NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD
LET'S GET LITERATURE BY CHRISTINA IVERSON AND KATIE HALE
Across
1 Precursor to a circuit
breaker
5 _____ bar
10 Pointed remark 14 Common spa
descriptor
19 “Hello there, sailor!” 20 Gourmet mushroom with poisonous lookalikes
21 Somewhat
22 Core workout challenge 23 Looks up from reading
“Frankenstein”? 27 Moody North Yorkshire
setting
28 Handy
29 Restless
30 Split hairs?
31 Words exchanged
during an “altar”-cation 32 Revise
33 Reads “Catch-22,” “Closing Time” and “Something Happened” — and doesn’t stop there? 39 Atmospheric driving
hazard
42 Came to
43 Assistant
44 The joy of text? 45 Expression of a grump 47 Cheeky remarks ... or something near the cheek
48 Kendrick Lamar’s
2017 best rap album Grammy winner 50 “Aquaman” actor Jason 52 English indie-pop
singer Parks
53 Sleek reef swimmers 55 Borrows “The Color Purple” from the library instead of “The Flowers”?
60 1960s activist Bobby
62 Word with play or fight 63 Belgrade resident 64 See 36-Down
65 First in a line of 13 popes
67 Strands 69 Lifewater and Elixir
brand
71 “Wow!”
74 Fashion guru Tim 76 “_____ the spirit!” 78 D.E.A. target
81 Listens to “Tom Jones”
on audiobook? 85 Matterhorn range
87 Wheely good invention? 88 Off
89 _____ tube
91 H
92 Conclude by
94 Dawson in the Pro
Football Hall of Fame 95 “Chat another time!” in
an I.M.
97 Bolt in a sprint 99 Director Guillermo
_____ Toro
100 Reads “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” so many times its spine splits?
105 Cryptids on snowy
mountains
107 Mars bar with shortbread and chocolate
108 [sigh]
109 Pilot green-lighter, in
brief
111 “Ask away!”
113 Iconic scarecrow
topper
117 Donates some copies of “King Lear” to the Renaissance Festival? 120 Still
121 Curling locale
122 Musical with the song “Another Suitcase in Another Hall”
123 _____ Rachel Wood of
“Westworld”
124 Castles, essentially
125 Chances
126 Not let lapse
127 It can be outstanding
Down
1 “Octopuses can use
tools,” e.g.
2 “This is not good!” 3 Words said while shaking one’s head in disgust
4 One might be found next to a neck pillow in an airport shop
5 Suave
6 Decant
7 Painting and
filmmaking
8 Person in a head set? 9 Keebler cookie with shortbread and chocolate
10 Send away
11 Biblical analogue of Aron in “East of Eden” 12 High-_____ (kind of jeans or apartment building)
13 South Korean “Princes
of Pop”
14 Jimmies and
corkscrews
15 Debbie of “Fame” and
“Grey’s Anatomy” 16 Things often next to napkins in place settings
17 Spanish Agnes 18 Absolut alternative 24 Put in order
25 Text-writer’s segue 26 Philosopher David 31 Alternative to a
diaphragm
32 Like games marked
1->99
33 Strong wind
34 Pains for preschoolers 35 Chivalrous avatar of
Vishnu
36 Sounds from a
64-Across
37 Saint associated with a
“fire”
38 Birds on Canadian
dollars
40 Big-eyed hatchling 41 1989 film for which Denzel Washington won best supporting actor 46 Follower of “So” or “lo”
49 Patronized a restaurant 50 Homes for cattails and
bulrushes
51 Childhood friend 54 Blueberry-picking girl
of children’s literature 56 “Yuck!”
57 “You’re right about
that!”
58 “You’re not right about
that!”
59 “Chiquitita” singing
group 61 Endurance, so to speak 66 Scarfs down
68 Norm: Abbr. 70 Geological span 71 Chose
72 QB’S protection
73 Very rarely
75 Ancient home of a mythical lion 77 Delphic prophet 79 Barbershop specialty 80 Fiber-_____
82 “I’m in favor”
83 Rat 84 The Big Easy
86 Sound
90 Fabric made from jute 93 Med. exams with
intradermal injections 95 O’er yon
96 “The Muppets” villain
Richman 98 Macroalgae
101 Costa _____
102 Baby birds?
103 Deuces
104 Cold War pact city
106 Use, as influence 109 “Here I come,
weekend!”
110 In _____ veritas
111 Reported
112 Back
113 Abrade, in a way 114 Head: Fr.
115 Horse
with endurance 116 Billowy dress
style
118 To’s counterpart 119 Broadway, for one:
Abbr.