NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD
TURNS OF PHRASE No. 0407
ACROSS
1 “Let me repeat ...” 6 Musical speeds 11 When repeated, a cry of
approval
15 Like many creatures in modern sci-fi movies, for short
18 Light wood
19 Cross figure
20 New Jersey’s Sea ____
City
21 Spot for a shot
22 Spook some creatures in
an aquarium’s touch tank? 24 Fiery matches?
26 Band with the 1994 hit “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?”
27 Some vocal solos
28 In the style of
30 “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” playwright Edward 31 Bad material for a silk
purse, proverbially 33 Deliver a blow to Dracula? 37 With “the,” a sudden flip from attraction to disgust, in modern parlance 38 Brand whose stock price increased 50% in the first six months of 2020 40 Blooms named for their
shape
41 Set of selections 43 “You sure?”
44 Before45 No. calculated from letters 47 References a Vatican
Library source?
49 Went down a slippery
slope
50 ____ Palmas, Canary
Islands
51 Kind of history 52 About, on a memo 53 Certain Ivy Leaguer 54 Support
55 “Forget it!” 57 Welcomes at the door 59 Tender spots 60 Referees a Tennessee
football game poorly? 64 Common pet fish 67 Superlative held by the
Atacama Desert 68 “Barry” or “Ballers” 72 Stadium sounds 73 Plain 74 Cap’s place
76 It might be a stretch 77 Suffix with Manhattan
or meteor
78 Fortitude
79 Write an ode to a caffeinated soda? 82 Airport abbr. 83 Addresses online 84 Sound unit found in
many Asian languages 85 Nip and tuck, so to speak 86 Like some teas
88 Kind of edition with bonus tracks, perhaps 89 Stadium cheer
90 Start preparing borscht? 92 Fully commit
96 Court cry
97 Garnet is its birthstone:
Abbr. 98 Sculpting stuff 99 Super ____ (Game-Cube predecessor) 101 “Bather in the Woods”
painter
104 Make smash burgers? 108 Pretty cool stuff 109 Burn a little
110 Decides that one will 111 Major artery
112 ____ cha beef
(Chinese dish)
113 Jumped over, as a
checkers piece
114 Michelangelo work whose name translates to “compassion” 115 Suddenly think of
DOWN
1 Letter-shaped support
piece
2 Certain corporate
department
3 Mission San Antonio de
Valero, more familiarly 4 Neighbor of Leb. 5 World’s oldest capital city, settled in the third millennium B.C. 6 Taylor Swift song that begins, “Combat, I’m ready for combat” 7 Makes a gaffe 8 “Mamma ____!” 9 “Gangnam Style” rapper 10 Comment from someone exiting the mall on Black Friday 11 Pedal-operated instrument 12 That, in Toledo 13 Umbrella term for
eboys or goth girls 14 Struck out
15 Stealthy criminal
16 City feature that’s been found to improve mental health
17 “None for me, thanks” 19 Kind of seeds in a
healthful smoothie 23 Footslog
25 Balm ingredient 29 ____ Luthor, nemesis
of Superman
32 Vintage restaurant items? 33 Spoil, with “on”
34 Git
35 “Just a little longer!” 36 Lauder of cosmetics 39 Do some light work on? 41 Barcelona museum
subject
42 H’s on some college
houses
43 “The Lorax” setting 44 Actress Cravalho who
voiced Moana 46 Doesn’t just assume 47 Swindle
48 Wedding cake layer 49 Survive
53 Chuck, slangily
54 Final phase of a video
game, perhaps
56 Big name in records 57 [Actually, don’t change
that]
58 Sounds of doubt 59 ____-Caps (candy) 61 Birds known for their
loud, complex songs 62 Royal title
63 Assist in a crime 64 Gooey pairing with fig jam 65 Economic justice
catchphrase
66 Its water is nearly 10 times
saltier than ocean water 69 Animal product 70 Foreboding sign 71 “Impressive!”
73 Who cries, “You get a car, you get a car!” in a viral meme
74 Toy brand for a budding engineer, maybe 75 “I don’t like that,” in
Spanish
78 Take away
79 Police captain on
“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” 80 Burden
81 Enthusiastic agreement 84 Genre for many a boy band 87 GPS suggestions: Abbr. 88 Part of the DOJ
89 It’s a four-letter word, aptly 90 Neighbors of the Navajos 91 One-named singer
born in Reykjavik 93 What Ove’s name was changed to for the American film adaptation of “A Man Called Ove”
94 Like neon
95 “Groovy!”
98 Sibilant summons 100 “South Park” boy 102 Density symbol, in
engineering
103 1990s Indian prime
minister
105 Sch. in N.Y.
106 Quebec’s Festival
d’____
107 “You’re accusing me?!”