NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Note: Seven clues in this puzzle relate to their answers in a manner for you to discover. Standard clues for these answers appear here in mixed order: Accounting total; Communicating (with); Leg cramp; Peyton, to Eli Manning; Showing gratitude; Unlikely election winner; Where golfers practice short strokes

ACROSS

1 Host of the 1952

Winter Olympics 5 Not suited (for) 10 Beatles song with an exclamation mark in its title 14 Wild thing 19 Demeter’s mother,

in myth 20 Singer/songwriter

Jones

21 Abbr. on a “works

cited” list 22 Kemper of “The

Office”

23 Direct path

25 Lot of land, say 26 Director Frank 27 Sea plea

28 Dole (out) 29 “Sheesh!”

32 Like some cheese ... or some movies 34 Toothsome 35 “Anything you

suggest is fine” 36 Rathskeller

decoration 38 Anthropologist’s

adjective

40 Small bits of dough 41 Color of the Owl

and Pussycat’s boat 44 Connecting words

in logic

45 Baby’s cry

48 ____ Mysteries (children’s series starting with “The Absent Author”) 49 Champing at the

bit

50 Biologist E.O.

Wilson’s focus 51 “Alas!”

52 Wimple wearer 53 With 54-Across, commonly believed misconception 54 See 53-Across 56 Panache

57 Go for a spin 59 Symbol of Middle

America 60 Emotionally

disinvest oneself 61 ____ long-horned

beetle

63 Something avoided during awkward situations

66 Firing offense? 67 Isolated hill 68 They’re shared between partners, one hopes 69 Extremely mean 71 Theater employee 72 Into pieces 73 Fictional Mr. or real

Dr.

75 Popular flooring

wood

78 “Ready for ____ ...

?”

79 Once more

80 Fair part 81 Cocktail made with

ginger beer 82 Command to a dog 83 Gets busy

84 Fish with a

prehensile tail 87 Symbols of wave

functions

88 One of the Furies of

Greek myth 89 “Them’s fightin’

words!”

90 Quickly

93 Suggest, with “of” 94 Excoriate

97 “Oh, that’s so nice

of you to say!” 99 Disney+ competitor 100 Fool

103 Revise

104 Chill

105 Mad Hatter’s social

event

108 9 a.m. service 109 Command-Z, on a

Mac

110 Falcon’s home 111 Harness part 112 Fragrant compound 113 Space heater? 114 Back, in a way 115 Online crafts

market

DOWN

1 Suns, e.g. 2 “Scram!” 3 “Enough

dillydallying!” 4 Kind of milk

5 Like some

expectations

6 Nick of “48 Hrs.” 7 The yolk’s on them 8 ____ Malcolm, Jeff Goldblum’s role in “Jurassic Park” 9 Alternative to this

and that 10 Enters

11 “And so on and so

forth”

12 Big Bird? 13 Ordinary citizen 14 Looks good on 15 Overjoys

16 A as in

Agamemnon 17 Fathers 18 Lachrymose 24 Resident of a

Mideast sultanate 30 Thin thoroughfare 31 Melon parts 33 Brand that comes

in short sleeves 36 Go across 37 Nobelist

Desmond 39 Syntactician’s

drawing 40 Transitioning

phrase

42 Approach

43 Flits here

and there 44 Shenanigan 45 Question to someone who looks impossibly young 46 Broseph

47 Animal aptly found in “feather one’s nest”

50 Vibe

51 Give a heads-up 53 The ____ things in

life

54 Principle

55 Doesn’t keep 56 Chemist’s

container

58 Is really down on 59 Really come down 61 Neighbors

62 Food often served with gari (pickled ginger) 64 Backs

of necks 65 Frustrating device

in an arcade 70 Hurting

73 Kind

74 Dressage for a horseback rider?

76 Plus

77 Perceptive, as an

eye 79 Getting top marks

on

80 Betray 81 Woolgatherer? 83 Into pieces 84 Cacophony

85 Mild expletive 86 Ask for money,

informally 87 Pioneer of the Minneapolis sound 88 Poet Gorman who wrote “The Hill We Climb”

90 Banded rock 91 Keeps a watch on? 92 Stave off

93 Quaint

contraction 95 Unusual object 96 Last name of the Boxcar Children, in children’s literature

98 Consequently 101 Big name in

elevators

102 Manhattan address

abbr.

106 Part of

a giggle

107 “Sweet Dreams (____ Made of This)” (Eurythmics hit)