THE SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
over the Moon, 0404,
Across
1 Pest-control product 5 Luggage label
10 Color effect in graphic design 18 Video-game princess of the
Kingdom of Hyrule
19 Writer Zora ____ Hurston 20 Take part in a D.&D.
campaign, e.g.
21 Brand of fruity hard candy 23 Personae non gratae 24 Uranus
25 “Arrivederci!”
26 Jerks
27 “____ to differ!”
28 One taking the long view? 31 Tarot-deck character 35 Some surgical tools
38 “Unit” of fun
39 All-star duo?
40 Comfort in not knowing, say 47 Request
50 Jupiter
51 Ships passing in the night? 52 Sch. on the Rio Grande 54 Hollers
55 Like some parties and
flowers
56 “Back to the Future” antagonist
60 Hit movie released as “Vaselina” in Mexico 62 Husk-wrapped dish 65 Colorful tropical fish 66 Song standard on “barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits” 71 Saturn
72 With 11-Down, hit 2001 film with an “!” in its title
73 Stirred up
74 Cold shower?
75 Muralist ____ Clemente Orozco
76 2021 Super Bowl champs 80 Boy, in Barcelona 81 Animated character who wears a red shirt and no pants
82 Time before computers, facetiously
85 Fleet runner: Abbr. 86 One feature of a perfect nanny, in a “Mary Poppins” song
91 Mars 92 Hesitate in speaking 93 More inquisitive 98 Jaded sort
99 Solo flier?
105 Prefix meaning “both” 106 Welled (up)
108 Like people who are much looked up to 109 Insurance-fraud ploy 110 Determiner of cannabis legality, e.g. 113 Classic carnival ride 116 Cherished family member 117 Neptune 118 Golding of “crazy Rich Asians” 119 Sporty car 120 Deliver a speech 121 World of Warcraft spellcaster
Down
1 Leans (on) 2 Claim 3 Pastoral poem
4 ____ es Salaam 5 Navel type 6 Sticker on the back of a laptop, say 7 Home to the Sugar Bowl and Heavenly ski resorts 8 Draft pick? 9 Neighbor of Belg. 10 Word after focus or Facebook
11 See 72-Across 12 Mountain map figs. 13 Ones getting the message 14 Rio beach of song 15 Hollow center? 16 Turner who led an 1831 slave rebellion 17 Grateful sentiments, in online shorthand
18 “The Greek” of film 21 Corner space in Monopoly 22 Juggling or magic, in a talent show
26 Nobel laureate Morrison 29 Poker variety 30 “This Will Be” singer Natalie 32 Sommelier’s métier 33 “Monsters, ____”
34 Be on the level? 36 “Notorious” Supreme Court initials 37 Knocked ‘em dead 39 Not spoiled 41 Suffix with serpent 42 One of five in “pronunciation”: Abbr. 43 Choice of sizes, briefly 44 Celebratory, quaintly 45 Deception 46 Cowboy or Patriot, for short 47 Zeros 48 Distinct melodic segment 49 Not waver from 53 Fruit also called a custard apple or prairie banana 55 Baby’s cry
56 Cue at an audition 57 Land jutting into il Mediterraneo 58 Quaker 59 Community of followers 61 Thesaurus listing: Abbr. 63 Melber of MSNBC 64 Candy featured in a classic “Mythbusters” episode 65 Confucian’s spiritual path 67 In ____ (peeved) 68 Nintendo dinosaur who eats fruit and throws eggs 69 Bring to court 70 2003 best seller whose title is one letter different from a fantasy creature 75 Pleasures 77 Grammy winner Difranco 78 Rendezvoused
79 ____ gow (Chinese domino game)
81 Money earned from an event, say
82 Gush 83 Archaeologist’s find
84 Brian once of glam rock 86 U.S. health org. 87 “Hands off, that’s mine!” 88 Austrian article 89 Sent off
90 Lose a layer
94 Bit of luau wear
95 “No question!” 96 Magazine whose 60th anniversary issue had the cover line “Denzel, Halle & Jamie” 97 What’s hard about a melon? 99 Origami shape called “orizuru”
100 Tree surgeon, at times 101 Interior chambers 102 Gem weight 103 Bonnie’s partner in crime 104 Quadratic formula subj. 107 Oodles 109 Measurement in plane geometry 110 Camera type, briefly 111 As well 112 Duvernay who directed “Selma” 113 Queue before P 114 Canal locale 115 Piece de resistance?
Answers will appear next week