New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Round
number?
7 Pick a card,
any card 11 Hoops
16 Piano keys 18 Quick study 20 Quick
studies
22 Line delivered in
costume 23 Source of a trendy health juice 24 Alternative to
tarot cards 26 Opportunity
to hit
27 Hearing aid? 29 Hole-making
tools
30 Hill worker 31 Split
32 Small bird with complex songs
33 He was told to “take a sad song and make it better” 34 “SmackDown” org.
37 Upper limit 38 Olympic figure
skater Johnny 39 Make more pleasant 41 First attempt 44 Attire
45 In key
46 “The ____ Locker,” 2009 Best Picture winner 47 Declare 48 “Surely you don’t think it could be me?!” 49 Bank, at
times
51 Hayek of
Hollywood 52 Some movie
extras
55 Acts like money grows on trees
57 Tool for a difficult crossword, say 58 Added water to,
as a sauce 60 Family secret, perhaps
62 In lock step (with) 64 Seasonal song with lyrics in Latin 66 Sacrament of holy matrimony and others 67 Throughway,
e.g.
69 Fashion expert Gunn
70 It’s sedimentary, my dear 71 Seemingly
forever 72 Filmmaker
Gerwig
73 Info on an
invitation 75 Command, as influence 76 “Don’t worry about it” 78 Brown or
blacken
79 Hole in the
ground
80 ____ card 81 Shaded
82 Went over the
limit, say 83 Where to find the radius 84 ____ Lipa, Grammy-winning pop artist 87 “Big Little Lies” co-star of Witherspoon and Kidman 88 Barely afloat? 91 Buzz in the
morning 93 Place you may go just for kicks?
94 Mail lady on “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” 95 Occasion to
stay up late 97 Some surfing
destinations 99 You are here 100 Pounds
101 He made a pact with the Devil
102 Makes blue,
say
103 One of three for “Mississippi”
DOWN
1 Brand of breath
spray 2 Arthurian
isle
3 Decay, as wood
4 “____ words were never spoken”
5 Voice, as
grievances 6 Potter of children’s literature 7 Ambitious 8 Proverbial tortoise or hare, e.g. 9 Poses
10 Branch of the U.N. in 2020 news
11 Soda factory
worker
12 1989 Tom Hanks black comedy, with “The” 13 Math
measurement 14 Aspiring D.A.’s
exam
15 Tennis
do-over 17 Result of eating the poisoned apple in “Snow White” 18 Quickly go from success to failure 19 Mudbug, by another name
21 Easy target 22 Many a dare,
in hindsight 25 Bring down 28 Part of a high
chair
29 Boring
things
33 Hera’s Roman counterpart 34 “Don’t you trust me?” 35 Heat of the moment? 36 First name in jazz 37 Quagmire 38 Mom jeans have a high one 39 Picturesque time for a walk
40 Goes out on a
limb
41 Tapered
hairstyle
42 Act of omission ... or of a commission 43 Four for a
4x400, say 44 Pluto, e.g. 45 Pint-size and
then some 48 ____ mortal 50 Central 51 Bird-feeder bit 53 They’re on the
case, in slang 54 Garrulous 56 Like a
pearl-clutcher 59 Discourage 61 Abbr. on a
cornerstone 63 What skies do before a storm 65 Worrisome beach sighting
66 Pro ____
68 Email
status
72 Food connoisseur 74 ____ a clue (was lost) 75 Scaredy-cat 77 Frozen dessert 78 Golfer Jordan who won the 2015 U.S. Open 79 Republican
politico Reince 82 Hybrid bottoms 83 Spot seller, in
brief
84 Keto adherent,
e.g.
85 Prepare to
deplane 86 Andre who won the 1994 and 1999 U.S. Opens
87 Curses
88 Piece of the
pie
89 “That smarts!” 90 De-e-eluxe 91 ____ breve
(cut time) 92 Beach ball? 93 Do a veterinarian’s job on 95 Beach lotion
abbr.
96 Rare color? 98 Texter’s “I can’t
believe this”