New York Times Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Company often cited in business studies about disruptive innovation 6 Barbecue applications 10 Center of an ear 13 Authorized
18 Superman, for one
19 Bit of Q.E.D.
20 Brian who created the Windows 95 start-up sound 21 Time-machine option 22 Binary, as some
questions
23 Settled on
25 ‘‘Here’s the thing ...’’ 26 Make heads or tails of a situation ... or an alternative title for this puzzle
29 Like a pigsty
31 What an aglet is for a
shoelace
32 Some pain relievers 35 Sharer’s word
36 ____ parm
39 Give a talking-to
41 Bit of letter-shaped
hardware
42 Food catcher
43 Got misty-eyed, with
‘‘up’’
45 Tricksy maneuver 48 Bearded beast 49 Satellite signal receiver 51 Orange County’s ____
Beach 54 Whistle-blower in 2013
news
57 Donkey Kong and
others
59 Dresses’ upper sections 61 Cherry, for one 63 College town in Iowa 65 Units in linguistics 67 Selfish sort
68 Home to the Alhambra 70 Confused
72 The invaders in Space
Invaders, in brief 73 Things held up to the
ear
77 Nobel and Pulitzer
winner Morrison 78 Part of a mission 80 Unfavorable
82 Some coolers 84 Surgeon’s tool 86 Slowpokes
88 ‘‘30 for 30’’ network 90 Lab noise?
91 Lazy ____
93 Relied on no one else 95 [That knocked the wind
out of me!]
97 Free offering from a
cafe
99 Certain colors in
printing
102 Beyoncé’s role in 2019’s ‘‘The Lion King’’
103 Having as a hobby 104 No-goodnik
107 ____-Tiki 108 One fighting against
Thanos
110 Kind of visual puzzle ... or what to do with each line in this puzzle’s two shaded areas
115 Location in the Beach
Boys’ ‘‘Kokomo’’
117 Dog days of winter? 118 House-elf in the Harry
Potter books
121 Any one of the Magi,
to Jesus
122 Cousin of Inc.
123 Mount ____, muchhiked peak in Yosemite
124 Not hide one’s feelings 125 Applesauce brand 126 Drano component 127 Site for handmade
goods
128 Introduction
DOWN
1 Kick start?
2 World Cup cry
3 2007 Shia LaBeouf thriller or a 2008 No. 1 hit by Rihanna
4 Hero of a Virgil epic
5 Bit of raised land 6 Someone with all the
desired qualities 7 Craving
8‘ ‘Eww, gross’’
9‘ ‘Leave it be’’
10 ____ the Entertainer
(actor and comedian) 11 In addition to
12 [Out of nowhere!] 13 Nintendo character
with a green cap 14 Summer complaint 15 State-of-the-art 16 Fuming state
17 X
21 Word before phone or
book
24 Little salamanders 27 Word in the corner of a
TV news broadcast 28 Paris’s Musée ____ (art
museum) 29 No-goodnik
30 Pounds
33 Brooks & ____
(country duo)
34 Man’s nickname found in consecutive letters of the alphabet
37 Like about half of the
OPEC countries 38 Danish tourist
attraction since 1968 40 Tone down
43 Society at large
44 ____ ranch
46 Promoter of gender
equality, for short 47 Like some tennis shots
and most push-ups 50 No-frills
52 Strike out
53 Expert
55 Humdingers
56 The circled letters in
the first shaded area 58 Title for many a W.H.
aspirant
60 Substance discharged 62 The circled letters in the second shaded area
64 Ink container
66 Went unused
68 Manage to heave the ball before time expires 69 Dispense (with) 71 Hopeless from the start,
slangily
74 Job seekers’ needs, in
brief
75 Egg maker
76 Long stretches
79 The Golden Flashes of the Mid-American Conf.
81 Jazz’s Fitzgerald 83 Cartoon character who works at the Krusty Krab
84 Vim and vigor
85 Article of apparel that’s an anagram of other articles of apparel 87 Length of time between
noons
89 Point out
90 Cries of
disappointment 92 With full disclosure 94 Roof part
96 Supporting 98 Somewhat
100 ‘‘That didn’t work!’’ 101 Foul mood
103 Earnings
105 Sights in the Jerusalem
skyline
106 One of six in Subaru’s
logo
109 Over
111 Bit of raised land
112 Direction in a film
script
113 ____ bro
114 Long stretches
115 Comic book
onomatopoeia
116 Big whoop
119 A/C spec
120 Even so