The New York Times Crossword
Across
1 Tiny trunks
7 Party person
11 “Are you freaking
kidding me?”
18 Rural greeting
20 Many a “Survivor”
setting
21 Bit of doubling down from a parent
22 Event at a hot new
club?
24 “I wish I were under
four feet tall,” e.g.? 26 M.S.G. team, on
scoreboards
27 Lot lot
29 Name found on a
calendar
30 For whom the bell
tolls
31 Tactical reductions in lighting, as during W.W. II
33 Sommelier’s
superlative
35 Great garage-sale
find
38 Career for a
scammer?
40 Scissors’ sound
44 Muse of comedy
and idyllic poetry 46 German “village” 47 Bubbly, in a way
49 Forwards
51 How Cassius looks to Caesar, in Shakespeare
53 Muscle relaxers
54 Dripping in jewelry,
slangily
55 Real dope
57 Secret service
member?
59 Choler
60 What’s said in
passing?
61 Test subject
63 Repeated small
role for Paul Rudd 66 Transcript fig.
67 Slinky?
69 That’s in Seine!
70 Six-winged biblical
being
72 Famous drawing of
a ship?
73 Theater rival of Regal and Cinemark 74 Double-helix
material
75 Food fight sounds 76 Sight along a
country road
78 Score on a clean
sheet
79 Lead guitarist of Queen, who has a Ph.D. in astrophysics
82 Black humor
84 Kind of race that’s not quite a halfmarathon
86 Kicks down the
road
87 Kate of “House of
Cards”
89 ____ Troi, character on “Star Trek: T.N.G.”
90 Kind of lily
91 Dinner date that makes a good story?
96 Richard Parker in
“Life of Pi,” for one 97 Like much prized blue-and-white porcelain
99 Crab or lobster
101 Texter’s toodle-oo 103 “Bleeding Love”
singer Lewis
105 1970 hit for Neil
Diamond
106 Ad Council output,
in brief
109 A kiss, a hug, a
wave, the works? 112 Title of an essay by
a hit man?
114 Weeks, in Oaxaca 115 Analogy words
116 Common pet
name
117 Goes on and on
and on
118 Bet bit
119 Work-from-home
wear, informally
Down
1 It’s guarded in soccer
2 Carnival ride
3 Jedi ally from Endor 4 End of a college search?
5 Some work at a carwash 6 Public hatred
7 Adjective often capitalized in the Bible
8 Org. concerned
with plants
9 Serve, as messy
cafeteria food
10 Earthling, in sci-fi
11 Act on behalf of
12 Bear, in Bogotá
13 Diatribes
14 Considerably large, in Appalachian dialect
15 Rock’s ____ Brickell
& New Bohemians 16 One of two for six
of VIII?
17 Record
19 Leading
23 Thanksgiving table
decoration
25 The first man ever created, in Maori lore
28 You might see one upside down on a bar
31 Broad valley
32 Still shot of a moving image, in tech-speak
34 “Grand slam” in
showbiz
35 Relationship conditions, so to speak
36 New England vacation destination, familiarly
37 “Whoa there,
Warren G.!”?
39 That one will never
have again
41 Compliment for a
lexicographer?
42 Squid squirt
43 Family-friendly
ratings
45 Coors of brewing
fame
48 Making an
impression?
50 What prices and
hearts may do
52 Unclaimed area
53 Greetings
56 Certain government agent, informally 58 Friend group
62 Kapoor who played the game-show emcee in “Slumdog Millionaire”
63 Tried to engineer
an advantage
64 Author who wrote “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them”
65 Energy option
67 Touches on both
sides
68 Still fighting
71 Cutting class in
med school?
75 Old timer
77 Not quite enough 79 Some gas stations,
in brief
80 Regret
81 Stop hiding
behind?
83 Former Indigenous inhabitants of modern-day Buffalo
85 Word after Minute
or meter
88 Chili variety that means “wide” in Spanish
92 Some of the wildlife in the 20,000-yearold paintings in Lascaux Cave
93 Hot
94 Go “poof!”
95 Increases
98 Good name for a
political pundit? 100 Street clearers
101 Nickname for
Atlanta
102 Resting place
104 Prefix in the names of many causes
106 Pocket at a
restaurant
107 Bit of a fit
108 For-eh-ver
109 Publication co-founded in 1889 by Dow and Jones, in brief
110 Course number
111 Red grp.
113 Late ____