South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES
Jeremy Newton, of Austin, Texas, is an engineering manager for a mobile-games company. Tracy Gray, of Hunt Valley, Md., owns and operates a lawn-and-landscaping business with her husband. They initially connected via Facebook. They shared the work of making this puzzle throughout, even in the end splitting the duty of writing the clues — one of them the Acrosses and the other the Downs. — W. S.
ACROSS
1 ‘‘Nah, you’re not!’’ retort
8 Comedy-club sounds
13 Port of Mexico
19 Where to hear amateur bands?
20 Wear down
21 ‘‘It is better to be ____ than to be pitied’’: Herodotus
22 Spaceship battle?/An iconic van Gogh
24 Big hit
25 Timbre
26 ____-nest
27 Some fairy-tale characters
29 Coffee-maker insert
30 Student-council
electee, informally
33 Booze it up, old-style
34 Grp. with cryptanalysts
37 Sounds of saxophones
38 Flying invention by a classic automaker?/ An iconic Klee
41 ‘‘You’re on!’’
44 Why cases might go cold
47 N.F.L. sportscaster Andrews
48 Slangy reply when Bart’s sister asks, ‘‘What’s Covid?’’/An iconic Leonardo
50 West Coast football powerhouse, in brief
51 Gravy, you might say
52 Curmudgeons
53 Come next
55 Maximal ending
57 Anago or unagi 58 Dance accompanied by pahu drums
59 Blue berry
61 Popular a.m. show,
familiarly
63 Essential qualities
65 Reason Mercury gets eclipsed?/An iconic Botticelli
69 Remark from the financially or vertically challenged
72 ‘‘Don’t judge a book by its cover,’’ e.g.
73 War game
74 Put out
78 Word of advice
79 Academic must: Abbr.
80 Cause of some Yellowstone traffic jams
82 Hang loose?
83 Like some covers and kisses
85 Zip it!
88 Post-dinosaur period?/An iconic Magritte
91 What a wristwatch wraps around
92 Hated with a passion
94 No small favor
95 Opposite of liberal doves?/An iconic Hopper
98 Participate in a marathon, say
99 Notice
100 Notice
101 ‘‘Unfortunately, yes’’
105 Schumer of comedy
108 In fashion?
111 ‘‘Cute’’ vowel sound
112 California city whose name means ‘‘tar’’
113 Dalmatians, e.g.
115 Planning one’s 24-hour itinerary?/ An iconic Michelangelo, with ‘‘The’’
119 Ill considered
120 U.S. swimming gold medalist Ledecky
121 Private meeting
122 Like in-flight smoking
123 Tell jokes until PowerPoint unfreezes, e.g.
124 Apt word spelled by the new letters that alter this puzzle’s seven works
DOWN
1 ‘‘Yippee!’’
2 Touch up, as text
3 Bottom of the Thames?
4 Cowlick concealer
5 Rocky Mountain state: Abbr.
6 Flag carrier in the Mediterranean
7 Quagmire
8 Subject of the biography ‘‘Mr. Playboy’’
9 Crop up
10 Enjoy more than one’s fair share
11 Focusing issue, in brief
12 Pitted against one another
13 Where fur coats get
cleaned?
14 Loosen, as a spool
15 Nefarious
16 Real doozy
17 No. for a résumé
18 Work of praise
19 Dot-com start-up?
23 Cornerstone figs.
28 Zoos, so to speak
30 Los ____, vacation hot spot in Mexico
31 One may be on the house
32 Start for made or paid
35 Big ball
36 Records of the past
37 Relaxing soak
39 ____ de vie
40 N.Y.C. ave. east of Park
41 Hankering
42 Drive-____
43 Prey for a polar bear
44 N.F.L. team with the mascot Sourdough Sam, to fans
45 Old spy org.
46 Giggle alongside (not at!)
49 First pope in a line of 13
51 ‘‘How could you?!’’ playfully
54 Punk offshoot
56 Scored, as free throws
59 Super-dry
60 Rainbows in the sky, perhaps
62 Sporting a natural style
64 It’ll cost you
66 Per musician Charlie Parker, ‘‘If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your ____’’
67 Neighbor of the ‘‘~’’ key
68 Tree climbers, perhaps
69 Vampire’s cry in sunlight
70 ‘‘Stranger Things’’ actress ____ Bobby Brown
71 Wipe clean, as a car
75 Baby’s first word, commonly
76 Hoppy offerings, in brief
77 Good practice for a half-marathon
81 That ship
82 Pooch, in slang
84 ‘‘Oh, cry me a river!’’
86 Feature of décolleté clothing
87 Run off at the mouth
89 ‘‘Hmm, never really thought about it . . . ’’
90 Some vow takers
93 Org. with X-rays
96 African menace
97 Spoke menacingly
98 Embarrassing fail, in modern lingo
102 Whip around wildly
103 Canned tomatoes brand
104 Grammy winner DiFranco
105 Fire 106 Playground bully
107 ‘‘Aren’t I somethin’?!’’
109 It may lead to greener pastures
110 ‘‘Darn it all!’’
112 Bugaboo
113 Baby hyena
114 Modern vaccine component
116 Info for a limo driver
117 Above, to a bard
118 A thick one may be found in a bank