New York Times Crossword Puzzle
GROWTH SPURTS
By Adam Wagner and
Michael Lieberman Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
1 Sweeties
5 Heaven on earth, to the ancient Greeks
12 International pizza chain
founded in Brooklyn
18 Pipsqueak
19 ‘‘We’re not ready to joke
about this yet?’’
20 Caps that lack brims
21 Apt name for a Whirlpool
salesman?
22 Trying to get a rise out of
23 Gut
24 Deserved
26 ‘‘Don’t believe one word of that!’’
28 Visibly scornful
29 Reptile with a big bite, informally
31 Surprise and delight
32 Slip up 33 One of the seven in ‘‘Se7en’’
34 Agcy. that oversees the
Secret Service
35 One’s natural habitat
38 Sequin-covered undergarment popularized by Lady Gaga
41 Permitted
42 Place to rest your head 46 Musician Parks or Guthrie
47 ____ cit. (footnote abbr.)
48 They’re just over two feet
50 Lake on the MalawiMozambique border
51 Subatomic particle
52 Release, as a trailer
54 Campus military grp.
56 ‘‘Your’’ of yore
57 ‘‘Monday Night Football With
Peyton & ____’’
58 ‘‘The results ____ ...’’
59 Japanese ‘‘yes’’
61 Showy flowers native to Mexico
63 Thrills
65 Political org. with a quadrennial convention
66 Website with info about the stars
68 Well, in both French and Spanish
69 Get by
71 ‘‘Top Chef’’ judge Simmons
73 Bother, with ‘‘at’’
75 Classic name in wafers
78 One who doesn’t have a prayer?
81 Producer of sketches, in brief
82 Addis ____
84 When doubled, fake laugh
85 ‘‘Yellowjackets’’ network, for short
86 Subscribe again
88 Fox-hunting shout 90 Where the proverbial
buck stops
91 Actress Hedren
93 Mississippi city in a Neil Simon title
95 Marathoner’s wear
96 World capital near the 60th parallel
97 How a Broadway star might break out
99 What a stiffed server receives 100 Football rival of the Brigham Young Cougars
102 20-sided shape
104 Question of introspection
105 Upper-left keyboard key
106 Fertility-lab supply 109 Most mountainous Caribbean
nation
110 Cry of faux-surprise
112 French brothers
115 Reasons to wear socks postvacation
118 Resort offering that might include a lift ticket
120 Ones catching waves?
121 ‘‘Impossible!’’
123 Poet Pound
124 Behind
125 One might improve a pupil’s
performance
126 Hurl with gusto, in Gen Z slang 127 One of a record-setting 3,234
for Sue Bird
128 Wraps up in fabric
129 Some old jets, for short
DOWN
1 Pub orders
2 ‘‘Autumn Song’’ poet
3 Barbecue buffet offering? 4 Princess Di or Prince, once
5 In check
6 Sound from a den
7 Invent the sound of
a cash register?
8 Fall blooms
9 1982 Stevie Wonder hit
10 It’s never free of charge 11 Home-services website
12 Fully divests one’s stake
13 Yao Ming, before joining the
N.B.A.?
14 Actress Taylor-Joy
15 Search (through)
16 Show again
17 Blender brand
20 Doozy
23 Detector of nonsense, informally 25 Toymaker Rubik
27 Language that gave us ‘‘mulligatawny’’ and ‘‘patchouli’’
30 Peruvian road sign?
34 Spoke monotonously
36 English philosopher William of
____
37 Go by air
38 Shirley Bassey and Agatha
Christie, for two
39 Gloater’s words
40 Photo-editing option
41 Midback muscle 43 Reasons that South American furniture stores have superlong lines?
44 Org. concerned with plantbased well-being?
45 Methods
49 Nursery purchase
53 Historic quinoa cultivators 55 Amount owed
58 Things like ‘‘What do we want?’’ ‘‘Headache relief!’’ ‘‘When do we want it?’’ ‘‘Now!’’? 60 Best-case
62 California congresswoman
Barbara
64 Fawn’s mother
67 Affectionate squeeze of an
infant’s bottom?
70 Language suffix
72 Altogether
74 Setting for many Gauguin works 76 The ____ Honors (annual
picture-book awards) 77 Black-and-white cookies 78 Italian wine region
79 Flimsy
80 Where you might get into hot
water
83 Bubble tea
87 Things that kids are encouraged
to break
89 Sass
90 Items exchanged when
a relationship gets serious 92 Polynesian food
94 Access an account
98 Bit of soccer or hockey
equipment
101 Nickname for a muscly Disney
protagonist
103 Plucked instrument
104 Start of a famous Kennedy
quote
106 Tennis’s Naomi
107 Roof toppers
108 The opposition
111 Yoga pose
112 Destinies
113 Everglades wader
114 What tickets may afford
116 Comedian Lydic of ‘‘The Daily
Show’’
117 Virtual replications,
for short
119 North or south end
122 One might be spotted
on a farm