N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 New dog owner’s purchase
6 Dog-adoption grp.
11 Pop group with an “army” 14 Setting for “Heidi”
18 “We’re not standin’ in their way!”
19 Pepper
grinder?
20 Put to work
21 Word with
good or blood
22 Extra lives or additional gems, for a freemium game
24 [Gasp!]
26 Pastoral
setting?
27 “Who am I? Two-foursix-oh-____!” (“Les Misérables” lyric)
28 Cracker shape
29 “____-Olution” (2002 rap album)
30 Avoided a tag, in a way 31 “The kids these days have gotten way better than me”
35 Two-millionyear-old discovery in 2022 in the frozen soil of Greenland
36 Cereal bit
37 Something to
butter up
38 Text communication inits.
41 Shaggy
hairstyle
42 File-creating
command
44 Actress
Thompson
48 Former minorleague team that played at Aloha Stadium
51 Spot for food
and craft beer
53 Opt
54 Significant
stretch
55 Crane lookalike
57 “Do you really see me that way?”
58 Range rover ... or something to do in a Range Rover
59 Craft that uses
drafts
63 What a cracker
might crack
64 Something for the rest of the military?
65 Scrabble bonus seen six times in this puzzle
70 “The Chase”
channel
72 Was published
73 In which “Ciamar a tha thu?” means “How are you?” 74 Booped body
parts
77 Member of the
fam
78 Count for a jury
80 I, in German
81 Slip past
82 Product lines?
84 Something delivered by Jake Tapper or Anderson Cooper
89 Kofi of the U.N.
90 Pan feature
91 Yank
92 When repeated, [“Is this thing on?”]
93 Battle royale
96 Nickname next to a heart emoji, perhaps
97 Cyrillic letter pronounced like the “zz” of “pizza”
98 “The English Patient” actress
104 Attenuated
108 “South,” in
Hanoi
109 Place to chill,
paradoxically
110 Home of the Hockey Hall of Fame: Abbr.
111 Device that works with CarPlay
113 Single guy?
115 Executive’s
acumen
117 Apt domain for basketball’s King James
118 Scanning inits.
119 Something to
believe in
120 Didn’t just
assume 121 Part of the body
to slap
122 Queen ____
123 To be, in
Spanish
124 Easily irritated
DOWN
1 Film-archive
bits
2 Kidney-related
3 Maker of the Flashback console
4 Lukewarm
5 Birds with deep
booming calls
6 “Better Call
Saul” channel
7 Very sexy
8 Texas city that’s home to Frito-Lay
9 Lawyer’s bundle
of work
10 “____ you not
entertained?”
11 “Au contraire!”
12 Cannon fodder,
at times
13 Appear that one
may
14 Urgent time to start gathering tax documents: Abbr.
15 TikTok star Gray
16 B.Y.U.’s city
17 Scatter about
21 “Here’s the
thing ... “
23 A group of them is called a “crash”
25 Texter’s
reaction button
28 Post
32 Syrupy covering
for ham
33 Protagonist in “2001: A Space Odyssey” 34 Crockpot filler
35 ____ Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table
38 “____ All That” (1990s teen comedy)
39 Soda-shop
order
40 Vegetable often eaten without utensils
42 Aviculture : bird :: heliciculture : ____
43 Campfire
remains
45 Out-of-thisworld outfit
46 Rikishi compete
in it
47 Slightly
49 Taiwanese tech
giant
50 Pink-furred cat
in “Garfield”
51 Antipasto dish of tomatoes on grilled bread
52 Campus
military org.
56 Make more
meaningful
60 B.S., for one
61 Letter that rhymes with the letters before and after it
62 Direction giver’s suggestion: Abbr.
66 Jab
67 Tony winner Renée ____ Goldsberry
68 High-strung
69 Coin collection
70 Enclosed rhyme
scheme
71 Cereal bit
75 Poet St. Vincent
Millay 76 Creep out,
perhaps
78 Counterpart of
“been there”
79 Sgt. or cpl.
83 Engine parts
85 Bigwig
86 Coup d’____
87 Time when most people are asleep
88 One birthed in
Perth
90 Shrug or wave
94 Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of war, takes the form of one
95 Place in a crypt
98 Announce one’s presence, in a way
99 Invisible household hazard
100 “My luck’s bound to turn around!”
101 Adorable sort
102 Beginning
stage
103 Crete’s highest
point, for short
104 The ones
nearby
105 Indicates “Out
of my way!”
106 Miniature map
107 Highmaintenance, say
112 Exam with “calculator” and “no calculator” math sections
114 G.I.’s rations
115 Dating inits.
116 Negative Boolean operator