The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
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Wyna Liu, of New York City, is an artist and jewelry designer working with magnets and tensegrity. (You can see examples of her craft at wynaliu.com.) She has been solving crosswords for more than 10 years but just started making them recently. Liu says 91-Across is a shout-out to her parents, who own and operate a chain of radio channels. They made up the name Wyna (pronounced ‘‘WIN-uh’’) to mimic radio call letters — ‘‘Y ’n’ A’’ for the initials of their names, Yvonne and Arthur, and the starting ‘‘W’’ because they’re on the East Coast. — W.S. ACROSS
1 Ones out of this world,
for short
4 Club setting for scenes in ‘‘GoodFellas’’ and ‘‘Raging Bull’’
11 Something pressed in
an emergency
19 ____ Lee (dessert
brand)
20 Gets better
21 Oppressive
dominance
22 *Performers who set
the bar high?
24 *Go-getter’s maxim
25 In a way
26 Eves
28 One-named Grammywinning singer
29 Worried exclamation from Astro on ‘‘The Jetsons’’
30 Writer and film critic
James
31 Platinum-selling rapper-turned-TVcop
33 Sr.’s hurdle
36 English cathedral city
37 Brand with a jingle to
the ‘‘Dragnet’’ theme
39 *Public health
agency’s mission
43 Part of a ventilation
system
46 Actress and civil rights activist Ruby ____
Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). 47 Boors
48 *Feature of a
Chippendales show
51 Fix the colors on, say
54 Boor
55 Special orders on new
autos
56 It means well in Italy
57 P.R. event
59 Smooth sailing
60 Gas numbers
63 Bug
66 Stand-up comic Wong
67 *Places for coasters
70 Move in a hurry,
quaintly
71 Best horse of the 20th century, per The Associated Press
73 Language spoken on
Easter Island
74 Jazz’s Jackson
75 Matriarch’s title,
maybe
78 Chats away
79 Large musical combo
80 Spud
82 Palette cleansers
between courses
84 *How to screw in a
light bulb
86 Common chords
88 ‘‘I didn’t need to know
that’’
89 Tries hard
91 *What keeps up standards in the radio business?
94 Temple cabinets
95 End of many
addresses 98 Pioneer of detective
fiction
99 Reed in a pit
100 A while back
103 Author/magazine
editor Welteroth
105 Singer/activist
Horne
107 Half of a record
109 Celebrity . . . but just
barely
110 *‘‘Holy moly!’’
114 *Occasion for hiding
in the dark
116 In trouble,
metaphorically
117 Genre for the Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair
118 Beat poem allegedly inspired by a peyote vision
119 Carpentry
contraption
120 Words of
understanding
121 Italian diminutive
suffix
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1 Lengthy reprimand, so
to speak
2 Lowbrow
3 Taste
4 ‘‘Ouch!’’
5 Half of some matching
sets
6 Put away
7 Hold tightly
8 National Medal of Arts
winner Davis
9 Played miniature golf
10 Altar place 11 Snap
12 Inverse trig function
13 Choking-hazard label
14 How TV shows may
be shown
15 Some Montanans
16 Plant part
17 ____ king
18 Spanish chess piece
19 Put away for later
23 Expert advice
27 Evaluate, as an
opponent
30 Phoenix sch.
32 Like polka
33 What sheep
participate in
34 Plant part
35 Alternatively
38 Summer hrs. in
Colorado
40 Words of commitment
41 Pyle’s portrayer on ‘‘Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.’’
42 Pang
43 Love, in Lyon
44 Defeat soundly
45 Couple of fins
48 Head of ____
49 Happy refrain
50 National economic prosperity, metaphorically
52 Adolescent
53 ‘‘What’s up?’’ in
textspeak
56 A.C. measure
58 First man, in Maori
mythology
60 Oil-rich nation that’s
not in OPEC 61 Sour milk product
62 Cathedral in N.Y.C.
64 ‘‘Revelations’’
choreographer
65 Small, in a way
67 Oscars, e.g.
68 Blue Ribbon brand
69 It’s found in a key:
Abbr.
72 Mountain nymph of
Greek myth
74 Comfy shoes, for short
76 Writing on many a
license plate 77 Opposing forces in
Risk
79 Preventing spills, say
80 Sporty option
81 Folk singer Guthrie
83 H.S. class
84 Monopoly token
85 Have a serious crush
on, informally
87 Less expressive
90 Issa of ‘‘Insecure’’
92 Puts down
93 Little bump 95 Ancestor of the modern lemon and lime
96 Ring combo
97 She played ‘‘the devil’’ Miranda in ‘‘The Devil Wears Prada’’
101 ‘‘Dagnabbit!’’
102 Kind of pants
104 Japanese beer brand
105 Partially landlocked
bay 106 Drachma
replacement
108 ‘‘My word!’’
109 Five of these are needed to play Yahtzee
110 Astronaut Grissom
111 Transcript fig.
112 Topic discussed by
the bar
113 Barely manage, with
‘‘out’’
115 Children’s author
Asquith