The New York Times Crossword
TWO-BY-TWO By Matthew Stock and Chandi Deitmer / Edited by Will Shortz
Matthew Stock works for a matheducation nonprofit in East St. Louis, Ill. Chandi Deitmer of Cambridge, Mass., is a social worker in the fields of psychiatry and geriatrics.
ACROSS
1 Some old PCs 5 Experience financial ruin 11 Many files in a Downloads folder
15 Talk ____
19 1990s sitcom starring Tia
and Tamera Mowry
22 Beethoven’s “Ah! perfido,’’
for one
23 Southwest people known
for their dry farming
24 Grand Prix city
25 Fulminate
26 Portent
27 Start a web session
28 Tribute
30 Many zoomers
31 Gush (over)
33 Red lightsaber wielder
36 Singular praise
37 ____ Xtra (soft drink)
38 Soul: Sp.
39 Make it so there’s snow way
out?
41 1963 hit for the Kingsmen 45 It gets the show on the road 48 Nothing but a number, it’s
said
49 Call from an old-time
paperboy
50 Essayist Susan
51 Attraction, so to speak,
with “the’’
53 Org. often impersonated by
phone scammers
54 Time for a visit from Ong
Tao, the “Kitchen God’’
55 Slip up
56 Yellowstone sight
58 [Gulp!]
59 House of Commons reps
61 ____ gratia (in all
kindness: Lat.)
62 Rush order
64 Like some questions
66 Romanov V.I.P., once
68 Charlotte N.B.A. player
70 “... you get the point’’
74 “Well, lookie here!’’
75 Quaint exclamation of
dismay
78 Fee payer, often
79 Thin pancakes in Indian
cuisine
80 Laborer of old
84 Dan of “Schitt’s Creek’’
85 To the ____ power
86 Time for March madness? 88 Ultimate fighting inits.
90 Certain summer baby
91 “There you ____!’’
92 Big tower, for short?
94 Years and years
95 Shock
97 Sings, in a way
101 When you should leave, for
short
103 Piece of roller-derby
equipment
104 Classic-joke start
105 High five at the Olympics? 107 Unchanged
108 Yea or nay
109 Power source 111 Barfly’s flier
112 Added to a thread, say
113 El ____ of the Spanish
Renaissance
115 “Amscray!’’
117 Egomaniac’s thought
119 Noted character with
object-subject-verb syntax 120 Dangerous part of a road on
which to pass
121 Extroverts
127 Tie down
128 Best-picture winner of 2012 129 Basketball feat suggested by this puzzle’s pairs of theme answers, informally 130 1040 figs.
131 Love of languages?
132 In on
133 Add (on)
DOWN
1 Philosophy
2 H.S. class in the same
department as chem
3 Yahoo alternative
4 Trusty to the end
5 Pirate’s booze
6 One way to learn
7 Like the Six Million Dollar
Man
8 “Anchors Aweigh’’ grp.
9 Amtrak stop: Abbr.
10 Lab worker
11 Logical conundrum
12 Prolong
13 Numismatic grade
14 Plopped (down)
15 Setting for many a diorama 16 Shortcut missing from
newer smartphones 17 Lead
18 Affixes
20 Subject of interest, in brief 21 Chess piece whose name is derived from the Persian for “chariot’’
29 Cocktails made with ginger
beer, informally
30 Pieces in the game
Bananagrams
31 Flights connect them
32 All-encompassing Egyptian
deity
34 Aromatic beverage
35 Perch for the self-important 37 Gemstone cut named for a
fruit
38 Baffled
40 Very bright
42 Eye piece
43 Nobelist Joliot-Curie
44 Really get to
46 Sweetie
47 Weep in an unflattering
way, in modern lingo
52 Lugs
57 Hold on to
58 Lunchtime estimate
59 Computer shortcuts
60 Slices and dices, say
61 Scottish hillsides
63 Annoying
65 Walk with swagger
67 It might get swiped in a
college dining hall
68 Football trophy name
69 Where some replacements
take place, in brief
71 Third column on a calendar:
Abbr. 72 Eaglet’s hatching spot
73 Certain public transport 75 Sound from a jalopy
76 Played again
77 Words from an ex-lover 81 Go by
82 Put down again
83 Origami steps
85 Bread in Indian cuisine
87 One taking action
89 Certain close relative
92 Invite out for
93 1990s tennis star Huber 94 Off-kilter
96 “Later!’’
98 Green vehicles
99 Fried plantain dish of
Puerto Rico
100 Country named for its
geographic location
102 It makes you you
103 Lobbyists’ area in D.C. 106
Radiator cover
110 “Die Hard’’ squad, in brief 112 Miss ____, famed dial-apsychic
113 Businesses that see an
uptick after New Year’s 114 Aussie hoppers
115 Kernel of an idea
116 “Ouch, ouch, ouch!’’
118 High style
120 Barnyard bleat
122 “Mais ____!’’ (“But of
course!’’)
123 “Cyberchase’’ channel 124 Org. whose members stay
in their lanes
125 Business name ender
126 “Yipe!’’