The New York Times Crossword
Daniel Grinberg of Philadelphia researches user experience for a utility company.
ACROSS
1 Pink, purple and blue Pride
display, familiarly
7 Hound
10 Kind of opening
13 Frontwoman for the
Pussycats
18 Nipple rings
20 Target of an inventory scan
22 Acting like
23 Fault line?
25 Qualifier for a date
26 Olaf’s creator in “Frozen“”
27 Nickname that drops “An-”
28 A gig has a thousand of
these
29 Permitted
30 Permitted
31 Fine line?
35 Atomic number of neon
36 Preserves things?
37 Shaped like a kiwifruit
38 Processes
41 ____ attachment
44 Anatomical stabilizer
45 The Green Hornet’s
assistant
46 Not down, in a way
47 Fishing line?
53 Mediterranean morsel
55 Get just right
56 Long-running police
procedural, for short
57 Catalan artist Joan
58 Thought the world of
59 “To Kill a Mockingbird’’
setting
61 Match well with
62 First color-TV manufacturer
63 Subway line?
68 Tittle
69 1970s-’80s Supreme Court
justice ____ F. Powell Jr.
70 Scams
73 With an eager spirit 76 Landed
77 Flying formations 79 March ____
80 South American grassland
81 Assembly line? 84 Variety
85 Boxing stats 88 Celestial shape 89 British bottoms 90 Ladybugs and fireflies
92 Some sports-car features
95 Currency replaced by the
euro
97 North American fish with
toxic roe
98 Power line?
101 Simple card game
104 Groundskeeping equipment
106 It’s signed after a break
107 Otherworldly creatures, for
short
108 Z, to Zeno
109 Illegal offering 110 Subject line?
114 Passage of rite?
115 Two outs left, in baseball
116 Performed really badly
117 Timetable: Abbr.
118 “There’s more to the story,
right?’’
119 “The Shining’’ prop
120 Quakes
DOWN
1 There’s a hole in one
2 Gloater’s cry
3 One-named indie singer
with the 2007 hit “1234’’
4 Kinks hit that starts, “I met her in a club down in old Soho’’
5 Neighbor of Ctrl
6 Sense of orientation
7 Peacock parent
8 Exclamation of amazement
9 Alternative to nana
10 Shake slightly
11 Ukraine’s third-mostpopulous city
12 Where a lot of lying
happens
13 Item in a trunk
14 Post-surgery prescription
15 Private line?
16 Motivator
17 “Crikey!’’
19 Brings in
21 Moved like a cat burglar 24 Word after dead or data
29 Volunteer’s declaration
31 Soothe
32 Communal housing
arrangements
33 /, in math
34 Director Lupino
36 Co-founder of the Joining Forces initiative, with Michelle Obama
39 One role in a classic
interrogation trope
40 Zoomed
41 World Heritage Site in Sicily
42 Ground grain
43 Dame Edna, for Barry
Humphries
44 “Enough! I get the picture
already!’’
45 Capital of Japan until 1868
48 Hostile state
49 Volunteer’s declaration
50 Like many retired
professors
51 Petty arguments
52 TLC or Run-D.M.C.
54 Person of interest?
58 HBO comedy about a sports
agent
60 Salamander named after an
Aztec deity
61 ____ knife
64 Gives a hand?
65 Hot spot
66 Genealogist’s chart 67 Kids and nannies
71 Liberated
72 N.S.A. agents, e.g.
73 Superficial, in a way
74 Rich with metaphor
75 Party line?
77 What might lead to a bridge
78 Subside
82 Second-year: Abbr.
83 Bunny ____ (photo prank)
86 Janitor’s ringful
87 Spanish “bear’’
91 Kind of clef
92 Switched
93 Actress Thompson of
“Westworld’’
94 Canadian Tulip Festival
location
95 Light-headed sorts?
96 Selling points
99 School name that sounds
like a Canadian territory
100 Hip Hop Awards channel
101 Gestational metric
102 First-stringers
103 Posts in a rage, perhaps
104 Degrees for C.F.O.s
105 Bog plant
108 New Mexican tribe
110 _ _ _ _-courtin’
111 Shot in the arm, slangily
112 Word after stink or pink
113 What’s what in Oaxaca