The New York Times Crossword
TODAY: DOUBLES PLAY (0726)
Wyna Liu, of New York City, is an artist and jewelry designer working with magnets and tensegrity. (You can see examples of her craft at wynaliu.com.) She has been solving crosswords for more than 10 years but just started making them recently. Liu says 91-Across is a shout-out to her parents, who own and operate a chain of radio channels. They made up the name Wyna (pronounced ‘‘WIN-uh’’) to mimic radio call letters — ‘‘Y ’n’ A’’ for the initials of their names, Yvonne and Arthur, and the starting ‘‘W’’ because they’re on the East Coast. — W.S. ACROSS
1 Ones out of this world, for short 4 Club setting for scenes in ‘‘GoodFellas’’ and ‘‘Raging Bull’’ 11 Something pressed in an emergency 19 ____ Lee (dessert brand)
20 Gets better 21 Oppressive dominance 22 *Performers who set the bar high? 24 *Go-getter’s maxim
25 In a way
26 Eves 28 One-named Grammy-winning singer 29 Worried exclamation from Astro on ‘‘The Jetsons’’
30 Writer and film critic James 31 Platinum-selling rapper-turned-TVcop
33 Sr.’s hurdle 36 English cathedral city
37 Brand with a jingle to the ‘‘Dragnet’’ theme 39 *Public health agency’s mission 43 Part of a ventilation system 46 Actress and civil rights activist Ruby ____
47 Boors 48 *Feature of a Chippendales show
51 Fix the colors on, say
54 Boor 55 Special orders on new autos
56 It means well in
Italy
57 P.R. event 59 Smooth sailing 60 Gas numbers 63 Bug 66 Stand-up comic Wong 67 *Places for coasters 70 Move in a hurry, quaintly
71 Best horse of the 20th century, per The Associated Press 73 Language spoken on Easter Island 74 Jazz’s Jackson 75 Matriarch’s title, maybe
78 Chats away 79 Large musical combo
80 Spud 82 Palette cleansers between courses 84 *How to screw in a light bulb 86 Common chords 88 ‘‘I didn’t need to know that’’ 89 Tries hard 91 *What keeps up standards in the radio business? 94 Temple cabinets 95 End of many addresses 98 Pioneer of detective fiction 99 Reed in a pit 100 A while back 103 Author/magazine editor Welteroth 105 Singer/activist Horne
107 Half of a record 109 Celebrity ... but
just barely 110 *‘‘Holy moly!’’ 114 *Occasion for hiding in the dark 116 In trouble, metaphorically 117 Genre for the Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair
118 Beat poem allegedly inspired by a peyote vision 119 Carpentry contraption 120 Words of understanding 121 Italian diminutive suffix
DOWN
1 Lengthy reprimand, so to speak 2 Lowbrow 3 Taste 4 ‘‘Ouch!’’
5 Half of some matching sets 6 Put away
7 Hold tightly 8 National Medal of Arts winner Davis 9 Played miniature golf
10 Altar place 11 Snap 12 Inverse trig function 13 Choking-hazard label
14 How TV shows may be shown 15 Some Montanans 16 Plant part
17 ____ king 18 Spanish chess piece
19 Put away for later 23 Expert advice 27 Evaluate, as an opponent
30 Phoenix sch. 32 Like polka 33 What sheep participate in 34 Plant part 35 Alternatively 38 Summer hrs. in Colorado 40 Words of commitment 41 Pyle’s portrayer on ‘‘Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.’’ 42 Pang
43 Love, in Lyon 44 Defeat soundly 45 Couple of fins 48 Head of ____ 49 Happy refrain 50 National economic prosperity, metaphorically
52 Adolescent 53 ‘‘What’s up?’’ in textspeak
56 A.C. measure 58 First man, in Maori mythology 60 Oil-rich nation that’s not in OPEC 61 Sour milk product 62 Cathedral in N.Y.C. 64 ‘‘Revelations’’ choreographer 65 Small, in a way 67 Oscars, e.g. 68 Blue Ribbon brand 69 It’s found in a key: Abbr. 72 Mountain nymph of Greek myth 74 Comfy shoes, for short
76 Writing on many a license plate 77 Opposing forces in Risk 79 Preventing spills, say
80 Sporty option 81 Folk singer Guthrie 83 H.S. class 84 Monopoly token 85 Have a serious crush on, informally 87 Less expressive 90 Issa of ‘‘Insecure’’ 92 Puts down 93 Little bump 95 Ancestor of the modern lemon and lime
96 Ring combo 97 She played ‘‘the devil’’ Miranda in ‘‘The Devil Wears Prada’’ 101 ‘‘Dagnabbit!’’ 102 Kind of pants 104 Japanese beer brand 105 Partially landlocked bay 106 Drachma replacement 108 ‘‘My word!’’ 109 Five of these are needed to play Yahtzee 110 Astronaut Grissom 111 Transcript fig. 112 Topic discussed by the bar 113 Barely manage, with ‘‘out’’ 115 Children’s author Asquith