SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
BY DAVID W. TUFFS, EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ
David W. Tuffs, of Pacific Grove, Calif., is a fourth-year linguistics student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In his spare time he writes for his school’s satirical newspaper, Fishrap Live! This is his third crossword for The Times and his first Sunday. Planning the theme involved “manually sifting through endless lists” of words — which sounds tedious, but he enjoyed doing it. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Sexy one
10 Treat that’s dangerous
to fillings
15 It has cameras set up around the House 20 Home of the Hittite Empire
21 Novelist Zola
22 Word with box or gloves
23 Unwavering
24 Bit of cinema décor 26 Latin verb that’s a letter off from 9-Down 27 Sagelike
28 Get ready for dinner 29 Man-eaters 30 Demeanor
32 Puts the pedal to the metal
34 Outbursts of megalomania
39 Boglike
40 Educator Khan who founded Khan Academy 43 -esque
44 ‘‘Ugh, we have so much to sort out’’
47 You might come to one suddenly
50 Winston Churchill gesture
52 They’re out on their own
54 ‘‘Word on the street is .?.?. ’’
55 Antiquated source of light
58 Toy brand with colorful rods and gears 59 Partner of dark 60 Starts a course, with ‘‘off’’
61 Where you might see scrolling credits?
64 Heidi of TV’s ‘‘Making the Cut’’
66 The Arthur Ashe Courage Award and others
67 Spectators taking potshots, collectively 70 Will Smith’s actor/rapper son 73 Quickly join hands? 74 G or K
75 ‘‘Roll Tide!’’ school 79 Relishes
80 Eats
82 Feature of a healthy dog
84 Fjord, e.g.
85 Like Hathor, goddess of motherhood
89 Film character who shouts, ‘‘You are a toy!’’ 90 Fish with a prehensile tail
92 Primitive time 95 German article 96 Instagram hashtag accompanying a nostalgic photo 97 Two-fifths of a quarter
99 Birthplace of three major world religions 101 What an agoraphobe
avoids
105 Uber offering
106 Group email greeting 108 Class
109 ‘‘That so?’’
111 It’s not light reading 115 Advances in a baby’s
cognitive development 117 Demonology and
such
119 Show vanity, in a way 120 Face-planted
121 Cocktail often made with Tennessee whiskey, ironically
122 Looks long and hard 123 Class
124 Not get tense
DOWN
1 March madness figure? 2 Animals in hibernación 3 Twitches
4 ‘‘Please, I’ll go with you’’
5 Friend abroad 6 Home of many schools in the Big Ten Conference 7 Uses chrism on 8 Chuckles online 9 Language that’s a letter off from 26-Across 10 Tantalize
11 ‘‘… that’s ____’’
12 When many commutes
begin
13 Converse 14 ‘‘____-haw!’’
15 Favorite dog breed of
Queen Elizabeth II 16 Where bats and
birdies are found
17 ____ the Frog (internet
meme)
18 God with a helmet 19 Rapper with the platinum albums ‘‘Street’s Disciple’’ and ‘‘God’s Son’’
25 Skater Harding
31 The third of Chekhov’s ‘‘Three Sisters’’
32 Iota
33 Valuable deposits 34 Turning point 35 Actor/activist Davis 36 Stretch
37 Woman’s name that’s part of the body backward
38 Contacts quickly, in a way
41 Imitation
42 Fertile mixtures 45 Finished the golf hole 46 One might be cold or dry
48 Scatterbrained 49 Shot, so to speak 51 Plot device, in brief? 53 Rejoice (in)
56 Debt holdings
57 Bouts with pay-per-view events, for short
59 Transition 62 Left-leaning organizing grp.
63 Like pronounced muscles
65 Feeling described by this: :|
67 Australia’s ‘‘City of Light’’
68 Covers for campers 69 Spat
70 Former Fed chair Yellen 71 Classroom with cameras, for short 72 Executes perfectly 75 ‘‘That’s just awful!’’ 76 One end of a cell 77 ____ circus
78 To now
79 Beyoncé, to Solange, informally
81 Tundra or savanna 83 Fabric in a flat cap 85 Leprechaun’s home 86 Idaho, with ‘‘the’’ 87 Nickname in ‘‘Star Wars’’
88 Country code for Holland in the Olympics 91 N.F.L. star ____ Beckham Jr. 93 Supermodel Lima 94 Like many a beta release
98 Reaction reducer 100 Tackles
102 ‘‘I have other ____,
sorry’’
103 Norse pantheon 104 Birthplace of Zeus 106 Female figure in the
‘‘Iliad’’
107 Name akin to Agnes 109 Many mainframes 110 Blind sight
112 Number between
sette and nove 113 Some petting-zoo
noises
114 Seaside bird 115 Dash fig.
116 Twitch user’s bane 118 Comic Penn