New York Times Crossword No. 1213
Eric Berlin, of Milford, Conn., is the assistant publisher of Penny Publications, a puzzle-magazine company, and the creator of the website Puzzlesnacks. He is the author of ‘‘ The Puzzling World of Winston Breen’’ (Penguin) and two sequels. When he started constructing, Eric says, ‘‘my goal was to sell exactly one puzzle to The New York Times, just to say I did it.’’ That was almost 20 years and more than 40 Times crosswords ago. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Its logo has a blue, red, orange, yellow and green ‘‘M’’
6 Win every game
11 Blitzed
17 Beethoven’s Third
18 Snoopy sort?
19 You can scratch
with it
20 Materials from
mollusk shells
21 Tried to respond, as a ‘‘Jeopardy!’’ contestant
22 Gave the latest news 23 Very short-lived
gemstones
25 Nicolas ____, standout player in soccer’s Premier League
27 Drake’s output
28 Thinly veiled criticism, in modern slang
29 Blow off steam, say
30 Possible fallout of a controversy, informally
31 RR stop
32 Name shouted in
‘‘ The Chipmunk Song’’
34 TV quiz program
about an epic poem 37 Handed a hand
40 Bully’s threat
42 World view you might
open up to?
43 44 46 Suffix NoDoz, Help with with for the one towel dishes 48 Fragment 50 Look back fondly 52 Disney-owned cable
channel 56 Ask to be handed a
hand?
57 Vereen who won a 1973 Tony for ‘‘Pippin’’ 58 Prefix akin to mal59 Haphazardly
organized
61 Having four sharps,
musically
62 ____ Regal, big name
in Scotch 65 ‘‘And so on and so
forth’’ 67 Expected 68 General Motors
division until 2010 70 Resident: Suffix 72 One-named singer with the 2019 Song of the Year nominee ‘‘Hard Place’’
73 Some ‘‘Babe’’
characters 75 Designer Gucci 76 Beat box? 79 A brother of 32-Across 81 Zing 83 ‘‘Concentration’’
puzzles 86 Reasonable 87 ‘‘ The Divine Comedy’’
poet 89 Brand of cologne with
a literary name
91 Jazzed (up)
93 Magnificent plan of
action
95 Bone in the leg
96 Key to get out
97 Maya Angelou’s ‘‘And
Still ____’’
98 Nev. neighbor
100 Cloth used in theater backdrops
104 ____ Defense
(classic chess opening)
106 Cozy home
107 Dance celebrating 2010 legislation
109 Glad ____ (good news)
111 Turn up
113 One of 17 in
Monopoly
114 Manages, barely
115 Bibliophile
116 Tightfisted sorts
117 Back up again
118 Hip-hop’s ____, the Creator
119 First name in cosmetics
DOWN
1 Plot lines?
2 Coffee variety named
for a Mideast city 3 Emergency situation
caused by a terrier 4 Pre-snowstorm
purchase
5 Hit with a beam,
maybe
6 Makes watertight
7 Mascara applicators
8 Dozens of them are
sold 9 Actor Wallach
10 Friends you may
never have met 11 Salon job named after
a comic book hero 12 Danson of ‘‘ The Good
Place’’
13 Building girder 14 Actress Lyonne 15 Compulsive thieves,
informally
16 ‘‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away,’’ for one
17 Hydrocarbon suffixes 18 The thought is there 19 Serving of tea, to
Brits
24 River near Rotterdam 26 Some lawn
maintenance tools
30 Who wrote ‘‘Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation’’ 33 Recipient of special
treatment, in brief
34 Very cold
35 Klingons, e.g., for
short
36 What Hypnos is the
Greek god of
37 ____ Plaines, Ill.
38 Liquor component
39 Over
40 Outdoor
41 Part of a glass ... or
glasses
45 Before: Abbr.
47 More dangerous to
drive on, in a way
49 Metric prefix
51 Natural bridge
53 Supporting musician
in a jazz band
54 Guest’s guest
55 Family tree word
57 Chin-up target,
informally
60 Leaders of the pack? 61 Bitter brew, for short 63 Pounding on a pie
topping
64 Cloud ____
66 Followers of bees 69 SpongeBob SquarePants and others
71 Opposition
74 Entertainment host Ryan, that smart aleck!
77 To wit
78 Belt in judo
80 Mustachioed
Springfield resident 82 Baseball’s Mel
84 One of the Schuyler
sisters in ‘‘Hamilton’’
85 One sharing a bunk
bed, briefly
87 Animosity
88 Places to play Skee
Ball
90 Turn off and on again,
say
92 With regard to
93 Get worse through
neglect
94 ‘‘Give it ____!’’
95 Need in Boggle
98 Withstand 99 Dancer with glow
sticks, often
101 Actress Zellweger 102 Get accustomed (to) 103 Fannie ____ (some
securities)
105 Charging option
107 Said aloud
108 Showed up
110 Cyber Monday mo., usually
112 Daisy Ridley’s ‘‘Star Wars’’ role