NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
LOVE AT FIRST SITE BY NEVILLE FOGARTY AND ERIK AGARD
ACROSS
1 Arcade hoops game 7 Some TV ads, for short 11 Went through channels? 15 Hitter’s hitter
18 “The Simpsons” or
“Futurama”
19 Litter’s littlest
20 To whom Brabantio says
“Thou art a villain” 21 Singular
22 Good name for a deep
kissers’ dating site? 25 Vittles
26 A shroud of secrecy,
idiomatically 27 Endlessly starting over 28 Performances at
Paris’s Palais Garnier 30 Manning with the second-longest QB starting streak in N.F.L. history 31 Numerical prefix 32 “Ish”
34 Monster slain by
Hercules
35 North Carolina university 36 Victor’s shout
39 It’s all in the head 41 Member of a southern
colony
43 Actor whose first and last names look like they rhyme, but don’t 47 Slice of a timeline 50 Fruit drink
51 Good name for a dating
site full of hot dudes? 54 Obsolescent high school course, informally
56 Number one pal 57 Good name for a dating site of massage therapists? 59 In amazement 61 Emerald or
aquamarine 63 Revolting sorts 64 Kitty-cat, e.g. 65 Carbo-loading dish 67 Patty alternative?
70 IV checkers
71 1988 top 10 hit for
Tracy Chapman 73 George ____ University 75 Swamps
76 Good name for an extreme sports dating site?
79 Be traitorous to 82 Burger topper
83 Good name for a nonmonogamist dating site?
85 Big Apple cultural site,
with “the”
88 Alway
89 Southernmost of the
Lesser Antilles 91 Napa Valley vintner
Robert
93 Grannies
95 Previous name for an athletic conference now with 12 members 98 Comparable (to) 99 Sky-blue
101 Performer in makeup,
typically
105 Certain layers
106 ____ Aviv
107 UTEP team
109 First things to go into
jammies
112 “Trading Spaces”
host Davis
114 Neat as ____
115 Good name for a dating site for lovers of natural foods? 118 Ad
119 Big loss
120 John of the Velvet
Underground
121 Tot’s wear 122 Junior
123 Lincoln Logs and such 124 Something taken on
a field?
125 Ones passed on a track
DOWN
1 [Avoid watching this in
front of the boss] 2 Sped (along)
3 Had a table for one 4 Chinese leader Xi 5 Rainbows, e.g.
6 “That doesn’t impress
me much” 7 Immediately
8 Natural light beam
9 One of the Brontës 10 Group dance with
stomps and claps 11 Instrument plucked
with a mezrab 12 Cools one’s heels 13 Back in time
14 Like early Elvis
recordings
15 Good name for a carpentry dating site?
16 The rite place? 17 Thompson of “Selma” 21 “Toodles!”
23 Noggin
24 Chairman and ____
(common title) 29 Ones to watch 31 Back-of-newspaper
section
33 Poetic tribute
35 Org. with a flower logo 37 “Just ____ suspected” 38 1940s vice president
Wallace 40 Enthusiastic
42 Not new 44 Chaperones, usually 45 Lincoln’s home: Abbr. 46 “I’ll return shortly,” in
a text
48 Swing time? 49 German interjections 52 “That’s mine!”
53 '
55 Dignified lady
56 Model Page known as “The Queen of Pinups”
58 Naval officer: Abbr. 59 Geronimo, for one 60 Good name for a “High Noon”-themed dating site?
62 Hit hard
65 ____ Bread (cafe chain) 66 NPR host Shapiro
68 “2 funny!!!”
69 “To Live and Die ____” 71 Visage
72 Player of Robin Hood
in 1991
74 Like child’s play 75 Nautical title, informally 77 Whole lot
78 Prefix with center 80 Ginormous
81 Lowly workers
84 O.T.C. O.K.’er 85 Command of Captain
Jean-Luc Picard 86 Satanic look
87 Cookie holder 90 Movement 92 Statistician’s grouping 94 “____ you the clever
one!”
96 Gum ingredient 97 Titter
99 Stockpile
100 Nada
102 Certain computer whiz 103 Deep defenses 104 Long span
108 Put in order
110 Camping menace 111 Digitize, in a way 112 ____ colada
113 Real lookers?
116 Down Under hopper 117 Gather around, as
an idol