NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
'LOOKIN' GOOD!' BY EMILY CARROLL
Emily Carroll, of New York City, is a 2016 medical-school graduate who just finished her residency. She is applying for fellowships and expects to get news (fingers crossed!) around the time this crossword is published. The genesis of the puzzle was 41-Across, with its unusual letter pattern. Part of that pattern led her to think of 110-Across, which became the puzzle’s ‘‘revealer’’ entry. This is Emily’s 10th crossword for The Times and her second Sunday. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Unpleasantly surprise 4 Music-licensing org. 9 Big brother?
14 Some Pac-12 athletes 18 Three or four, say 20 Ashton Kutcher’s role
on “That ’70s Show” 21 “Cross my heart” 22 Ingredient in spanakopita 23 Carefree quality 25 Synopsis
26 Saudi king before Abdullah 27 Popular Asian honeymoon
destination
29 Ready for publication 31 Comes into view 32 Was given no other
option
35 Online publication 36 Funny Foxx
37 Rant
41 Top musical group of the 1990s, per Billboard
43 51 past
44 Patronize, in a way 45 Slow start? 46 Momentarily 50 Supporting, with “up” 52 “I messed up,” in slang 54 Comaneci of gymnastics 55 One shouting, “Get off
my lawn!”
56 PC port
58 Clothing designer Marc 62 “S.N.L.” alum who co-starred in 2016’s “Ghostbusters” 64 Classic soft drink 65 Response to a funny
meme
66 Stopping point 67 Lead-in to meter 68 Manage
70 Follower of Sam or will. 72 Pince-____ glasses 73 Iranian currency with a
75-Across on its bills 75 See 73-Across
77 Game console
introduced in 2006 80 It’s often included with
an R.S.V.P. card 81 Like most Italian singular nouns finishing in -a: Abbr. 82 Scatters about 83 United way?
84 The most recent Pope
Benedict
86 Like some “#@&!”
language
88 “Actually, I do”
89 Photo ____
92 “Buddy Holly” band, 1994 94 Braced (oneself) 96 New York social reformer whose name is on a Manhattan housing project 98 Amenable sort
99 Pet lovers’ org.
103 Phrase on a candy heart 104 Impertinent sorts 106 Birds or wasps 108 Caviar source
110 Good-looking … or a phonetic hint to a feature found five times in this puzzle 114 What may follow fire
or stone
115 Pulmonologist’s
expertise
118 Give too much light 119 One way to turn a ship 120 Members of une
sororité
121 National currency that, if you drop its second letter and read the result backward, spells another national currency 122 Memo header 123 Knights’ titles in “A
Game of Thrones” 124 Heart topper, in
bridge
125 “Someone Like You”
hitmaker, 2011 126 Jokey suffix with most
DOWN
1 Prattle
2 Triangular construction 3 Was taken aback 4 Unable to move well 5 Submits
6 Former TV psychic Miss
____
7 The “A” of W.N.B.A.: Abbr. 8 Ask
9 Parts of hearts 10 Wonderful receptacle? 11 Tampa Bay N.F.L.er 12 Rock-____ (jukebox brand) 13 Romantic preference 14 Where to see Botticelli’s
“The Birth of Venus” 15 Three or four, say 16 Colorless gases 17 Turns blue?
19 “Well, that’s quite a
coincidence …” 24 Sudden turn
28 Ewe or sow
30 One with superhuman
powers
33 Spanish or Portuguese 34 “____ Como Va”
(Santana hit)
38 Make alterations to 39 State of disbelief 40 Humdinger
42 Lusaka native 43 “Swell!”
44 NNE or SSW
46 Tattoo artists 47 Fictional land of books
and film 48 “Impossible Is
Nothing” sloganeer 49 Family nickname 51 University officials 53 ____ canto
55 Part of a short race 57 Draws back 59 Washington’s
Kellyanne or George 60 Little: Ger.
61 Smith and Nelson 63 Teacher
64 Emphatic denial 69 Arduous
71 Degree for a research
scientist
74 Latin law
76 New York Mets epithet 78 Quaint contraction 79 West Coast brew, for
short
82 France’s Boulogne____-Mer
85 Disney’s Herbie, for one 87 Under attack 88 Visitors’ announcement 89 “The Song of
Hiawatha” tribe 90 Sierra Nevada, e.g. 91 Oar
93 Frozen Wasser 95 Counterpart of dorsal 97 Immature eggs 98 Doofus
99 First part in an
instruction manual 100 Hallucinogen sometimes called a “divine messenger” 101 Parts of waves 102 Give the green light 105 No longer in style 107 Reason for a TV-MA
rating, perhaps 109 “Say it ain’t so!” 111 Jedi guru
112 Poet who wrote, “Jupiter from on high laughs at lovers’ perjuries”
113 World’s rarest goose 116 A count manager 117 Vardalos of “My Big
Fat Greek Wedding”