THE SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 What a drawbridge may
bridge
5 In that case
9 Control-tower installation 14 Pass
19 “That one’s ____” (“My
bad”)
20 Amelia Bedelia, e.g.
21 “Go me!”
22 Member of a noble family 23 2004 film about a group of
MALIGNERS
25 It might be put on for stage
PAGEANTRIES
27 Annual film festival where “Saw” and “Get Out” premiered
28 “____ La La” (1964 hit) 29 Senator, e.g., for short 30 Avoids a bogey, perhaps
31 Being
33 Be hopping mad
34 Cool one
37 W.W. II hero, informally 39 Muletas are waved at them 40 Canon camera
41 Branch of Islam
42 You might be MARVELING
AT this as it whizzes by 46 Sort of SCHEMATIC for
Christian education 48 Like some casts
49 City nicknamed the Old
Pueblo
51 French city near the Belgian
border
52 Prefix with colonial 53 Tightfitting
55 Toni Morrison title heroine 56 Annual British acting
award
58 Series of questions, maybe 60 Counterpart of elles
62 Opposite of never
64 Many relationships are
INSTIGATED on one 68 Healthy eaters may give
this A WIDE BERTH 72 Disrupt an online meeting,
in a way
74 Mauna ____
75 Grp. that hasn’t yet found
what it’s looking for 76 Wonder Woman and others 79 Valuable load for a mule
81 Influence
84 Pioneering gangsta rap
group
85 Burdened
86 Just
88 Preferring one’s own
company, perhaps
90 They can be NOISELESS
while stalking prey 93 Explorers of the
UNTRAVERSED
95 Burden
96 Old cable-tv inits.
97 Fill in
98 Word repeated in “I ____, I
____, it’s off to work I go” 99 Lick, say
100 “____ merci!” (French cry) 101 “On it, captain!”
103 “No need to make me a
plate”
106 Five-letter word that
replaces a four-letter word? 107 1980s gaming inits. 108 Not even
111 Writing done GRAPHICALLY 115 The Trojans lacked the FORESIGHT to turn this down
116 It’s multilayered
117 You should always bring it
to a competition
118 Children’s author Blyton 119 Be taken aback
120 One way to cook a
116-Across
121 Unenthusiastic
122 They know the drill: Abbr. 123 Word after hard or before short
DOWN
1 “My Two ____” (2015 Claudia Harrington children’s book) 2 Top 3 Appliance brand since 1934
4 Pea shooters? 5 “Sign me up!” 6 Complete travesty 7 Feature of many British accents 8 Binges too much, for short 9 As if orchestrated 10 Indexed data structures 11 Directly 12 Fourth person to walk on the moon
13 Do a double take?
14 Boot
15 Almost
16 What makes Shrek shriek?
17 One side in a debate 18 It may be blown
24 They may be blown 26 House Republican V.I.P.
Stefanik
28 Star in Canis Major
32 Just so
34 Hot-dog topper
35 Airline passenger request 36 Lion ____
38 “Dear ____ Hansen” (2017
Tony-winning musical) 41 Responds to br-r-r-isk
weather?
42 Like zebras and lions 43 Voice with an Echo 44 Rub it in
45 “It is what it is” and others 46 Mike Krzyzewski, to Duke
basketball fans
47 Rise
50 Hot-dog topper 54 A little too silky, maybe 56 Justin Trudeau, by birth
57 Don’t believe it!
59 Aftmost masts on ships
61 Gives fuel to
63 Gets a move on, quaintly 65 Who can hear you scream in
space
66 Ending with poly
67 Title meaning
“commander”
69 “____ Meenie” (2010 hit) 70 Battling
71 Rings up
73 Showing the effects of an
all-nighter, say
76 Give one’s blessing to 77 It has more coastline than
California, surprisingly 78 Score after seven points,
maybe
80 Certain radio format
82 Apropos of
83 “Like that’ll ever happen!” 86 “Appetizers” or “Desserts,”
at a diner
87 International cosmetics
company ____ Rocher 89 Content people?
91 Larsson who wrote “The Girl
With the Dragon Tattoo” 92 Pooh-pooh
94 Common April activity,
nowadays 97 Vietnamese sandwich 100 Group trying to sack a QB 102 Make over, as a ship 104 A crowd, they say 105 It has 104-Down legs 106 Obscure, with “out” 109 They may be set by industry
grps.
110 Girl in “The Old Curiosity
Shop”
111 sin/tan
112 Major Japanese carrier 113 “Kill Bill” co-star
114 You can chew on it 115 Some appliances
Answers will appear next week