MAGAZINE RACKET
BY SAM EZERSKY • PUZZLES EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ
Sam Ezersky, 26, is the digital puzzles editor of The New York Times. He also edits the daily Spelling Bee. This is his 38th crossword for the paper. On the day this one runs, he himself will be running the Brooklyn Half Marathon — the first time he’s ever done this distance. He says, “Hoping solvers won’t be struggling on Sunday morning as much as me!” — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Make a bust, say 7 Chew (on) 11 Ointment amounts 15 Modern lead-in to
mania
19 ‘‘Enough!’’ 20 Contemporary of
Picasso
21 Factory watchdog,
in brief
22 Native of the country whose national sport is oil wrestling
23 Bit of company swag for a Genius Bar staffer?
25 With 114-Across, exasperated question to parking enforcement? 27 Awesome time 28 Elements of a Sherlock Holmes sports mystery?
30 A small part of who
you are
31 Prefix with
medicine
32 ‘‘Duck Dynasty’’
network
33 Irish ____, popular St. Patrick’s Day cocktail
36 Like much
toothpaste 38 Mountain mammal 42 Plant cultivated by
the Incas
43 Program after
undergrad, for some 47 ‘‘____ rate ... ’’ 48 Today’s plans: watchin’ someone’s kids?
54 Broadband inits. 55 Overrun
56 ‘‘Mr. Mom’’ actress
Teri
57 Data output
denoted by ‘‘N/A’’ 59 Super Bowl in 2022 61 Come on down! 63 Name that’s a body
part in reverse
64 It may be measured in both feet and meters
65 How much Michael Jordan or Wilt Chamberlain could score, hyperbolically? 71 Lead-in to cross 72 Happy companion 73 Focus of the
website Brickipedia 74 ‘‘The Hangover’’ character who wakes up with a missing tooth 75 Eschews grains and processed foods, perhaps 78 Common results of
penalties
80 Writers such as
Sappho
85 Waze way: Abbr. 86 Missile silo’s
holding?
89 Pie slices might be
displayed in one 91 Natural application to waterproof a ship’s hull 92 Guacamole
go-with?
93 Engine type,
informally 94 Playwright Edward 97 Hidden obstacle 100 Transport on a
river
102 Transport on a rail 106 ‘‘Dope!’’
107 Where Sweet’N Low displays its logo?
111 T as in Tartarus 114 See 25-Across 115 Cry following an electrical malfunction?
117 Rufus and Chaka Khan’s ‘‘____ Nobody’’
118 Like garage floors,
often
119 Slight amount 120 Old English
folklore figure
121 Jumbo
122 When said three times, ‘‘What have we here?!’’
123 Music score abbr. 124 Jaguar twoseaters starting in 2013
DOWN
1 Catch
2 ____ América
(soccer tournament) 3 They call ’em as
they see ’em
4 Text back and forth? 5 Like pioneering search engines of the 1980s 6 Polka-influenced
music style
7 Yukon and Acadia,
for two
8 Canon competitor 9 Sizable urban
construction project 10 King of the gods in Wagner’s ‘‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’’ 11 Ann of Hulu’s ‘‘The
Handmaid’s Tale’’ 12 Rubbish receptacle 13 Hindi name for
India
14 Smooth and glossy 15 ‘‘ ... per my
understanding’’ 16 Zap
17 Line on a neck 18 Clears
24 ‘‘Resume speed,’’
musically
26 The Golden Arches,
on stock tickers 29 One covering
plenty of ground 30 Persona non ____ 33 Invent
34 When Lady Macbeth cries, ‘‘Out, damned spot!’’ 35 Smoke shop
purchase
37 Standout in a field 39 Bunch of
scoundrels
40 Follows
41 Tissue in a plant
stem
42 DNA reviewer, in
brief
44 Buy time
45 State of
subjugation
46 Male voter stereotype beginning in the mid-2010s
47 Wheels off the
road? 49 Run in place 50 In-state attendee of Great Basin College, e.g. 51 Check
52 Brother in the Lemony Snicket books
53 Certain college
member
58 Great ____ 60 Jokey remark after missing a modern reference 62 Be philanthropic,
say
65 Execrate 66 Company computer fixers, informally
67 Big hits?
68 ____ Float (cold
treat)
69 Like a situation at the start of an inning
70 Ounce of praise,
jocularly 71 Slangy stuff to
sell
76 Placed
77 ‘‘ ... must all learn to live together as brothers, ____ will all perish together as fools’’: M.L.K. Jr. 79 Cakewalk 81 Bygone
messaging app 82 Cheer for the
Vikings
83 Poker giveaway 84 Certain
outbuilding
87 Doth proceed 88 Fun plans after
work, say
90 Stuff in stuffed
pasta shells 94 Aphid that produces honeydew
95 ‘‘Ooh, check it
out!’’
96 Happened to 98 Really miff 99 Tycoon
101 What only one planet, Jupiter, is spelled with
103 ____ Hard Apple
(beer brand)
104 Not connected 105 Name that’s ‘‘all the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word,’’ on Broadway
107 Liver, in Le
Havre
108 Like church bells 109 ‘‘Bye 4 now!’’ 110 ‘‘Power Lunch’’
airer
111 Maryland
athlete, for short 112 End in ____ 113 Doesn’t waste 114 Thanksgiving
dinner offering 116 Very important
Answers will be printed in next week’s crossword puzzle page.