The New York Times Crossword
Across
1 Hearten
7 “... and it flopped” 11 Attack with
snowballs, say
15 Graceful bird
19 Crossword
header
20 Clearer in
hindsight?
22 ____ Winans, 12-time Grammywinning gospel singer
23 Apollo 11 landing
spot
25 Eligible receiver? 26 Quickly maturing
security, for short 27 Helps
28 Flying terrors of
myth
29 With 42-Down, Oscars category from 1963 to 2019 30 Misfortunes
31 Semicircular
recess
32 Items used by barkeepers, barbecuers and blacksmiths
34 Wackadoodle
35 Enhanced tape format released in 1987
37 Beat poet
Cassady
38 Spewed forcefully 40 Take off the board 43 À la ____ (spitroasted)
47 Spree
48 Black-____
albatross
49 Knee-jerk
response
50 Remove cargo
from
53 Describing the 32-Down’s
image
55 Milk source
56 Impends
57 Inscribed with some ancient characters
58 Whirling toon,
familiarly
59 Order, in a way 60 Nonfiction films,
informally
61 Metaphor from an
hourglass
64 “Come ____!”
65 This: Sp.
66 Sitcom planet of
the ‘70s and ‘80s 67 Animal life
68 Pondered
69 It’s probably over
your head
70 One star, typically 73 Relentless
go-getters
74 Carl XVI ____ (king of Sweden beginning in 1973) 76 Little bump
77 Eve’s third son
78 Soccer chant
79 ____ 3000, half of the hip-hop duo Outkast
80 Persuade with
patter
84 A majority
86 Offensive football
positions
88 Ruby of “The Jackie Robinson
Story”
89 Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, with “The”
94 Talk Like a Pirate
Day outbursts
95 Dormer section 96 Turn aside
97 Actress
Amanda
98 Taking a bow at
the symphony? 99 Waif
100 “A warehouse of facts, with poet and ____ in joint ownership” (“The Devil’s Dictionary” definition for
“imagination”) 101 Its motto is “Agriculture and Commerce”
104 Opposite of exo105 Woe for a speeder 106 ____ Blinken,
Biden’s secretary of state
107 Bit of “kit chat” 108 1974 spoof with the tagline “Would you buy a used secret from these men?” 109 Bits of machinery 110 Latin phrase meaning “based on forecasts”
Down
1 Having legs
2 Cool shade
3 Weakness
4 Sledge, wedge,
etc.
5 Sports org. with the Pittsburgh Maulers and Philadelphia Stars 6 SFO setting: Abbr.
7 Sang hosannas to 8 Car part the Brits
call a “wing”
9 Heading for commonly sought info
10 Capote nickname
11 ____ light
12 Sweeping works
13 Reveals
14 Don’t give up
15 Intellectual
movement
16 Tyke
17 Performing well
on
18 Candy with two
flavors in one box 21 Flexible cutters 24 Kid Cudi or Lil
Baby, e.g.
29 Fixed look
31 Enveloping
atmospheres
32 Pope Pius XII called it “a holy thing perhaps like nothing else”
33 Odor-fighting
spray brand
35 Parts of some
brackets
36 “Yankee Doodle”
has 16 of them
39 Entertainers with
bright futures
41 Partner of poivre 42 See 29-Across
44 Juice regimen 45
Like épées vis-àvis foils Stretches out Curve Experience Music genre for Erykah Badu and D’Angelo
52 Many people find
it intolerable
53 About 98% of the
human genome 54 Word meaning “desire” in a classic Sanskrit text
57 ____ avis
61 Big tear-jerker
62 Went under
63 Word with fine or
signature
68 Hands, in slang
71 1980s White
House nickname 72 Dilute something,
in a way
73 Battery parts?
75 Up in the air
77 Maker of the Ring in “The Lord of the
Rings”
80 Surgical
instrument with thumbholes
81 Joy who wrote
“Born Free”
82 Forgiving
83 Talent for
discernment
85 Mic-check noise 87 Cattle-ranch
identifier
89 “The Crucible”
setting
90 Sheepish?
91 “Swell!”
92 “I can do this. Hit
me.”
93 Some 10-pointers
in Greek Scrabble 95 Dish made from
durum, say
98 Prefix with
futurism
99 Kids of boomers 101 Grads-to-be:
Abbr.
102 Not prescription,
in brief
103 Scottish negative
46 48 50 51