsson who wrote ‘‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’’ 92 Pooh-pooh
94 Common April
activity, nowadays 97 Vietnamese
sandwich
100 Group trying to
sack a QB 102 Make over, as a
ship
104 A crowd, they say 105 It has 104-Down
legs
106 Obscure, with ‘‘out’’ 109 They may be set
by industry grps. 110 Girl in ‘‘The Old
Curiosity Shop’’ 111 sin/tan
112 Major Japanese
carrier
113 ‘‘Kill Bill’’ co-star 114 You can chew
on it
115 Some appliances