NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Matthew Stock works for a math-education nonprofit in East St. Louis, Ill. Will Nediger, of London, Ontario, is a professional crossword constructor. As fans of each other’s work, they connected via the online “puzzleverse.” They still have not met or even spoken together over video. The original idea for this puzzle was Matthew’s. Together they developed the theme via Twitter direct messages, then exchanged grids back and forth until they got one they were both happy with. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 ‘‘Bon ____!’’
8 ‘‘See ya later!’’ 13 It covers more than 30 percent of the earth’s surface
20 Donna ____, member of Bill Clinton’s cabinet 21 Klein who wrote the best seller ‘‘This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate’’
22 Desert whose soil has been compared with that of Mars
23 Biting writings 24 Breakfast treat 25 Persuades a customer to pay more
26 ‘‘Or so’’
27 Much of a delivery
person’s income 29 Makes a choice 31 Hoppin’
32 Prearranged
33 Suffix with
official
34 Nickel found in
a pocket, say
35 Actor Barinholtz of ‘‘The Mindy Project’’
36 Classic Camaro 38 ____ K. Smith, poet who won a Pulitzer for ‘‘Life on Mars’’ 40 Cosmetic that can be applied with a brush
42 Neighbors of exclamation marks
43 ‘‘La Dolce ____’’ 45 Stuffed one’s face 47 Bump on a frog 49 Question
regarding a mic 51 Hubbub
52 One of the Blues
Brothers
55 Above criticism 56 Question from
the befuddled 57 Syrian city with a historic citadel
58 What ‘‘10’’ can
mean
60 Extra
62 Rolled one’s r’s,
say
63 Linguistic unit 64 Giraffe’s closest
living relative 65 Deb ____, secretary of the interior starting in 2021
66 Opposite of
’neath
67 Regarding
69 Exams for some future clerks: Abbr.
71 Cold open?
72 Hang out on a
line
73 U.K. award bestowed by the queen
74 West Coast
news inits.
75 Blunder
76 They cast lots 78 ‘‘Love covers a multitude of ____’’: I Peter 4:8
79 Lawn material
82 Something’s essential aspect . . . or what’s spelled out by letters in this puzzle’s eight ‘‘cups’’
87 Comedian
Margaret
90 2011 film for which Octavia Spencer won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar 92 It takes blades
to blades
93 Deal
95 Like the consonants ‘‘t’’ and ‘‘d’’
97 Eject forcefully 98 Records
request inits.
99 ____ history
101 Utah’s state
flower
102 Org. that sets permissible exposure limits 103 Karaoke instruction . . . or what to do starting at 10-Down
109 P.R. consultant
on ‘‘Ted Lasso’’ 110 Start playing
for pay
111 Into really small
pieces
112 Scott who sued
for his freedom 113 Afford, casually 114 Add salt to, say
DOWN
1 Home of St.
Clare
2 Starfleet weapon
3 Election night calculation . . . or what’s traced by the circled letters
4 Name that’s
6-Down backward 5 Save it for a
rainy day!
6 La Corse, par
exemple
7 Brewery
employee
8 Comb through
9 Bubs
10 Worker’s ‘‘on
vacation’’ inits. 11 ‘‘Actually, I
disagree’’
12 Rococo painter of ‘‘Allegory of the Planets and Continents’’
13 They might be
pregnant
14 Organic energy compound, for short
15 ‘‘Mi ____ es su
____’’
16 Part of a cold
compress
17 Become clear
. . . or make like the object represented by the circled letters
18 ‘‘So then my
response was . . .’’ 19 Hereditary
divisions
28 Physicist Newton 30 Loyalty that’s
pledged
37 Lemonlike fruit 38 Big rigs
39 ‘‘Well, fine then’’ 40 Age beautifully,
informally
41 Cuss out
42 Big Brother’s
creator
44 Pink pad on a
paw, in slang
46 The Lord, in the
Hebrew Bible 48 Start of a
simple request 49 Roly-poly,
scientifically
50 ____ torte
(Austrian cake) 53 Warm-up act 54 Move shakily
59 Ross Perot founded it in 1995 60 Lack of
engagement
61 More wacky
62 ‘‘You’re just
assuming’’
68 It’s blown in the
winds
70 Showed off
one’s pipes
77 Airport with a Harvey Milk terminal: Abbr. 78 Harry Styles tune about a woman who ‘‘lives in daydreams’’
79 Lines of notes 80 Sight line?
81 Cooked with hot
seasoning 82 Prefix with
-lithic
83 Not against the
rules
84 It’s under @ on
a keyboard
85 ____ lodge
86 Rowing machine,
informally
87 Event for
moving vehicles 88 Super
89 Actress Tatum 91 Folk medicine
practitioner
94 Foolish sort
96 Sports fan’s
cheer
97 Universal Human
Rights Mo. 100 Ability to sustain longterm interest 101 Kiss, in Kent 104 Sports fan’s
cheer
105 Gift wrapper’s
final touch 106 Nail-polish
brand
107 Buffet table
item
108 Zoo animal whose name rhymes with ‘‘zoo’’