NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
TURN, TURN, TURN BY ROYCE FERGUSON
Across
1 1969 hit for Neil Diamond
6 Big dipper?
9 Event at a convention center 13 Southern bread
17 Risk maker
19 What a plastic bag might come with, nowadays
20 Comics mutant 21 Specks of dust 22 Ad label in red and white
24 What Santa does before Christmas 26 They do dos
27 Tempe sch.
28 Invites out for
29 [Let it stand]
30 Pop singer Ora 31 Heats
33 Bête noire
34 Italian pal
35 Burning
40 Some of the American heartland 44 Belief in Buddhism and Hinduism 45 Certain make-yourown-entree station 47 With 86-Across, fixation problem suggested by this puzzle’s theme
48 One hanging around the yard
50 Statement that may precede “Wish me luck!”
51 Per ____
52 Arc on a musical score
53 Go back (on) 55 British ending 56 Conventional 59 Deal with
60 Suffix with block 61 China’s Zhou ____ 62 Hound
64 Some bolt holders 67 Arroz ____ cubana (Cuban-style rice) 70 Demerit 72 Once-ubiquitous electronics outlets
77 A hot one can burn you 78 Stars in western movies, e.g.
80 “That’s my foot!!!” 81 Son of George and Jane Jetson
82 Verbal concession 84 Start to pay attention
86 See 47-Across
87 Sea that Jesus is said to have walked on
88 Beloved members of the family
89 Having a fix
90 South American barbecue
91 Rather eccentric 94 D.C. types
95 It fits a big frame, for short
97 1990s Nickelodeon show about a preteen boy 98 Former Saudi king 102 Peninsula with
seven countries
106 Hosp. area
107 What torcedores
can skillfully do
109 Hierarchical systems, so to speak
111 It may spit venom 112 News items often written in advance 113 Beget
114 Nasdaq, e.g.: Abbr. 115 Things that can bounce
116 Bone connected to the wrist
117 Founding member of the U.N. Security Council, for short 118 Humanities dept. 119 Like the entire 290-page Georges Perec novel “A Void,” curiously enough
Down
1 Bygone kings 2 Attended
3 Nail-polish brand 4 Who said: “No good movie is too long. No bad movie is short enough”
5 Dos más uno 6 Worth mentioning 7 Subsidiary of CVS Health 8 Races in place 9 Ken Griffey Jr. or Ichiro Suzuki 10 Short winter days? 11 Alan who directed “All the President’s Men”
12 Any nonzero number raised to the power of zero 13 Florida county named for a president 14 Los Angeles’s ____ College of Art and Design 15 Where talk is cheep? 16 This: Sp. 18 Way to run someone out of town, idiomatically
21 Heavy defeat 23 Qb-protecting group, for short 25 Cousin of cream cheese 31 Not outstanding 32 Aware 33 German city on the Weser 34 Try to see if anyone is home, maybe 36 Adversary 37 Island famous for its nightlife 38 Was livid 39 Slowly disappear 40 Orgs. running drives for school supplies 41 Little piggy
42 Sullivan who taught Helen Keller 43 Temper 44 Enlist again 46 Early king of Athens, in Greek myth 48 Magical rides 49 No longer working: Abbr. 52 Sedate state
54 State 57 Gerontologist’s study
58 The driving force behind this puzzle? 63 Cheerfulness: Var. 65 Nonbinary pronoun 66 A dip, or a series of steps
67 Spanish girlfriend
68 Things once tossed in the Trevi Fountain 69 It stops at Union and Penn Stations 71 Understand
73 Agnus ____ (prayers)
74 Banned aid?
75 Lead-in to Aid
76 “Auld Lang ____” 78 Gambler’s alternative to
Las Vegas, NV, or Atlantic City, NJ
79 One with special I.T. privileges 83 Throwing away 85 Pond critter
86 Latin version of the Bible
89 Doesn’t give a hoot, colloquially 92 Applebee’s competitor
93 Kitchen gadgets 94 System of government
96 ____ dog
97 Loading areas 98 Championship 99 Texas A&M athlete
100 Lugs
101 Add oil and vinegar
to, say
102 Bit of chemistry 103 Legal cover?
104 Plugging away
105 Testing stage
107 Ratchet (up)
108 Command to a dog 110 Buckeyes’ sch.
Answers below