The New York Times Crossword
Laura Taylor Kinnel of Newtown, Pa., teaches math and is the director of studies at a Friends boarding school near Philadelphia. She has been solving crosswords since childhood but just started constructing them a little over a year ago. A cousin who solved a 2018 Christmas puzzle of Laura’s encouraged her to make more. She was pleasantly surprised to discover all the help available online to new puzzle makers. This is her second Times crossword, both Sundays. — W.S.
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Boasts Longtime anthropomorphic aardvark on PBS Australia’s national women’s basketball team Sounds “everywhere,” in a children’s song Gloomy
Soup server Add insult to injury “Whenever I want you, all I have to do” is this, in an Everly Brothers hit Farming prefix “Gracias a ____” Jam producer Jack Frost’s bite Bits of terre in la mer
Churns Author Harper He loved Lucy Dry
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Tea type
“A Life for the ____” (Mikhail Glinka opera) 1940s vice president who went on to become president “In Praise of Folly” writer
How to take glib promises Dog/dog separator Subject of many a negotiation Days ____ Jeanne d’Arc, e.g.: Abbr. Enlivens
Big feller? Fails to be
City on the Brazos River Propeller blades? ____ Crunch Gobs
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numbered from 3 to 9 Boardwalk buy Gush
Time magazine’s Person of the Century runner-up, 1999
Strain
____ Westover, author of the 2018 bestselling memoir “Educated”
Big name in theaters
Till compartment “Silent Spring” subject, for short Nothingburger Descartes’s conclusion Energy
Least interesting It gets the ball rolling
2002 Winter Olympics locale Looks through Abdominal-pain producer
Way of securing payment
Fizzy drinks Knitting stitch “Holy ____!” Word after bargain or overhead Emulated a kitten ____ expense (free)
Org. with the slogan “Every child. One voice.” Brand with the slogan “The Art of Childhood” What flies usually become
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Wimp
It’s held by a winner
You, according to Jesus in Matthew 5:13
Follow Reflexive pronoun Fishes Moved like Jagr? Shaded growths Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish, to teenagers
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Orlando ____, twotime Gold Glove Award winner Almost won Martial artist’s belt Appurtenance for a T.S.A. agent Many Dorothy Parker pieces Big 12 college town Column crosser Brings (out) Time of day Sch. with 50+ alums who went on to become astronauts Warning sign Blast from the past Setting for a classic Georges Seurat painting, en français Fruity quaff South American cowboys
Like Havarti or Muenster Reveille player Jack up 21
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Repeated part of a pop song Kind of wheel Peak Heroine of Bizet’s “The Pearl Fishers”
Cozy spot Shows how it’s done Climate change, notably
State Refried bean Astronaut Jemison of the space shuttle Endeavour Reduction in what one owes Headaches Nursery-rhyme 48 49
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Prefix with medic or military Princess Diana, for one Negotiator with G.M. Suckling Disco ____ (“The Simpsons” character) Memorized Exasperate Fabric with sheen Actress ____ Rachel Wood Potential source of a political scandal Evasive maneuver Opposite of “to” 70 75
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Behave like a helicopter parent Attendant of Desdemona in “Othello” Lightly roast Continental abbr. Clustered Meted out Best-actress Oscar winner between Streep and Field Agent of change Attention seekers Critical Fictional exemplar of Christmas spirit Stir-fried noodle dish
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Senator Joni and Dadaist Max What water in a bucket might do Source of the line “Man does not live by bread alone”: Abbr. Boxer, for example Handcuffs This, for one “____ be in England”
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113 Argentina’s leading daily sports newspaper Super ending 93 97 100 101 104 105 114