NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Earners of credits 7 One selling airtime,
informally 12 Emulates a
chipmunk, say 20 Like a beaming
smile
22 Go out to get some
juice? 23 Pork-cutting option 24 Ingredient in an
Alabama slammer 25 Revise
26 Word with “two” or “three” to describe a sloth
27 Small kitchen knife 29 Abstract artist
Mondrian 30 Thomas Hardy title
character
31 Bottom part 32 Traveled like Charon 34 Schedule keeper:
Abbr.
35 One for whom
underwear is pants 36 “Wait ... what did
you just say?!” 37 Fuse 39 Three-dimensional 43 “Have You Never Been ____,” No. 1 album for Olivia Newton-john 44 Origami designs thought to bring good fortune
45 One receiving a congratulatory email from ebay 47 Helps secure
a loan
48 Recovery center
49 Refused to share 50 Scratch
51 Tablet taken before
going to bed, maybe 52 Portrayer of
Marvel’s Hawkeye 53 Left the harbor 57 Rapper who cofounded Mass Appeal Records 58 Green liqueur
59 Dinosaur of kids’ TV 60 It’s nothing
61 Host
63 Signaled slyly 64 ____ Top (low-cal ice
cream brand) 65 Camaro, for one 66 As one
67 Birth day presence? 68 “All in the Family”
subject
71 “Don’t dwell on the
past” 73 Families-andfriends support group
74 Negotiate
75 Some diners ... and
donors
76 Provide a password
77 Was rife (with) 78 Matthew of “The
Americans”
79 Save for later, in a
way
80 Skewered
82 Like Queen Anne’s
lace?
83 Traditional accounts 87 Onetime hair
removal brand
89 Let out or take in 90 Stage name for hip-hop’s Sandra Denton
91 It’s all the rage 92 “What-ever“
reactions 94 Post-distraction
segue
97 Light-filled room 98 Way, way off 99 Hitchcock’s forte 100 Clearing
101 Like bison vis-à-vis
beef
Down
1 Key for Chopin’s
“Heroic” Polonaise 2 It might be
organized 3 Foundation options 4 Eclipses and
comets, perhaps 5 Joy of MSNBC 6 Parked it, so to
speak
7 Maximally
8 Pacific birds?
9 Bit of thatching 10 Take sides? 11 Catapulted,
say 12 Bird much seen
in cities
13 Reply to a ring
14 Not in the dark 15 Adriatique, e.g. 16 Task for a souschef 17 Like sirens 18 Be considered
perfect 19 More than just
clean 21 Shopping in order to improve one’s mood 28 Fire 31 They might be
wireless
32 Desktop icon 33 Surname of
Harry Potter’s adoptive family 35 Pop star nickname, with “the”
36 Bet
strategically 38 Mythical
nymph
39 Reliquary 40 Inspiration for
the Frisbee 41 Floored
42 Longtime
Ohio State basketball coach Matta
43 Filet ____ 44 Stopped
smoking? 46 Half of a notorious outlaw duo 47 Added to the
language
50 First little
piggy’s destination 52 Key hit with a pinkie 53 It helps take the
edge off
54 Just going through
the motions 55 Complete, as a
crossword 56 Creations for Mardi
Gras
58 Particles composed of two up quarks and one down quark 59 Did a TV marathon,
say
62 Start of some nofrills brand names 63 In a lather,
with “up”
64 Happy ____
66 Come back
around
67 Bits of high jinks? 68 What Mr. Clean, Captain Picard and Michael Jordan have in common 69 Thought expressed in American Sign Language by extending the pinkie, thumb and index finger 70 Compilations of
funny film faux pas 71 Soeur’s sibling 72 Warehouse loading
areas
74 *shrug*
77 “We want all the
juicy details!” 78 Maintain, in a way,
as a highway 81 Michael whose initials match those of his famous comedy troupe 82 Cut through 83 “____ and Majnun” (Arabic story that inspired a Clapton hit)
84 One of the “holy trinity” ingredients in Cajun cuisine 85 Advice to one in a
lather?
86 Very inclined (to) 88 Sting,
perhaps 90 Taverna staple 91 Spice related to
nutmeg 93 Argentite, e.g. 95 Fifth of eight 96 Show filmed at
Rockefeller Ctr.
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