New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Warming periods 6 Activates, as
yeast
12 Chatter
15 Great Britain,
geographically 19 “My ____ (You’re Never Gonna Get It),” 1992 hit by En Vogue
20 Not a big Mac? 21 Nail, as a test 22 “I am not a glutton — I am an explorer of ____”: Erma Bombeck 23 Kitchen at a barbecue restaurant? 25 Potentially
adoptable pup 27 Misfit
28 Result of a 1960s Haight-Ashbury shopping spree? 30 It’s in your blood 31 Play parts 33 Ones coming “home” at homecoming 34 Quick-moving 36 Corp. shake-ups 37 Host
38 Highly visible
belly button? 40 Up to, informally 42 Actress Fisher of “Now You See Me” 46 Curious in the
extreme 47 Streamlet 48 Good friend who won’t stop snooping?
51 The first one was built in 1925 in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
53 What to add to “Iraq” to make it adjectival 54 Subwoofer
sound
55 Jhumpa ____, author of the Pulitzer-winning “Interpreter of Maladies”
56 Take a load off 58 Some cameras,
in brief
60 SETI subjects 62 Language in which “puzzle” is “pid sa” 63 Burnable media 66 Prenuptial
agreement? 69 “Geaux Tigers!”
sch.
70 Be an agent for 71 Feature of Sylvester’s speech 72 Comedian
Rudolph 73 Taiwanese president ____ Ing-wen 75 Skateboard
tricks
77 Went 90, say 79 ____ Tac (mint) 81 Throat bug 85 Long anecdote from a complainer? 87 Italian mount 88 Astronomer
Sagan
89 Takes a load off 90 One with an underground colony
91 Tinker Bell or
Puck? 94 Fruit-based dessert ... or a possible description of its flavor
97 “Sorry to say, you
guessed wrong” 99 What many clocks and card games have 100 Whence feng
shui
102 Skiing areas 103 Didn’t give
forever
104 Bad person for a gambler to make bets with? 106 Plant with purple-pink flowers 109 Rustic abode 110 Acolyte with a
bad temper? 114 Part of QED 115 Cozy stopover 116 Nueva York, por
ejemplo
117 Word with code
or rehearsal 118 Cozy spots
119 It appears blue as a result of Rayleigh scattering
120 Chimes and dimes vis-àvis this clue’s answer
121 Difficult to climb,
in a way
DOWN
1 Trio with the 1995 No. 1 hit “Waterfalls” 2 Jolly laugh 3 Passionate 4 Fragrant medicinal plant also called colicroot 5 Most snarky 6 Finish second 7 Something to hang your hat on 8 Elect
9 Plains tribe
10 Not to go 11 Bugging people, perhaps 12 Displays of shock 13 Start to play? 14 Put on no
pretensions 15 “Fine by me” 16 Sin city 17 Commits piracy 18 Avant-garde 24 “My name is Prince, and I am ____” (Prince lyric) 26 Proficient 29 Sauces made with basil and pine nuts 31 Songs to be played at a concert
32 Slinky, e.g. 34 Sales-promotion
acronym
35 Hoot
36 Downfall
37 Shifty
38 “The Office” role 39 Gives a grand
speech
41 It’s up for debate 43 Alternative to
sparkling 44 Turkish money 45 Letters found in a so-called “supervocalic” word
48 “Yuck!”
49 Spots on a Rorschach card 50 They don’t require much study
52 Stahl of “60
Minutes”
54 I’m toast!
57 Like chicken cordon bleu, originally 59 British sailor, in
slang
61 One who’s rolling
in money
63 Is exultant
64 City of 16+ million straddling the Yamuna River 65 7-10, e.g., in
bowling
67 Big name in
printing
68 Plants used in wickerwork furniture 74 “Worth a try” 76 Gut feelings
78 Bit of hype,
informally 80 Scoop
82 Worry for a
speakeasy 83 Slips up
84 Layer
86 Parlor offering,
for short 87 Language in which “puzzle” is “puzal”
91 “Is that
understood?” 92 “Is that
understood?” 93 State of uneasiness, informally 95 Seton who wrote
“Dragonwyck” 96 Prayer leaders 98 Hang around 100 Taking out the
trash, for one 101 Navajo dwelling 102 One of the
Corleones
103 Interlocking
bricks
104 Made a case 105 Word that may
come from a pen 106 ____ Park, home to the University of Chicago
107 One-on-one
Olympics event 108 “All ____!”
111 Farm structure 112 Top part of
Scotland?
113 “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” feeling