NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 What a drawbridge
may bridge
5 In that case 9 Control-tower
installation
14 Pass
19 “That one’s ____”
(“My bad”) 20 Amelia Bedelia, e.g. 21 “Go me!” 22 Member of a noble
family
23 2004 film about a group of MALIGNERS
25 It might be put on for stage PAGEANTRIES 27 Annual film festival where “Saw” and “Get Out” premiered
28 “____ La La” (1964
hit)
29 Senator, e.g., for
short
30 Avoids a bogey,
perhaps
31 Being
33 Be hopping mad 34 Cool one
37 W.W. II hero,
informally 39 Muletas are waved
at them
40 Canon camera 41 Branch of Islam 42 You might be MARVELING AT this as it whizzes by 46 Sort of SCHEMATIC for Christian education
48 Like some casts 49 City nicknamed the
Old Pueblo
51 French city near the
Belgian border 52 Prefix with colonial 53 Tightfitting
55 Toni Morrison title
heroine
56 Annual British
acting award 58 Series of questions,
maybe 60 Counterpart of elles 62 Opposite of never 64 Many relationships are INSTIGATED on one
68 Healthy eaters may give this A WIDE BERTH
72 Disrupt an online
meeting, in a way 74 Mauna ____
75 Grp. that hasn’t yet found what it’s looking for 76 Wonder Woman and
others
79 Valuable load for a
mule
81 Influence 84 Pioneering gangsta
rap group 85 Burdened
86 Just
88 Preferring one’s own company, perhaps
90 They can be NOISELESS while stalking prey 93 Explorers of the
UNTRAVERSED 95 Burden
96 Old cable-TV inits. 97 Fill in
98 Word repeated in “I ____, I ____, it’s off to work I go” 99 Lick, say
100 “____ merci!”
(French cry)
101 “On it, captain!” 103 “No need to make
me a plate” 106 Five-letter word that replaces a fourletter word?
107 1980s gaming
inits.
108 Not even
111 Writing done
GRAPHICALLY 115 The Trojans lacked the FORESIGHT to turn this down 116 It’s multilayered 117 You should always bring it to a competition
118 Children’s author
Blyton
119 Be taken aback 120 One way to cook a
116-Across
121 Unenthusiastic 122 They know the drill:
Abbr.
123 Word after hard or
before short
DOWN
1 “My Two ____” (2015 Claudia Harrington children’s book) 2 Top
3 Appliance brand
since 1934
4 Pea shooters? 5 “Sign me up!” 6 Complete travesty 7 Feature of many
British accents 8 Binges too much,
for short
9 As if orchestrated 10 Indexed data
structures 11 Directly
12 Fourth person to
walk on the moon 13 Do a double take? 14 Boot
15 Almost 16 What makes Shrek
shriek?
17 One side in a debate 18 It may be blown 24 They may be blown 26 House Republican
V.I.P. Stefanik
28 Star in Canis Major 32 Just so
34 Hot-dog topper 35 Airline passenger
request
36 Lion ____
38 “Dear ____ Hansen” (2017 Tony-winning musical)
41 Responds to br-r-risk weather?
42 Like zebras and
lions
43 Voice with an Echo 44 Rub it in
45 “It is what it is” and
others
46 Mike Krzyzewski, to Duke basketball fans
47 Rise
50 Hot-dog
topper
54 A little too silky,
maybe
56 Justin Trudeau, by
birth
57 Don’t believe it! 59 Aftmost masts on
ships
61 Gives fuel to
63 Gets a move on,
quaintly
65 Who can hear you
scream in space 66 Ending with poly67 Title meaning
“commander” 69 “____ Meenie”
(2010 hit)
70 Battling
71 Rings up 73 Showing the effects
of an all-nighter, say 76 Give one’s blessing
to
77 It has more coastline than California, surprisingly
78 Score after seven
points, maybe 80 Certain radio format 82 Apropos of 83 “Like that’ll ever
happen!” 86 “Appetizers” or “Desserts,” at a diner 87 International cosmetics company ____ Rocher 89 Content people? 91 Larsson who wrote “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” 92 Pooh-pooh 94 Common April
activity, nowadays 97 Vietnamese
sandwich
100 Group trying to sack
a QB
102 Make over,
as a ship
104 A crowd, they say 105 It has 104-Down
legs 106 Obscure, with “out” 109 They may be set by
industry grps. 110 Girl in “The Old
Curiosity Shop” 111 sin/tan
112 Major Japanese
carrier
113 “Kill Bill” co-star 114 You can
chew on it
115 Some appliances