NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Robert Ryan of London is an economist for Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority. He grew up in Ireland, where he used to sit on his father’s knee and ‘‘help’’ him solve the cryptic crossword in the back of a television guide. He subscribed to The New York Times in 2020 for its election coverage and soon got hooked on the crossword, which he now does every day. This is Robert’s first puzzle for the paper. — W. S.
ACROSS
1 Texas terminus of I-35
7 Place for a plug
14 Sport coached by Ted
Lasso
20 Relative of a June bug
21 Animal farm facility
22 Shining intensely
23 Zone out?
25 Milton who designed
the ‘‘I NY’’ logo
26 Off
27 A handful
29 Channel for watching
N.C.A.A. games
30 Aid for a novice
guitarist
33 Fool, from the Yiddish
34 Beginner’s edition?
37 Home of Bahla Fort, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
39 German article
40 Certain vaccine target
41 Big mouths
42 Fairy look-alike
44 God who lent his
name to a weekday
45 Bruce Wayne in the
Batman comics, e.g.
47 Seat at the dining
table?
50 Meds often come in
them, for short
51 Identifying statement
54 Real name that becomes a fake one by changing its first letter
55 Tranquil state of mind Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). 56 Character at the
center of ‘‘Dunkirk’’?
57 Without holding back
58 Kicked out of school,
say
60 Atop
62 Beverage that can be served hinata-kan (‘‘sun-bathed’’)
63 Beauty that runs in
the family?
66 Family member
71 Brazilian currency
72 Price of ignorance, so
to speak
78 Like much baby food
79 U.S. agcy. originally set up to fund war expenses
80 Words of praise
81 ‘‘Psycho’’ mother
82 Search blindly (for)
83 Some significant
others, for short
84 Boys’ club?
87 Shape of a certain
bean
89 Expose
90 Bounded
91 Result of some
bargaining
93 Words to a pet at the
door
95 Dollop
97 Greasy garage job
98 Swindle by instant
messaging?
100 Reproductive cell
102 Something to aim for
on a golf course
103 Irish name meaning
‘‘lover of hounds’’
104 Toronado or Cutlass,
informally
105 Pointed at, say 107 Tone deafness,
medically
109 Use a family crypt?
115 Like Halley’s comet
every 75 or so years
116 Not tell a soul
117 House floor
manager?
118 Formal
119 Adventure-seeking travelers, in old usage
120 Polynesian language
DOWN
1 Supposed influence on Pink Floyd’s ‘‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’’
2 One in the hand?
3 Knock
4 The ____ Tour (2023 Taylor Swift concert series that broke Ticketmaster)
5 ‘‘Pride and Prejudice’’
surname
6 Becomes unduly
prominent
7 Forty winks
8 When said three times, mantra for some accused
9 Completed collection
10 Conspicuous kissing,
e.g., for short
11 Like some casts
12 Orange and peach, for
example
13 Word has it!
14 Droop
15 One giving creepy
looks
16 Yearbook signers
17 World’s largest inland
body of water
18 Thus far, poetically 19 You might see them now and again
24 Fortune 500 company whose logo is a blue infinity symbol
28 Wisconsin politico
Tony
30 Cornhole attempts
31 Lab vial
32 Long, narrow piece of
jewelry
34 ‘‘Ifuaskme...’’
35 He can be found
above it
36 Particularly: Abbr.
38 Pester with little bites
43 ‘‘Rubbish!’’
44 Food container
46 Jazz great Al
48 Third-largest city of
Turkey
49 It comes after nine
but not after 10
50 Flowing tresses
52 Subject of D.C.’s Stone
of Hope memorial
53 Word before tooth or
candy
56 Chancellor who oversaw Germany’s reunification
57 Centers of attention
59 Gave a thumbs-up
60 Exploits
61 Organizer of a school
field day, for short
62 Extra-crisp,
informally
64 Goofs up
65 Sea change?
66 Dealership stat
67 The ‘‘Noster’’ in
‘‘Pater Noster’’ 68 Rhinoplasty target,
maybe
69 Some vintage photo
tints
70 Got started, with ‘‘off’’
73 At some point
74 Come to
75 Cause to stumble
76 It divides and
multiplies
77 Friend of Buffy on ‘‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’’
79 ‘‘So to speak’’ 80 Shout heard in the
Plaza México
83 ____ box (lunch
option)
84 Long-handled
hammer
85 Affectedly creative
86 Pink Floyd’s lightrefracting prism, for one iconic example
88 Cancel
89 Reinforce
91 Predecessor of a USB
drive 92 Like a screw after being turned counterclockwise
94 Gilda of the original
‘‘S.N.L.’’ cast
95 Clay figures in Jewish
lore
96 Like the Toyota logo
99 People of western
New York
101 ‘‘Same’’
105 More than just a
sec? 106 One-named singer with the 1961 No. 1 hit ‘‘Runaround Sue’’
108 Word with where and how, but not usually why
110 Org. established by
111-Down
111 Prez who established
the 110-Down
112 Initial shock?
113 Suns setting, for
short
114 Japanese honorific