South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Adam Wagner, of Oakland, Calif., is a creative lead at Patreon, the crowdfunding site for content creators. Michael Lieberman is an attorney in Washington, D.C. Rafael Musa, of San Francisco, is a software engineer at Airbnb. They met through crossword posts on Twitter and now play on the same team in a weekly trivia night over Zoom. The idea for this puzzle was Michael’s. Rafael and Adam added to the theme. They all collaborated on the grid and clues. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Image on the flag of Oakland, Calif., appropriately
5 Country whose capital is an anagram of its former capital
10 Sends 10 texts in a row to, say
15 Stage partitions?
19 Achings
20 Basic Mediterranean sauce
21 Eagles’ home
22 Pork cut
23 Stick of butter, geometrically
26 Sesame Street resident who refers to himself in the third person
27 Attentive
28 Change of scenery, in real estate lingo
29 Less involved
31 Seminal 1980 hit by Joy Division
37 Attire for some queens
39 Subtle flavor, to a wine taster
40 Accomplishes
41 Barbecue discard
42 White House staffer
43 What a V-sign might indicate
44 Try to hit, as a piñata
47 ____-Locka, Fla.
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50 Colorado, Idaho and Wyoming, among others
53 Lap, maybe
56 Visitors from afar, in brief
57 Hurry, quaintly
58 A matter of course?
59 Works in a gallery
60 ____ Aviv
61 Hit 1998 Eddie Murphy comedy based on books by Hugh Lofting
65 ‘‘An empty set exists,’’ e.g.
68 Stole
69 It lacks value
70 Leafy salad green
71 Recommit to one’s fitness . . . or what
23-Across depicts literally
74 State south of Mumbai
75 Perception
76 Goof
77 South, in much of South America
78 Light touch
81 Nickname that’s an anagram of ONLINE What characters in musicals often do . . . or what 31-Across depicts literally ‘‘Discreet Music’’
musician Brian
88 Cars with clutches
90 Photographer Goldin
91 Prosecco cousin
92 Big shots they are not
95 Secular
96 It’s just under a foot 82 87
97 Explorer Ericson
98 Useful people to know . . . or what 50-Across depicts literally
104 What an economy seat is usually short on
105 ‘‘Oh, why not?!’’
106 Kuwaiti currency
109 Beseech
110 Screen feature that facilitates multitasking . . . or what 61-Across depicts literally
116 Food that’s easy to get hooked on?
117 Group character
118 Mocking smile
119 The ‘‘garden’’ in Bosch’s ‘‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’’
120 Old video game console inits.
121 Excel
122 Swamp plant
123 Lamb, for one
DOWN
1 Banks on TV
2 Lively dance
3 Moon of Saturn found to have a potentially habitable ocean
4 Component of some hormone therapy
5 National Blood Donor Mo.
6 Big inits. in insurance
7 Work enthusiastically and energetically
8 Genetic variant
9 Singer Horan of the boy band One Direction
10
Part of a
woodpecker’s diet
11 /
12 Perfume line by pop star Grande
13 Beauty pageant since
1952
14 Precursors to finals
15 Mideast city with an eponymous pepper
16 Share a byline, maybe
17 Part of a stove
18 [That is so funny!]
24 Off-road option, for short
25 Spoil
30 ____ Pro (tech product)
32 Require
33 ‘‘Holy moly!’’
34 Button added to Twitter in 2022
35 Primo
36 Govt. agency rules
37 Title for food writer Mary Berry
38 Hilarious sort
44 Library section
45 Imperfection, metaphorically
46 Labor
48 Makes certain knitting stitches
49 Before: Sp.
51 Group of gift-givers
52 Cuddle amorously, in a way
54 Magical creature associated with rainbows
55 Tri- one more time?
59 Rock’s ____ Fighters
60 Soccer star ____ Heath
61 Enthusiastic affirmative
62 Region encompassing most of the Arkansas/Missouri border
63 Copy, in brief
64 Rap mogul, familiarly
65 Quick and nimble
66 Noble gas used in some lasers
67 ‘‘All good’’
68 B’way purchase
72 STEM subject that rhymes with ‘‘stem’’
73 Recover
74 ____ pig
77 Buy time
78 Barely sits still?
79 No pro
80 ‘‘Weekend, here I come!’’
82 ____ mitzvah (Jewish ceremony for multiple people)
83 Flatten, say
84 A pop
85 Having an intact tamper seal, say
86 One might move fast in stores
89 Loser to Herbert Hoover in 1928
93 Parts of some military uniforms
94 ____-Caps (candy)
96 Holy place
98 Goofs
99 Aired anew
100 Uses performanceenhancing drugs
101 Egypt neighbor: Abbr.
102 Say ‘‘ . . ., say,’’ say
103 Agcy. that advises against eating raw cookie dough
107 ____ man (frequent subject in The Onion)
108 Monopoly payment
111 Home of more than one M.L.B. team
112 Whole lot
113 Bring into play
114 Cribbage marker
115 Anger