N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Round number?
7 Pick a card, any card 11 Hoops
16 Piano keys
18 Quick study
20 Quick studies
22 Line delivered in
costume
23 Source of a trendy
health juice
24 Alternative to tarot
cards
26 Opportunity to hit
27 Hearing aid?
29 Hole-making tools 30 Hill worker
31 Split
32 Small bird with
complex songs
33 He was told to “take a sad song and make it better”
34 “SmackDown” org. 37 Upper limit
38 Olympic figure skater
Johnny
39 Make more pleasant 41 First attempt
44 Attire
45 In key
46 “The ____ Locker,” 2009 Best Picture winner
47 Declare
48 “Surely you don’t think it could be me?!”
49 Bank, at times
51 Hayek of Hollywood 52 Some movie extras 55 Acts like money grows
on trees
57 Tool for a difficult
crossword, say
58 Added water to, as a
sauce
60 Family secret,
perhaps 62 In lock step (with) 64 Seasonal song with
lyrics in Latin
66 Sacrament of holy matrimony and others
67 Throughway, e.g.
69 Fashion expert
Gunn
70 It’s sedimentary, my
dear
71 Seemingly forever
72 Filmmaker Gerwig 73 Info on an invitation 75 Command, as
influence
76 “Don’t worry about it” 78 Brown or blacken
79 Hole in the ground 80 ____ card
81 Shaded
82 Went over the limit,
say
83 Where to find the
radius
84 ____ Lipa, Grammywinning pop artist
87 “Big Little Lies” co-star of Witherspoon and Kidman
88 Barely afloat?
91 Buzz in the morning 93 Place you may go just
for kicks?
94 Mail lady on “Pee-wee’s Playhouse”
95 Occasion to stay up
late
97 Some surfing
destinations
99 You are here
100 Pounds
101 He made a pact with
the Devil
102 Makes blue, say
103 One of three for
“Mississippi”
DOWN
1 Brand of breath spray
2 Arthurian isle
3 Decay, as wood
4 “____ words were never spoken”
5 Voice, as grievances
6 Potter of children’s literature
7 Ambitious
8 Proverbial tortoise or hare, e.g.
9 Poses
10 Branch of the U.N. in 2020 news
11 Soda factory worker 12 1989 Tom Hanks black comedy, with “The”
13 Math measurement 14 Aspiring D.A.’s exam 15 Tennis do-over
17 Result of eating the poisoned apple in “Snow White” Quickly go from success to failure
19 Mudbug, by another name
21 Easy target
22 Many a dare, in hindsight
25 Bring down
28 Part of a high chair 29 Boring things
33 Hera’s Roman counterpart
34 “Don’t you trust me?”
35 Heat of the moment? 36 First name in jazz
37 Quagmire
38 Mom jeans have a high one
39 Picturesque time for a walk
40 Goes out on a limb
41 Tapered hairstyle 18 42 Act of omission ... or of
a commission
43 Four for a 4x400, say 44 Pluto, e.g.
45 Pint-size and then
some
48 ____ mortal
50 Central
51 Bird-feeder bit
53 They’re on the case, in
slang
54 Garrulous
56 Like a pearl-clutcher 59 Discourage
61 Abbr. on a cornerstone 63 What skies do before
a storm
65 Worrisome beach
sighting
66 Pro ____
68 Email status
72 Food connoisseur
74 ____ a clue (was lost) 75 Scaredy-cat
77 Frozen dessert
78 Golfer Jordan who won the 2015 U.S. Open
79 Republican politico
Reince
82 Hybrid bottoms
83 Spot seller, in brief
84 Keto adherent, e.g.
85 Prepare to deplane 86 Andre who won the 1994 and 1999 U.S. Opens
87 Curses
88 Piece of the pie
89 “That smarts!”
90 De-e-eluxe
91 ____ breve (cut time) 92 Beach ball?
93 Do a veterinarian’s job
on
95 Beach lotion abbr.
96 Rare color?
98 Texter’s “I can’t
believe this”