New York Times Crossword
Katie Hale, of London, and Christina Iverson, of Ames, Iowa, are stay-at-home moms. Katie is also co-founder of a community organization that recycles children’s books. They connected online after Katie read about Christina’s first Times puzzle and reached out for mentoring. This is Christina’s seventh crossword for the paper. It is Katie’s debut. — W.S.
54 Signal approval 107 Beginning and end of 15 One creating draft
55 Inexplicably missing, ‘‘America’’ after draft?
say 109 ‘‘Ha-ha!’’ Andean empire
56 Brontë who wrote 110 Noise heard during member
‘‘Agnes Grey’’ the London Blitz Some clicks of the
tongue
Target of permethrin Domain for Jameson
cream and Maker’s Mark? 19 Slice of toast?
58 Not very convincing Curl target, 25 Comes out ahead
informally
60 Highly skilled 26 Dolts
117 Manual alternative 28 Market launch, for
61 Rare race outcome
118 Soul singer Bridges short
63 Unimaginative
119 Bank investment? Amphibians that may birthday gift
120 Spanish dagger or have toxic skin
64 Is stertorous Adam’s needle is a 33 Clichéd
65 Puritan’s goal in variety of it 34 Shakespeare villain
17th-century Salem? New York football with more lines than
69 Changes topics in a team, informally the title character
debate, perhaps Apt rhyme for 35 Kindle download
73 Scrapes (out) ‘‘crude’’ and ‘‘rude’’ 39 Skip the big
74 The Rose Bowl, e.g. It may need to be ceremony, say
79 Czar who co-ruled broken to move 40 They’re found around with Peter I Lucretia ____, Scots
abolitionist and
80 Goes head to head Bony fish with prized
women’s rights eggs
81 Indiana athlete advocate
‘‘Bottled poetry,’’
83 Sunburn soother according to Robert
84 Specialist publication, Louis Stevenson
for short Active Sicilian
85 Monopolize volcano
86 Something a 44 Filled with wonder Parmesan vendor 47 Without concrete might offer? evidence
89 Unflappable state of 50 ‘‘Ad Parnassum’’ and
mind ‘‘Fish Magic,’’ for
90 Baron Cohen of film two
92 One of all fours? Metaphor for a shared
experience
93 Container words
Be more important
94 2019 film whose title than means ‘‘to the stars’’
Exaggerated kiss
96 A dance and a dip sound
98 Cartoondom’s Olive 55 Fuss
____ 59 Legal title: Abbr.
100 What a stoner actor 60 He wrote lyrics smoked during to ‘‘My Way’’ for rehearsal? Sinatra
ACROSS
1 Unloading point
5 Trait for a ballerina
10 ‘‘Wanna hear a
secret?’’ preceder
14 Not much
18 The ‘‘O’’ of OWN
20 Portrayer of Captain
Davies in ‘‘Roots’’
21 Bind with rope
22 Abacus column
23 Helpful
24 Accept payment from
Batman?
27 Eponymous Irish city
29 ____ pickle
30 Counterparts of
faunas
Cause for celebration at a pachyderm sanctuary?
____ lecithin
(chocolate additive) What most pens can’t
do
Jane portrayer in 1981’s ‘‘Tarzan, the Ape Man’’
Worry about,
informally
45 Flip (out)
46 Rock band that you might think would always be an opening act, with ‘‘the’’?
Ex-Giants QB
Manning
49 Finish scooping out a
big stir-fry?
31
36
37
38
41
48
Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).
57
111
116
121
122
123
124
DOWN
1 Childbirth assistant
2 Choose to participate
3 Concern for Superman
4 Superman’s birth name
5 Like many a teenage
boy’s facial hair
6 First Asian tennis player to be ranked No. 1 in singles
7 Press
8 Bishop’s jurisdiction
9 Long period
10 Like some evidence
and bulbs
11 Doctor’s order
12 I.R.S. ID
13 Live broadcast no-no
14 In
16
17
32
41
42
43
51
52
53
62
1
18
23
Channel with a lot of house renovation shows
Keeps in the loop, in a way
64 Give a start
66 Prez with a rhyming
campaign slogan
67 Lab work
68 Cause of some brain
freeze
69 It comes in California and New York styles Covered in vines
63
70
71
Celebrity who holds the Guinness world record for ‘‘Most Frequent Clapper’’
72 Half and half?
75 Gallivants
76 On the safe side
77 Ancient kingdom in
modern-day Jordan
78 Elusive, in a way
80 Words to learn,
briefly
81 In itself: Lat.
82 ‘‘Oh, come on!’’
85 Aggressive pitch 87 Physically fit
88 Rock song?
90 Big cut of tuna
91 Fill with wonder
95 Attaches, as a button
97 Some shop tools
98 ‘‘Now it makes
sense!’’
99 ‘‘____ So Bad’’ (Tom Petty song)
Flying ____ drop (pro wrestling move)
Shocks, in a way
101
102 103 Hip bone
104 Classic brand of
wafers
105 Upright
106 The Apostle of Ireland, familiarly It might come in a branded tote bag
108 Buddy
112 ‘‘____-haw!’’
113 Laid up
114 Formerly called
115 Perón of politics
107