SUNDAY CROSSWORD: NOVEL THINKING
ACROSS
1 Nickname of the Looney Tunes animator Ben Hardaway 5 Occupied, as a desk
10 Language of Lahore 14 Cantankerous sort 18 Siouan people 19 1984 comedy in which Daryl Hannah plays a mermaid
20 Takes a turn
21 “Stop right there!” 22 Rapper ____ Dogg 23 Private address? 24 “Little House on the Prairie,” e.g.? 26 “The Haunting of Hill House,” e.g.? 29 Grilled cornmeal cake popular in Latin America 30 Singer Zadora
31 No. in an email signature line
32 The “A” of P.G.A.: Abbr.
35 They’re in it for the long haul
38 Cocktail made with grenadine
40 “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” e.g.?
42 One studying for a bar or bat mitzvah, usually 43 Onboarding participants 44 Wetland
45 “Back to Treasure Island,” e.g.?
48 “Ideas worth spreading” offshoot 49 Designers’ degs. 50 Ripen 51 Grandmother:
Ger.
52 Prayer support? 53 Ballerina’s asset 54 Slugger Sammy 56 Justice ____ Brown Jackson
59 Like a bialy 61 “Crime and Punishment,” e.g.?
65 Make certain 67 Running the show, so to speak
68 Site of Vulcan’s forge
72 Vinaigrette vessel 73 Bit of butter 75 Suffix with block or stock
76 ____ vivant
77 Some family members, informally
78 Apple feature not found in the Apple logo
80 “If Beale Street
Could Talk,” e.g.? 85 Some speaker
systems, in brief 86 They often have large dollar signs on them, in cartoons
88 Stage name (and middle name) of Robyn Fenty 89 “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” e.g.? 91 They run parallel in a grocery store
93 14-time winner of the French Open 94 Fortune
95 Reddit Q. and A. 96 Some campers, in brief
97 Author Calvino 99 “The Help,” e.g.? 105 “The Secret Life of
Bees,” e.g.?
109 One hundred, in Honduras
110 Sound from R2-D2 111 Ice cream flavor with a crunch
112 Straddling
113 Purple-crayon-carrying boy of children’s literature
114 Spot for a trough 115 Autodom’s 88 or
Toronado, once
116 Letters before the
ZIP code 10001
117 Fresh
118 Terrier type
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1 Hit it! 2 Sundance Film Festival site 3 Break down 4 Uses X-ray vision on
5 One side in the Battle of Thermopylae 6 On the same team 7 How guitars are strung
8 Sparkling wine region
9 Ergo
10 “Nasty!” 11 Hundred Acre Wood resident who sometimes falls into mouse holes while practicing jumping 12 Issued an edict, say
13 App developer’s target
14 Place of worship 15 Cat breed with a shabby-sounding name 16 Fermented brew 17 Seoul singers 19 Indy-to-Memphis dir.
25 Toluca lucre 27 Reserved, as seats 28 Big affair
33 One might have three parts, with or without its last letter
34 Strength 36 “Whatevs”
37 Pick up 38 Spaghetti-sauce brand
39 Chaired
40 Word with small or deep 41 Perturb
42 Some spots for
vaccines, in brief 43 Buses and trains 46 Film role played by a terrier named Terry
47 Saudi Arabia
neighbor 49 Animal whose name comes from the Narragansett word for “twigeater”
52 Parts of A.T.M.s 53 ____ chart
55 Some recesses 56 Wine cocktail 57 Legal suffix 58 Actress Aniston,
familiarly
59 I, to Claudius 60 Prominent manufacturer of A.T.M.s
62 Daily grind
63 Mary ____, first lady’s maiden name
64 Large jug 65 Grande who has broken 27
(and counting) Guinness world records for musical accomplishments 66 Partly covered, in a
way
69 Cut with a letter
opener? 70 High times?
71 “My Way” lyricist Paul
72 Debate airer
73 The Rose City, so nicknamed for its pink sandstone 74 Bounds
78 Sun, in Santiago 79 Hit list
80 I.R.S. employee:
Abbr.
81 Without direction 82 [I know it’s wrong] 83 Snippy
84 The creeps 86 1980s-’90s legal
drama
87 All over again 90 Passover servings 91 ____ dozen
92 Some acids,
informally 98 Student ____
100 Phil ____, Joan Baez
contemporary
101 Antipiracy org.
102 Role for George Burns, Morgan Freeman and Whoopi
Goldberg
103 Tax amount
104 Pointer for an
Olympian?
105 Scare word
106 Safari or Chrome
address, in brief
107 Slip into
108 Catch sight of