The New York Times Crossword
Barbara Lin is a computer engineer in West Chester, Pa. She says her work is like solving puzzles. “The difference is that in engineering, there’s no answer key.’’
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1 Enjoy the sun 5 Completely committed 10 One to whom you tell everything 13 Hit show with the series finale “One for the Road’’ 19 Predator of the Pacific Northwest 20 ____-Grain (breakfast-bar brand) 21 Singer Carly ____ Jepsen 22 “Give me a minute’’ 23 Iditarod, for one? 26 Intertwine 27 Show stoppers? 28 German “please’’ 29 Bronze that’s not winning any awards? 30 Station 31 One driving kids around in a Subaru? 33 B-side to the Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride’’ 36 Ginger, e.g. 37 Turn down 40 Longtime home for Terry Gross 41 Boasts 43 In the same family 47 Letting out all the stops to drown out the other instruments? 52 Set on edge 53 Having the least give 54 Large in scope 55 It’s sometimes covered in velvet 56 William who wrote “Shrek!’’ 57 Not on point 59 Slip of the fingers 61 Angsty genre 62 Cocaine and guns, in a Pacino movie? 67 What Consumer Reports lacks, unlike most other magazines 69 Buzz Lightyear and Woody, e.g. 70 Massive, in poetry 71 Whine connoisseurs? 74 Party symbol since 1870 76 “Is that really necessary?’’ 78 Jackson known as the “Queen of Gospel’’ 80 Sidestep 81 Troops who are worried about sun protection? 84 Like this clue 85 Basketball player, in old slang 86 Brain wave chart, for short 87 Like most prime numbers 88 All right 89 New York’s iconic _ _ _ _ Building 93 Give mom’s mom the stink eye? 99 Decorative pillowcases 104 Sorry state 105 Juuls and such 106 Bug 108 Quick tennis match 109 “Twelve Days of Christmas’’ musician who invites sympathy? 111 When 13-Across aired for most of its run 112 Stick in a boat 113 Land in the so-called “Roof of the World’’ 114 Take into account? 115 Affectionate refusal 116 Fade away 117 Morning ____ 118 Where a sloth spends most of its life
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1 Meals 2 French Foreign Legion, par exemple 3 Scallywag 4 Hummer’s instrument 5 Poet Carson 6 Totes 7 Inc., in London 8 Classic Isaac Asimov collection of short stories 9 Ball of vinegared rice topped with raw fish 10 Angels’ opposites 11 Side of a diamond 12 Charge 13 Penny pinchers 14 Express displeasure with on the road 15 “Oklahoma!’’ aunt 16 Excel function that uses a calendar 17 Puerto ____ 18 Medical tube 24 Teeny 25 GPS suggestions: Abbr. 29 What a left parenthesis suggests in an emoticon 31 Resolute 32 Suffix with switch 34 Wraps up 35 Big name in music streaming 37 “Fiddlesticks!’’ 38 “So much for that’’ 39 Suffix with auto41 Middle: Abbr. 42 Where Simone Biles won four golds 43 Creative class 44 Crunchy green side dish 45 Part of an agenda 46 Infamous emperor 47 Tiebreakers, briefly 48 Canceled out 49 Apple variety 50 A collar might hide it 51 Winters or Somers 52 Italian dumplings 55 Busy time at the I.R.S.: Abbr. 58 “One Mic’’ rapper 59 NON-U.S. M.L.B. team, on sports tickers 60 More scrumptious 63 Arundhati ____, winner of the 1997 Booker Prize 64 Inner: Prefix 65 What orchids may grow without 66 Lyre player of myth 67 Michelangelo’s “The Creation of ____’’ 68 Peacenik 72 What might come down to the wire? 73 Opinion 75 Sorento or Sedona 76 G.I. fare 77 Former Mideast grp. 79 It helps turn a pond green 81 Word-processing command 82 On tenterhooks, maybe 83 The “M’’ of MHZ 85 Bar freebie 88 The A.P.’S Female Athlete of the Decade for the 2010s, familiarly 89 Trim 90 Trim 91 Dutch brewery 92 Car-sticker fig. 93 [Not again!] 94 Slowly, in music 95 Correct 96 Perez of “Do the Right Thing’’ 97 Nurse back to health 98 Mouth-puckering 100 Focus of “Ocean’s Eleven’’ 101 How some bonds are sold 102 Irish novelist ____ Binchy 103 Bender 106 Gradual deterioration 107 Without much thought 109 ____ hook (rock climbing technique) 110 Big step for a start-up, in brief