THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 ‘‘No ____, Bob’’ 5 Commuting options 10 Thunderstruck 15 Lead-in to cure or cab
19 Peace symbol 20 Absolutely necessary
21 Snack brand with a hyphen in its name 22 Simoleons
23 Oil futures?
26 The Australiashaped ‘‘Pride of Australia,’’ for one 27 Pool side
28 Crest
29 Sack
31 Parent’s exhortation
32 Real bind
33 People who might answer ‘‘What’s up?’’ with ‘‘The sky’’ 35 Castle moat? 39 ____ Scott-Heron, writer of ‘‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’’ 40 Entitled guys? 41 Kind of rating system in chess
42 Audio option 43 Slangy greeting 45 Sales prospects 48 Smoky tendrils 50 Shoves, to a poker player
53 Ed of ‘‘Up’’ 54 Daredevil Knievel 55 Sugar and cocoa content?
57 ____ the Orange (Syracuse mascot) 58 Scoop, so to speak 60 Braces might fix them
61 Auto company headquartered in Yokohama 63 Veg-O-Matic maker
64 Over there 65 Humble home 67 Wavy dos 70 International date line? 72 Bordeaux besties
74 They prevent accidental scribbles
76 ____ room
79 ‘‘Lights! Camera! Action!’’?
82 Biblical twin
83 Midas’s downfall 85 Reprimand to a rubbernecker
86 Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible
87 Pale purple 88 N.B.A. analyst Burke
89 Police alerts, for short
91 What goes around the head at Diamond Head
92 Preposterous
94 The ‘‘en’’ in ‘‘enby’’
95 ‘‘And . . . cut!’’?
98 Personal theory that isn’t in the source material
101 Fed. statute that took down the Gambino crime family
102 Mama’s boy
103 Not working, say
104 He literally jumped the shark on ‘‘Happy Days’’
105 85 to 115, typically
109 Skier Lindsey
110 Stock prices?
114 Monthly utility bill: Abbr.
115 Rapper with seven posthumous albums
116 Persona
117 Quantum ____
118 Utility figure
119 ‘‘Killers of the Flower Moon’’ tribe
120 Wears on
121 River swirl
DOWN
1 Some email attachments
2 Beat handily
3 ‘‘I’m done talking’’
4 Called into question
5 Binary
6 Homebodies? 7 Go after
8 Actual title of ‘‘The Piña Colada Song’’
9 Drunken state
10 Comet alternative
11 Come down with
12 See 30-Down
13 Pours poorly 14 Pays (up)
15 Noodles and floaties?
16 Chess move with a French name
17 Render more youthful, as with C.G.I.
18 Sweden has more than 200,000 of them (of which only 1,000 are inhabited)
24 Sudden contractions
25 God’s first word on the first day
30 With 12-Down, world champion boxer who retired an undefeated 24-0
32 Put up with
33 Novelist Cather
34 Not authorized 35 Cut
36 Late-night host John
37 Finish behind
38 Breed of cattle
39 Swinger’s attire
43 Hinged fastener
44 ‘‘The Empire of the ____’’ (H.G. Wells short story)
46 Lions or Tigers, on a scoreboard
47 Theater sign
49 Leaf fossils?
51 Brand whose sales spiked after an appearance on ‘‘Stranger Things’’
52 Portrayer of Bob Newby on ‘‘Stranger Things’’
55 Parade sight
56 Carriers of master keys, informally
59 ____ blue
62 Garden variety? 64 At 78, she became the oldest artist to have a No. 1 dance hit
66 Inits. on a ‘‘Choice’’ label
68 Indian spice mixture
69 Necessities for retiring?
71 Org. with the tagline ‘‘No More Victims’’
73 Something furry on a fir
74 Practices mise en place
75 ‘‘____ Q’’ (rockabilly classic)
76 James Bond studio
77 Memorable time
78 Machine learning model that mimics the human brain
80 Company whose misconduct helped spawn the SarbanesOxley Act (2002)
81 Muse with a lyre
84 Record label that famously turned down the Beatles 86 Supercell, e.g., for short
90 Europeans who speak a non-IndoEuropean language
93 Can’t not
95 Encouragement at karaoke night
96 Skin condition
97 Turn on
98 What drones and anxious parents do
99 ____ Gay
100 Hub
101 Bacardi, por ejemplo
104 Part of a clock
105 Playwright William 106 Call for
107 Mortarboard tosser
108 Catch a glimpse of
111 Many an I.R.S. employee
112 Witch
113 Coltrane’s instrument