N.Y.TimesCrosswordPuzzle
Note: Once filled in, the contents of the six shaded squares will spell a word associated with this puzzle’s theme.
Across
1 New dog owner’s
purchase 6 Dog-adoption
grp.
11 Pop group with
an “army” 14 Setting for
“Heidi”
18 “We’re not standin’ in their way!”
19 Pepper grinder? 20 Put to work 21 Word with good
or blood
22 Extra lives or additional gems, for a freemium game
24 [Gasp!] 26 Pastoral
setting?
27 “Who am I? Two-four-sixoh-____!” (“Les Misérables” lyric)
28 Cracker shape 29 “____-Olution”
(2002 rap album) 30 Avoided a tag, in
a way
31 “The kids these days have gotten way better than me” 35 Two-millionyear-old discovery in 2022 in the frozen soil of Greenland 36 Cereal bit 37 Something to
butter up
38 Text communication inits.
41 Shaggy hairstyle 42 File-creating
command 44 Actress
Thompson 48 Former minorleague team that played at Aloha Stadium
51 Spot for food and
craft beer
53 Opt
54 Significant
stretch
55 Crane look-alike 57 “Do you really see me that way?”
58 Range rover ... or something to do in a Range Rover 59 Craft that uses
drafts
63 What a cracker
might crack 64 Something for the rest of the military? 65 Scrabble bonus seen six times in this puzzle 70 “The Chase”
channel
72 Was published 73 In which “Ciamar a tha thu?” means “How are you?” 74 Booped body
parts
77 Member of the
fam
78 Count for a jury 80 I, in German 81 Slip past 82 Product lines? 84 Something delivered by Jake Tapper or Anderson Cooper
89 Kofi of the U.N. 90 Pan feature 91 Yank
92 When repeated, [“Is this thing on?”]
93 Battle royale 96 Nickname next to a heart emoji, perhaps 97 Cyrillic letter pronounced like the “zz” of “pizza”
98 “The English
Patient” actress 104 Attenuated 108 “South,” in
Hanoi 109 Place to chill,
paradoxically 110 Home of the Hockey Hall of Fame: Abbr. 111 Device that works with CarPlay
113 Single guy? 115 Executive’s
acumen
117 Apt domain for basketball’s King James
118 Scanning inits. 119 Something to believe in 120 Didn’t just assume
121 Part of the body to slap 122 Queen ____ 123 To be, in Spanish 124 Easily irritated
Down
1 Film-archive bits 2 Kidney-related 3 Maker of the Flashback console 4 Lukewarm 5 Birds with deep booming calls 6 “Better Call Saul” channel 7 Very sexy 8 Texas city that’s home to FritoLay
9 Lawyer’s bundle of work 10 “____ you not entertained?” 11 “Au contraire!” 12 Cannon fodder, at times 13 Appear that one may 14 Urgent time to start gathering tax documents: Abbr.
15 TikTok star Gray 16 B.Y.U.’s city 17 Scatter about 21 “Here’s the thing
... “
23 A group of them is called a “crash” 25 Texter’s reaction
button
28 Post
32 Syrupy covering
for ham 33 Protagonist in “2001: A Space Odyssey” 34 Crockpot filler 35 ____ Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table 38 “____ All That” (1990s teen comedy) 39 Soda-shop order 40 Vegetable often eaten without utensils 42 Aviculture : bird :: heliciculture : ____
43 Campfire
remains 45 Out-of-thisworld outfit 46 Rikishi compete
in it
47 Slightly 49 Taiwanese tech
giant 50 Pink-furred cat in
“Garfield” 51 Antipasto dish of tomatoes on grilled bread 52 Campus military
org.
56 Make more
meaningful 60 B.S., for one 61 Letter that rhymes with the letters before and after it 62 Direction giver’s suggestion: Abbr. 66 Jab
67 Tony winner Renée ____ Goldsberry 68 High-strung 69 Coin collection 70 Enclosed rhyme
scheme
71 Cereal bit
75 Poet St. Vincent
Millay
76 Creep out,
perhaps 78 Counterpart of
“been there” 79 Sgt. or cpl. 83 Engine parts 85 Bigwig
86 Coup d’____ 87 Time when most
people are asleep 88 One birthed in
Perth
90 Shrug or wave 94 Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of war, takes the form of one
95 Place in a crypt 98 Announce one’s presence, in a way
99 Invisible
household hazard 100 “My luck’s bound to turn around!”
101 Adorable sort 102 Beginning stage 103 Crete’s highest
point, for short 104 The ones nearby 105 Indicates “Out of
my way!”
106 Miniature map 107 Highmaintenance, say 112 Exam with “calculator” and “no calculator” math sections 114 G.I.’s rations 115 Dating inits. 116 Negative
Boolean operator
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