NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Picnic annoyance 8 Cold quarters 13 Racetrack informant 20 Like okapis and
giraffes
21 Sit pensively
22 Cry from a survivor 23 Conversation over a
few whiskeys? 25 Wear
26 Pose
27 Mario Vargas Llosa’s
country 28 Strummed instrument, for short
29 Where butter and cheese are produced
30 ____ buddies 31 Moreover
32 Org. for drivers 33 Return to base 36 2015 Verizon
purchase
38 Filth covering pecans
and such? 45 Borodin opera prince 46 Fasten, in a way, with
“in”
48 Asian holiday
49 Tush
50 Venison spread? 53 Relics, to Brits 55 “You betcha!”
56 Very beginning? 58 Give a leg up … or a
hand
59 Lose one’s coat 60 Casting need 61 Notwithstanding 63 Brings on
64 Sprayed in the face 67 Hardly a dolt? 68 Powerful scents 69 Made up 70 Virus fighters 71 Director Wenders 72 Unnamed character in Camus’s “The Stranger”
73 Ground cover? 74 Connections
75 Buds come in them 80 Office’s counterpart 83 Avoid a jerk? 85 Mozart’s Don Alfonso
and Leporello 86 Shout with an accent 88 Gathered
intelligence (on) 89 It has lots on the
internet
90 Break up with an “unbreakable” Ellie Kemper character? 93 “Black-ish” network 94 Part of a kit
95 It may be found next
to a spade 96 Sashimi option 98 Ready for battle 100 DNA building block 105 Restroom sign 106 “What’s Going On”
singer, 1971 107 Tampa Bay N.F.L.’er 110 Beats in the race 111 Puts a stop to
sentimentality? 114 Term for a word that isn’t the dictionary but maybe should be 115 Subject of una
serenata
116 Subject of the 2006 documentary “When the Levees Broke”
117 Promenades 118 Rehab program 119 Plug
DOWN
1 Cake with rum 2 Hovering craft 3 Understand
4 Industry, for short 5 Treat on a stick 6 Stuns, in a way 7 Intruded (on) 8 Watson’s company 9 Cavity filler
10 Be a witness 11 Exude
12 Loving verse? 13 Some pageant wear 14 Brought charges
against
15 Daddy
16 Criticize severely 17 Part of a makeshift
swing
18 ____ after
19 Depend
24 “Just pretend I’m right” 29 Singer of high notes 30 Scottish accents 33 Dusted off, say 34 James who won a posthumous Pulitzer
35 Says, informally 37 “When the Levees
Broke” director 39 High ____ 40 Publisher in a robe,
familiarly 41 Algonquian Indians 42 Open, as a bottle 43 Prince and others 44 Some drink
garnishes
46 Fish whose name sounds like the past tense of 46-Across? 47 Greets silently 51 Begets
52 Take back
54 3-3, e.g.
57 Site of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 61 Professional fixer, for
short
62 Uses Gchat, e.g. 63 Scornful sound
64 H. G. Wells villain 65 Four-time Australian
Open winner 66 Picasso, e.g. 67 Recent arrival 68 Personalized music gift 69 Backyard shindig,
informally 70 Perfect score, or half
of a score
71 Smart remarks 73 Zooey of Fox’s “New
Girl”
75 Long, narrow pieces
of luggage 76 Modify
77 Where Hemingway wrote “The Old Man and the Sea” 78 Old Chrysler
79 ____ terrier
81 Parties
82 Pastor role in “There
Will Be Blood” 84 Keeper of the books,
for short 87 Japanese appetizer 91 Lifts
92 Everything
94 Appear that way 97 101 course
99 “… I’ll eat ____!” 100 Order (around) 101 May or Bee
102 Prevent from
clumping, say 103 In conclusion 104 Sway
107 Random data point 108 ____ Reader
109 Powerful politico 111 & 112 Coupled 113 “Collage With Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance” artist