Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

New York Times Crossword Puzzle

- By Adam Fromm / Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 “For more ____ …” 5 Some unwanted mail 9 Terse bit of advice

13 Half of an ice cream brand with a fake Danish name

19 Work up a sweat

20 Rent

21 Like tap water in a

restaurant

22 Iris part

23 Wing it [Africa]

25 Blue

26 Chew out

27 Après-ski drink 28 Complete rip-off [Asia] 30 Barrel-flavored, as wine 31 Washington, D.C.,

legalized it in 2014 32 Wealthy king of legend 33 Recess

36 Charge for admission 37 See 101-Down

38 Quaint contractio­n 41 Record company

[Central America] 45 Two-time third-party

presidenti­al candidate 47 “The Walking Dead”

channel

48 Beyond great

49 Baking measure 50 Cerebral

51 Take in

53 ____ shoots (salad

ingredient)

54 One of five for a dolphin 55 Supple leather 56 Proboscis, informally 58 What subjects and verbs

must do [Europe] 62 Ancho pepper, before

drying

65 Puzzled

66 Sort by urgency of need

[Europe]

70 Misgiving

74 Where meditators look 75 ____ candy

76 Planet where the cry “Shazbot!” is said to have originated 79 Food-chain link

80 Treats prepared on an

open fire

81 Part of O.E.D.: Abbr. 82 Organic fertilizer 84 Hold up

85 Male 91-Acrosses 86 T-shirt size [South

America]

90 Not to mention

91 Forest ranger

92 Shapes made by thumbs

and index fingers 93 Glossed over

94 Like some toy cars 97 Sportage maker

98 ____ Cochran, Mississipp­i senator from 1978 to 2018 99 First month of the year without a U.S. federal holiday [Asia]

102 Dismissed out of hand 106 Want badly 107 Sit at a red light, say 108 Biblical outcast [South

America]

109 Exclamatio­n from a

cheek pincher

110 Org. behind the New

Horizons project

111 One whose job prospects

go up in smoke?

112 Responsibi­lity

113 Biggest U.S. union,

familiarly

114 Set of two

115 City north of Des

Moines

116 Resident of the Palazzo Ducale

DOWN

1 Hankering

2 Manhattan neighborho­od

west of the East Village 3 Order

4 Cranky codger

5 “Reach for the sky!” 6 Sandwich often served

with rémoulade sauce 7 Killer of the Night King

on “Game of Thrones” 8 “Throw ____ bone”

9 Key of Debussy’s “Clair

de Lune”

10 Black pie-crust

component

11 Lead-in to many a joke on

“The Daily Show” 12 Senator who once served as an editor of The Harvard Law Review 13 Hurt

14 Many Omanis

15 Group seen in gathering

clouds?

16 Discovery that might

cause a rush 17 Wellsian race of the

future

18 Gram

24 Objects in one of Jesus’

miracles

28 Singer Lisa

29 Top of the line

31 Fruit with an obovate

shape

33 Media for scientists 34 Unit of brightness

35 Raw material for

Cadbury

36 Popular Amazon Prime

dramedy from Britain 39 Kind of column seen on

the Jefferson Memorial 40 “Funny Girl” composer

Jule

42 Copy

43 Vaper’s device,

informally 44 Nutritiona­l snack from

Clif

45 Trig, for calc, e.g. 46 Relaxed

50 Some wetlands

52 Snack with a recommende­d microwave time of just three seconds 54 Theater impresario

Ziegfeld

55 Abbr. in a genealogic­al

tree

57 ____ Strait, separator of Australia and Papua New Guinea

59 What one is in Paris? 60 Kylo ____, “Star Wars”

antagonist 61 Candy-heart phrase 63 Raises one’s paddle, say 64 Each verse of “Deck the

Halls” has 32 of them 66 Host Tyler of “Whose

Line Is It Anyway?” 67 Dishearten

68 Scottish tradition before

battle

69 “We Three Kings”

subjects

71 Deodorant brand

72 Sierra ____

73 “Whoops, sorry about

that!”

77 Sensationa­list newspaper 78 Openings under desks 81 Observance first

celebrated in 1970

82 Big to-do

83 Like “Saturday Night

Live”

86 Put up with

87 Pull back

88 Mother of 60-Down 89 Item in a toxic internet

“challenge”

91 Region around the

Beltway, informally 95 Just for laughs

96 Put on a show

97 Work with one’s hands 98 Poppycock

99 Classic computer game set on an abandoned island

100 Michelle of “Crouching

Tiger, Hidden Dragon” 101 With 37-Across, Ingrid Bergman’s role in “Casablanca”

102 Tricky pronoun to use 103 Wine opener?

104 ’60s dance craze that evolved from the Chicken

105 Join

108 Helper during taxing

times?

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