New York Times Sunday Crossword
ACROSS
1 Syllables when you
forget the words 4 The universe has an estimated 1,082 of them
9 “A mouse!” 12 Beyoncé chart-topper “Single ____ (Put a Ring on It)” 18 Simile center
19 ____ Lawrence College
20 Magazine co-founded in 1945 by Hélène Gordon Lazareff 22 Similar-sounding phrase, such as “I scream” for
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 rocket-powered 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?
Answer Below 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 chocolateand-toffee 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 water-park
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, 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