NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD: FOOD ENGINEERING
When this puzzle is finished, change one letter in the last word in the answer to each asterisked clue to name a food. The replacement letters, in order, will spell an appropriate phrase.
ACROSS
1 It got some “Xtra” flavor
in 2001
7 San Antonio pro
11 Atkins diet no-no 15 What's called a cashpoint
by Brits
18 Wage ____
19 Add to the team
20 ____ squash 22 One-named singer with the 2014 hit “Chandelier”
23 *Looks that can be
difficult to pull off
25 *”It's 2 a.m. already?!” 27 Half up-front? 28Tikka masala go-with 29 Gravitate (toward) 31 Singer Morissette 32 Actress de Armas of
“Knives Out” 34“How was ____ know?” 35Place for speakers
37 Trig function 38*Data visuals similar to
histograms 41*Swimming hazards in
the ocean 44 Crossword-loving detective on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
45 ____ Dhabi 46Celebrations of lives, for
short
48 Dance arrangements,
familiarly
49One making frequent
pitching changes? 51Back of the neck
52 It's spoken in Aberdeen 53“Who ____ knows?” 54 Elderly
55 “I call dibs!”
56 [I'm mad!]
59 Honor for a play
60 Place in the earth 62South African currency 63 Operatic showpiece 64 *”Man, that was cheap!” 66*Holder of the single-game W.N.B.A. scoring record (53 points) 68 Something to do before a
deal
69 Super, in slang
70 Lisa who “ate no basil,”
in a palindrome 71Missiles and such 72 Animal in a “Sound of
Music” song
73 Big Super Bowl purchase 74 Easy as falling off ____ 75 Nickname for a really thin
guy
76 What Mercury and Venus
lack 77Religious observance that's also a past-tense verb
78 “That ship has sailed” 81 Small-time 83Cause of red-eye
84 Ate
85 Regret
86*Diner choice 88*Something visually
arresting
91 Chief
92 Coin with 12 stars on one
side
93 Ancient greeting 94El Misisipi, e.g.
95 Source of some South
American wool 98Get groceries, say 100 Sole
102 Film excerpt 105*Duplicate, in word
processing
107 *Disappear suddenly 110 Long-handled tool 111One with a track
record
112 Spore producer
113 Keys of some songs 114 Loan fig.
115 Political worker 116“A fickle food,” per Emily
Dickinson
117 Superlatively
pleasant
DOWN
1Children's playroom,
often
2Zen garden accessory 3Running argument? 4 Frame in a box score 5Hebrew for “son” 6____ Mawr College 7 Sword's place
8 Almost a score of
Mozart compositions 9Receptacle for ancient
Greek votes 1011-Down and such 11 Small siestas
12 Low-pH 13Follower of CD
14 La ____ Tar Pits 15 Donkeyish
16 Have a connection with 17 Hordes
21 Org. behind 14 of the 15 most-watched TV broadcasts in U.S. history
24 Capital of the Indian
state of Rajasthan 26 They help with printing
and pointing 30Made line changes 33 Body of water greatly shrunk by 1960s Soviet irrigation
36To the point
38 Howl
39 Opposite of the Latin
“odi”
40Busy as ____ 41Less green, say
42 Title woman in a No. 1
Beach Boys hit
43 Learn by ____
47 Score of zero, in slang 50 Ins
52 Pollution portmanteau 56 People who would object to this clue because of it's punctuation
57 Fixes
58Issa of “Insecure” 59 “How disastrous!”
60 “No way!” 61Nonnegotiable things 62Sound a warning 63Spanish month that anagrams to a zodiac sign
64Bit of gum
65 ____-faire
66 Birds on Minnesota state
quarters
67 Bad smell
70 “Ugh!”
73 -elect
74 Alarmingly
75 Daytime TV fare 76 Back-to-school time 78“Well, that's that!” 79Follower of 76-Down:
Abbr.
80Suffix with election 81 Skater's leap
82 Candy discard 83Not to go 86Ballroom dance from
Cuba
87 Sent packing
89 Actress De Carlo of “The
Munsters”
90 Out-eat?
96 E.M.T.'s procedure 97 Tiny battery
99 Smoke
101 Welsh form of “John” 103Goddess pictured with a
solar disk above her 104 Excellent, in dated slang 106 Grade-school subj. 108Shade of green
109 Muslim-American icon