NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
AS HEARD AROUND THE DINNER TABLE
ACROSS
1 Commuter's ticket 8They take bows
15 G-rated, say
19“It's not coming to me” 20Floral brew 21Quintessential ingredient
to borrow from a neighbor 22Dine out
24 Competitive setting in
Fortnite
25Like many phone cards 26 Often-mispunctuated word 27Lets it all out, say 28Aurora, to the Greeks 31Powerful weapon, for
short
32Pop option
34 Firefly, e.g.
35Aid in some makeshift
repairs
38 Blackhead remover 40Company that created
Pong
41They can make a huge
impact 42Spongy mushroom 43Movie character who said
“I love you” to 110-Across 45Network supported by
“Viewers Like You” 46Literary character who cries, “I am madness maddened!”
50 Bog
51Ill humored
52 “Cool!”
55Act theatrically 56“Meet the Press” host
Chuck 57Attractions for antique
hunters
60 Donnybrooks
61 Ironically funny 62Part of many a weight-loss
ad
64Buck chaser? 65Something checked at a
T.S.A. checkpoint 67One vs. 52?
68Go on and on
69 “Cool!”
70 Crib
71Bad impression? 72Tiny bit of work
73 Famed Deco designer 74Whitman of “Parenthood” 77Aftermath of a toddler's
meal
78Train that stops in New
Haven and New York 80They often don't mature
until they turn 30 84 Yucatán native
85Lie out on a scorching day 89Landmark at the entrance
to Narnia 92“Yeah, but still ... “93 Online handicrafts
marketplace
94 Bareilles who sang “Love
Song”
95Tribe native to the Great
Basin
96Suit fabric 97Agcy. impersonated in
some scam calls 98Crouched in terror
101 Private 102Vegetarian options ... or what the shaded letters in this puzzle are, phonetically 108“The Three Musketeers”
action scenes
109 Flatten 110Movie character who replied “I know” to 43-Across 111They may be long and
shocking
112 Clink
113 Gray matter?
DOWN
1Tom Hanks movie
featuring a giant piano 2It might turn out to be a
drone
3 Barfly
4Blue diamond in “Titanic,”
e.g. 5Lab-culture medium 6Star close to Venus? 7 Take responsibility 8 Bandleader Shaw 9Share the ____ (sign) 10Fort Collins sch. 11“____ Loss” (2022 No. 1 album by Drake and 21 Savage) 12Cyber Monday merchant 13Mall security guard,
pejoratively 14Exams with a 400-1,600
range
15 Soup-serving dish 16Interfacers with
publishers 17Layer between the crust
and the core 18Need for a tough
crossword, perhaps 21Command for creating a
revised draft
23 Sushi-bar drink 28Wax-coated cheese 29Like words this clue the
in?
30Easily frightened sort 32Where you might go
down in the ranks? 33Bauxite or galena 34 Things usually made in
the morning
36 What's in
37 `Fore
38MADD ad, e.g.
39 Lefty
41Apple wireless file
transfer
43Do nothing 44Paris bar tender? 46Reddit Q. and A. 47“The nerve!”
48 Finally
49Under siege
51 Turned red, say 52Like an allegro tempo 53 Landed 54Subjects of VH1's “I
Love the ... “series 55 `Fore
56 Packaging string 58Actress Ward 59Many teens' rooms, to
parents
60 Pulitzer-winning
columnist Stephens 62 “Du-u-u-ude!” 63Large coffee vessels 66Made a fast stop? 68“Previously on ...”
segment
74“The kissing disease” 75“Coming face to face with yourself,” per Jackson Pollock
76 Otherworldly 77Minority in New Zealand's
parliament 78What goes “up to 11,” in
“Spinal Tap” 79Pot grower?
80 Skinflints 81Does well on
a test, say 82Wild donkey
83 Fellow
85 Along
86 Many a Monopoly
property
87Ear piece? 88Marx's co-author for “The
Communist Manifesto” 89They can be passed but not failed 90Franklin who sang “R-E-SP-E-C-T”
91Robin Hood's love 94On the wagon 97Little mischief-makers 98Veggie that's often
pickled 99Virgil described its “cloud of pitch-black whirling smoke”
100Sign of neglect 103Channel that airs old
MGM and RKO films 104____ Bankman-Fried,
fallen crypto mogul 105 Excessively 106Boston's Liberty Tree, for
one
107Kind of sauce for dim sum