The Hamilton Spectator

NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD: DOUBLE-DOUBLES

- By Will Nediger, edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1British dandy 5Dennis the Menace types 10Really grand

14The “A” in STEAM, for

educators 18Maker of the Aspire laptop 19 Pain-relief brand 20Recordin­gs for oral

historians

22 Bound 23Slow-driving holiday

parade in December? 26“Huh, didn't expect to run

into you here!” 27Musical piece like

Smetana's “Vltava” 28Club collection­s 29Movie genre ... or a shout

on a movie set 31Onetime Yves Saint

Laurent employer

32 Make

33Words at a pity party 34Arrange by category 37Update Wikipedia after the

2012 election? 41Yiddish for “pancake” 42 Enthralled

43Like some landscape

photograph­y 44Assert confidentl­y 45Banned, in a way 47Brand of “old-fashioned”

root beer 48Delicate bit of hair 52Subject of study for an

insect psychologi­st? 55“Don't love it, don't hate it” 56 Against 57Communic­ation method that may be written with Stokoe notation, in brief 58Investig­ative journalist

Farrow 59Heroes that don't wear

capes

61 Trademarke­d

refrigeran­t

62Kind of gel 64Condimen­t drizzled on a

taco

66Shot followers

68 Drumroll followers 69 Blacken

70Pale purple

72Holi powder 73 Some announceme­nts interrupti­ng in-flight movies, for short 74Intellig­ence grp. featured

on “Quantico” 76Promise from actor Damon's friends regarding his movie premiere? 79“To Sontag, to Sondheim,

to anything taboo” musical 80 Ceramic stewpot 82Philosop­hy influenced by

the “I Ching”

83 Eager assistant's

declaratio­n

84“It is what it is,” e.g. 86 Corn ____

87 Art-shop purchase 88Words accompanyi­ng an offering to the ruler of the donkeys?

93 Partner worth holding on

to

94 Open acknowledg­ment 95Uncreati­vely draws from 96Busy locale in December 97Leah who wrote “Troublemak­er: Surviving Hollywood and Scientolog­y”

98Ivan the Great, for one 99 Some holiday-tree

decoration­s 103Home of the poet Forugh

Farrokhzad 104Arrive too late to see a

hotel being built? 108Number of worlds in

Norse myth

109 Thought spot

110 Russian pancakes 111Disney's Queen of

Arendelle 112Pontiac muscle cars 113“The Crown ____ Worth Much”

(Hanif Abdurraqib collection) 114One who questions

people's motives 115Collect from the fields

DOWN

1Arbitrato­r's asset 2Eight, in Spanish 3Plant with no flowers or seeds 4Southern dish often made with buttermilk and cornmeal

5 Tuchus

6Film composer

Bernstein

7 Ore locale 8 Electronic­s-aisle array 9 Jiffy

10Ancient Italian region 11Dealt with minor issues? 12Some business-news

topics, for short 13What's still in cartoons? 14 Many

15Bring back on board 16Mount Rainier's ____

Glacier

17Small piano

21 Done hurriedly and

carelessly

24 Skyscraper feature 25First of all 30 Screenwrit­er/actress

Michaela

32 Moved cautiously 34Soft white mineral 35Snapshot of a gamer's

progress

36Duo inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 37 Aggravatio­n 38Grab a midday meal

with someone

39 Trolleys 40Heads or tails 42Getting rid of 45Berkshir­e school since

1440

46 Western settlement area

led by Brigham Young 48Major conflicts

49 Tired expression? 50When to read aloud to

kids 51Bowling-alley device 53 Swimming/cycling/running

competitio­ns, informally 54 Zero-____ game 60Grow to a huge size 61Part of a clock 63Booby-prize winner's

place

65 Unflinchin­gly candid 66Within a point or two, as

scores 67Two-time Olympic gold

medalist in soccer 69Flagella relatives 71Medium for a birthday

message

74Body part that a dog uses

to shake, e.g. 75 77-Down's color 77 75-Down gemstone 78“To be continued ... “81Charlott­e Corday, to JeanPaul Marat 84Word after better or worse 85Simple graphics editor,

informally

87 Guy

88 Getting along

89No longer obsessed 90Italian-style cheese 91 Strong strings 92Adjust the spacing

between, in typography 93Like a deserved

comeuppanc­e 96 Soprano Nixon 98 Director Ming-liang 99Pass the threshold 100 Memphis's river 101 Pancake served with

sambar

102 Onesie closure 105Plan for the future, in

brief?

106 “America's

Got Talent” network 107Do the Wright thing?

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