THE SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
WHAT A CHARACTER!, 0919, BY ALEX ROSEN
ACROSS
1 They come with bouquets 6 Away
11 “____ put our heads
together ...“15 Singer/drummer Collins 19 Cell component
20 Pal, in Peru
21 Put one’s nose where it
doesn’t belong 22 Tilt-a-whirl, e.g.
23 One arm held up with bent elbow and wrist, in a children’s song
24 Move obliquely 25 Phenomenon such as the tendency to see human forms in inanimate objects 27 Any of the groupings of
circled letters in this puzzle 30 Gin product
31 Incredible bargains 32 “Sorry, Charlie!”
33 Fits together
34 Savory Chinese snacks 37 Jump over
41 Smoking and swearing, e.g. 44 They await your return, in
brief
45 Have a good cry 46 Syracuse Mets and
Worcester Red Sox, for two 50 “Music’s most maligned genre,” per the critic Tom Connick
51 Word with level or lion 52 “Everything happened so
fast!”
54 Farm female
55 “____ Gone Wrong” (2021
film)
57 Brunch beverage
59 One of the brothers on
“Malcolm in the Middle” 60 Room in Clue
61 Cause of undue anxiety 63 It may be smoked 64 Hogwash
65 Munch, in modern slang 66 “____ 17” (W.W. II film) 67 One of two in a jack-o’lantern?
70 Where charity begins, in a
phrase
73 Table part
74 Title for Tussaud: Abbr. 76 “Midsommar” director Aster
77 Digs up
78 Carpenter’s wedge
80 Does gentle stretching postexercise, with “down” 82 Amp knob
84 Die like the Wicked Witch of
the West
85 Give zero stars 86 Ne’er-do-wells
88 E.R. inserts
89 By birth
90 Plant said to repel bugs 93 ____ Ryerson, insurance salesman in “Groundhog Day”
94 French pronoun
95 Quarter ____ (when the big
hand is at three) 97 No-longer-current source for
current events
99 Hot, mulled punch traditionally drunk around Christmas
101 Bacteria destroyer 104 French port on the English
Channel
106 Like the Minotaur legend 110 University of Oregon site 112 How to see the image formed
by this puzzle’s circled letters 115 What’s formed by the circled
letters in this puzzle 117 “We’re live!”studio sign 118 Ancient land in Asia Minor 119 Domino, e.g.
120 Martinez with a statue outside the Seattle Mariners’ stadium
121 Makes less powerful, in
video-game slang
122 Domino, e.g.
123 “To ...“things
124 Dino’s tail? 125 Muse of love poetry 126 Arises (from)
DOWN
1 Eastern cicada killers, e.g. 2 Suggestions
3 “... said ____ ever”
4 School
5 Resolves out of court
6 Org. that flew a helicopter on
Mars in 2021
7 Fail to mention
8 Information, old-style 9 Rounded quarters
10 Without stopping
11 How Alaska ranks first
among the states
12 It’s often left on the table 13 What “vey” of “Oy, vey!”
translates to
14 ____ Games, company
behind Fortnite
15 Rey, to Luke Skywalker 16 Sword handles
17 “Einstein,”sarcastically 18 Puts pressure (on)
21 What can make men swear
from men’s wear?
26 “____ pass Go ...“
28 Leading medal winner at the
Tokyo Olympics
29 Forman who directed “One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” 35 Farm refrain
36 Weight of a paper clip,
roughly
38 Ancient: Prefix
39 Soul-seller of legend 40 Half-baked?
41 Duck and goose, at times 42 “See ya”
43 Group dance popularized in
the U.S. by Desi Arnaz 45 77-Down is on the most
collected one in U.S. history 47 Epiphany
48 Voice actor Blanc
49 Show with over 1,000 handwritten cue cards each week, for short
51 City hazard
52 “My word!”
53 Pol in the“i am once again
asking ...“meme
56 City whose police cars are
adorned with a witch logo 58 Card game with a Pg-rated
name
60 Boring
62 Purse
65 High degree
68 Not at all popular 69 Messes up
70 x, y and z
71 Chaotic skirmish 72 Fragrant compound 74 Saturn has more than 80 of
them 75 Golf-course machine
77 He performed 636 consecutive sold-out shows in Vegas from 1969 to ’76 78 Burn-prevention meas. 79 The future Henry V, to Falstaff 80 Fight tooth and nail
81 One who consumes a ritual meal to absolve the souls of the dead
83 Bits on book jackets 87 Roc-a-____ Records
91 Part of U.C.L.A.
92 Fashion designer Geoffrey 94 It may run from an emotional
situation
95 [Mwah!]
96 Departed by plane 98 Green vehicle
99 Frank
100 Duke’s org.
101 Pasta topper
102 Like the dog days of summer 103 Acrobatic
105 Make restitution
107 Faint color
108 “Take me ____”
109 Approaches
111 Where the lacrimal glands
can be found
112 Pasta topper
113 Pump some weights 114 Not exactly
116 Vaccine-approving agcy.
Answers will appear next week