New York Times Sunday Crossword Why? Well, Why Not?
ACROSS
1 Condiment at a pho
shop
9 Got too scared, with
“out”
15 Shelve
20 Big picture 21 Author/ journalist
Welteroth
22 “The ____ Holmes Mysteries” ( youngadult detective series)
23 Nationwide competitor
24 Places where some
belts are tightened? 26 Longtime surname
on late- night TV 27 Rooibos by another
name
28 Simpson imp 29 Stephen Crane’s “The Red Badge of Courage,” e. g.? 32 Gave the scoop
35 Its presence on Mars
offers a clue to life 38 Growler’s contents
39 Actress Lena
40 Can
41 Medical gloves and
N95 masks, for short 42 Pen
44 Andy Dufresne in “The Shawshank Redemption,” e. g. 48 Pear- shaped instrument
49 Buy a lot of, with
“on”
51 Lawyer with absurdly exaggerated humor?
54 Where Camus’s “The
Plague” is set 56 Circuit- board components
57 Count, e. g.
58 Sleep phase? 60 Coconut- covered
cookie
63 It might get the
weed out
64 Flagship vehicle line
for Mercedes- Benz 65 Encourage
67 Dallas- to- Austin dir. 70 Test, as a new mattress
71 Harvesting machine
that needs cleaning? 73 Didn’t just sit there
76 Vouch for, with “to” 79 Mythical weaver 80 Doctor’s description of the birth of triplet sons?
84 “Well, maybe” 85 Connect, as two
devices
86 Rhetoric
87 Relax
89 No longer active:
Abbr.
90 Golf ball’s path 91 City north of Des
Moines
92 Slangy turndown
93 Cinco + uno
94 They might get all
over the floor 96 Battle between Tinker Bell and Princess Ozma?
102 Cream
103 “Ready?”
104 Some Guinness
records
108 Census- taking of a
Midwest capital?
111 Begin
113 Bel ____ ( Italian
cheese)
114 Charm
115 Become aware of … or a homophonic description of four letter shifts in this puzzle’s grid
116 Partners of hinds
117 Reaches
118 Comes clean
DOWN
1 Proceeded down a
lane, maybe
2 Tick off
3 Without much
thought
4 Excise surgically 5 Household robot
from Amazon 6 Abyss
7 Like some towels
and topics 8 Put away
9 Big name in grills 10 ____ la Cité, home of
Notre- Dame 11 Smallest country in
the E. U., by area 12 Stacked
13 Musical artist known as the Queen of New Age
14 Interior secretary
Haaland
15 Hold in custody 16 ____ nous
17 Server error
18 The Liberty Tree, e. g. 19 Some free housing
recipients, for short 25 Longtime surname
on
27 Fwy. or expy. 30 Clutch, e. g.
31 Name hidden in
“global economy” 32 Couleur de l’océan 33 Rhapsodize over 34 Caterpillar alternative 35 Disruption for a
poolside sunbather 36 God associated with
the moon 37 American ____ 39 Marsupial that goes into shock when frightened
42 Kind of parking
43 Each
44 Arab leaders
45 “I spilled ____ remover on my dog. Now he’s gone”: Steven Wright 46 Dancer Charisse of
“Singin’ in the Rain” 47 Wizard
48 Sci- fi daughter of
Padmé
50 D as in D. C.? Abbr. 52 Some prosecutors,
for short
53 Primeval
55 First name in folk 59 Some wide- brimmed
hats 61 Killer of the Night King on “Game of Thrones”
62 ____ Day, early collaborator with Prince
65 “r u 4 real?” 66 Serving with a meze
platter
67 It’s a ball 68 Japanese honorific 69 Pries ( from)
70 Icky look
71 Boots, helmets,
rope, etc.
72 Prefix with puncture 73 For face value 74 One- named entertainer from Spain 75 Hand- held device
used by Mr. Spock 77 Lunar New Year 78 General name for a
dish?
81 Shade of red
82 Ticks off
83 Like Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts
88 Fish in a poke bowl 91 Unfairly takes advantage of, as a policy 92 Wapo alternative
93 Square figure?
95 Like a tasty cake 96 Ice- cream treat 97 They might hold on to their caps, for short
98 “Failure ____ an
option”
99 Back in style
100 You can see right
101 Beginning of a toast 103 What concealer
might conceal
105 Soaks ( up)
106 Co- author of 2016’ s “The Book of Joy,” along with the Dalai Lama
107 Break … or brake
108 Inits. on the road
109 Inits. on the road
110 Darkroom item, in 111 Personal- ad abbr.
112 No- win situation