NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD: ON THE HUNT
ACROSS
1What flowers eventually do
5Children's character who
sings “I Love Trash”
10Ending with bald or bold
14Issa of “The Lovebirds”
17 On the drink
18Must pay back
19 Gross-sounding plant?
20Toll maker
21List from 1 to ...
22 Overhead lights?
23Spirit of a culture
24 Shoots the breeze
25One might help with a
connection
27Apt facial hair for a
teacher?
30“Excuse me ... “
32 Rumrunner, e.g.
33Lime-A-____ (alcoholic
beverage)
34 Daughter of Polonius, in
Shakespeare
37Admitted it, with “up”
38 ¥
39 Bob Marley and the
Wailers, for one
41Passionate (about)
42 Chills
46 Button often denoted by a
right arrow
47China makes up much of it 50Big brass
51Like almost all prime
numbers
52Lay down, in a way
54Word before shot and after
hot
55Spiritual object
56 Words with “with words”
57It “lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar,” per Percy Bysshe Shelley
60Bea Arthur was one before
her acting career
61 Church minister
64Breakfast brand tagline 65 Taking Rx drugs
66 People in a long line,
perhaps 67Covered in long, soft hair
68Jupiter and Mars
69It's spineless
70Private aid grp.
71 “Vital” things
73 Stock paper, for short?
76Orchestral prelude to an
opera
78 Fairy-tale sibling
80Beer ____, drinking/running
event
81 Deems right
82Apt name for a landscaper?
83“On the other hand, I could
be wrong”
86 Crony
87One of a pair of kitchen
tools
90Like anomalies
91Chrysler offering of the
1980s
93 Wrestling duos
95 Over-the-counter seller
96 Engaged in some circular
reasoning
99 Put on
102First line in a news story
103Congas and bongos
104 ____ room
106Name that rhymes with
“edgy”
107 You are: Sp.
108 Essays
109 Attack tactic
110 Dragon-roll ingredients
111 Foreign exchange abbr.
112Big name in
skate shoes
113 Cartomancy medium
114 Broadway musical centered on two girls in love, with “The”
DOWN
1 Affable
2 Golfer Aoki
3 Help out
4 Pay attention
5 “How fancy!”
6 Exchange
7 Big star
8 Many, many
9The “R” of Edward R.
Murrow 10Kicked the ball between the legs of, in soccer slang
11What Beatles music did
at Abbey Road, famously
12 Clean extensively
13 Back talk
14 Undergo a chemical
change
15A Greek letter?
16 Something ____
19Goes off on
20Things that might get written down on sticky notes
26“Scary” Spice Girl
28 Response to “Who's
there?”
29 Some purchases for
Christmas displays
31Unaccounted for, for
short
34 Ish
35 Identified
36 On edge
38Safecrackers, in oldfashioned slang 40Rapper Kool Moe ____
42Sight at a winery
43 Body feature that approximately 10 percent of people have
44 Plumbing pipe known as
a trap
45Brings under control
48 Chord whose notes are
played in succession
49 Comedian's stage prop
50 Welsh guy
52 Something intricately
detailed and impressive
53 Without
54Expecting, in slang
56Most valued card in the
deck
58 Rock type
59 Big name in chicken
60 Dream idly
61Chinese qipao, e.g.
62Jazz pianist Blake who
composed “Shuffle Along”
63 Unrivaled
64 The Evian Championship is
one of its majors: Abbr. 68 Formal festivities
70 Critic's pick?
72 Absolute beaut
73Resident of the capital of
Manitoba
74 Plod perseveringly
75 Ballet jump
77 Zilch
78Maker of Ding Dongs and
Twinkies
79 Puts up
80Cooking ahead of time, say 82Chickpeas and peanuts, for
two
841/1 `til present: Abbr.
85“La” place in L.A.
87Actress Anna of “True
Bloods”
88News updates, with “the”
89“Othello” character who quips, “They are all but stomachs, and we all but food”
91 Beer parties 92Granted through
a treaty
93Land in Rome
94On the wagon
96____ cheese
97Purchase for the den
98Mission cancellation 100Title Disney character from
Hawaii
101 Polite agreement
105What you might get on a
log flume ride