NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD: TURNS OF PHRASE
ACROSS
1“Let me repeat ... “
6 Musical speeds
11When repeated, a cry of approval
15 Like many creatures in modern sci-fi movies, for short
18 Light wood
19 Cross figure
20 New Jersey's Sea ____ City
21Spot for a shot
22 Spook some creatures in an aquarium's touch tank?
24 Fiery matches?
26 Band with the 1994 hit “What's the Frequency, Kenneth?”
27 Some vocal solos
28 In the style of
30“Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” playwright Edward
31Bad material for a silk purse, proverbially
33Deliver a blow to Dracula?
37With “the,” a sudden flip from attraction to disgust, in modern parlance
38 Brand whose stock price increased
50 percent in the first six months of 2020
40Blooms named for their shape
41 Set of selections
43 “You sure?”
44 Before
45No. calculated from letters
47 References a Vatican Library source?
49Went down a slippery slope
50____ Palmas, Canary Islands
51Kind of history
52About, on a memo
53 Certain Ivy Leaguer
54 Support
55 “Forget it!”
57Welcomes at the door
59 Tender spots
60 Referees a Tennessee football game poorly?
64Common pet fish
67 Superlative held by the Atacama Desert
68 “Barry” or “Ballers”
72 Stadium sounds
73 Plain
74Cap's place
76It might be a stretch
77Suffix with Manhattan or meteor
78 Fortitude
79Write an ode to a caffeinated soda?
82 Airport abbr.
83 Addresses online
84Sound unit found in many Asian languages
85Nip and tuck, so to speak
86Like some teas
88Kind of edition with bonus tracks, perhaps
89 Stadium cheer
90Start preparing borscht?
92 Fully commit
96 Court cry
97Garnet is its birthstone: Abbr.
98 Sculpting stuff
99Super ____ (GameCube predecessor)
101“Bather in the Woods” painter
104Make smash burgers?
108 Pretty cool stuff
109Burn a little
110Decides that one will
111 Major artery
112____ cha beef (Chinese dish)
113Jumped over, as a checkers piece
114 Michelangelo work whose name translates to “compassion”
115 Suddenly think of
DOWN
1 Letter-shaped support piece
2 Certain corporate department
3 Mission San Antonio de Valero, more familiarly
4 Neighbor of Leb.
5World's oldest capital city, settled in the third millennium B.C.
6Taylor Swift song that begins, “Combat, I'm ready for combat”
7Makes a gaffe
8 “Mamma ____!”
9 “Gangnam Style” rapper
10 Comment from someone exiting the mall on Black Friday
11 Pedal-operated instrument
12That, in Toledo
13Umbrella term for eboys or goth girls
14 Struck out
15 Stealthy criminal
16 City feature that's been found to improve mental health
17“None for me, thanks”
19Kind of seeds in a healthful smoothie
23 Footslog
25 Balm ingredient
29____ Luthor, nemesis of Superman
32Vintage restaurant items?
33Spoil, with “on”
34 Git
35“Just a little longer!”
36 Lauder of cosmetics
39Do some light work on?
41 Barcelona museum subject
42 H's on some college houses
43“The Lorax” setting
44 Actress Cravalho who voiced Moana
46 Doesn't just assume
47 Swindle
48 Wedding-cake layer
49 Survive
53 Chuck, slangily
54Final phase of a video game, perhaps
56 Big name in records
57 [Actually, don't change that]
58Sounds of doubt
59 ____-Caps (candy)
61Birds known for their loud, complex songs
62 Royal title
63Assist in a crime
64 Gooey pairing with fig jam
65 Economic-justice catchphrase
66Its water is nearly 10 times saltier than ocean water
69 Animal product
70 Foreboding sign
71 “Impressive!”
73Who cries, “You get a car, you get a car!” in a viral meme
74Toy brand for a budding engineer, maybe
75“I don't like that,” in Spanish
78 Take away
79 Police captain on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
80 Burden
81Enthusiastic agreement
84Genre for many a boy band
87GPS suggestions: Abbr.
88Part of the D.O.J.
89It's a four-letter word, aptly
90Neighbors of the Navajos
91One-named singer born in Reykjavik
93What Ove's name was changed to for the American film adaptation of “A Man Called Ove”
94 Like neon
95 “Groovy!”
98 Sibilant summons
100“South Park” boy
102Density symbol, in engineering
1031990s Indian prime minister
105Sch. in N.Y.
106 Quebec's Festival d'____
107“You're accusing me?!”