NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
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Dick Shlakman, who turns 82 next Sunday, is a retired lawyer and corporate executive from Plano, Texas. Will Nediger, 31, is a professional crossword constructor from London, Ontario. Dick saw Will’s offer of crossword mentorship on Facebook and reached out for his help. They’ve now made several puzzles together. ‘‘I come up with a theme idea that I think is absolutely perfect,’’ Dick says, ‘‘and Will shows me the error of my ways — then suggests how to take that idea and make it ideal.’’ This is Dick’s third crossword for The Times and Will’s 37th. — W. S.
ACROSS
Men are pigs (after she’s through with them, anyway!)
6 The ‘‘A’’ of James A.
Garfield
11 Naysayers
20 Lower-cost option on a popular rideshare app
21 Egg: Sp.
22 Frontiersman’s
headgear Result of a merger between Quaker Oats and Greyhound? Maintaining
equilibrium
26 Discourage
27 Soft drink
concentrate, e.g. ‘‘Night on Bald Mountain’’ or ‘‘Finlandia’’
30 With 18-Down, what has four legs and sprints? Musician who was booed in 1965 for playing electric guitar Letters before Gerald R. Ford and Ronald Reagan
Luau instrument, for
short
37 Zoom
39 Corner
41 Second-longest human bone, after the femur
1 23 25 29 32 34 35
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46 Result of a merger between Kraft and Hershey’s? Result of a merger between Google and Planters?
Like the wights on
‘‘Game of Thrones’’
54 Best of the best
56 Spelling ____
57 What Santa checks
twice
58 R-rated
59 Rulers’ staffs
61 Fire man?
63 On the ____
64 Poet Lazarus
66 Prefix with thermal
67 Bad sound for an
engine
68 Result of a merger between Hasbro and Nikon?
Bird like the Canada
goose or arctic tern
75 Lummox
76 Cheese offered tableside at Italian restaurants, informally
77 Recipe amt.
80 Eagle constellation
81 Passive acquiescence
84 Voice a view
86 Firm decision maker?
87 Revolutionary
Guevara
89 Klum of ‘‘Project
Runway’’
90 ‘‘My love,’’ in Madrid
91 Result of a merger between Procter & Gamble and Jacuzzi?
94 Result of a merger between Hormel and Instagram? 51 53 72
96 Warehouse
97 10 to 10, say
99 ____ reform, cause for
the Marshall Project
100 Middling grade
101 Pub choice
103 Shot across the bow?
106 ____ Waldorf, the so-called ‘‘Queen B’’ on ‘‘Gossip Girl’’ Leaves nothing to the imagination Measured ‘‘Been there, done that’’ feeling
118 Disney’s world
120 Result of a merger between Ralph Lauren and Starbucks? ‘‘Stop your foolishness outside!’’
124 Not on
125 Chops up finely
126 Was uncomfortably
hot
127 Basil-based sauce
128 ____ Allen, one of the
founders of Vermont 109
114 116 123
DOWN
1 ____-de-sac
2 Ditto, in scholarly
journals
3 Brexit vote, e.g.
4 Home to the Minoan
civilization
5 Shine
6 ‘‘Now I get it!’’
7 2021 Super Bowl
champs
8 Drink up during a
timeout, say
9 Tex who directed the first Bugs Bunny cartoon
10 Iraqi city on the Tigris
11 Kimono accessory
12 Natural talent
13 ____ Young-White, comedian/ correspondent for ‘‘The Daily Show’’ Lead-in to an Indiana
‘‘-ville’’
____ Ng, author of the 2017 best seller ‘‘Little Fires Everywhere’’
16 Piehole
17 ‘‘Oops!’’
18 See 30-Across
19 Part of a musical note
24 Held forth
28 ‘‘Two thumbs down’’
review Answer to ‘‘Are you asleep?’’ that can’t be true
33 Drift off to sleep
35 Ordinary
36 ‘‘Eh, not really’’
38 1981 hit Genesis album whose name resembles a rhyme scheme
40 Balls in the sky
42 Little sounds
43 Muscular
44 ‘‘Who’s there?’’
response Nancy who served as the first female member of the British Parliament
47 Come together
48 Like some thinking
49 A.O.C., e.g.
50 Meets
52 Evening prayer
55 Come together
59 Raw material? 14 15 31 45 60 Quintana ____ (Mexican state that’s home to Cancún)
62 Mayhem 65
Land governed by the House of Grimaldi
67 Obedience school command 68 More hackneyed
69 A head
70 A head
71
72
73
Best-case scenarios
Clipper parts ‘‘You can’t fire me!’’ 74
Italian poet Cavalcanti who influenced Dante Procrastinator’s
problem
78 [Bo-o-o-oring!]
79 In essence
81 Where heroes are
made
82 Sass
83 Co-founder of the
N.A.A.C.P.
Word that, when spelled backward, becomes its own synonym 77 85 88
Member of the inn
crowd?
90 One of the
Canterbury pilgrims One doing the lord’s
work
In which you might
do a deep dive
95 Mistruth
98 JAMA contributors
102 Tool in a wood shop
104 Shred
105 ____ hole
107 Battery part
108 Language group
related to Yupik 92 93
No. 0418 109 Birkin stock?
110 From scratch
111 Quinceañera, e.g.
112 Man’s name that spells a fruit backward
113 Passed-down stories
115 ‘‘Stop stalling!’’
117‘ ‘The slightest’’ or ‘‘the foggiest’’ thing Oscar-winning lyricist Washington
121 Classic Pontiac
122 Phishing target, for
short 119