The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Sports Nuts
ACROSS
1 One known as “the Alive, the Eternal” 6 Checkout option 11 Org. featured in 2011’s “Contagion” 14 Tiff
18 ____ Rose, Catherine O’hara’s character on “Schitt’s Creek” 19 Chevron
subsidiary 20 Language in the
Tai family 21 Kind of skirt 22 Your ex’s new date whom you just can’t stand? 25 Tabloid
twosome
26 Lose sleep
(over)
27 Off
28 “Su-u-ure” 29 Half of a legal
warning
30 There are
24 in a cuboctahedron 32 Make a big stink 34 Kegels, e.g.? 39 Getting up
there
42 Poet Rainer
Maria ____ 43 “____ yourself” 44 First winner of the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel (1965) 46 It’s just passing 47 Therapists’ org. 48 Director Craven 51 First square of a
crossword? 55 Walking the dog, for instance
58 One might bend
over backward 59 Who actually lives in Lapland, some say 60 Accord maker 61 Author of 29 Federalist Papers
64 Laugh and a
half 65 Playwright who wrote, “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything” 68 “I’ll be your waiter tonight,” e.g.?
70 Raison d’____ 71 Do a certain developer’s job 72 Something a mover or a movie might have 73 Threesome 75 The “B” in its name stands for “brush” 77 Oldest independent state in the
Arab world 78 Genre for “Booksmart” and “Clueless” 82 Conspiracy theory so wild that it can’t be aired?
86 Trident lookalike
87 ____ jam 88 Small bird
89 “I did it!” 90 Southern
cooking staple 92 Things you can crack without damaging them 94 Affix with a
click
96 Plan to leave at a very specific evening time? 100 Orangish
shade
103 Fill with joy
104 Stirs up
106 Doctor
Zhivago
107 Where subs are
standard
109 Semiaquatic
creature
113 Missing
114 Blackjack
dealer?
117 Niche mag
118 Stick (out)
119 Product that increases volume
120 “Moonlight”
actress Janelle 121 Joie de vivre
122 One doing
inside work
123 Chain whose name derives from its founders, the Raffel brothers 124 Orchard
products
DOWN
1 Book before
Obadiah 2 Converted apartment, perhaps 3 “That’s
____” 4 Question after an argument has died down
5 Solo traveling
in space 6 Crafts 7 Frequent subjects of Taylor Swift songs 8 Measures, in
music
9 Word that can precede or follow pack 10 Actor Menzies who won an Emmy for “The Crown”
11 Fills (in)
12 One hell of a
writer? 13 One way for packages to arrive, in brief 14 Protect 15 “Quiet!” rudely 16 Lager
alternatives 17 Subdued
19 “It takes a licking and keeps on ticking” brand 23 Herb used in
smudging rites 24 Theater award 29 Stars 31 Approached 32 Actress Moreno 33 ____ Kong 34 Melee 35 Abdominal procedure, for short 36 Skin-care brand 37 Dry biscuit used
as baby food 38 Op. ____
(footnote abbr.) 40 Any slice of pizza, geometrically 41 Greek goddess associated with witchcraft 44 Archaeologist’s
workplace 45 Workers’ advocate, informally 49 Young partner? 50 Back way, often 52 Winona of “Stranger Things” 53 Work, work,
work
54 Texas border
city
56 “C’est la vie” 57 “Ay” follower 61 “Now We Are
Six” author 62 Crush, as a test 63 German denials 65 Members of a
certain den 66 Enter without
permission
67 A wood frog’s ability to freeze itself in winter and an octopus’s ability to change color, for two 69 Vaccine holder 74 In with
76 Props for
majorettes 78 Bird with an annual 18,000mile round-trip migration 79 Instrument that’s a homophone of 69-Down 80 Crucifix
inscription inits. 81 ____ New
York (Brooklyn neighborhood) 83 2020 Democratic also-ran
84 It’s nada to
Nadal 85 Actor/comedian
Barinholtz 91 Dieted 93 Summer shoe
style
95 Bed of straw 96 Who’s talking
on the phone? 97 Personality that’s hard to read
98 Pass over, in a
way 99 Mathematician John Forbes ____ Jr.
101 Visually
evaluate
102 Out of practice 104 Boo-oo-oo, say 105 Boo-boo
107 Smear
108 Site for some creative entrepreneurs 110 What Vulcan’s forge lay underneath, in myth
111 Sport
112 “____ chic!” 114 Party people,
for short?
115 Repeated word in the U.S. postal creed 116 Rapscallion