The New York Times Sunday Crossword | ‘Clue’: The Movie

ACROSS

1 Syllables when you forget the words

4 The universe has an estimated 1,082 of them

9 “A mouse!” 12 Beyoncé charttopper “Single ____ (Put a Ring on It)” 18 Simile center 19 ____ Lawrence

College 20 Magazine co-founded in 1945 by Hélène Gordon Lazareff 22 Similarsounding phrase, such as “I scream” for “ice cream” 23 Field of

Dreams

26 Guys and

Dolls 27 Lucrative and

undemanding 28 Ingredient in a Mcdonald’s Mcflurry 29 Seasonal

winds 31 Fictional brand of rocketpowered roller skates

32 “Cross my

heart!”

35 Fam girl 36 Sounds of

doubt

38 Star Trek 40 Woodworker’s

tool

42 Some tourist spots in San Francisco

43 Tax pro, for

short

45 Ancient work that describes the sacred tree Yggdrasil 46 Trendy home

gym purchase 50 Top Gun 55 Baseball family name much seen in crosswords 56 Jerkface 59 Tightly affixed 60 Parrot’s sound 61 Insurance

department 63 “____ for me,

thanks”

64 Big no-nos 66 Letters From

Iwo Jima

67 The Imitation

Game

69 The Fifth

Element 73 Perfectly

comfortable 75 1930s migrant

to California 76 Spirits

77 Sesh on Reddit 80 Speed reader? 81 Gave, as gossip 83 Trimmed parts

of green beans 84 A Man for All

Seasons 87 Matricidal figure

of Greek myth 89 Golden-rule

word

90 Spanish

“Listen!” 91 Dostoyevsky’s Prince Myshkin, so the book title declares 93 Cause for switching positions 97 Scent of a

Woman

104 “____ you

decent?”

105 ____ Toy Barn (“Toy Story 2” locale)

106 Small things

that you pluck 107 Breakout band for Harry Styles and Zayn Malik, familiarly

108 Overlie

111 Mad magazine cartoonist Drucker

112 Get the juices

flowing?

113 Wayne’s World 114 Space Jam

118 Gene variant

119 Denominator in the velocity formula

120 Beam for train

tracks

121 Fragrant ring

122 Candy with the slogan “Not sorry”

123 Skosh

124 Main artery

125 Panic button, of

a sort

DOWN

1 Pet that should come with a lint roller?

2 Given that 3 Exasperated

parent’s retort 4 Flue-like 5 Confucian

philosophy 6 Singer Rita 7 “Floating terror”

of the sea 8 Many social

media users 9 Donkey with a

pinned-on tail 10 Two in a

million?

11 “The Kiss”

painter 12 Successfully

uses a password 13 Melodious 14 Place to develop

one’s chops 15 Innate

16 Part of a

makeup test? 17 Texting tech,

briefly 21 “____ es!” (“That’s right!”: Sp.) 24 “Clueless”

protagonist 25 Accept eagerly,

with “at” 30 Org. with an annual Codebreaker Challenge 32 Double-crossed

and half-baked 33 Embarrassing

public episode 34 Restless desire 37 Luxurious 39 Product for one who wonders, “Am I expecting?” 40 Increased into something much more valuable

41 Spy novelist

Deighton 44 Weave off the

shoulder? 46 Get ready for

vacation 47 Civil rights

activist Baker 48 It may be

forgiven 49 Mystic’s board 50 4x World Series

winner Martinez 51 [more info

below]

52 Ice cream

containers 53 ____ compensation (subject of modern debate) 54 Spanish

marinade 57 Drawer of

shorts, e.g. 58 Cutthroat

mentality 62 Cardinal’s hat,

in Britain 65 Tender areas 67 Pop in the fridge 68 Hershey’s chocolate-andtoffee bar 70 Diatribe 71 Quaint sign

word 72 Noun-making

suffix

74 Fumble for

words

76 Dodos

77 City that replaced Lagos as Nigeria’s capital 78 Cameo 79 Predatory insect living in woodpiles 82 French fabric 85 Caramel or hot fudge, basically 86 Euphemistic

exclamation 88 Ike’s domain in

W.W.II 91 Reason the physicist stayed in bed?

92 “The Shape of Water” director 94 Natasha ____, Boris’s partner against Rocky and Bullwinkle 95 Some waterpark rides 96 Olympics symbol for Madrid’s country

98 Sang along when you forgot the words 99 Ingredient in

healing gel

100 Latte art

medium

101 Arch support 102 Bill killers

103 Utopian

106 Like a birthday cake, preparty

109 “____ All That”

(1999 film)

110 Frequently,

quaintly

112 Lugosi of horror

films

113 Fish with an

elongated jaw 115 Singer Sumac 116 Describe in a

negative way 117 Toke