NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
SAVINGS PLAN By John Rippe and Jeff Chen / Edited by Joel Fagliano
ACROSS
1 First name in 1990s
alternative rock
7 Hall of Fame QB
John
12 Showing
embarrassment 18 Enormous
20 Target competitor 21 Results of an iron
deficiency?
22 Buck, in slang
23 A.P. Stylebook entry that lost its hyphen in 2011
24 Like Constantinople
from 1453 to 1922 25 Under the counter,
say
27 One on the links? 28 Carpenter’s curve
cutter
29 Hagen who wrote “Respect for Acting”
30 Lydic of “The Daily
Show”
31 Group of connected
PCs
32 Nashville attraction,
with “the” 33 Dust-up 35 Something you
might break into 37 FedEx alternative 38 John Denver’s “Thank God ____ Country Boy” 39 “Succession” family
name
40 App used to track
fertility
41 Joins a pot 43 Response to “Are we
there yet?”
46 With sickly pallor 47 Enjoys a homecooked meal 49 Psychoanalyst
Alfred
50 Submitted with
TurboTax 52 When “golden goals” are scored, for short
53 Bel ____ cheese 54 Covering for a
pomegranate seed 55 Capone adversary,
informally 58 Substance originally made with animal fat and wood ash
60 Without much
thought
62 Wraps (up)
66 Dirty water inside a
ship
68 Home to Millennium
Park
72 Swamp creature,
informally
73 Brew
74 A bull market it is
not!
76 “Bond. James Bond,”
e.g. 77 First-and-second
bet
79 Existential threat in 2021’s “Don’t Look Up”
80 Spoke at length 82 Martini & ____
(beverage brand) 84 Mythical bird
85 Stop on a major
tour
86 Gas-station
convenience 89 Mozart’s “Così Fan
____”
91 Conked out
92 Biden’s signature 2022 legislation addressing rising prices, for short 95 Once-popular rug
style
97 Outstanding
101 With ____ to
(acknowledging) 102 Bowed 104 Disappear ... like the circled creatures might do, if not for the 112-/114-Across 106 Dishes
107 Tiny “canvas” on
which to paint 109 Shows signs of
disuse
110 Mission honored by the “Fallen Astronaut” lunar memorial
112 With 114-Across, conservation law that celebrated its 50th anniversary in December 2023 114 See 112-Across 116 Before now
117 Not fine
118 New ____
119 Sushi garnish 120 Web portal with a
butterfly logo 121 Senator Joni of Iowa 122 Screens, say
123 Some U.K. Lords
DOWN
1 Social media symbols 2 BEFORE: Coupon
stipulation
3 Greek heroine tempted by golden apples
4 Salt, symbolically 5 Signed
6 Like Troy in the
“Iliad”
7 Pull (out), as a win 8 City in San
Bernardino County 9 BEFORE: Game with annoying popups?
10 Turns off 11 High-fashion inits. 12 Cardiac conduit 13 Smith who wrote “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” 14 Country whose national animal is the elephant 15 Member of an elite
fighting force 16 BEFORE: Theme park
chain
17 QVC alternative 19 BEFORE: Rear-end,
e.g.
21 BEFORE: Having
physical form 26 Bouncy melody 28 Meeting places 29 Basic cable channel 34 Route
36 BEFORE: Begin
operating effectively 40 BEFORE: December
temp worker
42 I.R.S. ID
44 Like some ancient
Greek poetry 45 Cargo
46 Game console that
debuted in 2006 48 Mobile platform 51 Loose item at the bottom of a fast-food bag
55 Basic cable channel 56 AFTER: Tiny amount 57 Soccer star ____
Morgan
59 Scoff in Offenbach 61 Scat syllable
63 Suffix with Paul or
marion
64 AFTER: Slangy
“Amen”
65 Broadway letters of
success
67 Theme park known for its international food
69 “Are you ____ out?” 70 AFTER: Military
pattern
71 Two shakes 72 Brobdingnagian 74 AFTER: Like some
statues 75 AFTER: Target of a
facial cleanser 78 Houston sch. 81 Back, in a way 83 Langston Hughes poem about racial inequality 85 Baldwin who was the first to play Jack Ryan
86 All together 87 Hordes 88 Philip II of ____, father of Alexander the Great 90 Pinnacle achievement, metaphorically 91 Solar phenomenon 92 How one might bolt
upright
93 “The Future of Law Enforcement,” according to a 1987 movie 94 Pop-ups can lead to
them
96 AFTER: Actress
Rowlands
98 Ooze
99 Some linemen:
Abbr.
100 Scatterbrained 101 AFTER: Shakespearean title starter
103 Get down, so to
speak 104 Extract
105 Sails in a zigzag
way
106 Cape Colony
settlers
108 Assistant of classic
film
111 Painter Mondrian 113 Monopoly set, for
short
115 Before, to
Shakespeare