NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
A RARE FIND BY JOHAN VASS
ACROSS
1 Not express, in a way 6 Second person in the
Bible
10 One of the Blues
Brothers
14 ‘‘History of the World, ____’’ (Mel Brooks film that doesn’t actually have a sequel)
15 Grp. with Bills and
Chargers
18 Bridal adornment at
Indian weddings 20 Buckets
21 Goggle
22 Bird that went the way of the dodo (before the dodo)
23 Mr. ____, scheming
socialite in ‘‘Emma’’ 24 See 105-Across 25 Popular action film trying to find the item in this puzzle can be described as
& §§¨ ¨¨ like trying to find the item in this puzzle? 31 ‘‘The ____ Holmes Mysteries,’’ young adult series made into a 2020 film 32 Hosp. procedure 33 Keys
34 Architect Maya 35 Foreign correspondent,
maybe
38 1976 greatest hits album with a palindromic title 41 Site of Hercules’ first
labor 45 What’s-____-name 46 Experimental offshoot
of punk
49 Echidna’s prey 50 Service with nearly two
billion users
53 ____ reaction
54 Deep cut
55 Liquor store requests 56 Frees (of) 57 Quiet summons 59 Greases
61 What’s at the center of
some court battles? 62 City of Angels 64 Danger for an
exterminator 65 Scratch the surface of 66 Certain customizable computer game character
67 Kick starter?
70 America of ‘‘Ugly
Betty’’
72 [Batman punches a
bad guy]
73 Onetime name for
China
74 They have big mouths 76 Over
77 More than umbrage 78 Two-wheeled carriage 79 ‘‘Anchorman’’
anchorman
80 Simple earrings
81 Duck Hunt console, for
short
82 Walking with flair 84 Odd article of clothing to wear with a tank top
85 Reached
87 Man’s name that
anagrams to HYENAS 88 Did a Don Corleone
impression, maybe 92 Consonantless ‘‘yes’’ 94 Actress Atwell of the
‘‘Avengers’’ movies 96 Product whose sizes
have letters 97 Clickable images
99 ‘‘As you can imagine
¨¨
103 Item hidden somewhere in this puzzle (where is it?) 105 With 24-Across, Emmy winner for ‘‘Once and Again’’ 106 Writer Horatio
107 Word before an
explanation
108 Boxer Ali
111 Bookmarked things 112 Vowelless ‘‘yes’’ 113 Personal datum:
Abbr.
114 Long-gone
115 Site that competes with Amazon Handmade
116 Affliction also known
as a hordeolum 117 Mean
DOWN
1 Collectible records
2 ____ milk
3 Packs tightly
4 Areas in many malls 5 Eldest of the von Trapp
children 6 Mnemosyne’s daughters 7 Benefits
8 En pointe, in ballet 9 Pizza chain since 1943,
familiarly
10 Weapon for Samson against the Philistines 11 Whatsoever
12 ‘‘North’’ or ‘‘South’’ land 13 Undoing
15 Faulty
16 Subway fare
17 Impact equally in the
opposite direction 19 Actor Elgort of ‘‘The
Fault in Our Stars’’ 26 Taints
27 Sheepish response to ‘‘Where did the last cookie go?’’
28 How checks are written 29 Hellion
30 ‘‘Boyz N the Hood’’
protagonist
36 Run an online scam 37 Feel rotten
39 Bona fide
40 Big brush maker 42 Starting point on a
computer
43 Won over
44 See 50-Down 47 Become rigid and
inflexible
48 Slides
50 With 44-Down, making and an extra hint to this puzzle’s theme 51 Small black-and-white
treat
52 Batman portrayer on
’60s TV
57 Google Photos
precursor
58 Workers in forges 59 Murder weapon in ‘‘The
Talented Mr. Ripley’’ 60 What ‘‘/’’ may mean 63 Key used to get out,
but not in
64 Man’s name that
means ‘‘king’’ 68 Palindromic leaders 69 Doctor’s order
71 They may be fixed 74 Highland beauty
75 The titular bad guy in ‘‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’’ 79 Capital of Saudi Arabia 80 Singer with the 2016 platinum album ‘‘This Is Acting’’
82 In good shape
83 ‘‘Know what I’m talkin’
about?’’
84 Secret rendezvous 86 Like child’s play
89 Block where Sesame
Street can be found? 90 Notable period
91 It’s constantly breaking
around the world 93 ‘‘The straight path’’ 95 German steel city 97 Like neon
98 Bar rooms?
99 It never occurs above the Arctic Circle during the summer solstice
100 One may be sworn 101 Claw
102 Seat of Florida’s
Marion County 104 Eugene O’Neill’s ‘‘Desire Under the ____’’
105 Go after
109 Word before ride or
slide
110 Which card to pick
from a magician?