New York Times Sunday Crossword >>
By Sam Ezersky, Edited by Will Shortz
1 Major crop of North
Carolina
8 Is already booked
16 Pen pal?
17 CARES, for Coronavirus Aid, Relief and
Economic Security, e. g.
18 Easy trucking distance
19 White House daughter whom the Secret Service called Rosebud
20 First- ever Super Bowl
M. V. P. ( 1967)
21 Flower whose name sounds like a branding iron
22 ____ Sound, record label co- founded by Drake
23 Faced off
25 Industrial conglomerate or its symbol on the New York Stock Exchange
26 Agreement
28 Ants : colony :: ____ :
plague
29 Flower with a “face’’
31 “Get ____, you two!’’
32 Listing of recent phone
history
33 Nickname that omits
- eron
34 Step outside for a bit
37 Fortunetelling decks
40 Not as thick
43 Rather thick
44 Price- tag caveat ( buyer
beware!)
46 How, in Oaxaca
47 Philosopher who wrote “Critique of Pure Reason’’
49 Mont- Saint-____,
France
51 Make warm and add
spice to, as wine
52 Excited cries
53 Related to part of the
small intestine
55 Words before corner
or profit
56 Turf
57 Grp. with barrels
58 Port city in Spain’s
Basque Country
60 Serving two purposes
61 Garbage- disposal spot 62 Doesn’t hide anything
64 Sch. in Albuquerque
66 Detritus from a hospital
68 Guard
69 Harmful aquatic
overgrowth
71 Poetic contraction
72 Managed just fine
73 Sharply dressed
77 Onetime Ringling
Brothers employee
80 More pathetic
81 Beer brand with a
bicycle in its logo
83 Lead- in to puncture
84 Root vegetable in Asian
cuisine
86 ¼ : Abbr.
87 Joker’s catchphrase
90 Going on extravagant trips, as a politician might
92 101
93 Like some chocolate
94 Minor players?
95 Where drivers might
wait in line
96 Modern- day antiviolence slogan
97 “To summarize ... ‘’ DOWN 1 Call from a tugboat 2 Some boat- crew
members 3 Stick in the fridge? 4 Close by 5 Data analyst’s creation 6 A& E docuseries with footage of criminal trials
7 The Magic, on
scoreboards
8 Status symbol?
9 Elicitors of some
blessings
10 Move on ice
11 Macbeth’s dagger or Desdemona’s handkerchief, e. g.
12 Spanish for “wolf’’
13 Winner of the podrace in “Star Wars:
Episode I’’
14 Team seen in Queens,
in brief
15 Know- it- all 16 Prefix meaning “time’’
17 Foul smell
18 Really relish
19 Draw the line
somewhere, say
20 South Florida city, to
locals
21 Take back
24 De- squeaked
27 Expert, from the Italian
29 Pal in cowboy- speak
30 Trio in a Latin
learner’s lesson
32 Ivy seen among cliffs
33 Caribbean stew
35 Beachside watering
holes
36 Marine animal that
resembles a flower
37 Pedicure target
38 Yiddish trouble
39 Cellphone setting
40 Shaggy’s dog, to
Shaggy 41 Turtlelike foes in the
Mario games
42 “Present’’
44 Like some dense
foliage
45 Satisfy, as thirst
48 Caps Lock neighbor
50 What can be a lot to
stomach?
54 Brew holders, maybe
59 Underway
63 Kerfuffle
65 Ending with taste or
trouble
67 Ultimately emerged
victorious
69 [ Mwah!]
70 ____ Covey, heroine of the hit book/ film series “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’’
72 “Is this such a good
idea?’’
74 Cleaned ( up) 75 Site of a historic church
council
76 Burglar, in older slang
77 Neighbors of Afghans
78 Boxy window
installation, in brief
79 Requirement
80 Pathetic bunch
81 Cross the line, say
82 Extends an invitation
for
84 Authoritative
pronouncements
85 Makes simple, with
“down’’
88 Snare
89 Former New York City
mayor Ed
91 Camp sight
93 Comp ____ ( college
discipline, informally),