N.Y. Times Crossword Puzzle
Across
1 It grows on trees
5 Dance form featured in the documentary “Kumu Hina”
9 If-then-____ (programming trio)
13 Fruit in the custard apple family
18 Home to Dublin
and Toledo
19 Ritual whose name translates to “covenant”
20 Locale for many
cabs
21 Common lab
culture
22 Stockpile
bread?
24 Research hors d’oeuvres online? 26 “Ditto”
27 Tizzy
29 Rural tower 30 Catchy tune, in
slang
31 Fighting sport,
for short
33 Since
35 “Time to head
out!”
38 Selects greenbean casserole, candied yams and mashed potatoes?
43 What a ghost
might do to you
46 Chortled
syllable
47 Loch Ness monster, apparently
48 Love lines?
50 Eases
51 Blast from the past, so to speak
53 “Full House” twins
55 Setting in “Nomadland”
56 Kilt folds
57 Alex’s partner in the jewelry industry
58 Features of a
vacant stare
60 Gets caught
61 Sanctify
63 “Cease!” on the
seas
64 Part of a rock
band?
65 Debate roasting versus deepfrying?
67 Groove
70 “There ____
enough words”
72 Word with bump
or trap
73 Former Florida
flier
75 Breaking up
78 Corn unit
79 Inventor Gray who had a patent war with Alexander Graham Bell
80 Martin of
Hollywood
81 City on the Kenai
Peninsula
83 “Let me join!”
84 Foolish
86 Unspecific amount in a recipe
87 Small game,
often
88 Some nail-biters,
for short 89 Developing 91 Steers the dessert
cart?
94 Fame
96 Cupid’s
counterpart
97 Grabbed a chair
98 Some sex cells
100 Heads of org.
charts
102 Part of some
pods
104 November
birthstone
108 Make cranberry sauce from scratch?
112 Reserve the chardonnay for later?
114 On a bias
115 Off-the-wall 116 Actress Jessica
117 Noted Celtic
musician
118 Kind of question
119 Shiny silver
sticker?
120 Bid first, say
121 “____?” “___!”
Down
1 ____ tea
2 Exclamations of
enlightenment
3 Outer layer
4 1988 Beach Boys hit with a geographical title
5 “The White
Lotus” network
6 Web addresses
7 Stage name of Montero Lamar Hill
8 St. Francis
of ____
9 Official lang. of
Guyana
10 Land through which the Mekong River flows
11 Go bad
12 Quarter backs? 13 Letter before cue
14 Landmark health legislation, for short
15 Certain recyclable, in the Midwest
16 Brand aptly found in “natural pooch food”
17 Tendril
23 “Ba-dum-tss”
sounds
25 Led Zeppelin’s “Whole ____ Love”
28 Aids in planning
32 Untold millennia 34 G-men
36 Buffalo
N.H.L.ers
37 Work on one’s whisking technique?
38 Slices and dices
39 “Absolutely not”
40 “Goodness!”
41 Enter a bear
market
42 Tournament
ranking
44 Clinton and Obama, astrologically 45 Approx.
49 Chuck Taylor All
Star, e.g.
52 Pro tip about seasoning stuffing?
53 Length of some fun runs, informally
54 Backed up
57 Having an even
score
59 Macy’s Thanksgiving ____ Parade
61 Hairstyle that the Brits call “fringe”
62 Captain Marvel,
e.g.
65 Start of some
countdowns 66 Peruse
68 Open, as a drain
69 Home to Faa’a International Airport
71 German candy with a caramel center
73 Toddler’s time
out?
74 Parsonage
75 Sicilian
stratovolcano
76 Things behind
the Times?
77 “____ the night before Christmas ... ”
79 Pitchers
80 Thur. + 3
82 Arthur of tennis
83 Rage
85 Philanthropist Pratt for whom the Baltimore public library system is named
87 Measurer of
acidity
90 Pluck
92 Entrance
93 Put in a hold
95 “For real,” in modern parlance
98 Go-ahead
99 Metaphor for a
migraine
101 Lucid
103 Inspiration for the tribute band A*Teens
105 Winter candle
scent
106 Actress TaylorJoy of “The Queen’s Gambit”
107 Ardor
109 Ryan Gosling’s role in “Barbie”
110 Common factor
111 It ends when 1/1
begins
113 Boyo
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