NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Robyn Weintraub, of Rye Brook, N.Y., is active in local politics and the League of Women Voters. She started solving crosswords 12 years ago. After a few months she bought some crossword software as a birthday gift for herself and has been constructing ever since. This is her 35th puzzle for The Times. Robyn’s specialty is themeless crosswords (like this), with colorful, conversational entries and very little obscurity or junk. Oh, and she loves twisty clues. (You’ve been warned.) —W.S.
ACROSS
1 Earners of credits
7 One selling airtime, informally
12 Emulates a chipmunk, say
20 Like a beaming smile
22 Go out to get some juice?
23 Pork-cutting option
24 Ingredient in an Alabama slammer
25 Revise
26 Word with ‘‘two’’ or ‘‘three’’ to describe a sloth
27 Small kitchen knife
29 Abstract artist Mondrian
30 Thomas Hardy title character
31 Bottom part
32 Traveled like Charon
34 Schedule
keeper: Abbr.
35 One for whom underwear is pants
36 ‘‘Wait . . . what did you just say?!’’
37 Fuse
39 Threedimensional
43 ‘‘Have You Never Been ____,’’ No. 1 album for Olivia Newton-John
44 Origami designs thought to bring good fortune
45 One receiving a congratulatory email from eBay
47 Helps secure a loan
48 Recovery center
49 Refused to share
50 Scratch
51 Tablet taken before going to bed, maybe
52 Portrayer of Marvel’s Hawkeye
53 Left the harbor
57 Rapper who co-founded Mass Appeal Records
58 Green liqueur 59 Dinosaur of kids’ TV
60 It’s nothing
61 Host
63 Signaled slyly
64 ____ Top (low-cal ice cream brand)
65 Camaro, for one
66 As one
67 Birth day presence?
68 ‘‘All in the Family’’ subject
71 ‘‘Don’t dwell on the past’’
73 Families-and-friends support group
74 Negotiate
75 Some diners . . . and donors
76 Provide a password
77 Was rife (with) 78 Matthew of ‘‘The Americans’’
79 Save for later, in a way
80 Skewered
82 Like Queen Anne’s lace?
83 Traditional accounts
87 Onetime hair
removal brand
89 Let out or take in
90 Stage name for hip-hop’s Sandra Denton
91 It’s all the rage 92 ‘‘What-ever’’ reactions
94 Post-distraction segue
97 Light-filled room
98 Way, way off
99 Hitchcock’s forte
100 Clearing
101 Like bison vis-à-vis beef
DOWN
1 Key for Chopin’s ‘‘Heroic’’ Polonaise
2 It might be organized
3 Foundation options
4 Eclipses and comets, perhaps
5 Joy of MSNBC
6 Parked it, so
to speak
7 Maximally
8 Pacific birds?
9 Bit of thatching
10 Take sides?
11 Catapulted, say
12 Bird much seen in cities
13 Reply to a ring
14 Not in the dark
15 Adriatique, e.g.
16 Task for a
sous-chef
17 Like sirens
18 Be considered
perfect
19 More than just
clean
21 Shopping in order to improve one’s mood
28 Fire
31 They might be wireless
32 Desktop icon
33 Surname of Harry Potter’s adoptive family
35 Pop star nickname, with ‘‘the’’
36 Bet strategically 38 Mythical nymph
39 Reliquary
40 Inspiration for
the Frisbee
41 Floored
42 Longtime Ohio State basketball coach Matta
43 Filet ____
44 Stopped
smoking?
46 Half of a notorious outlaw duo
47 Added to the language
50 First little piggy’s destination
52 Key hit with a pinkie
53 It helps take the edge off
54 Just going through the motions
55 Complete, as a crossword
56 Creations for Mardi Gras
58 Particles composed of two up quarks and one down quark
59 Did a TV marathon, say
62 Start of some no-frills brand names
63 In a lather, with ‘‘up’’
64 Happy ____
66 Come back around
67 Bits of high jinks?
68 What Mr. Clean, Captain Picard and Michael Jordan have in common
69 Thought expressed in American Sign Language by extending the pinkie, thumb and index finger
70 Compilations of funny film faux pas
71 Soeur’s sibling 72 Warehouse loading areas
74 *shrug*
77 ‘‘We want all the juicy details!’’
78 Maintain, in a way, as a highway
81 Michael whose initials match those of his famous comedy troupe
82 Cut through
83 ‘‘____ and Majnun’’ (Arabic story that inspired a Clapton hit)
84 One of the ‘‘holy trinity’’ ingredients in Cajun cuisine
85 Advice to one in a lather?
86 Very inclined (to)
88 Sting, perhaps 90 Taverna staple 91 Spice related to nutmeg
93 Argentite, e.g.
95 Fifth of eight
96 Show filmed at Rockefeller Ctr.