THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Impromptu musical get-together, informally 8 Counting tools 13 Most up to the task 19 Not much 20 Oddball 22 Commotion 23 Archaeologist’s assertion about a finding? 25 Jackson not in the Jackson 5 26 Benchmark: Abbr. 27 Members of the genus Lepus 28 Some overseas seasons 30 Common vinaigrette ingredient 31 Russian pancakes 33 Swim-team guru?
36 Geri ____, late jazz pianist 38 Authority
39 Used to be
40 Hire Phil Collins’s longtime band for a gig?
44 Brand that comes out a head? 45 Explosive sound 49 Curtain-call actions
50 One of 32 in the Thai alphabet
51 The Serengeti, e.g.?
54 TV journalist Curry 55 Long
56 Press
57 Covers with goo 58 Speck
59 Quits 62 Shadow during an eclipse
63 Knowing everything that’s available to view on Netflix? 67 Look forward to 68 Clay-based 69 Unpleasant 70 Clishmaclaver or bavardage, to use some fancy language 72 Trim
73 A/C measures 74 Hwy. offense 77 Amenity offered at an internet cafe? 79 Nickname for baseball great Ernie Banks
81 Gets out in dodgeball, say 82 Sticks in
83 Yes, in Brest
84 Bit of reading at a bar mitzvah? 86 Director Lee 87 Entertain
89 Deconstruct for
analysis
90 Stand-up’s bombs?
95 Keys near G’s
98 Actor Rutger of
“Blind Fury”
99 Keister
100 Less friendly
101 Assistance
104 Peninsula shared by Italy, Slovenia and Croatia
106 Art-shop worker’s
manual?
110 Urbanize
111 Spit it out!
112 Part of a canopy
113 The plus side
114 Cuisine that specializes in beef barbecue 115 No-parking-zone fixture
Down
1 Pokes 2 Bushels 3 “Whoa!” 4 Geneviève, for one: Abbr. 5 Imprinting indelibly 6 M.I.T.’S business school 7 Mathematician Poincaré with a famous conjecture 8 Flabbergasts 9 ____ E. King, singer and co-composer of “Stand by Me” 10 River islet
11 Ye olde news announcers 12 “Same here!” 13 Knee part, for short 14 Fan group?
15 Like “alter ego” and “alma mater” 16 Prayer hands, for one
17 “... or ____ think!” 18 Part of L.G.B.T.Q. 21 Short race, for short 24 Your: Fr. 29 “When the country was fallin’ apart, Betsy Ross got it all ____ up” (“Maude” theme lyric) 32 Albanian coins 33 Something that’s often rigged 34 TV’S Burrell and baseball’s Cobb 35 Looks longingly 36 Band that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest
37 Minnesota’s state bird 38 Orlando-to-miami dir.
41 Role for Patti Lupone and Madonna 42 Brand X
43 Flock member 44 Spotted bean 45 “Well, I’ll be,” to a Brit 46 Offspring of a 43-Down 47 Taiwanese PCS 48 Big butte
51 A dime a dozen, say?
52 It can help you get a grip
53 Drops (down) heavily 55 Beautifully worded 56 Joe Jackson’s “____ Really Going Out With Him?”
58 Van Gogh painting that once fetched a record amount at auction ($53.9 million) 59 Hair-pattern protector
60 ____ nous
61 Get in gear? 63 Dubbing need 64 Used a stun gun on 65 ____ pants
66 Take a dive, maybe 67 Digital-imaging company that used to make film
71 Apt rhyme for “baloney”
73 Dating notation: Abbr.
74 Start of a seasonal request
75 “Fluff Yeah” slipper sandals, e.g. 76 “Gotcha” 78 Helical bit
79 Be off the mark 80 GPS calculation: Abbr.
81 Exam for H.S. jrs. 84 Original tale of robot rebellion 85 Boxed a bit 86 Untethered 87 Biblical mount 88 Team spirit 90 Spanish term of affection between young women 91 Spring in northern Africa
92 Many rescues 93 Goose fleshinducing, maybe
94 Some coin tossers
95 Serve well?
96 Liquor-store
purchase
97 Suspicious
100 Where Shiraz is
located
102 Pic to click
103 Corp. division
105 Exclamations of
regret
107 Combine
108 Green of “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”
109 Always, in verse