DOUBLE DUTY New York Times Crossword
Tracy Gray lives in Hunt Valley, Md. She and her husband recently retired after 35 years of owning and operating a lawnand-landscaping
business outside Baltimore. This puzzle started with its title, which Tracy then brainstormed themes to
fit — the crossword equivalent of putting the cart before the horse.
ACROSS
1 “We’re doing
this!”
6 Rear ends
14 Mensa prereq
20 Lightweight
curtain fabric
21 Folded brunch
fare
22 Tito who wrote
“Oye Como Va” 23 Song performed three times in “The Wiz”
25 Give a kick, say 26 What “American Airlines” means in poker lingo
27 Marty Feldman’s role in “Young Frankenstein”
28 Cioppino
ingredient
30 Crumbly coffeehouse confection
31 Container for
movie popcorn 32 ____ Nation (annual music festival)
33 One place to find
a pair of parrots 35 Backless stool
37 DFW stat
38 Riddle-me-____ 39 Group with the 2009 hit “I Gotta Feeling”
41 Boldness
43 Apple variety whose name sounds like part of a flower
45 Steph Curry and LeBron James, e.g.
49 “Yes, cap’n!”
51 Move quickly
(through)
53 Pinnacle
54 Mérida mister
56 Layering
garment
59 Number of Gospels in the New Testament 61 Author Koontz
62 Big ____
63 Fitness enthusiast’s mantra
66 Old Italian
currency
67 The one who got
away?
69 Japanese
vegetable
70 Suffering
memory loss
73 Nicholas II was
the last one
74 Start of some cautionary advice
79 PreCheck org.
80 POTUS’s military
title
81 Bird whose first
letter is silent
82 Baby ____
83 Low-lying
wetland
85 Real looker
87 List-ending abbr. 89 Mean
91 Rubs the rite
way?
93 Surfboard/kayak
hybrid
96 Casey of classic
radio
100 Take advantage
of an opportunity 102 Where the buck
might stop?
104 Alex and ____
(jewelry brand) 105 2022 No. 1 hit
for Taylor Swift 108 Snoopy, to
Charlie Brown 109 Actress
Campbell of the “Scream” films 110 N.Y.C. subway
inits.
111 Former African country, and its currency
112 Jewish rite for an
8-day-old
114 Weather the
storm
115 Sow and hoe for
dough, say
116 F-14 fighter jet 118 You love to see it 122 Fashion designer
Pucci
123 Broke a nationalpark rule
124 Emoticon’s
mouth, for short
125 Appleprocessing plant 126 Church parts vulnerable to lightning
127 Hip spot for a
drink?
DOWN
1 “No food for me,
thanks”
2 “Adorbs!”
3 Angle-measuring
instrument
4 Ransom Eli
____ (pioneering automaker)
5 Opposite of
paleo
6 What “the Hill” is
a metonym for
7 Recess retort
8 Paint brand
9 Fútbol cheer
10 “Come ____ the Sea” (Thomas Moore poem)
11 Daytona vehicle 12 List-ending abbr. 13 Calm
14 Computer addresses, for short
15 Cheesy appetizer with chips
16 Variety of tiny
dog
17 Belgian
Surrealist painter James
18 Peach pit
19 Doctrinal belief 24 “The Good ____” (Emmy-winning series)
29 Bread spread
32 “Still awake?”
33 Olympian
Raisman
34 Zodiac animal
36 “The View” cohost Joy
39 Emptier
40 Butter cutter
42 Amazon Prime
vehicle
44 Early name in
digital recording 46 Unlikely donors
to the AARP
47 Kinda close
48 Largest of New York’s Finger Lakes
50 Pennsylvania city that’s home to Gannon University
52 Luau finger food 54 Word with jam or
joint
55 Best animated feature winner of 2021
57 Curved line between musical notes
58 Hot cocktail
60 It owns the trademark for “The Greatest Snow on Earth” 62 “You ____!”
64 Streak on a
cheek
65 ____ speak
68 Where to see the
midnight sun
71 Barbenheimer in the summer of 2023, e.g.
72 Aaron Judge,
e.g., in brief
75 Teeny-tiny
76 When a football
may be snapped 77 Walt Whitman,
notably
78 Fail miserably
81 Preamble start 84 Nutritional fig.
86 Like love on Valentine’s Day, it’s said
88 Bad spot to leave food unattended
90 Laundry purchase in an orange container 92 Belgrade
resident
94 Service center? 95 Tympanostomy performer, for short
97 Iraqi city on the
Tigris
98 “Mains”
99 Former TLC reality show set in a Florida tattoo parlor
No. 0414
101 Standards of
behavior
103 O.T.C. part
105 Like the emblem
on Mexico’s flag 106 Two-time Australian Open winner Osaka 107 Unlikely to make
the first move 109 Like some credit
cards
113 “Really,
though?”
114 PC shortcut key 115 A little horse
117 Nursery item
119 It merged with Bell Atlantic to become Verizon 120 With it, in old
slang
121 Letters on some skin-care products