SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD | ON THE HUNT
BY EMET OZAR, EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ
Emet Ozar, formerly from Los Angeles but currently in Charlotte, N.C., is a program manager for a software company. She and her wife have three children, all under 6. She finds crosswords appealing partly because they can be picked up and set down easily, which is helpful because of the constant interruptions from the kids. She credits the Crossword Puzzle Collaboration Directory on Facebook for helping her develop her construction skills. This is Emet’s New York Times debut. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 What flowers eventually do
5 Children’s character who sings ‘‘I Love Trash’’ 10 Ending with bald or
bold
14 Issa of ‘‘The Lovebirds’’ 17 On the drink
18 Must pay back 19 Gross-sounding plant? 20 Toll maker
21 List from 1 to .?.?. 22 Overhead lights? 23 Spirit of a culture 24 Shoots the breeze 25 One might help with a connection
27 Apt facial hair for a teacher?
30 ‘‘Excuse me .?.?. ’’ 32 Rumrunner, e.g. 33 Lime-a-____ (alcoholic beverage)
34 Daughter of Polonius, in Shakespeare 37 Admitted it, with ‘‘up’’ 38 ¥
39 Bob Marley and the Wailers, for one 41 Passionate (about) 42 Chills
46 Button often denoted by a right arrow
47 China makes up much of it
50 Big brass
51 Like almost all prime numbers 52 Lay down, in a way 54 Word before shot and after hot
55 Spiritual object 56 Words with ‘‘with words’’
57 It ‘‘lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar,’’ per Percy Bysshe Shelley
60 Bea Arthur was one before her acting career 61 Church minister 64 Breakfast brand tagline
65 Taking Rx drugs 66 People in a long line, perhaps
67 Covered in long, soft hair
68 Jupiter and Mars
69 It’s spineless
70 Private aid grp. 71 ‘‘Vital’’ things
73 Stock paper, for short? 76 Orchestral prelude to an opera
78 Fairy-tale sibling 80 Beer ____, drinking/running event 81 Deems right
82 Apt name for a landscaper?
83 ‘‘On the other hand, I could be wrong’’
86 Crony
87 One of a pair of kitchen tools
90 Like anomalies 91 Chrysler offering of the 1980s
93 Wrestling duos 95 Over-the-counter seller
96 Engaged in some circular reasoning
99 Put on
102 First line in a news
story
103 Congas and bongos 104 ____ room
106 Name that rhymes
with ‘‘edgy’’
107 You are: Sp.
108 Essays
109 Attack tactic
110 Dragon-roll
ingredients
111 Foreign exchange
abbr. 112 Big name in skate
shoes
113 Cartomancy medium 114 Broadway musical centered on two girls in love, with ‘‘The’’
DOWN
1 Affable
2 Golfer Aoki
3 Help out
4 Pay attention
5 ‘‘How fancy!’’
6 Exchange
7 Big star
8 Many, many
9 The ‘‘R’’ of Edward R. Murrow
10 Kicked the ball between the legs of, in soccer slang
11 What Beatles music did
at Abbey Road, famously 12 Clean extensively 13 Back talk
14 Undergo a chemical
change
15 A Greek letter? 16 Something ____ 19 Goes off on
20 Things that might get written down on sticky notes
26 ‘‘Scary’’ Spice Girl 28 Response to ‘‘Who’s there?’’
29 Some purchases for Christmas displays 31 Unaccounted for, for short
34 Ish
35 Identified
36 On edge 38 Safecrackers, in old-fashioned slang 40 Rapper Kool Moe ____ 42 Sight at a winery 43 Body feature that approximately 10 percent of people have 44 Plumbing pipe known as a trap
45 Brings under control 48 Chord whose notes are played in succession 49 Comedian’s stage prop
50 Welsh guy 52 Something intricately detailed and impressive 53 Without
54 Expecting, in slang
112
56 Most valued card in the deck
58 Rock type
59 Big name in chicken 60 Dream idly
61 Chinese qipao, e.g. 62 Jazz pianist Blake who composed ‘‘Shuffle Along’’
63 Unrivaled
64 The Evian Championship is one of its majors: Abbr. 68 Formal festivities 70 Critic’s pick? 72 Absolute beaut 73 Resident of the capital of Manitoba
74 Plod perseveringly 75 Ballet jump
77 Zilch
78 Maker of Ding Dongs and Twinkies
79 Puts up
80 Cooking ahead of time, say
82 Chickpeas and peanuts, for two
84 1/1 ’til present: Abbr. 85 ‘‘La’’ place in L.A. 87 Actress Anna of ‘‘True 113
Bloods’’
88 News updates, with ‘‘the’’
89 ‘‘Othello’’ character who quips, ‘‘They are all but stomachs, and we all but food’’
91 Beer parties 92 Granted through a treaty 93 Land in Rome
94 On the wagon
96 ____ cheese 97 Purchase for the den 98 Mission cancellation 100 Title Disney character
from Hawaii
101 Polite agreement
105 What you might get
on a log flume ride