NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
INITIAL IMPRESSIONS BY DAN SCHOENHOLZ / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ
Dan Schoenholz, of Walnut Creek, Calif., is the community development director for the city of Fremont. Like many crossword constructors, he got his start after watching the 2006 documentary “Wordplay.” The idea for this puzzle occurred to him one day when he was running on a trail that crossed a creek, and he thought of the clue and answer at 23-Across. Back home, he searched an online crossword database and found that his theme idea was new. This is Dan’s 26th puzzle for The Times. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Advantage
6 Tony, e.g.
11 Plunder
18 Weighed in
20 Cow : herd :: ____ :
troop
22 One with a
discerning palate 23 C-span?
25 Start brawling
26 Drink-name suffix 27 Earth goddess
28 Going from Point A
to Point B
30 Miss piggy?
31 Class acts?
33 Actress Gershon 34 Put back on the market, as real estate
37 Feel bad
38 Champagne name 40 P-trap?
44 G-force?
47 Union concern
48 Setting for C. S. Lewis’s ‘‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’’
49 NPR host Shapiro 50 Words said in
passing?
51 Deliberate betrayal 53 Butt
54 Father figures?
57 Guam or the U.S. Virgin Islands: Abbr.
59 Surgeons’
professional org. 60 2012 Best Picture winner
61 Anastasia ____, protagonist of
‘‘Fifty Shades of
Grey’’
62 Make mention of
63 Top supporter?
64 Susan who portrayed the youngest child on ‘‘The Brady
Bunch’’
65 G-flat?
69 Deodorant type
72 Be short
73 Make music
74 Like Crater Lake, compared with any other U.S. lake
78 Lebron James in his N.B.A. debut, e.g.
79 Anheuser-busch
Inbev’s stock ticker symbol
80 Avocado pit, for
one
81 Cause for revolution, perhaps
82 Escort’s offering
83 ‘‘Yep, that
happened!’’
85 [And like magic . . .
it’s gone!]
87 First of ten?
88 Compete in pursuit
of
90 Abbr. on a flight
board
91 D-con?
94 E-bond? 96 Conversely, in brief 97 Worry for a Great
Depression bank 98 Ladybug, e.g.
99 Cereal box abbr. 101 Strike-out
specialists?
105 See 106-Across 106 Out of 105-Across 108 Son of Zeus
109 Bird of legend
110 Fast-food chain with Famous Star burgers
113 C-sharp? 116 Black-and-white dessert
117 Take care of some personal baggage 118 Word after green or smoke
119 Things consumed for psychedelic trips
120 Men in black, say 121 Deck originally known as ‘‘carte da trionfi’’ (‘‘cards of triumph’’)
DOWN
1 Kind of news often aired at 6 and 11 p.m.
2 Classical poem form 3 Drives home, say
4 French article
5 Floral archway
6 Pop group with a dedicated museum in Stockholm
7 ‘‘____ is mainly a catalog of blunders’’: Churchill
8 Means 9 ‘‘The Burghers of Calais’’ sculptor 10 Cruella de Vil, for one
11 Beat oneself up over, say
12 Mimic
13 Little beef
14 ____ kicks (ab exercise) 15 Pitch-correcting devices
16 Tribe of southern Montana
17 Range of knowledge 19 School
administrator
21 French for ‘‘born’’ 24 Appalls
29 Aesthetically pretentious, informally
32 ____ card
33 Ruby, e.g.
35 Carter who portrayed Wonder Woman
36 Noncommittal response to ‘‘You coming?’’
39 Load off one’s mine?
41 Homonym of 39-Down
42 Trace of color
43 Wore
44 Gallivants (about) 45 Part of Q.E.D.
46 Ralph who founded the American Museum of Tort Law
51 Got ready (for)
52 Mosque leader
55 Launched 56 Product once advertised with the line ‘‘The splendor of your skin’’
58 Datum for a
chauffeur, for short 60 Take in, maybe
62 Supporter of
Roosevelt’s agenda 63 Actor whose breakout role came as a shirtless cowboy in ‘‘Thelma and Louise’’
64 Singles 66 Hardly cheery
67 Hoppy request at
happy hour
68 Enlighten
69 Wine barrel strip 70 Climate change, e.g. 71 Looked back on
75 Alphabetized, say 76 Wind farm output:
Abbr.
77 Stink
79 Split open
80 Lorelei’s lure
81 May honorees 83 Mad (at)
84 ____ Hill (’90s R&B
group)
86 Decoration at el Palacio
Real de Madrid
89 Where livestock eat 91 Mastered
92 Divide into three parts 93 Pattern that’s hard to
break
95 Nasty looks
100 Lento or allegro
102 Retreats
103 Loggers’ competition
104 Track
105 Rap lyrics, in slang 107 Post- O.R.
destination, often 108 Doesn’t just assume 110 The Rockies, on
scoreboards
111 Day ____
112 Sail fixed to a bowsprit
114 ‘‘Darn!’’ in Dortmund
115 Baseball’s dead-ball ____ (around 190020)