NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Sam Ezersky, 26, is the digital puzzles editor of The New York Times. He also edits the daily Spelling Bee. This is his 38th crossword for the paper. On the day this one runs, he himself will be running the Brooklyn Half Marathon — the first time he’s ever done this distance. He says, “Hoping solvers won’t be struggling on Sunday morning as much as me!” — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Make a bust, say 7 Chew (on)
11 Ointment
amounts
15 Modern lead-in
to mania
19 ‘‘Enough!’’
20 Contemporary
of Picasso
21 Factory watchdog, in brief
22 Native of the country whose national sport is oil wrestling
23 Bit of company swag for a Genius Bar staffer?
25 With 114-Across, exasperated question to parking enforcement?
27 Awesome time 28 Elements of a Sherlock Holmes sports mystery?
30 A small part of
who you are
31 Prefix with
medicine
32 ‘‘Duck Dynasty’’
network
33 Irish ____, popular St. Patrick’s Day cocktail
36 Like much
toothpaste
38 Mountain
mammal
42 Plant cultivated
by the Incas
43 Program after undergrad, for some
47 ‘‘____ rate . . . ’’ 48 Today’s plans: watchin’ someone’s kids?
54 Broadband inits. 55 Overrun
56 ‘‘Mr. Mom’’
actress Teri
57 Data output
denoted by ‘‘N/A’’ 59 Super Bowl in
2022
61 Come on down! 63 Name that’s a body part in reverse
64 It may be measured in both feet and meters
65 How much Michael Jordan or Wilt Chamberlain could score, hyperbolically? 71 Lead-in to cross 72 Happy
companion
73 Focus of the website Brickipedia
74 ‘‘The Hangover’’ character who wakes up with a missing tooth
75 Eschews grains and processed foods, perhaps 78 Common results
of penalties
80 Writers such as
Sappho
85 Waze way: Abbr. 86 Missile silo’s
holding?
89 Pie slices might be displayed in one
91 Natural application to waterproof a ship’s hull
92 Guacamole
go-with?
93 Engine type,
informally
94 Playwright
Edward
97 Hidden obstacle 100 Transport on a
river
102 Transport on a
rail
106 ‘‘Dope!’’
107 Where Sweet’N Low displays its logo?
111 T as in Tartarus 114 See 25-Across 115 Cry following an electrical malfunction? 117 Rufus and Chaka Khan’s ‘‘____ Nobody’’ 118 Like garage
floors, often
119 Slight amount 120 Old English
folklore figure 121 Jumbo
122 When said three times, ‘‘What have we here?!’’ 123 Music score abbr. 124 Jaguar two-seaters starting in 2013
DOWN
1 Catch
2 ____ América (soccer tournament)
3 They call ’em as
they see ’em
4 Text back and
forth?
5 Like pioneering search engines
of the 1980s
6 Polka-influenced
music style
7 Yukon and
Acadia, for two 8 Canon competitor
9 Sizable urban construction project 10 King of the gods in Wagner’s ‘‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’’ 11 Ann of Hulu’s ‘‘The
Handmaid’s Tale’’ 12 Rubbish
receptacle 13 Hindi name for
India 14 Smooth and
glossy
15 ‘‘. . . per my
understanding’’ 16 Zap
17 Line on a neck 18 Clears
24 ‘‘Resume speed,’’
musically 26 The Golden Arches, on stock tickers
29 One covering
plenty of ground 30 Persona non ____ 33 Invent
34 When Lady Macbeth cries, ‘‘Out, damned spot!’’
35 Smoke shop
purchase
37 Standout in a field 39 Bunch of
scoundrels
40 Follows
41 Tissue in a plant
stem
42 DNA reviewer,
in brief
44 Buy time
45 State of
subjugation
46 Male voter stereotype beginning in the mid-2010s
47 Wheels off the
road? 49 Run in place
50 In-state attendee of Great Basin College, e.g.
51 Check
52 Brother in the Lemony Snicket books
53 Certain college
member
58 Great ____
60 Jokey remark after missing a modern reference 62 Be philanthropic,
say
65 Execrate
66 Company computer fixers, informally
67 Big hits? 68 ____ Float (cold
treat)
69 Like a situation
at the start of an inning
70 Ounce of praise,
jocularly
71 Slangy stuff to sell 76 Placed
77 ‘‘. . . must all learn to live together as brothers, ____ will all perish together as fools’’: M.L.K. Jr. 79 Cakewalk
81 Bygone
messaging app 82 Cheer for the
Vikings
83 Poker giveaway 84 Certain
outbuilding
87 Doth proceed
88 Fun plans after
work, say
90 Stuff in stuffed
pasta shells
94 Aphid that produces honeydew
95 ‘‘Ooh, check it out!’’ 96 Happened to
98 Really miff
99 Tycoon
101 What only one planet, Jupiter, is spelled with 103 ____ Hard Apple
(beer brand) 104 Not connected 105 Name that’s ‘‘all the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word,’’ on Broadway
107 Liver, in Le Havre 108 Like church bells 109 ‘‘Bye 4 now!’’ 110 ‘‘Power Lunch’’
airer
111 Maryland athlete,
for short
112 End in ____
113 Doesn’t waste 114 Thanksgiving
dinner offering 116 Very important