SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
BY CHRISTINA IVERSON AND KATIE HALE, EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ
Christina Iverson, of Ames, Iowa, is the assistant crossword editor for The Los Angeles Times. Katie Hale is a stay-at-home mom in London, England. The idea for this puzzle started while Katie stared at a copy of “The Great Gatsby,” the phrase THROW A FITZGERALD popped into her head. She laughed ... and started adding syllables to other authors’ names. Some of the results appear here. This is Christina’s and Katie’s third Sunday collaboration for The Times. – W.S.
ACROSS
1 Precursor to a circuit breaker
5 _____ bar
10 Pointed remark 14 Common spa
descriptor
19 “Hello there, sailor!” 20 Gourmet mushroom with poisonous look-alikes
21 Somewhat
22 Core workout challenge
23 Looks up from reading “Frankenstein”?
27 Moody North Yorkshire setting 28 Handy
29 Restless
30 Split hairs?
31 Words exchanged during an “altar”-cation 32 Revise
33 Reads “Catch-22,” “Closing Time” and “Something Happened” _ and doesn’t stop there? 39 Atmospheric driving hazard
42 Came to
43 Assistant
44 The joy of text? 45 Expression of a grump 47 Cheeky remarks ... or something near the cheek 48 Kendrick Lamar’s 2017 best rap album Grammy winner
50 “Aquaman” actor Jason 52 English indie-pop singer Parks
53 Sleek reef swimmers 55 Borrows “The Color Purple” from the library instead of “The Flowers”? 60 1960s activist Bobby 62 Word with play or fight 63 Belgrade resident 64 See 36-Down
65 First in a line of 13 popes
67 Strands
69 Lifewater and Elixir brand
71 “Wow!”
74 Fashion guru Tim 76 “_____ the spirit!” 78 D.E.A. target
81 Listens to “Tom Jones” on audiobook? 85 Matterhorn range 87 Wheely good invention?
88 Off
89 _____ tube
91 H
92 Conclude by 94 Dawson in the Pro Football Hall of Fame 95 “Chat another time!” in an I.M.
97 Bolt in a sprint 99 Director Guillermo _____ Toro
100 Reads “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” so many times its spine splits?
105 Cryptids on snowy
mountains
107 Mars bar with
shortbread and chocolate 108 [sigh]
109 Pilot green-lighter,
in brief
111 “Ask away!”
113 Iconic scarecrow
topper
117 Donates some copies of “King Lear” to the Renaissance Festival? 120 Still
121 Curling locale
122 Musical with the song “Another Suitcase in Another Hall”
123 _____ Rachel Wood of
“Westworld”
124 Castles, essentially 125 Chances
126 Not let lapse 127 It can be outstanding
DOWN
1 “Octopuses can use tools,” e.g.
2 “This is not good!” 3 Words said while shaking one’s head in disgust
4 One might be found next to a neck pillow in an airport shop
5 Suave
6 Decant
7 Painting and filmmaking
8 Person in a head set? 9 Keebler cookie with shortbread and chocolate 10 Send away
11 Biblical analogue of
Aron in “East of Eden” 12 High-_____ (kind of jeans or apartment building)
13 South Korean “Princes
of Pop”
14 Jimmies and
corkscrews
15 Debbie of “Fame” and
“Grey’s Anatomy” 16 Things often next to
napkins in place settings 17 Spanish Agnes 18 Absolut alternative 24 Put in order 25 Text-writer’s segue 26 Philosopher David 31 Alternative to a diaphragm
32 Like games marked 31 Alternative to a diaphragm
32 Like games marked 1->99
33 Strong wind
34 Pains for preschoolers 35 Chivalrous avatar of Vishnu
36 Sounds from a 64-Across
37 Saint associated with a “fire”
38 Birds on Canadian dollars
40 Big-eyed hatchling 41 1989 film for which Denzel Washington won best supporting actor 46 Follower of “So” or “lo” 49 Patronized a restaurant 50 Homes for cattails and bulrushes
51 Childhood friend 54 Blueberry-picking girl of children’s literature 56 “Yuck!”
57 “You’re right about that!”
58 “You’re not right about that!” 59 “Chiquitita” singing group
61 Endurance, so to speak 66 Scarfs down
68 Norm: Abbr. 70 Geological span 71 Chose
72 QB’s protection 73 Very rarely
75 Ancient home of a mythical lion
77 Delphic prophet 79 Barbershop specialty 80 Fiber-_____
82 “I’m in favor”
83 Rat
84 The Big Easy
86 Sound
90 Fabric made from jute 93 Med. exams with intradermal injections 95 O’er yon 96 “The Muppets: villain Richman
98 Macroalgae
101 Costa _____
102 Baby birds?
103 Deuces
104 Cold War pact city 106 Use, as influence 109 “Here I come,
weekend!” 110 In _____ veritas
111 Reported
112 Back
113 Abrade, in a way 114 Head: Fr.
115 Horse with endurance 116 Billowy dress style 118 To’s counterpart 119 Broadway, for one:
Abbr.