NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
TWO-BY-TWO By Matthew Stock and Chandi Deitmer / Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
1 Some old PCs 5 Experience financial
ruin
11 Many files in a
Downloads folder 15 Talk ____
19 1990s sitcom starring Tia and Tamera Mowry 22 Beethoven’s “Ah!
perfido,” for one 23 Southwest people known for their dry farming
24 Grand Prix city 25 Fulminate
26 Portent
27 Start a web session 28 Tribute
30 Many zoomers 31 Gush (over)
33 Red lightsaber
wielder
36 Singular praise 37 ____ Xtra (soft
drink)
38 Soul: Sp.
39 Make it so there’s
snow way out? 41 1963 hit for the
Kingsmen
45 It gets the show on
the road
48 Nothing but a
number, it’s said 49 Call from an oldtime paperboy 50 Essayist Susan 51 Attraction, so to
speak, with “the” 53 Org. often impersonated by phone scammers 54 Time for a visit from Ong Tao, the “Kitchen God” 55 Slip up 56 Yellowstone
sight
58 [Gulp!] 59 House of Commons
reps
61 ____ gratia (in all
kindness: Lat.) 62 Rush order
64 Like some questions 66 Romanov V.I.P., once 68 Charlotte N.B.A.
player
70 “... you get the
point”
74 “Well, lookie here!” 75 Quaint exclamation
of dismay
78 Fee payer, often 79 Thin pancakes in
Indian cuisine 80 Laborer of old
84 Dan of “Schitt’s
Creek”
85 To the ____ power 86 Time for March
madness? 88 Ultimate fighting
inits.
90 Certain summer
baby
91 “There you ____!” 92 Big tower,
for short?
94 Years and years 95 Shock
97 Sings, in a way 101 When you should
leave, for short 103 Piece of roller-derby
equipment
104 Classic-joke start 105 High five at the
Olympics?
107 Unchanged
108 Yea or nay
109 Power source 111 Barfly’s flier
112 Added to a thread,
say
113 El ____ of the
Spanish Renaissance 115 “Amscray!”
117 Egomaniac’s
thought 119 Noted character with object-subjectverb syntax
120 Dangerous part of a road on which to pass
121 Extroverts
127 Tie down
128 Best-picture winner
of 2012
129 Basketball feat suggested by this puzzle’s pairs of theme answers, informally
130 1040 figs.
131 Love of
languages?
132 In on
133 Add (on)
DOWN
1 Philosophy
2 H.S. class in the same department as chem
3 Yahoo alternative 4 Trusty to the end 5 Pirate’s booze
6 One way to learn 7 Like the Six Million
Dollar Man 8 “Anchors Aweigh”
grp.
9 Amtrak stop: Abbr. 10 Lab worker 11 Logical conundrum 12 Prolong 13 Numismatic grade 14 Plopped (down) 15 Setting for many a
diorama
16 Shortcut missing from newer smartphones
17 Lead
18 Affixes
20 Subject of interest,
in brief
21 Chess piece whose
name is derived from the Persian for “chariot” 29 Cocktails made with ginger beer, informally
30 Pieces in the game
Bananagrams 31 Flights connect
them 32 All-encompassing
Egyptian deity 34 Aromatic beverage 35 Perch for the selfimportant 37 Gemstone cut
named for a fruit 38 Baffled
40 Very bright
42 Eye piece
43 Nobelist Joliot-Curie 44 Really get to 46 Sweetie
47 Weep in an unflattering way, in modern lingo 52 Lugs
57 Hold on to 58 Lunchtime estimate 59 Computer shortcuts 60 Slices and dices, say 61 Scottish hillsides 63 Annoying
65 Walk with swagger 67 It might get swiped in a college dining hall
68 Football trophy
name
69 Where some replacements take place, in brief 71 Third column on a
calendar: Abbr. 72 Eaglet’s hatching
spot
73 Certain public
transport
75 Sound from a jalopy 76 Played again 77 Words from an exlover 81 Go by
82 Put down again 83 Origami steps 85 Bread in Indian
cuisine
87 One taking action 89 Certain close
relative
92 Invite out for 93 1990s tennis star
Huber
94 Off-kilter 96 “Later!”
98 Green vehicles 99 Fried plantain dish
of Puerto Rico 100 Country named for its geographic location
102 It makes
you you
103 Lobbyists’ area in
D.C.
106 Radiator cover 110 “Die Hard” squad,
in brief
112 Miss ____, famed
dial-a-psychic 113 Businesses that see an uptick after New Year’s
114 Aussie
hoppers
115 Kernel of
an idea
116 “Ouch, ouch, ouch!” 118 High style
120 Barnyard bleat 122 “Mais ____!” (“But
of course!”)
123 “Cyberchase”
channel
124 Org. whose members stay in their lanes
125 Business name
ender
126 “Yipe!”