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The New York Times Crossword
RACK ’EM UP By Enrique Henestroza Anguiano and Matthew Stock / Edited by Will Shortz
Enrique Henestroza Anguiano of Oakland is a data scientist. Matthew Stock, of Gainesville, Fla., is a master’s student in school counseling.
Note: Once filled in, the contents of the six shaded squares will spell a word associated with this puzzle’s theme.
ACROSS
1 New dog owner’s purchase
6 Dog-adoption grp.
11 Pop group with an “army’’
14 Setting for “Heidi’’
18 “We’re not standin’ in their
way!’’
19 Pepper grinder?
20 Put to work
21 Word with good or blood
22 Extra lives or additional
gems, for a freemium game
24 [Gasp!]
26 Pastoral setting?
27 “Who am I? Two-foursix-oh-____!’’ (“Les Misárables’’ lyric)
28 Cracker shape
29 “____-Olution’’ (2002 rap
album)
30 Avoided a tag, in a way
31 “The kids these days have gotten way better than me’’
35 Two-million-year-old discovery in 2022 in the frozen soil of Greenland
36 Cereal bit
37 Something to butter up
38 Text communication inits.
41 Shaggy hairstyle
42 File-creating command
44 Actress Thompson
48 Former minor-league team that played at Aloha Stadium
51 Spot for food and craft
beer
53 Opt
54 Significant stretch
55 Crane look-alike
57 “Do you really see me that
way?’’
58 Range rover … or something to do in a Range Rover
59 Craft that uses drafts
63 What a cracker might crack
64 Something for the rest of
the military?
65 Scrabble bonus seen six
times in this puzzle
70 “The Chase’’ channel
72 Was published
73 In which “Ciamar a tha thu?’’ means “How are you?’’
74 Booped body parts
77 Member of the fam
78 Count for a jury
80 I, in German
81 Slip past
82 Product lines?
84 Something delivered by Jake Tapper or Anderson Cooper 89 Kofi of the U.N.
90 Pan feature
91 Yank
92 When repeated, [“Is this
thing on?’’]
93 Battle royale
96 Nickname next to a heart
emoji, perhaps
97 Cyrillic letter pronounced
like the “zz’’ of “pizza’’
98 “The English Patient’’
actress
104 Attenuated
108 “South,’’ in Hanoi
109 Place to chill, paradoxically
110 Home of the Hockey Hall of
Fame: Abbr.
111 Device that works with
Carplay
113 Single guy?
115 Executive’s acumen
117 Apt domain for basketball’s
King James
118 Scanning inits.
119 Something to believe in
120 Didn’t just assume
121 Part of the body to slap
122 Queen ____
123 To be, in Spanish
124 Easily irritated
DOWN
1 Film-archive bits
2 Kidney-related
3 Maker of the Flashback
console
4 Lukewarm
5 Birds with deep booming
calls
6 “Better Call Saul’’ channel
7 Very sexy
8 Texas city that’s home to
Frito-lay
9 Lawyer’s bundle of work
10 “____ you not
entertained?’’
11 “Au contraire!’’
12 Cannon fodder, at times
13 Appear that one may
14 Urgent time to start gathering tax documents: Abbr.
15 Tiktok star Gray
16 BYU’S city
17 Scatter about
21 “Here’s the thing .…”
23 A group of them is called a
“crash’’
25 Texter’s reaction button
28 Post
32 Syrupy covering for ham
33 Protagonist in “2001: A
Space Odyssey’’
34 Crockpot filler
35 ____ Mendeleev, creator
of the periodic table
38 “____ All That’’ (1990s
teen comedy)
39 Soda-shop order
40 Vegetable often eaten
without utensils
42 Aviculture : bird ::
heliciculture : ____
43 Campfire remains
45 Out-of-this-world outfit 46 Rikishi compete in it
47 Slightly
49 Taiwanese tech giant
50 Pink-furred cat in
“Garfield’’
51 Antipasto dish of tomatoes
on grilled bread
52 Campus military org.
56 Make more meaningful
60 B.S., for one
61 Letter that rhymes with the
letters before and after it
62 Direction giver’s
suggestion: Abbr.
66 Jab
67 Tony winner Renée ____
Goldsberry
68 High-strung
69 Coin collection
70 Enclosed rhyme scheme
71 Cereal bit
75 Poet St. Vincent Millay
76 Creep out, perhaps
78 Counterpart of “been
there’’
79 Sgt. or cpl.
83 Engine parts
85 Bigwig 86 Coup d’____
87 Time when most people are
asleep
88 One birthed in Perth
90 Shrug or wave
94 Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of war, takes the form of one
95 Place in a crypt
98 Announce one’s presence,
in a way
99 Invisible household hazard
100 “My luck’s bound to turn
around!’’
101 Adorable sort
102 Beginning stage
103 Crete’s highest point, for
short
104 The ones nearby
105 Indicates “Out of my way!’’
106 Miniature map
107 High-maintenance, say
112 Exam with “calculator’’ and “no calculator’’ math sections
114 G.I.’S rations
115 Dating inits.
116 Negative Boolean operator
Answers to last Sunday’s puzzle