New York Times Crossword
Wyna Liu, of New York City, is an artist and jewelry designer working with magnets and tensegrity. (You can see examples of her craft at wynaliu.com.) She has been solving crosswords for more than 10 years but just started making them recently. Liu says 91-Across is a shout-out to her parents, who own and operate a chain of radio channels. They made up the name Wyna (pronounced ‘‘WIN-uh’’) to mimic radio call letters — ‘‘Y ’n’ A’’ for the initials of their names, Yvonne and Arthur, and the starting ‘‘W’’ because they’re on the East Coast. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Ones out of this world,
for short
4 Club setting for scenes in ‘‘GoodFellas’’ and ‘‘Raging Bull’’ 11 Something pressed in
an emergency
19 ____ Lee (dessert brand)
20 Gets better 21 Oppressive
dominance 22 *Performers who set
the bar high? 24 *Go-getter’s maxim 25 In a way
26 Eves
28 One-named Grammywinning singer 29 Worried exclamation from Astro on ‘‘The Jetsons’’
30 Writer and film critic James 31 Platinum-selling rapper-turned-TVcop
33 Sr.’s hurdle
36 English cathedral city 37 Brand with a jingle to
the ‘‘Dragnet’’ theme 39 *Public health
agency’s mission 43 Part of a ventilation system
46 Actress and civil rights activist Ruby ____ 47 Boors
48 *Feature of a Chippendales show 51 Fix the colors on, say 54 Boor
55 Special orders on new
autos
56 It means well in Italy 57 P.R. event
59 Smooth sailing
60 Gas numbers
63 Bug
66 Stand-up comic Wong 67 *Places for coasters 70 Move in a hurry,
quaintly
71 Best horse of the 20th century, per The Associated Press 73 Language spoken on
Easter Island
74 Jazz’s Jackson 75 Matriarch’s title, maybe
78 Chats away
79 Large musical combo 80 Spud
82 Palette cleansers
between courses 84 *How to screw in a
light bulb
86 Common chords
88 ‘‘I didn’t need to know
that’’
89 Tries hard
91 *What keeps up standards in the radio business? 94 Temple cabinets
95 End of many
addresses 98 Pioneer of detective
fiction
99 Reed in a pit
100 A while back 103 Author/magazine editor Welteroth 105 Singer/activist Horne
107 Half of a record 109 Celebrity . . . but just barely
110 *‘‘Holy moly!’’ 114 *Occasion for hiding in the dark 116 In trouble, metaphorically 117 Genre for the Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair
118 Beat poem allegedly inspired by a peyote vision
119 Carpentry contraption
120 Words of understanding 121 Italian diminutive suffix
DOWN
1 Lengthy reprimand, so
to speak
2 Lowbrow
3 Taste
4 ‘‘Ouch!’’
5 Half of some matching
sets
6 Put away
7 Hold tightly
8 National Medal of Arts
winner Davis
9 Played miniature golf
10 Altar place 11 Snap
12 Inverse trig function 13 Choking-hazard label 14 How TV shows may
be shown
15 Some Montanans 16 Plant part
17 ____ king
18 Spanish chess piece 19 Put away for later 23 Expert advice 27 Evaluate, as an opponent
30 Phoenix sch.
32 Like polka
33 What sheep
participate in
34 Plant part 35 Alternatively
38 Summer hrs. in Colorado
40 Words of commitment 41 Pyle’s portrayer on ‘‘Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.’’
42 Pang
43 Love, in Lyon
44 Defeat soundly
45 Couple of fins
48 Head of ____
49 Happy refrain 50 National economic prosperity, metaphorically 52 Adolescent
53 ‘‘What’s up?’’ in
textspeak
56 A.C. measure
58 First man, in Maori mythology
60 Oil-rich nation that’s not in OPEC 61 Sour milk product 62 Cathedral in N.Y.C. 64 ‘‘Revelations’’ choreographer
65 Small, in a way 67 Oscars, e.g.
68 Blue Ribbon brand
69 It’s found in a key:
Abbr.
72 Mountain nymph of
Greek myth
74 Comfy shoes, for short 76 Writing on many a
license plate 77 Opposing forces in
Risk
79 Preventing spills, say 80 Sporty option
81 Folk singer Guthrie 83 H.S. class
84 Monopoly token
85 Have a serious crush
on, informally
87 Less expressive
90 Issa of ‘‘Insecure’’ 92 Puts down
93 Little bump 95 Ancestor of the modern lemon and lime
96 Ring combo
97 She played ‘‘the devil’’ Miranda in ‘‘The Devil Wears Prada’’ 101 ‘‘Dagnabbit!’’
102 Kind of pants 104 Japanese beer brand 105 Partially landlocked bay 106 Drachma replacement
108 ‘‘My word!’’
109 Five of these are needed to play Yahtzee
110 Astronaut Grissom 111 Transcript fig.
112 Topic discussed by the bar
113 Barely manage, with ‘‘out’’
115 Children’s author Asquith