NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD
Note: When this puzzle is completed, an apt phrase can be found by starting at the top central letter and reading clockwise.
Across
1 Choco ____ (Klondike treat) 5 School 10 Items that may be labeled SMTWTFS 15 Dog sound 18 Series of numbers? 20 Kurt Vonnegut’s “Happy Birthday, ____ June” 21 Former part of the British Empire 22 Joe Biden’s home: Abbr. 23 “I expected as much” 25 Towering 26 Letters of obligation 27 Hair piece 28 Currency that, in one denomination, features a portrait of Linnaeus 30 Garment for tennis, perhaps 32 Not as exciting 34 Return from a store 37 When blacksmithing began 39 Perfect orbit 40 Fanatical 41 66, e.g.: Abbr. 42 Nav. rank 43 Run ____ 44 Boarded 45 “Awe-SOME!” 47 Occurring in March and September, say 50 Shenanigans 53 Dietary no-no 54 Grey and ochre 55 “There is ____ in team” 56 Pleasant inflection 57 Park opened in 1964 59 Easy-peasy task 60 Chocolate- mint brand with peaks in its logo 63 Temperature units 64 Muscles worked by leg presses 65 Anti-Revolutionary of 1776 66 Gets harsher 68 An example of itself 70 Lacto-____ vegetarian 71 Condemned 72 Gone 76 Hockey team with a patriotic name 78 Distraction for many an idle person 80 Bests 81 Capacious 82 Apple desktop 83 National Novel Writing Mo. 84 Havana-to-Palm Beach dir. 85 Eagerly accept 86 See 92-Across 88 Handled roughly 90 Japanese for “teacher” 91 Message to one’s followers 92 Portrayer of 86-Across in “Elf” 93 Artifact 95 Rakes 97 Cooking-spray brand 98 “The Downeaster ‘____’” (Billy Joel song) 100 Sleep mode? 106 Malt product 107 Bring home the gold 108 Barely manage 109 Breakfast-cereal maker 110 Hyphenated fig. 111 Factions 112 “It was just a joke!” 113 Where writing is on the wall?
Down
1 Mai ____ 2 Bottom-row key 3 Capt. Kangaroo’s network 4 Peak that’s known as “The Great One” 5 Rare notes 6 Crisp bit in a stir-fry 7 Further 8 String after B 9 Seafood-soup base 10 Series opener 11 Privy to 12 Attraction that operates under its own steam? 13 Not in the dark 14 Authorization 15 Catcher of some waves 16 Shake-ups in corps. 17 Champagne holder 19 Seasonal linguine topper 24 “____ even” 29 Expunge 31 Prepare to tie a shoelace, say 32 Staple of quiz bowls 33 Redolence 35 Pro ____ 36 Coin to pay for passage across the River Styx 38 Put another way 39 Strewn 41 Fodder for tabloids 44 Little bugger 45 Wise ones 46 Daughter of Hyperion 48 Condition of sale 49 TV’s “The ____ Today” 50 Bring, as to a repair shop 51 Thoroughfare 52 Dog sounds 54 Collapsed, with “in” 57 Ends of letters 58 Somebody ____ 59 Words below an orange on a license plate 60 One of 24 in a glucose molecule 61 Bagel topper 62 It might contain a list of postal abbreviations 63 Something you might get a kick out of? 64 Steven Wright’s “I intend to live forever. So far, so good,” e.g. 66 Capital city founded during a gold rush 67 Mariana, e.g. 68 ____ a one 69 What’s superior to Lake Superior: Abbr. 71 Hip-hop’s Mos ____ 72 Hematophagous creature 73 Buddy 74 Pass 75 Hand source 77 Bank to rely on 78 Soaks (up) 79 Pouting expression 81 Major stockholder? 83 “m” and “n” 85 Hula hoop? 86 Dumbfound 87 Small change 88 June honorees 89 Parts, as blinds 90 Blind parts 94 Highway number 96 Variety of antelope 99 Fiction 101 Old White House
moniker 102 Unit usually seen with the prefix deci103 Equal: Prefix 104 Big name in current research? 105 Point of writing?