NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
NOW WEIGHT JUST A SECOND No. 1006
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1 Short strokes 6 Myriad 10 Habit 14 Pieces of work? 18 End of oyster season 19 Roof part 20 “____ Burr, Sir” (“Hamilton” song) 21 Vault 22 Cruise that specializes in baked alaska, e.g.? 25 Bona ____ 26 Kim to Kourtney, or Kourtney to Khloé 27 Alma mater of George Orwell and Henry Fielding 28 Friend ____ friend 29 Quickly go through the seasons, say 30 Tiffany lampshade, e.g. 33 Like ambitious scientists? 37 Basic skate trick 38 “Yikes!” 40 Brewing one’s morning coffee, e.g. 41 Verano, across the Pyrénées 42 Art ____ 45 Cause of a shocking Amazon charge? Tom McCoy is in his third year of a Ph.D. program in cognitive science at Johns Hopkins University. His area of research is computational linguistics — in particular, how to get computers to learn language as well as humans do. He got the idea for this puzzle from an undergraduate linguistics class at Yale, remembering a remark by his professor about a certain rarity in English. Tom found just enough examples of it for a Sunday theme, then constructed the grid on his laptop during a long car ride. — W.S. 47 ____-V (“paste” on a PC) 48 Go wrong 49 How everyone on this floor is feeling? 55 Lead-in to -ville in children’s literature 56 Beer, slangily 57 Trim, with “down” 58 Protected, as feet 59 “I saw ____ duck” (classic ambiguous sentence) 60 Long hikes 62 Refuse to admit 64 “My word!” 68 “Our lab studies regular dance moves rather than high-kicking”? 74 Architect Lin 75 Bankroll 76 Fire man? 77 “I see it now” 78 Lean 82 Garden plots 84 Indian title 85 The second “p” in p.p.m. 86 Summary negotiation? of an easy 91 Musician Brian 92 Option in an Edit menu 93 94 Loire Coin in filler the 95 Branch Potterverse 96 Central Roman region Empire of the 99 Last in a series, perhaps 101 Terse summons 105 What a truck driver puts on before a date? 108 Massive weapon of sci-fi 111 The Oligocene, e.g., in geology 112 Big Apple airport code 113 Several of them could be used in a row 114 Dear 115 “____ nobis pacem” (“Grant us peace”: Lat.) 116 The main food served at Walden Pond? 122 End ____ 123 Alnico or chromel 124 ____ Minor 125 5x5 crosswords, e.g. 126 Pops up in France? 127 Co. heads 128 Rough amts. 129 Seize (from)
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1 What one does not do when sent to jail 2 Kind of battle 3 Like some customs 4 Word of advice 5 ____-mo 6 Quarrel 7 Capital of Punjab 8 State of stability 9 Tie the knot 10 Flavoring for snack peas 11 Galena, e.g. 12 “… ____ a lender be” 13 Purchase for Wile E. Coyote 14 Diminutive 15 Package deliverers of the present day? 16 Fancy gizmos 17 75+ person? 20 Regarding 23 Not many 24 The Phanerozoic, e.g., in geology 29 Words on an invoice 31 Faction 32 Apparently does 34 Mark indelibly 35 Old strings 36 Habitat for a mallow 39 Not go bad 43 & 44 Judge’s mandate 46 Imperfect cube 49 Angle symbol in geometry 50 Having a long face, say 51 Request from 52 Fuss 53 Rough housing 54 Comics character often kicked off a table 55 Impulse 61 Diver’s accouterments 63 Thirst (for) 65 Hogwarts potions professor 66 Was sore 67 MIX, for one 69 Voice role for Beyoncé in 2019’s “The Lion King” 70 Had down 71 Serving at a pancake house 72 French dialect 73 Hastily 79 Shout from a lottery winner 80 Look after 81 ____ pool 83 Check out 86 Resting 87 One without a title 88 Do a star turn 89 “Great” place to be 90 GPS suggestions: Abbr. 91Became less severe 97 Some brick houses 98 On the warpath 100 Leader in yellow journalism and an inspiration for “Citizen Kane” 102 Simple hydrocarbon 103 Native New Zealanders 104 ____ Rutherford, a.k.a. the Father of Nuclear Physics 106 Words to a dejected friend 107 Down 109 Domains 110 Airport grp. 116 The banker in the Beatles’ “Penny Lane” never wears one in the pouring rain (very strange!) 117 Middle-earth quaff 118 Eponymous 2001 No. 1 album 119 Shade 120 Coal industry org. 121 Tree that starts fires?