New York Times Sunday Crossword
Super Looper
ACROSS
1 Naval engagements 8 Setting a world
record, e.g.
12 “The Hallucinogenic
Toreador” artist 16 Evidence in an arson
investigation
19 “No point arguing
with me!”
20 Some rounds
21 “The only beauty that never fades,” per Audrey Hepburn 23 Fancy French shellfish dish
Beer parlor “Then again ...,” in a tweet
27 Collection of Hindu aphorisms Palindromic bird It’s got you covered Tennis’s Novak Djokovic, by birth
32 Rex Tillerson’s alma mater, for short Proteins responsible for mad-cow disease Special ____
It’s got you covered Carved emblem Keys for Keys? German pronoun South American plains Tikkanen who won five Stanley Cups All together, as a family Classroom item Schoolboy More chichi
Get a bite? Team finale?
Hot spot, both literally and figuratively 63 Roman philosopher who wrote, “All cruelty springs from weakness” Buenos ____ Central Park’s Summerstage, e.g.
73 At the limit, with
“out”
74 Save from disaster 76 The same as 25 26 28 30 31 34
35 37 39 41 44 46
48 49
51 54 55 57 58 60 67 69 78 79 83
85 86 91
93
94 95
96 97 100
102
103 105
108 112 113 114
115 116
118 121
122 123 124 125 126 127
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 “Homer and ____ Exchange Cross Words” (2008 episode of “The Simpsons”)
Music genre for Weezer or the Shins Catch like Spiderman
Child’s seat, maybe Tech overseer Reason to stop reading Stranded cellular stuff
____ plane Addis Ababa’s country: Abbr.
Claim deposits “I rock!”
Group with Gladys Knight Mahmoud Abbas’s grp.
Quarter deck? Tiny conductor of heat or electricity Email best not replied to Mulled-wine ingredient
Extra periods at TD Garden Mythical beast with goatlike features Jazzy Fitzgerald Premise of the film “Freaky Friday” Some positives and negatives Welcoming diners at midnight, say Singer India.____ Adds water to Director Anderson Surveys
“Darn it!”
A good place to start
DOWN
Grain containers Theatricalize National ____ Day (last Friday in April) Football formation 007, for one: Abbr. ____ monkey Cocky walk Copyright concern Symbol for a break ____, amas, amat 11 12
13 14
15 16 17
18
22 24
29 33
34 36 38
40 Taquito wrap What may grow with interest
Barley wine, e.g. Burton of “Reading Rainbow” “Totally understood” Blessed Frequent director of De Niro Pigment in red blood cells
“Star Wars” droid Letters on N.Y.C. trains Together
Swiss folk hero with a crossbow
Dig for answers After-dinner drink Speed skater Karin who won eight Olympic medals Scratch 41
42 43 44
45 47 50 51 52 53 56 59 61
62 64 65 66 68
70 Celestial object that emits radio waves Drawn Poisonous snakes Anthropomorphic hedgehog of gamedom
“Don’t mind ____!” Elbow-benders ____-pah-pah Pair
“Excuse me” Kidney-related Dark time, in poesy Wrap-up
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 ..., e.g.: Abbr.
Less mendacious Like the Dalai Lama One of the Borgias Evolves
The Philippines’ ____ Sea Author Rankin 71 72
75 77 80 81 82
84 86 87 88
89
90 92 95
98 1428 ____ (horror film address): Abbr. The N.B.A.’S Curry, informally Singer James Baja bear Vermin Straight: Prefix Signer of many a permission form Congress, with “the” ____ wolf
Not level
Old outdoor dance sights
Place to try patatas bravas
Actress Lena “Relax!”
Trusts and ____ (law school class) Authority 99
101 102
104
106 107
109 110
111 112 113 117
119 120 Gertrude who swam the English Channel in 1926
Brand of note? Teen driver’s acquisition
The New Yorker piece Western tribe “Turn! Turn! Turn!” band, with “the” One-named philosopher
Paul ____, Microsoft co-founder
En ____ (as a group) Boast Bullfight chorus Homophone for the atomic number of oxygen
Altar constellation St. Pierre, par exemple