NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Round number? 7 Pick a card, any card 11 Hoops
16 Piano keys
18 Quick study 20 Quick studies 22 Line delivered in costume
23 Source of a trendy health juice 24 Alternative to tarot cards
26 Opportunity to hit 27 Hearing aid? 29 Hole-making tools 30 Hill worker
31 Split
32 Small bird with complex songs 33 He was told to “take a sad song and make it better” 34 “Smackdown” org. 37 Upper limit 38 Olympic figure
skater Johnny 39 Make more pleasant 41 First attempt 44 Attire
45 In key
46 “The ____ Locker,” 2009 Best Picture winner
47 Declare
48 “Surely you don’t think it could be me?!”
49 Bank, at times 51 Hayek of Hollywood 52 Some movie extras 55 Acts like money grows on trees
57 Tool for a difficult crossword, say 58 Added water to, as a sauce
60 Family secret, perhaps
62 In lock step
(with)
64 Seasonal song with lyrics in Latin 66 Sacrament of holy matrimony and others
67 Throughway, e.g. 69 Fashion expert
Gunn
70 It’s sedimentary, my dear
71 Seemingly forever 72 Filmmaker Gerwig 73 Info on an invitation 75 Command, as influence
76 “Don’t worry about it”
78 Brown
or blacken
79 Hole in the ground 80 ____ card
81 Shaded
82 Went over the limit,
say
83 Where to find the radius
84 ____ Lipa, Grammywinning pop artist 87 “Big Little Lies” costar of Witherspoon and Kidman 88 Barely afloat? 91 Buzz in the morning 93 Place you may go just for kicks?
94 Mail lady on “Peewee’s Playhouse” 95 Occasion to stay up late
97 Some surfing
destinations
99 You are here
100 Pounds
101 He made a pact with
the Devil
102 Makes blue, say
103 One of three for
“Mississippi”
Down
1 Brand of breath spray
2 Arthurian isle 3 Decay, as wood 4 “____ words were never spoken” 5 Voice, as grievances 6 Potter of children’s literature 7 Ambitious 8 Proverbial tortoise or hare, e.g. 9 Poses 10 Branch of the U.N. in 2020 news 11 Soda factory
worker 12 1989 Tom Hanks black comedy, with “The” 13 Math measurement 14 Aspiring D.A.’S exam
15 Tennis do-over 17 Result of eating the poisoned apple in “Snow White”
18 Quickly go from success to failure 19 Mudbug, by
another name 21 Easy target
22 Many a dare, in hindsight 25 Bring down 28 Part of a high chair 29 Boring things 33 Hera’s Roman counterpart 34 “Don’t you trust me?” 35 Heat of the moment? 36 First name in jazz 37 Quagmire 38 Mom jeans have a high one 39 Picturesque time for a walk
40 Goes out on a limb 41 Tapered hairstyle 42 Act of omission ... or of a commission 43 Four for a 4x400, say
44 Pluto, e.g.
45 Pint-size and then some 48 ____ mortal
50 Central
51 Bird-feeder bit 53 They’re on the case, in slang
54 Garrulous
56 Like a pearl-clutcher 59 Discourage
61 Abbr. on a cornerstone 63 What skies do
before a storm 65 Worrisome beach sighting
66 Pro ____
68 Email status
72 Food connoisseur
74 ____ a clue (was lost)
75 Scaredy-cat 77 Frozen dessert 78 Golfer Jordan who won the 2015 U.S. Open
79 Republican politico Reince
82 Hybrid bottoms
83 Spot seller, in brief
84 Keto adherent, e.g. 85 Prepare to deplane 86 Andre who won the 1994 and 1999 U.S. Opens
87 Curses
88 Piece of the pie 89 “That smarts!” 90 De-e-eluxe
91 ____ breve (cut
time)
92 Beach ball?
93 Do a veterinarian’s
job on
95 Beach lotion abbr. 96 Rare color? 98 Texter’s “I can’t
believe this”
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