SUNDAY CROSSWORD: PUNCH LINES
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 thirdmost-populous 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
©2024 New York Times 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