IF THE CLUE FITS ... New York Times Crossword
John Ewbank is a British science writer from Macclesfield, near Manchester. He regularly composes cryptic crosswords for The Times of London, but lately he has been trying American-style crosswords. This is his third for us. The theme is examples of anapo
ACROSS
1 Precision woodworking tool
8 When repeated, a 1999 No. 1 Santana hit
13 Passionate
19 Ingredient in a
Caesar salad
20 A tick or a tock 21 Highly luminous
galactic object 22 *”Let’s stick with what we’ve got ... ”
24 Dissimilar to
25 Trivia lover,
maybe
26 Blockhead
27 SkyMiles offerer 29 Pulitzer winner
James
30 Modern-dance
pioneer Duncan 33 *”How clever we
both are ... ”
35 Spice grinder
37 Locale of Hephaestus’ forge, in mythology
39 Jessica of “The
Illusionist”
40 Writer/humorist
Frazier
41 “What a pity!”
43 A butterfly flying into your home is a good one, some say
46 They may be
yawning
50 *”Look who it
is ... ”
55 Ground grain
56 Road hog?
57 Kind of cable,
for short
58 Twitter boss
Musk
60 Target of
tetracycline
61 “Little” car of song that’s “really lookin’ fine”
62 Orion’s belt
points to it
65 Groovy
67 Chew out 68 *”Timid types shouldn’t be here ... ”
74 Spot for a tat
75 Male turkey
76 Obsolescent
circus workers 77 Fate
78 Carpenter’s
tool
80 Goes up and
down
83 Honey
84 Hardly tiptoes 87 Classic Memphis-based record label
88 *”Looks can be
deceiving ... ”
92 From A to Z,
maybe
95 Pants, slangily 96 Except
97 Palindromic
prefix
98 Director
Kazan
100 Something a
beanie lacks
103 Parody
105 *”Well, if the locals are doing it ... ”
110 Tammy who sang “Stand by Your Man”
112 Occupied
113 Greek word meaning “character”
114 See 111-Down 115 Where there’s
smoke
119 Gather, as
volunteers
121 “Etc., etc.” … or a statement about answers to this puzzle’s starred clues? 125 Commonly contracted two-word phrase
126 Why you might
run out
127 Makes gassy 128 Get goose
bumps, say
129 “Ciao!”
130 Popular papal
name
DOWN 1 Nickname that
drops -ces
2 Very formal, or very informal, garment
3 Royal title
4 The time machine on “Doctor Who”
5 “Toy Story”
antagonist
6 What makes creamer creamier?
7 What Beethoven did in his 30s and 40s
8 Use as a
rendezvous point 9 Essen
exclamation
10 What an “@”
might signify
11 Word with ear or
peace
12 Confuse
13 Like swimming
and surfing
14 It’s worth one
point in cricket
15 With Desmond Tutu, co-author of the 2016 best seller “The Book of Joy”
16 Complete, as a
.pdf contract
17 Au naturel
18 Canopy makeup 20 British draft
horse
23 English dos
28 Four to five
spaces, typically 31 Police operation requiring patience
32 Rose gold, e.g. 34 “It’s ... OK”
35 Family member that’s also a letter in the NATO alphabet
36 One charged with climate policy
38 Go-ahead
40 Sorta
42 Deck treatment 44 “Who’s That
Girl?” rapper 45 It’s nothing
47 Where a grilled cheese can be found at McDonald’s
48 Suffix for a fad
49 Was out
51 Choir voice
52 Smart
53 Have a life
54 Sends high into
the sky
59 “I don’t think so” 62 Its largest islands are
Savai’i and
Upolu
63 The Jazz, on
scoreboards
64 Carnival dance
66 Glamping option named for its shape
68 “No bid”
69 Gave, as
nourishment
70 Male swan
71 Shipshape
72 Bottom of the
barrel
73 Knee-slapper
79 Like many
suitcase handles 81 Club relative
82 Canon offering,
in brief
84 Spotted nocturnal mammal
85 Play thing?
86 Bit of redacted
info, for short
89 Indubitably
90 “Ben-____”
91 A little light
combat?
93 ____ Lilly & Co. 94 Breakfast nook 99 “Have you heard about batik? It’s a dyeing ____” (groaner)
101 Childish plea
102 “Holy smokes!” 104 Do some maintenance on, as a PC’s disk 105 Resource in the
game Catan
106 French name that is an anagram of a German river
No. 0416
Answer To Last Week’s Puzzle:
107 Pompeo of “Grey’s Anatomy”
108 “Now I
remember!”
109 Poet Marianne 111 With 114Across, crystal collector, perhaps
116 Mother of Apollo
and Artemis
117 Account holder,
e.g.
118 Popular online
marketplace
120 Day on Mars
122 Either of two lead characters in “Kiss Me, Kate”
123 Homophone of
90-Down
124 Poetic
palindrome
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