NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Miss
5 Fairy-tale monster
9 Meat in ragù al cinghiale 13 ‘‘Everyone knows the
secret now’’
19 Lincoln or Ford 20 Purchase in the board game Catan worth one wood and one brick 21 Singer Guthrie
22 Genre for Nirvana and
Soundgarden 23 Forgetfulness experienced by soon-to-be moms, informally
26 Final innings, usually 27 Heinie
28 What a baby might start eating at around 6 months
30 Universal donor’s blood
type, informally
31 A, in Aachen
32 ‘‘Dancing With ____ Hands Tied’’ (Taylor Swift song)
33 What well-connected
people may have 37 Scented plug-in brand 40 ‘‘Afternoon, pardner!’’ 44 ‘‘Oh yeah? Give me an
example!’’
46 Response to a texted
joke
47 Worldly wisdom
49 Deg. for a creative type 50 Booting
53 Juice cleanse, essentially 55 Cocktail made from gin, vermouth and Campari
56 Big letters in home
security
59 In Latin, it’s ‘‘stannum’’ 60 Pound part
61 Church council 62 Succeed in life 64 Portfolio listings 65 Common sense
68 The ‘‘gone girl’’ in ‘‘Gone
Girl’’
70 A negative one might be
positive
71 Used colored pencils,
say
74 ‘‘____ be a real shame
¨¨
75 Jovian planets, by
another name 78 Changes back to factory
defaults, say
80 Way too loud
81 Figure in the iconic ‘‘We
Can Do It!’’ poster 85 Quite enough
86 Bit of fiction
89 Suffix with quack and
mock
90 National law enforcement, informally
92 Simple flotation device 95 Arranges in random
order
96 URL ending
97 TV display option 101 ____ tai
102 Picked up
104 Above
105 Like the bread ideal for
bread pudding 107 Theoretical primordial
substance
108 Word on an Irish plane 110 Oscar-winning director
Lee
111 Obama’s birthplace 113 Playing to the crowd 117 Japanese condiment
sprinkled on rice
124 Slogan about willpower
pairs of answers in this puzzle
126 Courtroom cry
127 ‘‘Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap’’ director
128 Aptly named bus driver
on ‘‘The Simpsons’’ 129 Catering vessels 130 ‘‘Whatever you say,
sweetheart’’
131 Unilever tea brand 132 Bert who played the
Cowardly Lion
133 Children’s author DiCamillo with two Newbery Medals
Down
1 Nordic native
2 Invisible energy field 3 Proofreader’s directive 4 Words moaned while eating a cheeseburger, maybe 5 Give one’s address
6 Get ready to sleep,
cutesily
7 Candidate’s focus
8 Ice cream surname 9 British nobleman
10 Like some traditions 11 Et ____ (and others) 12 Sonata movement
13 The uninformed masses,
colloquially
14 The Jonas Brothers, e.g. 15 Dish named for a day of
the week
16 Toronto’s prov.
17 ‘‘What a mess!’’
18 Your: Fr.
24 Bar ____
25 Queen’s ‘‘We Will Rock
You,’’ e.g.
29 2K, for one
31 Sheep
34 Award hopeful
35 Passes along to, in a way 36 Like the winner of a
handwriting contest 37 Narrow valleys
38 Very affectionate
39 Get on the same page, in
corporate-speak 41 URL ending 42 Alternative to fiber or
satellite
43 Leave off
45 Early PC software 47 Planting more than one kind of seed in a field, per Deuteronomy 48 Pollution stat 51 Historical subject of Hilary Mantel’s 2009 novel ‘‘Wolf Hall’’ 52 Action item
54 Brings back to use 56 Home of Guinea and
Guinea-Bissau: Abbr. 57 ‘‘Yo ____’’ (internet meme with rapper Xzibit)
58 Prioritization process 63 It added ‘‘essential worker’’ in March 2021: Abbr.
64 Author Rand
66 Quaint contraction 67 Title that comes from
‘‘Caesar’’
68 Assist
69 Day celebrated by ‘‘Star
Wars’’ fans
71 Curtains
72 Interior design job 73 Support, as a belief 76 Fellow
77 Like bacon and lobster,
in Jewish law 79 Prime-time slot
82 Home of the National
Voting Rights Museum 83 Perfect
84 Nail-polish brand
86 Like some nachos and
questions
87 ‘‘Real’’ ones were first
issued in the 2010s 88 Muppet who hosts the
‘‘Not-Too-Late Show’’ 91 Fifth-century invader 93 Poisonous shrub
94 Suffix with Euclid 95 Metric for online traffic,
in brief
98 Get ready for action 99 The ‘‘C’’ of D.R.C.
100 World of Warcraft, e.g.,
for short
103 One who’s at home on
the job?
105 Branch of Islam
106 Thai taxi with a
repetitive name 109 Send, as payment 112 Mail, e.g.
114 Actress Taylor-Joy of
‘‘The Queen’s Gambit’’ 115 Costa ____
116 Mother of Don Juan 117 Cheese on a meze
platter
118 Gillette razor
119 Daily Planet reporter 120 Gaelic tongue
121 Sorority letter
122 ‘‘Yikes!’’
123 Pile of cash
125 TV button: Abbr.