New York Times Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Whole lot
4 Recalcitrant child’s cry 9 Early-20th-century author who foresaw TV and wireless telephones
13 Moved surreptitiously 18 Squabbling
20 Multitask command 21 As well
22 Assailed
23 What’s measured by
[circled letters] 26 States as fact
27 Some group dinners 28 Employ cajolery on 29 In the indeterminate
future
31 Wan
32 Have nothing to do
with
33 Take place
34 Coveted Scrabble tile 35 What’s measured by
[circled letters]
39 D.C. nine
43 2006 novel for which Cormac McCarthy won a Pulitzer Prize
45 In the least
47 Org. with Sharks and
Penguins
48 Parts of reviews you might not want to read
50 Philosophy
52 Follow-up shot 54 Besmirch
55 ____ colada
56 Grad
57 “I said enough!” 58 Chemical compound 60 One side of an
argument
61 “Ora pro ____”
63 Grab quickly
65 Q-V link
66 What’s measured by
[circled letters] 69 Nascar ____
(demographic group) 70 Puncture
73 Brand pitched as
“Always Comfortable” 74 Contented sound 76 Heroic poetry 77 Hatfield haters
79 Small dam
80 Clubs, e.g. … or entry requirement for some clubs 82 Work on a wall, maybe 83 Pitched over
84 Not fast
85 Kitchen wraps 87 Ballerina’s support 88 Tundra’s lack
90 Ticket information 91 They may be bitter or
defensive
93 What’s measured by
[circled letters] 96 Lousy newspaper 99 Home of Sinbad Island 101 Bee or Em
102 Outfit
104 Communicates
107 Pushback
108 Coffee-flavored
liqueur
111 Coffin supports
112 Adjusted to some index — or how 23-, 35-, 66- and 93-Across are measured per this puzzle?
115 El primer mes
116 Time to knock off
work, maybe
117 Twilled fabric
118 Online search metric 119 Gas whose name comes from the Greek for “strange”
120 Whip
121 Overcoat material 122 Nevada’s largest county by area
DOWN
1 City famous for its
Cuban sandwiches 2 Serving no practical
purpose
3 Individual tic-tac-toe
squares
4 Desktop item since 1998 5 Beat the rap
6 Phil who sang “Love Me,
I’m a Liberal” 7 Packers’ org.?
8 Set aflame 9 One of a bunch? 10 Women’s soccer star
____ Morgan
11 Letters at sea 12 Crustaceans that carry
their own camoflauge 13 Performing whale, once 14 Establishment
frequented by Falstaff 15 Really binged, briefly 16 Yuri Zhivago’s love 17 Competitor of Amazon
Handmade
19 Moon of Saturn named
after a Greek Oceanid 24 Hightail it
25 Gloomy
30 Predators of armadillos
and rabbits
32 Places where cucumber
slices are not for salad 33 Openly gay
35 Tending toward an
outcome
36 Before, old-style
37 Rick of “Ghostbusters” 38 Nickname for
Thomasina
40 Like Henry VIII,
religiously
41 Former Showtime series
about Henry VIII 42 Camera inits.
44 Cool
46 Symbol of craziness 48 Home of Hearst Castle 49 Alee, at sea
50 Dubious excuse for not
turning in homework 51 Poor
53 Powerful queen, in
hearts
54 Maryland athlete, for
short
56 Singer Bocelli 59 Bad thing to be left in,
with “the”
62 Feeling unsettled, in
a way
64 “Hey, over here!”
67 Like Indiana Dunes among the U.S.’s 61 national parks 68 Three-time Pro Bowler
Culpepper
71 Actor Bud of “Harold
and Maude”
72 Break from screen
viewing
75 45 things
78 Gives up for good 81 Excessively
83 Line on a map: Abbr. 85 Nipple
86 Attainable
89 Great time
90 Big brand in soft drinks 92 Pizza chain since 1956 94 W.W. II admiral
nicknamed “Bull” 95 Preliminary exam:
Abbr.
97 Transport to Sugar Hill,
in a classic song 98 Unlike most of Perry
Mason’s clients
100 Setting for fraud,
maybe
102 Roster builders, briefly 103 Bel ____ cheese
104 Wild goat
105 Word before and after
“all”
106 Round part of a tool 107 ____ bean
108 Lose steam
109 “Bus Stop” playwright 110 Like bourbon
113 Zip
114 Morning coat