New York Times Crossword No. 1107
Katie Hale, originally from Houston, is now a stay-at-home mom in London. She and a friend run the Reading Network, an organization that finds new homes for used children’s books. A lifelong devotee of both crosswords and sports (“I can happily watch about any sport”), she set out to make a sports-themed puzzle that would be accessible to non-sports fans. This is Katie’s third Times crossword and first solo Sunday. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 One known as ‘‘the
Alive, the Eternal’’
6 Checkout option
11 Org. featured in 2011’s
‘‘Contagion’’
14 Tiff
18 ____ Rose, Catherine O’Hara’s character on ‘‘Schitt’s Creek’’
19 Chevron subsidiary
20 Language in the Tai
family
21 Kind of skirt
22 Your ex’s new date whom you just can’t stand?
25 Tabloid twosome
26 Lose sleep (over)
27 Off
28 ‘‘Su-u-ure’’
29 Half of a legal
warning
30 There are 24 in a
cuboctahedron
32 Make a big stink
34 Kegels, e.g.?
39 Getting up there
42 Poet Rainer Maria
____
43 ‘‘____ yourself’’
44 First winner of the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel (1965)
46 It’s just passing
47 Therapists’ org.
48 Director Craven
51 First square of a
crossword?
Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). 55 Walking the dog, for
instance
58 One might bend over
backward
59 Who actually lives in
Lapland, some say
60 Accord maker
61 Author of 29
Federalist Papers
64 Laugh and a half
65 Playwright who wrote, ‘‘Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything’’
68 ‘‘I’ll be your waiter
tonight,’’ e.g.?
70 Raison d’____
71 Do a certain
developer’s job
72 Something a mover or
a movie might have
73 Threesome
75 The ‘‘B’’ in its name
stands for ‘‘brush’’
77 Oldest independent state in the Arab world
78 Genre for ‘‘Booksmart’’ and ‘‘Clueless’’
82 Conspiracy theory so wild that it can’t be aired?
86 Trident look-alike
87 ____ jam
88 Small bird
89 ‘‘I did it!’’
90 Southern cooking
staple
92 Things you can crack without damaging them
94 Affix with a click 96 Plan to leave at a very specific evening time?
100 Orangish shade
103 Fill with joy
104 Stirs up
106 Doctor Zhivago
107 Where subs are
standard
109 Semiaquatic
creature
113 Missing
114 Blackjack dealer?
117 Niche mag
118 Stick (out)
119 Product that
increases volume
120 ‘‘Moonlight’’ actress
Janelle
121 Joie de vivre
122 One doing inside
work
123 Chain whose name derives from its founders, the Raffel brothers
124 Orchard products
DOWN
1 Book before Obadiah
2 Converted apartment,
perhaps
3 ‘‘That’s ____’’
4 Question after an argument has died down
5 Solo traveling in space
6 Crafts
7 Frequent subjects of
Taylor Swift songs
8 Measures, in music
9 Word that can precede
or follow pack 10 Actor Menzies who won an Emmy for ‘‘The Crown’’
11 Fills (in)
12 One hell of a writer?
13 One way for packages
to arrive, in brief
14 Protect
15 ‘‘Quiet!’’ rudely
16 Lager alternatives
17 Subdued
19 ‘‘It takes a licking and keeps on ticking’’ brand
23 Herb used in
smudging rites
24 Theater award
29 Stars
31 Approached
32 Actress Moreno
33 ____ Kong
34 Melee
35 Abdominal procedure,
for short
36 Skin-care brand
37 Dry biscuit used as
baby food
38 Op. ____ (footnote
abbr.)
40 Any slice of pizza,
geometrically
41 Greek goddess associated with witchcraft
44 Archaeologist’s
workplace
45 Workers’ advocate,
informally
49 Young partner?
50 Back way, often
52 Winona of ‘‘Stranger
Things’’
53 Work, work, work
54 Texas border city
56 ‘‘C’est la vie’’ 57 ‘‘Ay’’ follower
61 ‘‘Now We Are Six’’
author
62 Crush, as a test
63 German denials
65 Members of a certain
den
66 Enter without
permission
67 A wood frog’s ability to freeze itself in winter and an octopus’s ability to change color, for two
69 Vaccine holder 74 In with
76 Props for majorettes
78 Bird with an annual 18,000-mile roundtrip migration
79 Instrument that’s a homophone of 69-Down
80 Crucifix inscription
inits.
81 ____ New York (Brooklyn neighborhood)
83 2020 Democratic
also-ran 84 It’s nada to Nadal
85 Actor/comedian
Barinholtz
91 Dieted
93 Summer shoe style
95 Bed of straw
96 Who’s talking on the
phone?
97 Personality that’s
hard to read
98 Pass over, in a way
99 Mathematician John
Forbes ____ Jr.
101 Visually evaluate
102 Out of practice 104 Boo-oo-oo, say
105 Boo-boo
107 Smear
108 Site for some creative entrepreneurs
110 What Vulcan’s forge lay underneath, in myth
111 Sport
112 ‘‘____ chic!’’
114 Party people, for
short?
115 Repeated word in the
U.S. postal creed
116 Rapscallion