NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
TITLE BASIN’ BY MIRIAM ESTRIN
ACROSS
1 Dinosaur in the Mario
games
6 Titular film character
opposite Harold 11 Something offered in
tribute
16 ____ Martin DB5
(‘‘Bondmobile’’) 17 Knock-down-drag-out
fights
21 Nudge
22 Barack, Michelle, Hillary and Bill took them, for short
23 Yann Martel’s baking
memoir?
24 Have heart eyes for 25 Member of Britain’s
upper house 26 Tone-____
27 Shunned, with ‘‘out’’ 29 ‘‘Don’t get ____!’’
30 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
chivalric tale?
36 Just like that
38 Zaps, as leftovers 39 Brainstorms
42 Messes (with) 43 Follower of ‘‘Je
m’appelle’’
44 What a figure skate has that a hockey skate lacks
45 ‘‘____ you seeing this?’’ 46 Voltaire’s sweet novel? 50 Scan that excites hydrogen atoms, for short
51 Can’t keep one’s mouth
shut?
54 Alternative to de Gaulle 55 Debussy’s ‘‘____
d’Étoiles’’
57 Prepare to go next 59 ‘‘You’re making me
blush!’’
61 Lived (with)
63 Marcel Proust’s kitchen
mystery?
70 Trouble
71 I
72 ‘‘That’s ____!’’
(director’s cry) 73 Halloween vis-à-vis
Nov. 1
74 ‘‘Yeesh!’’
76 One of six parked on
the moon
78 Nasty, in a way 79 Author Ferrante 81 Neutral paint color 82 Break
85 Societal problem 86 ‘‘When They See Us’’
director DuVernay 89 Big e-commerce site 90 Antoine de Saint
Exupéry’s pet story? 95 Guarantees
97 [Doh!]
100 Semibiographical source for ‘‘Citizen Kane’’
101 Small trunks
105 Certain red wine 107 Trap
109 Had a friendly
relationship (with) 110 ‘‘____ is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it’’: Einstein 111 ‘‘Revenge ____ dish …’’ 112 William Shakespeare’s
historical romance? 115 Gives one’s seal of
approval
116 Woman’s name that’s a piece of furniture backward
117 Classical singing
venue
118 Beat
119 Call to reserve? 120 The final installment
of ‘‘The Godfather’’ 121 Bit of coffee
122 Sierra Nevadas, e.g. 123 Word that can precede or follow ‘‘run’’
DOWN
1 ‘‘____ ready for this?’’ (opening of a pumpup jam by 2 Unlimited)
2 Part of an Italian veal
dish name 3 Go back to Square 1 4 Share a workspace, in
modern lingo 5 Helpful connections 6 Breakfast order
7 Long period
8 What a weather balloon might be mistaken for
9 Letters on the ‘‘3’’
button
10 Catches a glimpse of 11 What Mrs. Potts and Chip serve in ‘‘Beauty and the Beast’’ 12 Brit’s term of affection 13 ‘‘Finally!’’
14 Resolve, with ‘‘out’’ 15 Precious, to a Brit 17 Goes undercover? 18 Heated accusation 19 Sound effect during a bomb defusing, perhaps
20 ‘‘I watched that episode
already’’
26 Critical time
28 Queen who made
Carthage prosper 31 Pittsburgh-to-Buffalo
dir.
32 Fair forecast
33 Beat in a boxing match,
in a way
34 Corral
35 Command for a right
turn, in mushing 36 ‘‘It’s possible’’
37 ‘‘You’ve Got Mail’’
director Ephron 40 Neutral paint color 41 Sound like a broken
record
46 Shoe with holes
47 Top dogs
48 Subject of Rick Steves’s
travel guides
49 God, in Guadalajara 52 Bullet alternatives:
Abbr.
53 Utter
54 Como ningún ____
(unique, in Spanish) 56 Pledge-drive gift 57 Giggle
58 Dreyer’s ice-cream
partner
60 ____ Harbor, first official port of entry to the United States 62 Channel that aired ‘‘Daria’’ and ‘‘The Hills’’
63 Fan-mail recipient 64 Exploding star
65 Take pride in
something
66 Ruffle
67 What can take a punch? 68 ____ & Chandon
(Champagne)
69 Long periods
70 Little bowwow
75 Wray of ‘‘King Kong’’ 77 Nonresident doctor 80 Lead role on ‘‘Parks and
Recreation’’
82 Writer Stein
83 Green and others 84 Sets (against)
86 The Amazons were the daughter of this god, in myth
87 By way of
88 Director’s cry
91 Is employed
92 Movie with the line ‘‘I feel the need … the need for speed’’ 93 Dials
94 Some concert tour
merchandise 95 Martial arts master 96 Sushi condiment 98 Traitor in the
Revolutionary War 99 Warehouse employee 100 ‘‘S.N.L.’’ cast member
Gardner
102 Lover of Orion, in
myth
103 8-Down pilots, in brief 104 Forest grazer
106 Full of spice
108 Where Zeno taught 110 Children’s poet
Silverstein
113 ____ beam
114 Place for a shvitz