NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Sid Sivakumar is an M.D./Ph.D. student at Washington University in St. Louis, training in biomedical engineering and neuroscience. He works on medical devices that aid in stroke rehabilitation. In his spare time, he constructs and edits crosswords, including The Juggernaut Crossword, aimed at the South Asian diaspora. This themeless puzzle is Sid’s 10th for The Times. To make it, he started at 92-Across (“which has great letters”), stacked two long answers on top of that and worked his way up. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Piles
15 Tablet
purchases
19 Setting for Banff National Park
21 Dealer’s enemy 22 Disney film with more than a million handdrawn bubbles 24 Rap’s
Run-D.M.C., e.g. 25 Ostrich or
kangaroo
26 Amtrak service 27 Emulate Ella
Fitzgerald
29 Boxer Wolfe who played Artemis in ‘‘Wonder Woman’’
30 ‘‘Yes, indeed’’
31 Get-together
33 Rush
35 Clear spirit
36 Seasonal fast-food sandwiches that aren’t halal
37 ‘‘Star Trek’’ virtual-reality chambers
38 San ____ (European enclave)
39 [stern glare]
40 Italian wine
region
41 Certain
developer’s job 42 Seriously
unpleasant
43 Or greater
44 Fall flavoring
45 Some movie-theater concession areas
50 Shattered
51 Eateries serving
small plates
52 Spoils
53 Up
54 Command
center
55 Multiday event,
for short
56 2017 CVS Health acquisition
57 Profess
58 Tough bass part? 60 Really grooves
with something 61 Quaint locale of first-aid supplies
63 Valorous
64 Bhikkhunis : Buddhist monastery :: ____ : convent 65 TheCofC
major, e.g.
66 Word with zone
or boots
67 Actor Idris
68 Error message? 69 Was completely
exhausted
70 Hiking aids
72 Employees who
work a lot
73 Bit of reading near a cashier, in brief
76 Grasps at
straws?
77 Not at all
78 Big name in
pasta sauces
79 N.B.A. coach
____ Unseld Jr. 80 Badly hurt
81 ‘‘Capisce?’’
82 Rail in a dance
studio
83 Images on some Australian silver coins
85 V.I.P. access
points
89 Mythos
90 Nutritional plan involving controlled removal of foods
91 Predator frequently appearing in Calvin’s daydreams in ‘‘Calvin and Hobbes’’
92 Special
delivery?
DOWN
1 Put on
pretensions
2 Island home to Faa’a International Airport
3 It’s located in the middle of an alley
4 Drones, e.g.
5 Terse
confession
6 Op. ____
7 Bad person to confess bad things to
8 Twisting
together
9 Puerto Rico’s ____ Telescope, formerly the world’s largest single-aperture telescope 10 Impersonate at a Halloween party 11 Immune system component 12 Vegetable in bhindi masala 13 Lens holder 14 Fine crystals used in food preparation
15 Symbol of
industry
16 Make a flying jump onto a slope
17 They get left in
the dust
18 Treat on a tea
trolley tray
20 ‘‘____ Mode’’ (2018 No. 1 hit for Travis Scott)
23 Labyrinth
builder of myth 28 Tarot card said to ‘‘radiate’’ positivity
31 Foretold the
future
32 Certain gasket 33 Deterrent to a
pickpocket
34 Behaves like a
fool, informally 36 Drama linked to the resurgence of the name ‘‘Betty’’ for baby girls 37 Remains tightly
secured
38 Acquired family
member
39 Actress Meyer of ‘‘Beverly Hills 90210’’
41 Tested the
censor, say
42 Vendors of e-cigs 43 Cruise stop
44 Wet behind the
ears
45 Important sales for growing businesses?
46 Argument
47 Totally wipes
out 48 Like some very
old characters 49 Pallet piece
50 Small drink of
whiskey
51 Zap, in a way 54 Items at T.S.A.
checkpoints
56 Boeing
competitor
58 What the waving of a white flag can indicate
59 Business brass 60 Reduce in rank 62 Style pioneered
by Picasso
63 Works at the
cutting edge? 66 Hot, in Havana 67 Evidence of a crossword solver’s mistake, maybe
68 Dairy-free
coffee additive 69 Butcher’s
offering
70 Quiver
71 Ripply fabric
pattern
72 Give a
thumbs-down 73 Bespectacled ‘‘Peanuts’’ character
74 Gives a
thumbs-up
75 Talk-show slate 76 Harped (on)
77 Unfashionable 78 Time off, for
short
81 Slightly spoiled,
in a way
82 Label signing 84 ____-positive
movement
86 Contest
87 Actress Mowry
of ‘‘Sister, Sister’’ 88 Authority,
metaphorically