New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Goes to grab a
bite, say
14 What a crop top exposes 21 “Anything else, or can I go?” 22 “1984” superstate that includes America 23 Early reel-toreel devices 24 Expired IDs? 25 “Marriage Italian-Style” star
26 Give mouthto-mouth to? 27 Donny who won “Dancing With the Stars” 29 Construction on Broadway 30 Speak sharply 31 Stockpot addition 32 Stickers forming a patch
33 Keep it under your hat! 34 Petulant expression 35 Leaves mystified 36 Soda brand with more than 90 flavors 37 Ancestry 41 Picks up 42 Tommy or
Jimmy of jazz 43 As a whole 44 Two for one? 45 Case workers? 46 Golfing hazards 47 ____ pasta (farfalle) 48 2018’s debate over “Yanny or Laurel,” e.g. 49 Joey Potter’s portrayer on “Dawson’s Creek” 51 Travel on-line? 55 Receptive to new ideas 56 Party of 13? 58 Home arena of the Bruins and Celtics 59 Painter’s roll 60 Overflow 61 Trunk fastener? 62 Lets out 63 Ringo Starr’s real first name 67 Palate cleanser in a multicourse meal 68 Reptiles that can walk on ceilings 69 Casanova’s intrigues 70 Ran into in court? 71 Wigs out
72 On the take 73 ____ the Great (ninth-century English king) 74 Cereal ingredient 75 Places to crash on road trips 76 Very 77 Purely academic 78 Striker’s replacement 82 Copa América cheer 83 Century in American politics 84 Brewery sights 85 In the ballpark 86 Old “It cleans your breath while it cleans your teeth” sloganeer
88 Awfully large 91 Takes to the sky 92 Paprika look-alike 93 Forerunners of combines 94 You can’t go back on them
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1 Cries loudly 2 Greek hero killed by a giant scorpion 3 Who once said, “You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you”
4 Win every prize in 5 Green housewarming gift 6 Wordsworth wrote one on immortality 7 Crank up the amp to 11 and go wild 8 Name, as a successor 9 Essentially 10 Many faculty members, in brief 11 Stan who co-created Spider-Man 12 Presented perfectly 13 Courtroom periods 14 Travels by car 15 Touchscreen array 16 Document kept in a safe 17 Untrustworthy sort
18 Sort of 19 Shiny beetle disliked by fruit growers 20 You should avoid feeding on them 28 Food & Wine and Field & Stream 31 Rock musician with a knighthood 32 Deadbeat student at TV’s Highland High 33 “The Lady Is a Tramp” lyricist 34 Stephen King novel with a misspelling in the title 35 Like some tires 36 Shade in the woods 37 Steve who co-created Spider-Man 38 Absorbed 39 Express 40 Muddling through 41 Wearers of white hats 42 Sphere 44 Game featured in 2006’s “Casino Royale” 45 Department of Buildings issuance 47 Became inseparable 48 Selling point? 50 Companies that need help 51 Didn’t bid 52 Ancient Mexicas, e.g. 53 Sister of Tiffany
54 It may be open for business 56 Unkind, as criticism 57 German-Swiss author who won the 1946 Nobel in Literature 59 Safer of “60 Minutes” 61 Satine’s profession in “Moulin Rouge!” 63 Copper wheels? 64 Torch carrier’s announcement 65 Julius Caesar’s first wife 66 Calls from quarterbacks 67 Its shell doesn’t crack
68 U.S. Naval Academy mascot 70 Small jumper 71 Show’s earnings 73 James of TV’s “How the West Was Won” 74 Field with lots of growth? 76 Pan resistant to aging
77 Ars ____ (anagram of “anagrams,” aptly) 78 Slaloming spot 79 Ford Mustang, for one 80 Valuable possession 81 Round units? 83 Stuff 84 What an essay presents
85 Her 2018 album “Dancing Queen” consists entirely of ABBA covers 87 Break 89 Word spoken while waving 90 Well chosen