NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Brooke Husic is a postdoctoral student in biophysics, theoretical chemistry, statistics and linguistics at Princeton. Will Nediger is a professional crossword constructor in London, Ontario. They are both regular crossword contributors to The Times. This unthemed puzzle has 120 answers (versus the usual 138-140 in a typical themed Sunday puzzle), affording longer and fresher vocabulary. Seventeen answers, or about 14 percent of the entire grid, have never appeared in a Times crossword before. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Farm cry 6 Singer Celia Cruz or actress Rosie Perez 16 Second-least-populous state capital, after Montpelier 17 Like fire drills and dress rehearsals 19 It may give a bowler a hook 20 ‘‘We must wait to see what happens’’ 22 Pause, in music 23 Legal profession? 25 Embarrassing miss 26 ____ culpa 27 Gently enter 29 Fifth-century nomad of Central Asia 31 ‘‘____ Te Ching’’ 32 Needing another dryer cycle, say 33 Org. that regulates pet food and false eyelashes 34 Design, as software 37 Showcase for a first chair in an orchestra 40 Some Minecraft blocks 41 Only sch. to have a goldmedal-winning athlete in every Summer Olympics since 1912 42 Nuclear model named for a physicist 44 Actress Dennings 45 Symbol of longevity in Chinese numerology 46 ‘‘We don’t need to hear the details!’’ 48 Carpentry peg 50 Attack, Quixote-style 52 Specialized vocabularies 53 Indicators of status in Maori culture 55 Disney girl who fosters an alien 56 J. G. Ballard dystopia about a man stranded between motorways 59 Huff 60 Agreement 61 Has an understanding 63 Where many people walk out? 65 Juan ____, baseball star nicknamed ‘‘Childish Bambino’’ 66 Seattle team 67 Pressed (down) 69 Sci. class with dissections 71 E. C. ____, creator of Popeye 72 Pharmaceutical company whose Nasdaq symbol is MRNA 73 Kind of high-fat diet used as an epilepsy therapy 74 ‘‘The Marvelous ____ Maisel’’ 76 Set aside 78 Like Plan B, for short 79 Fromage base 80 Royal house on the Arabian Peninsula 82 It’s back on Broadway 83 ‘‘Candyman’’ director DaCosta 84 Online shopping site for handicrafts 85 Vanilla unit 87 Kangaroo ____ 88 Mermaid’s home, maybe 90 Connections 91 Like many a dinner function 95 Orpheus’s instrument 97 They’ve taken the veil 98 Its falls are quite dramatic 101 Freeway dividers 103 Dillydallying 104 ‘‘We’re all ____ here’’ 105 Informal favor request 106 Some bishops
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1 Response to ‘‘Danke’’ 2 ‘‘If we must die, O ____ us nobly die’’: Claude McKay 3 Like the concept of a flat Earth 4 Side-by-side calculation 5 Certain chew toy 6 Fitting 7 Cold, as agua 8 Word on an invoice 9 What the musicals ‘‘Beggar’s Holiday’’ and ‘‘Rent’’ are based on 10 Compendium of case reports 11 Met highlight 12 Like one on stilts 13 ‘‘C’mon, ____ be fun’’ 14 Small fault 15 Words before ‘‘gratia plena, Dominus tecum’’ 16 Italian dance form from the Spanish for ‘‘walk in the street’’ 18 Erbium, terbium or ytterbium 19 Dance move that resembles a front flip 21 Momentary slip 22 Negative responses 24 Performers wearing pa’us and malos 28 ‘‘Seems likely’’ 30 Having free time 32 ‘‘That’s enough lip out of you!’’ 35 Kind of tape 36 ‘‘Mighty Morphin’’ TV character 38 Crystalline structure 39 Useless 43 Utility-company professional 47 Descriptor for IHOP’s Fresh ‘N Fruity pancakes 49 Result of a delay 51 Twitter titter 53 Actress/activist Jane 54 Minds 56 Portuguese city with a historic university founded in 1290 57 They don’t express gender 58 After-school activities one wouldn’t list on a college app 60 Really wallops 62 Noisemakers dangling below a ‘‘Just Married’’ sign 64 Keystone State airport code 67 Tallied 68 Journalist/ screenwriter ____ Rogers St. Johns 69 Bongo-playing 1950s stereotype 70 Introduction to an adage 72 Dirk Nowitzki, for 21 seasons, in brief 73 Designer Anne 75 High-speed races with gates 77 Guide outside a bus station, often 81 Triangular snack chip 86 New Jersey athlete 89 Cloud on a summer day 91 Like suboptimal kite-flying weather 92 Singer with the album ‘‘Voyage to India’’ 93 Ethiopia’s Lake ____ 94 Kind of bra cup 96 Overhaul 99 Day-____ 100 Word with hot or headed 102 Bit of land in la mer