The New York Times Crossword
PUNCH LINES BY DANIEL GRINBERG / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ
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