New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Commuter’s ticket 8 They take bows 15 G-rated, say 19 “It’s not coming

to me”

20 Floral brew 21 Quintessential ingredient to borrow from a neighbor

22 Dine out 24 Competitive setting in Fortnite 25 Like many phone

cards 26 Often-mispunctuated word 27 Lets it all out, say 28 Aurora, to the

Greeks 31 Powerful weapon,

for short

32 Pop option 34 Firefly, e.g.

35 Aid in some

makeshift repairs 38 Blackhead

remover 40 Company that

created Pong 41 They can make a

huge impact 42 Spongy

mushroom 43 Movie character who said “I love you” to 110-Across 45 Network supported by “Viewers Like You” 46 Literary character who cries, “I am madness maddened!” 50 Bog

51 Ill humored 52 “Cool!”

55 Act theatrically 56 “Meet the Press” host Chuck 57 Attractions for

antique hunters 60 Donnybrooks 61 Ironically funny 62 Part of many a

weight-loss ad 64 Buck chaser? 65 Something checked at a TSA checkpoint 67 One vs. 52?

68 Go on and on 69 “Cool!”

70 Crib

71 Bad impression? 72 Tiny bit of work 73 Famed deco

designer 74 Whitman of

“Parenthood” 77 Aftermath of a

toddler’s meal 78 Train that stops in New Haven and New York 80 They often don’t mature until they turn 30 84 Yucatán native 85 Lie out on a

scorching day 89 Landmark at the entrance to Narnia

92 “Yeah, but still ...” 93 Online handicrafts

marketplace 94 Bareilles who

sang “Love Song” 95 Tribe native to

the Great Basin 96 Suit fabric 97 Agcy. impersonated in some scam calls 98 Crouched in terror 101 Private

102 Vegetarian options ... or what the shaded letters in this puzzle are, phonetically 108 “The Three Musketeers” action scenes 109 Flatten

110 Movie character who replied “I know” to 43-Across

111 They may be long

and shocking 112 Clink

113 Gray matter?

DOWN

1 Tom Hanks movie featuring a giant piano

2 It might turn out

to be a drone 3 Barfly

4 Blue diamond in

“Titanic,” e.g. 5 Lab-culture

medium

6 Star close to

Venus?

7 Take responsibility 8 Bandleader

Shaw

9 Share the ____

(sign)

10 Fort Collins sch. 11 “____ Loss” (2022 No. 1 album by Drake and 21 Savage)

12 Cyber Monday

merchant

13 Mall security

guard, pejoratively 14 Exams with a

400-1,600 range 15 Soup-serving dish 16 Interfacers with

publishers 17 Layer between the crust and the core

18 Need for a tough crossword, perhaps 21 Command for creating a revised draft 23 Sushi-bar drink 28 Wax-coated

cheese

29 Like words this

clue the in? 30 Easily frightened

sort

32 Where you might go down in the ranks?

33 Bauxite or

galena

34 Things usually made in the morning 36 What’s in

37 ’Fore

38 MADD ad, e.g. 39 Lefty

41 Apple wireless

file transfer

43 Do nothing 44 Paris bar

tender? 46 Reddit Q&A 47 “The nerve!” 48 Finally

49 Under siege 51 Turned red, say 52 Like an allegro

tempo

53 Landed 54 Subjects of VH1’s “I Love the ...” series

55 ’Fore 56 Packaging

string

58 Actress Ward 59 Many teens’ rooms, to parents 60 Pulitzer-winning columnist Stephens 62 “Du-u-u-ude!” 63 Large coffee

vessels

66 Made a fast

stop? 68 “Previously on ...”

segment

74 “The kissing

disease” 75 “Coming face to face with yourself,” per Jackson Pollock 76 Otherworldly 77 Minority in New Zealand’s parliament 78 What goes “up to 11,” in “Spinal Tap”

79 Pot grower? 80 Skinflints

81 Does well on a

test, say

82 Wild donkey 83 Fellow

85 Along

86 Many a Monopoly

property

87 Ear piece? 88 Marx’s co-author for “The Communist Manifesto” 89 They can be passed but not failed

90 Franklin who sang “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” 91 Robin Hood’s

love

94 On the wagon 97 Little mischiefmakers

98 Veggie that’s

often pickled 99 Virgil described its “cloud of pitch-black whirling smoke” 100 Sign of neglect 103 Channel that airs old MGM and RKO films

104 ____ BankmanFried, fallen crypto mogul 105 Excessively 106 Boston’s Liberty

Tree, for one 107 Kind of sauce for

dim sum