Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

New York Times Crossword Puzzle

TURNS OF PHRASE

- By Spencer Leach Edited by Joel Fagliano

ACROSS

1 ‘‘Let me repeat ... ’’

6 Musical speeds

11 When repeated, a cry of approval

15 Like many creatures in modern scifi movies, for short

18 Light wood

19 Cross figure

20 New Jersey’s Sea ____ City

21 Spot for a shot

22 Spook some creatures in an aquarium’s touch tank?

24 Fiery matches?

26 Band with the 1994 hit ‘‘What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?’’

27 Some vocal solos

28 In the style of

30 ‘‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’’ playwright Edward

31 Bad material for a silk purse, proverbial­ly 33 Deliver a blow to Dracula?

37 With ‘‘the,’’ a sudden flip from attraction to disgust, in modern parlance

38 Brand whose stock price increased 50 percent in the first six months of 2020

40 Blooms named for their shape

41 Set of selections

43 ‘‘You sure?’’

44 Before

45 No. calculated from letters

47 References a Vatican Library source?

49 Went down a slippery slope

50 ____ Palmas, Canary Islands

51 Kind of history

52 About, on a memo

53 Certain Ivy Leaguer

54 Support

55 ‘‘Forget it!’’

57 Welcomes at the door

59 Tender spots

60 Referees a Tennessee football game poorly?

64 Common pet fish

67 Superlativ­e held by the Atacama Desert

68 ‘‘Barry’’ or ‘‘Ballers’’

72 Stadium sounds

73 Plain

74 Cap’s place

76 It might be a stretch

77 Suffix with Manhattan or meteor

78 Fortitude

79 Write an ode to a caffeinate­d soda?

82 Airport abbr.

83 Addresses online

84 Sound unit found in many Asian languages 85 Nip and tuck, so to speak

86 Like some teas

88 Kind of edition with bonus tracks, perhaps

89 Stadium cheer

90 Start preparing borscht?

92 Fully commit

96 Court cry

97 Garnet is its

birthstone: Abbr.

98 Sculpting stuff

99 Super ____ (GameCube prede

cessor)

101 ‘‘Bather in the Woods’’ painter

104 Make smash burgers?

108 Pretty cool stuff

109 Burn a little

110 Decides that one will

111 Major artery

112 ____ cha beef (Chinese dish)

113 Jumped over, as a checkers piece

114 Michelange­lo work whose name translates to ‘‘compassion’’

115 Suddenly think of

DOWN

1 Lettershap­ed support piece

2 Certain corporate department

3 Mission San Antonio de Valero, more familiarly

4 Neighbor of Leb.

5 World’s oldest capital city, settled in the third millennium B.C.

6 Taylor Swift song that begins, ‘‘Combat, I’m ready for combat’’

7 Makes a gaffe

8 ‘‘Mamma ____!’’

9 ‘‘Gangnam Style’’ rapper

10 Comment from someone exiting the mall on Black Friday

11 Pedalopera­ted instrument

12 That, in Toledo

13 Umbrella term for eboys or goth girls

14 Struck out

15 Stealthy criminal

16 City feature that’s been found to improve mental health

17 ‘‘None for me, thanks’’

19 Kind of seeds in a healthful smoothie

23 Footslog

25 Balm ingredient

29 ____ Luthor, nemesis of Superman

32 Vintage restaurant items?

33 Spoil, with ‘‘on’’

34 Git

35 ‘‘Just a little longer!’’

36 Lauder of cosmetics

39 Do some light work on?

41 Barcelona museum subject

42 H’s on some college houses

43 ‘‘The Lorax’’ setting

44 Actress Cravalho who voiced Moana

46 Doesn’t just assume

47 Swindle

48 Weddingcak­e layer

49 Survive

53 Chuck, slangily

54 Final phase of a

video game, perhaps

56 Big name in records

57 [Actually, don’t

change that]

58 Sounds of doubt

59 ____Caps (candy)

61 Birds known for their loud, complex songs

62 Royal title

63 Assist in a crime

64 Gooey pairing with fig jam

65 Economicju­stice catchphras­e

66 Its water is nearly 10 times saltier than ocean water

69 Animal product

70 Foreboding sign

71 ‘‘Impressive!’’

73 Who cries, ‘‘You get a car, you get a car!’’ in a viral meme

74 Toy brand for a budding engi

neer, maybe

75 ‘‘I don’t like that,’’ in Spanish

78 Take away

79 Police captain on ‘‘Brooklyn NineNine’’

80 Burden

81 Enthusiast­ic agreement

84 Genre for many

a boy band

87 GPS suggestion­s: Abbr.

88 Part of the D.O.J.

89 It’s a fourletter word, aptly

90 Neighbors of the Navajos

91 Onenamed singer born in Reykjavik

93 What Ove’s name was changed to for the American film adaptation of ‘‘A Man Called Ove’’

94 Like neon

95 ‘‘Groovy!’’

98 Sibilant summons

100 ‘‘South Park’’ boy

102 Density symbol, in engineerin­g

103 1990s Indian prime minister

105 Sch. in N.Y.

106 Quebec’s Festival d’____

107 ‘‘You’re accusing me?!’’

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