New York Times Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Its logo has a blue, red, orange, yellow and green ‘‘M’’
6 Win every game 11 Blitzed
17 Beethoven’s Third 18 Snoopy sort?
19 You can scratch with it 20 Materials from mollusk
shells
21 Tried to respond, as a ‘‘Jeopardy!’’ contestant
22 Gave the latest news 23 Very short-lived
gemstones
25 Nicolas ____, standout player in soccer’s Premier League
27 Drake’s output 28 Thinly veiled criticism,
in modern slang 29 Blow off steam, say 30 Possible fallout of a controversy, informally
31 RR stop
32 Name shouted in ‘‘The
Chipmunk Song’’ 34 TV quiz program
about an epic poem 37 Handed a hand 40 Bully’s threat
42 World view you might
open up to?
43 Suffix with towel 44 NoDoz, for one
46 Help with the dishes 48 Fragment
50 Look back fondly 52 Disney-owned cable
channel
56 Ask to be handed a
hand?
57 Vereen who won a 1973 Tony for ‘‘Pippin’’
58 Prefix akin to mal59 Haphazardly organized 61 Having four sharps,
musically
62 ____ Regal, big name
in Scotch
65 ‘‘And so on and so
forth’’
67 Expected
68 General Motors
division until 2010 70 Resident: Suffix 72 One-named singer with the 2019 Song of the Year nominee ‘‘Hard Place’’
73 Some ‘‘Babe’’
characters
75 Designer Gucci
76 Beat box?
79 A brother of 32-Across 81 Zing
83 ‘‘Concentration’’
puzzles
86 Reasonable
87 ‘‘The Divine Comedy’’
poet 89 Brand of cologne with
a literary name 91 Jazzed (up) 93 Magnificent plan of
action
95 Bone in the leg
96 Key to get out
97 Maya Angelou’s ‘‘And
Still ____’’
98 Nev. neighbor
100 Cloth used in theater
backdrops
104 ____ Defense (classic chess opening)
106 Cozy home
107 Dance celebrating
2010 legislation 109 Glad ____ (good
news)
111 Turn up
113 One of 17 in
Monopoly
114 Manages, barely
115 Bibliophile
116 Tightfisted sorts 117 Back up again
118 Hip-hop’s ____, the
Creator
119 First name in
cosmetics
DOWN
1 Plot lines?
2 Coffee variety named
for a Mideast city 3 Emergency situation
caused by a terrier 4 Pre-snowstorm
purchase
5 Hit with a beam, maybe 6 Makes watertight 7 Mascara applicators 8 Dozens of them are
sold
9 Actor Wallach 10 Friends you may never
have met
11 Salon job named after a
comic book hero 12 Danson of ‘‘The Good
Place’’
13 Building girder 14 Actress Lyonne 15 Compulsive thieves,
informally
16 ‘‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away,’’ for one 17 Hydrocarbon suffixes 18 The thought is there 19 Serving of tea, to Brits 24 River near Rotterdam 26 Some lawn
maintenance tools 30 Who wrote ‘‘Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation’’ 33 Recipient of special
treatment, in brief 34 Very cold
35 Klingons, e.g., for short 36 What Hypnos is the
Greek god of
37 ____ Plaines, Ill. 38 Liquor component 39 Over
40 Outdoor
41 Part of a glass ... or
glasses
45 Before: Abbr.
47 More dangerous to
drive on, in a way 49 Metric prefix
51 Natural bridge 53 Supporting musician
in a jazz band 54 Guest’s guest
55 Family tree word 57 Chin-up target,
informally 60 Leaders of the pack? 61 Bitter brew, for short 63 Pounding on a pie
topping
64 Cloud ____ 66 Followers of bees 69 SpongeBob SquarePants and others
71 Opposition 74 Entertainment host Ryan, that smart aleck!
77 To wit
78 Belt in judo 80 Mustachioed
Springfield resident 82 Baseball’s Mel
84 One of the Schuyler
sisters in ‘‘Hamilton’’ 85 One sharing a bunk
bed, briefly 87 Animosity
88 Places to play SkeeBall
90 Turn off and on again,
say
92 With regard to
93 Get worse through
neglect
94 ‘‘Give it ____!’’ 95 Need in Boggle 98 Withstand
99 Dancer with glow
sticks, often
101 Actress Zellweger 102 Get accustomed (to) 103 Fannie ____ (some
securities)
105 Charging option 107 Said aloud
108 Showed up
110 Cyber Monday mo.,
usually
112 Daisy Ridley’s ‘‘Star
Wars’’ role