SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD |
BY SAM EZERSKY, EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ
Sam Ezersky, 26, is the digital puzzles editor of The New York Times. He also edits the daily Spelling Bee. This is his 38th crossword for the paper. On the day this one runs, he himself will be running the Brooklyn Half Marathon — the first time he’s ever done this distance. He says,
“Hoping solvers won’t be struggling on Sunday morning as much as me!” — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Make a bust, say
7 Chew (on)
11 Ointment amounts 15 Modern lead-in to
mania
19 ‘‘Enough!’’ 20 Contemporary of Picasso
21 Factory watchdog, in brief
22 Native of the country whose national sport is oil wrestling
23 Bit of company swag for a Genius Bar staffer? 25 With 114-Across, exasperated question to parking enforcement? 27 Awesome time 28 Elements of a Sherlock Holmes sports mystery? 30 A small part of who you are
31 Prefix with medicine 32 ‘‘Duck Dynasty’’ network
33 Irish ____, popular St. Patrick’s Day cocktail 36 Like much toothpaste 38 Mountain mammal 42 Plant cultivated by the Incas
43 Program after undergrad, for some 47 ‘‘____ rate .?.?. ’’ 48 Today’s plans: watchin’ someone’s kids? 54 Broadband inits. 55 Overrun
56 ‘‘Mr. Mom’’ actress Teri 57 Data output denoted by ‘‘N/A’’
59 Super Bowl in 2022 61 Come on down! 63 Name that’s a body part in reverse
64 It may be measured in both feet and meters 65 How much Michael Jordan or Wilt Chamberlain could score, hyperbolically?
71 Lead-in to cross 72 Happy companion 73 Focus of the website Brickipedia
74 ‘‘The Hangover’’ character who wakes up with a missing tooth 75 Eschews grains and processed foods, perhaps 78 Common results of penalties
80 Writers such as Sappho 85 Waze way: Abbr. 86 Missile silo’s holding? 89 Pie slices might be displayed in one
91 Natural application to waterproof a ship’s hull 92 Guacamole go-with? 93 Engine type, informally 94 Playwright Edward 97 Hidden obstacle
100 Transport on a river 102 Transport on a rail
106 ‘‘Dope!’’
107 Where Sweet’n Low
displays its logo?
111 T as in Tartarus
114 See 25-Across
115 Cry following an
electrical malfunction?
117 Rufus and Chaka
Khan’s ‘‘____ Nobody’’
118 Like garage floors,
often
119 Slight amount
120 Old English folklore
figure
121 Jumbo
122 When said three times, ‘‘What have we here?!’’
123 Music score abbr.
124 Jaguar two-seaters
starting in 2013
DOWN
1 Catch
2 ____ América (soccer tournament)
3 They call ’em as they see ’em
4 Text back and forth? 5 Like pioneering search engines of the 1980s 6 Polka-influenced music style
7 Yukon and Acadia, for two
8 Canon competitor 9 Sizable urban construction project 10 King of the gods in Wagner’s ‘‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’’
11 Ann of Hulu’s ‘‘The
Handmaid’s Tale’’ 12 Rubbish receptacle 13 Hindi name for India 14 Smooth and glossy
15 ‘‘ .?.?. per my
understanding’’
16 Zap
17 Line on a neck
18 Clears
24 ‘‘Resume speed,’’ musically
26 The Golden Arches, on stock tickers
29 One covering plenty of ground
30 Persona non ____ 33 Invent
34 When Lady Macbeth cries, ‘‘Out, damned spot!’’
35 Smoke shop purchase 37 Standout in a field 39 Bunch of scoundrels 40 Follows
41 Tissue in a plant stem 42 DNA reviewer, in brief 44 Buy time
45 State of subjugation 46 Male voter stereotype beginning in the mid-2010s
47 Wheels off the road? 49 Run in place
50 In-state attendee of Great Basin College, e.g. 51 Check
52 Brother in the Lemony Snicket books
53 Certain college member
58 Great ____
60 Jokey remark after missing a modern reference
62 Be philanthropic, say 65 Execrate
66 Company computer fixers, informally
67 Big hits?
68 ____ Float (cold treat) 122
69 Like a situation at the start of an inning
70 Ounce of praise, jocularly
71 Slangy stuff to sell 76 Placed
77 ‘‘ .?.?. must all learn to live together as brothers, ____ will all perish together as fools’’: M.L.K. Jr.
79 Cakewalk
81 Bygone messaging app 82 Cheer for the Vikings 83 Poker giveaway 84 Certain outbuilding 87 Doth proceed
88 Fun plans after work, say
90 Stuff in stuffed pasta shells
94 Aphid that produces honeydew
95 ‘‘Ooh, check it out!’’ 96 Happened to
98 Really miff
99 Tycoon
101 What only one planet,
Jupiter, is spelled with
103 ____ Hard Apple (beer
123
brand)
104 Not connected
105 Name that’s ‘‘all the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word,’’ on Broadway
107 Liver, in Le Havre
108 Like church bells
109 ‘‘Bye 4 now!’’
124
110 ‘‘Power Lunch’’ airer 111 Maryland athlete, for
short
112 End in ____
113 Doesn’t waste
114 Thanksgiving dinner
offering
116 Very important