NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD: WITH EASE
ACROSS
1 Warming periods
6 Activates, as yeast 12 Chatter
15 Great Britain, geographically 19 “My ____ (You're Never Gonna Get It),” 1992 hit by En Vogue
20 Not a big Mac?
21 Nail, as a test
22 “I am not a glutton — I am an explorer of ____”: Erma Bombeck
23 Kitchen at a barbecue
restaurant?
25 Potentially adoptable pup 27 Misfit
28 Result of a 1960s HaightAshbury shopping spree? 30 It's in your blood
31 Play parts
33 Ones coming “home” at
homecoming 34 Quick-moving
36 Corp. shake-ups
37 Host
38 Highly visible belly button? 40 Up to, informally
42 Actress Fisher of “Now You
See Me”
46 Curious in the extreme 47 Streamlet
48 Good friend who won't stop
snooping?
51 The first one was built in 1925 in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
53 What to add to “Iraq” to
make it adjectival 54 Subwoofer sound
55 Jhumpa ____, author of the Pulitzer-winning “Interpreter of Maladies”
56 Take a load off
58 Some cameras, in brief 60 SETI subjects
62 Language in which “puzzle”
is “pid sa”
63 Burnable media 66 Prenuptial
agreement?
69 “Geaux Tigers!” sch. 70 Be an agent for
71 Feature of Sylvester's
speech
72 Comedian Rudolph 73 Taiwanese president ____
Ing-wen
75 Skateboard tricks
77 Went 90, say
79 ____ Tac (mint)
81 Throat bug
85 Long anecdote from a
complainer?
87 Italian mount
88 Astronomer Sagan
89 Takes a load off
90 One with an underground
colony
91 Tinker Bell or Puck? 94 Fruit-based dessert ... or a possible description of its flavor
97 “Sorry to say, you guessed
wrong”
99 What many clocks and card
games have
100 Whence feng shui
102 Skiing areas
103 Didn't give forever
104 Bad person for a gambler to
make bets with?
106 Plant with purple-pink
flowers
109 Rustic abode
110 Acolyte with a bad temper? 114 Part of Q.E.D.
115 Cozy stopover
116 Nueva York, por ejemplo 117 Word with code or rehearsal 118 Cozy spots
119 It appears blue as a result
of Rayleigh scattering 120 Chimes and dimes vis-à-vis
this clue's answer
121 Difficult to climb, in a way
DOWN
1 Trio with the 1995 No. 1 hit
“Waterfalls”
2 Jolly laugh
3 Passionate
4 Fragrant medicinal plant
also called colicroot 5 Most snarky
6 Finish second
7 Something to hang your
hat on
8 Elect
9 Plains tribe
10 Not to go
11 Bugging people, perhaps 12 Displays of shock
13 Start to play?
14 Put on no pretensions 15 “Fine by me”
16 Sin city
17 Commits piracy 18 Avant-garde
24 “My name is Prince, and I
am ____” (Prince lyric) 26 Proficient
29 Sauces made with basil
and pine nuts
31 Songs to be played at a
concert
32 Slinky, e.g. 34 Sales-promotion acronym 35 Hoot
36 Downfall
37 Shifty
38 “The Office” role
39 Gives a grand speech 41 It's up for debate 43 Alternative to sparkling 44 Turkish money
45 Letters found in a so-called “supervocalic” word
48 “Yuck!”
49 Spots on a Rorschach
card
50 They don't require much
study
52 Stahl of “60 Minutes”
54 I'm toast!
57 Like chicken cordon bleu,
originally
59 British sailor, in slang 61 One who's rolling in money 63 Is exultant
64 City of 16+ million straddling the Yamuna River
65 7-10, e.g., in bowling
67 Big name in printing 68 Plants used in wickerwork
furniture
74 “Worth a try”
76 Gut feelings
78 Bit of hype, informally 80 Scoop
82 Worry for a speakeasy 83 Slips up
84 Layer
86 Parlor offering, for short 87 Language in which “puzzle”
is “puzal” 91 “Is that understood?” 92 “Is that understood?” 93 State of uneasiness,
informally
95 Seton who wrote
“Dragonwyck” 96 Prayer leaders 98 Hang around
100 Taking out the trash,
for one
101 Navajo dwelling 102 One of the Corleones 103 Interlocking bricks
104 Made a case
105 Word that may
come from a pen
106 ____ Park, home to the
University of Chicago 107 One-on-one Olympics event 108 “All ____!”
111 Farm structure
112 Top part of Scotland? 113 “Are you thinking what I'm
thinking?” feeling