The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
THAT’S A TALL ORDER!
Finn Vigeland graduated in May from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with a master’s degree in urban planning. He now works as a transportation planner in Washington. Urban planning and crossword constructing evidence a dual interest in grids. Finn sold his first puzzle to The Times in 2010 when he was 18. This will make 18 puzzles by him for the paper altogether, half of them Sundays. — W.S. ACROSS
1 Volcanic residue
4 Iraqi, e.g.
8 Not working today
11 Top of the Alps?
17 Singer with the 2016 No. 1 hit “Cheap Thrills”
18 Ancient Iranian
19 Something dogs may
pull
20 Only musical to win Best Picture since “Oliver!” in 1968
21 Early encyclopedist credited with coining “Home is where the heart is”
24 Adjusts, as an
instrument
25 Reference aids for
artists
26 Children’s author
Lowry
27 Nonkosher sammie
28 Tested
29 Phrase followed by
“one two, one two”
32 English channel,
with “the”
33 ____ Min Lee, victim in the podcast “Serial”
34 Archipelago nation in
the Indian Ocean
35 Stage before pupa
36 Gchat transmissions,
briefly
39 Accidentinvestigating org.
Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). 41 Big dealer in outdoor
gear
42 Suggestion for a reading circle, informally
44 Fruit with a pit
46 Seek revenge on, in
a way
47 Is a straight shooter
49 Some printer hues
51 Word after meal or
before school
53 Put forward as a basis
of argument
54 Takedown pieces,
slangily
56 Charge (through)
58 Dryer residue
59 Dog sound
63 Sunbather in the
tropics
64 Sources of weekly
N.C.A.A. rankings
66 Looked at lasciviously
68 Work with feet?
69 Pretzel topping
71 Modern cousin of
“Yay!”
72 Fear-inducing
73 Spanish phrase meaning “Enough is enough!”
76 “Pencils down!”
78 Huge mix-up
79 Soft-rock singer who received Kennedy Center Honors in 2016
82 Philanthropist Broad
84 Salacious stuff
85 Anonymous female,
in court
86 Nurse in a bar
87 Train between N.Y.C.
and Montauk 89 Crafty
90 Kind of acid
91 Inherited
94 Muffin ingredient
96 It’s rigged
97 Protein in Wheaties
99 Bygone car model that’s an anagram of GRANITE
103 Part of a diner
display
104 It brings you closer
to your subjects
105 “The 40-YearOld Virgin” and “Knocked Up”
107 Mythical hunter
turned into a stag
109 State bordering the
Pacific
111 Establishment such as Crumbs and Whiskers or KitTea (both real!)
112 Avian diver
113 Not much
114 Convent-ional sort
115 Gets ready to pray
116 National Pizza Mo.
117 !
118 Future Ph.D.’s test
DOWN
1 Grp. with a pet project?
2 Buildings often outfitted with ladders
3 Lauds
4 Oscar nominee for “Gone Baby Gone,” 2007
5 Measure of virality
6 Ritalin target, for short 7 It’s full of hard-to-spell
words
8 What a bitter person
might try to settle
9 Retainer
10 Prez with the dog
Fala
11 4-Across chief
12 All-in-one boxes
13 R.N.’s place
14 Foreign capital designed by two Americans
15 9+ for a game, e.g.
16 Program starting with the fifth year of college, informally
19 Like 100-1 odds
20 Popular gardening
shoe
22 Early vintner, in the
Bible
23 Music genre associated with the goth look
26 Baudelaire’s “____
Fleurs du Mal”
30 Inch along
31 The common folk
32 Picnic side dish
34 Trucker with a
transmitter
35 Stuff of legends
36 Futuristic tracking
device
37 “Are we done here?,”
politely
38 Bust, maybe
40 Dines
42 Recycling ____
43 River mammal
45 Flow of one line of a verse to the next without pause 47 Music genre from
Asia
48 Term of address from one girlfriend to another
50 IV, to III, e.g.
52 {}
55 Player of many an
opera villain
57 Stun
60 Family name on a
1960s sitcom
61 Sorry
62 Bygone military
punishment 64 ____ king
65 Fantasy series that inspired “Game of Thrones,” briefly
67 What the thumbs-up
emoji can mean
70 Took a course?
72 Kosher ____
74 Sleekly designed
75 Flared dress type
77 Spice Girl also known
as Sporty Spice
79 Bob Marley, for one
80 Liqueur often mixed
with water 81 Vacancy
83 One of the Avengers
85 Fill to absolute
capacity
88 For all to see, in a
way
91 Koala’s tree
92 Marketing tactic
93 Australian band with the 1988 No. 1 hit “Need You Tonight”
95 “Ideas worth
spreading” offshoot
97 Mistakes
98 Singular 99 Speck
100 Cleaning for military
inspection
101 Happen again
102 In lockstep
104 Fervor
106 Lyft alternative
108 Nickname for a
buddy
109 Bronx-born singer,
familiarly
110 Bronx-born congresswoman, familiarly