N.Y.TimesCrosswordPuzzle
Across
1 Inundates with
messages 6 Starting from 10 Farm male
14 Slip
19 Word spelled starting with an alif in Arabic 20 Style of Chicago’s NBC Tower, informally 21 Traditional
wisdom
22 Fine woodworking detail
23 Blender button 24 Lottery prize? 27 Deception,
metaphorically 28 Cambridgeshire’s historic ____ Hall
29 They were once advertised with the slogan “Polly wants a cracker?” 30 Painted 25 percent of the house?
34 “Eww, yuck!” 35 It’s a snap
36 768 parts of a gal. 38 Lacking in
vitality
42 Heavy cookware
item
45 Dancer’s boss 48 Cruet contents 50 Hogwash 51 Obama’s first
chief of staff 54 Make one’s long story overly short?
58 Canner’s
purchase
59 Dog owner’s hope ... or a cat owner’s pipe dream? 60 Regulator of e-cigarettes, for short
61 Butter maker 62 Trees whose wood is used for model airplanes 63 One of Randall’s daughters on “This Is Us” 66 Just the refreshments, not the viewing? 68 Ode to reparation
for sin?
73 Hunt out 74 Really into 77 Tick-tack-toe
sides
78 Went unused 81 Make easier to
tear, in a way 84 One of 25 in this
clue
85 One darling percussion instrument? 88 Sage
89 Work with a pick
and an ax?
90 Apt name for a
worrywart 91 Off-white shade 93 “Gangnam Style”
rapper
94 Track star? 96 Giant things in the 1954 sci-fi film “Them!” 99 Taunts
102 Kind of exam 104 Where stealth is found in the dictionary? 109 Looking blue 113 Shoelace tip 114 Goes to town on 116 Successfully used
Rogaine?
119 Legendary
figures
120 2020 movie leadin to “land” 121 The “a” of a.m. 122 The “E” of
HOMES
123 Drum also known
as a tumbadora 124 Lawsuit filers 125 Get into a computer’s memory 126 “____ Blue” 127 Word with word
or jar
Down
1 Drains
2 Vertically level 3 “It’s ____
nothing”
4 Protect oneself against Covid, say
5 Expression of
exasperation 6 ____ Limón, first Latina poet laureate of the U.S.
7 Like clothing
patches
8 City west of
Daytona Beach 9 Kids’ creations from sofa cushions 10 Lightheaded
sorts?
11 [Man, that hurts!] 12 Creative writing and industrial design, for two 13 Restorative
process
14 Hear
15 Flawed but relatable protagonist 16 “____ ahead” (redundant advice)
17 Fill
18 Most spiders have
eight of them 25 Egging-on
phrase
26 “First Lady of
Song,” familiarly 31 Pulls a fast one
on
32 And others: Abbr. 33 Classical form of
poetry 37 Symptom
39 Tee off
40 Product used with
a stylus
41 Actor Michael 42 Raquel of “Fantastic Voyage”
43 Hold ‘em
variation 44 World capital located more than a mile above sea level
46 Reserve for later ... or something to reserve 47 Fivers
49 Class speaker 52 Weakens, in
video-game lingo 53 Arm bones 55 Nutrition fig. 56 “____ for Innocent” (Sue Grafton novel) 57 Many an Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics 59 Sturdy flooring
material
62 The Keebler
elves, e.g. 64 Makes more attractive, with “up”
65 Flood 67 Shed some tears 68 Fairy-tale
ending?
69 Hoof, in part 70 Ranked No. 1 71 Utopias 72 Amsterdam of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” 74 Affectionate
sobriquet 75 Many a URL
ending 76 Common deodorant ingredient 78 Freshness 79 When the
curtains open 80 Time to go 82 The Beatles’
“Lovely ____” 83 Animal life
84 An arm and a leg 86 Back-and-forth
struggle
87 Rare finds in
Minecraft 88 Ragamuffin 92 Narcissist’s
indulgence 95 Salacious 97 Unfrozen 98 Genesis creator 100 Branch of
philosophy 101 Manatee
103 Rightful
105 Muesli brand 106 Affectionate
sobriquet
107 In sync
108 Japanese graphic-novel style
109 Nine-digit IDs 110 M.L.B. family
name
111 Cupola relative 112 Early Bond
villain
115 Old imperial title 117 Itinerary initials 118 Excellent adventurer of film