The Riverside Press-Enterprise
The New York Times Crossword
John Westwig is a software engineer in Seattle. Note the long answers at 16- and 50-Down, each crossing three theme entries.
ACROSS
1 Begin to flower
4 In conflict
9 Basketball-stats
category
16 Neckwear provided at
some restaurants
19 Pikes Peak people
20 One-dish meal
21 “You’re playing with
fire!’’
22 Game-night cry
23 ”First, I founded an aerospace start-up, but I never …”
26 Messy room
27 Make the first bet
28 Go back over
29 Proverbial hard workers
30 Bourne’s employer in “The Bourne Identity,’’ in brief
31 Popular indoor tree
33 Total revolution?
34 Ardennes assent
35 Singer’s asset
37 Daughter of Muhammad
39 “When that fell through, I tried my hand at fishmongering, but we …”
43 Sensitivity
45 Common resolutions
46 Squat, so to speak
47 Pop singer with noted
bangs (and bangers!)
48 Go back down
51 J.M. Barrie, for one
53 What Ralph represents in a Freudian analysis of “Lord of the Flies’’
54 Betrays
56 “Next, I pivoted into breakfast restaurants, but competitors …”
61 Passages
62 Medal-earning mettle
63 Purchase printout: Abbr.
66 New Year’s Day
67 Place of prayer
69 Sat ____ (GPS system)
70 Behind
72 Library section
73 Broski
75 There are 768 of these in
a gallon
77 “When I tried candlemaking, all my workers …”
81 Section of the nosebleed
seats
83 Poetic preposition
84 Lead-in to zone
85 Some music collectibles,
for short
86 Whiz 87 Counterpart of science,
they say
88 Freight, e.g.
90 Uncles, in Uruguay
92 “I decided to try operating an airport, but just before launch we …”
96 Goes first
100 Wrote, as a bad check
101 Moose’s mating season
102 Universal donor’s
designation, informally
104 Betray one’s standards
105 Bridge component
106 “We’ll see’’
108 Backdrop
110 Exclamation before an
ill-advised action, maybe
111 Creature that swallows
its prey whole
112 “Finally, I decided to buy a grocery store on an intersection, but a rival had …”
115 “Wise’’ one
116 “Enjoyed’’ some humble
pie
117 Bolting Bolt
118 Union contract?
119 Counterpart of “thx’’
120 Corrupting influence
121 Full ____
122 Over time period?
DOWN
1 “Leave me alone!’’
2 Heaven on earth
3 Pick up on
4 State lines?
5 Hammer wielder of myth
6 The missus
7 ____ Butts, inventor of
Scrabble
8 CVS competitor
9 Thunderstruck
10 Slump
11 Big name in jeans
12 Quintessential
13 Turn (off)
14 Spam holders
15 Health-class subj.
16 Sloan or Wharton
17 Opposite of relief, in
printmaking
18 ____ wonder
24 Traditional makers of
anoraks
25 Like kale vis-à-vis lettuce
30 Call of a raven
32 Break, as a window
34 Aid in getting a leg up?
35 Knot again!
36 Pizazz
38 Bow (to)
40 Desert bordering Sinai
41 Regarding
42 Harry Potter’s mother
44 Hubbub
48 Disney theme park 49 Yankees manager Aaron
50 Absolute minimum
required
52 Listlessness
55 Soul
57 Portmanteau pastry
58 1972 Bill Withers hit whose title sounds like a command
59 “Allegory of the cave’’
philosopher
60 1956 Elvis hit whose title
sounds like a command
64 Centerfold, say
65 Bits of troubleshooting
68 Football receiver
70 Yiddish word meaning
“woe’’
71 Eradicates starting from
the bottom
73 Follow closely
74 Zac of “Baywatch’’
76 Share a side
78 Identity theft, for one
79 Snow-day project
80 The 380-foot-tall
Hyperion, for one 81 Bit of carefree fun
82 Trendy treat of Brazilian
origin
88 Swiss cheese
89 Man cave, maybe
91 Bacchanalian beast
93 Ref. work that began as a Philological Society project
94 Swiss “cheese’’
95 “Whatcha gonna do
about it?’’
97 Cub or colt
98 “Holy ____!’’
99 Perfect in every way
103 Extract
106 Tiniest bit
107 Talking horse of ’60s TV
108 Apt rhyme of “nude’’ and
“crude’’
109 Send off
111 Catchy song, in slang
112 Thing to catch in a city
113 Tobiko or masago
114 ____ second
Answers to last Sunday’s puzzle