NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD: LETTER DICTATION This puzzle contains clues that are intentionally misspelled.
ACROSS
1 Magical healer
7 Maintain 11Overseas landmark located in Elizabeth Tower
17 “Fa-a-ancy!” 18Classic Mell Lazarus
comic strip 19Soaring performer 20 GAZACHO 22Young antagonist in
Super Mario games 23Counterpart of the
Roman Aurora
24 Jargon
25John, to Lennon 26Mythical archer 27Suffix with Jumbo 29 SMEILL
34Poet who wrote “For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love” 35Chocolaty Post cereal 36Org. for which Pelé once
played 37Something many an
A-list celebrity has 38Area with a half-dome 42 Noted Chinese-American
fashion designer 44Mystical ball 47 ENTURIES 51Payment to a freelancer for unpublished work
53 ____ fixe 54Informal “Ugh!” 55Little thing to pick 56Some p.m. times 57China flaw 59Familiar inits. in math 60Original airer of “The
Office”
61Lapis lazuli shade 62 TECHNIQUEO 66 DEFINITEL 68Romeo and Juliet, e.g. 69Adam's ____ 70Air-traffic watchdog, for
short 71 Literary protagonist named after a king of Israel
72 Violinist Leopold 73 “That's show ____!” 74 Film character introduced in 1977 who died in a 2015 sequel 76 ____ Major 80French compliment 82 INSTBANT 84Ability that's hard to
explain 85Hand-sewn toy 87Derive (from) 88Woman in Progressive
ads
89Book reviewers, for short 911910s flying star 94James Garfield's middle
name 96 ENVIRONMENAL 101 Yuletide
102Part of binoculars 103 Fireside-chat prez 104“The United States is not, and never will be, at war with ____”: Obama 106Home of the Sun Devils,
familiarly 107Subj. of Article I, Section
3 of the Constitution 110 RUMYSELF
114 Digitally IDs by location 115Rock standard? 116Big name in skin care 117Features of some
dresses and shoes 118 Subtracting
119 Stifled
DOWN
1 Help line? 2“With any luck!” 3 Uncompromising 4House of Burgundy? 5 Keyboard key 6 Cabernet county 7Land between Albania
and Serbia
8 Histrionic sort 9Bird Down Under 10 ____ smear 11Play's final act? 12Computer addresses,
for short 13Fraternity and sorority
members
14 Carnival or circus, so
to speak 15Delight in 16Language from which
“reindeer” comes 18 Christmas-gift bearers 19Annoyance for Santa 21Rowing machine, in
fitness lingo 22____ nova
25 Sierra ____ 28 Peachy-keen 30Like some hair and
embarrassed friends 31 Sweetums
32 First Nations people 33Get perfect 34____ counter
39 Tiny amount 40Something that's not
easy to blow 41____ sauce (sushi bar
condiment)
43 Alpine lodging 45Happening again? 46 Burdened
48 Millennials
49Veil over a Muslim
woman's face 50 ____-doke
52No go-getter
55 Org. to which Jordan
once belonged
58 “____ complicated” 60Grendel, e.g.
61“I knew it was you!” 62 Take to the soapbox 63Store-sign info
64 Curse remover 65Diana Ross musical,
with “The”
66 “Life of Pi” author Martel 67Reply of faux
innocence
70 Have no success with 73 Speak with swagger 74 Spiral
75Words of wonder 77Like some web pages
and memories 78Will Ferrell and Tina Fey 79Chemist's study 81Muffin choice 82Leafy shelter 83U.S. ally in the Gulf War 86Nickname of the Miami Heat's all-time leader in points, games, assists and steals
90Old Spanish bread 92“Hear ye! Hear ye!”
announcers 93 Obstacle-free
courses
95 Waterside lodging with a portmanteau name 96Drinking sounds 97Put back to Level 1, say 98Young salamanders 99 Congeal
100 Cross shape 105*big kiss* 108Quick time out 109Chief legal officers: Abbr.
110 Target of an athlete's M.R.I.
111 Charlotte of
“The Facts of Life” 112“____ changed” 113Stretch of history