NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
NOVEL THINKING | BY JOHN MARTZ | EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ
John Martz is a cartoonist, an illustrator and a book designer in Toronto, Ontario, who specializes in picture books and graphic novels for kids. This is his first published crossword. He found that constructing it was akin to composing a page of comics. ‘‘The processes share a similar choreography of boxes and words and visual design.’’ In the past he has created an end-of-year crossword for co-workers. This puzzle, coincidentally, grew out of last year’s. — W. S.
ACROSS
1 Nickname of the Looney Tunes animator Ben Hardaway 5 Occupied, as a desk 10 Language of Lahore 14 Cantankerous sort 18 Siouan people 19 1984 comedy in which Daryl Hannah plays a mermaid 20 Takes a turn 21 ‘‘Stop right there!’’ 22 Rapper ____ Dogg 23 Private address? 24 ‘‘Little House on the Prairie,’’ e.g.? 26 ‘‘The Haunting of Hill House,’’ e.g.? 29 Grilled cornmeal cake popular in Latin America 30 Singer Zadora 31 No. in an email signature line 32 The ‘‘A’’ of P.G.A.: Abbr. 35 They’re in it for the long haul 38 Cocktail made with grenadine 40 ‘‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,’’ e.g.? 42 One studying for a bar or bat mitzvah, usually 43 Onboarding participants 44 Wetland
45 ‘‘Back to Treasure Island,’’ e.g.? 48 ‘‘Ideas worth spreading’’ offshoot 49 Designers’ degs. 50 Ripen 51 Grandmother: Ger. 52 Prayer support? 53 Ballerina’s asset 54 Slugger Sammy 56 Justice ____ Brown Jackson 59 Like a bialy 61 ‘‘Crime and Punishment,’’ e.g.? 65 Make certain 67 Running the show, so to speak 68 Site of Vulcan’s forge 72 Vinaigrette vessel 73 Bit of butter 75 Suffix with block or stock 76 ____ vivant 77 Some family members, informally 78 Apple feature not found in the Apple logo 80 ‘‘If Beale Street Could Talk,’’ e.g.? 85 Some speaker systems, in brief 86 They often have large dollar signs on them, in cartoons 88 Stage name (and middle name) of Robyn Fenty
89 ‘‘Fantastic Mr. Fox,’’ e.g.? 91 They run parallel in a grocery store 93 14-time winner of the French Open 94 Fortune 95 Reddit Q. and A. 96 Some campers, in brief 97 Author Calvino 99 ‘‘The Help,’’ e.g.? 105 ‘‘The Secret Life of Bees,’’ e.g.? 109 One hundred, in Honduras 110 Sound from R2-D2 111 Ice cream flavor with a crunch 112 Straddling 113 Purple-crayon-carrying boy of children’s literature 114 Spot for a trough 115 Autodom’s 88 or Toronado, once 116 Letters before the ZIP code 10001 117 Fresh 118 Terrier type
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1 Hit it! 2 Sundance Film Festival site 3 Break down 4 Uses X-ray vision on 5 One side in the Battle of Thermopylae 6 On the same team
7 How guitars are strung 8 Sparkling wine region 9 Ergo 10 ‘‘Nasty!’’ 11 Hundred Acre Wood resident who sometimes falls into mouse holes while practicing jumping 12 Issued an edict, say 13 App developer’s target 14 Place of worship 15 Cat breed with a shabby-sounding name 16 Fermented brew 17 Seoul singers 19 Indy-to-Memphis dir. 25 Toluca lucre 27 Reserved, as seats 28 Big affair 33 One might have three parts, with or without its last letter 34 Strength 36 ‘‘Whatevs’’ 37 Pick up 38 Spaghetti-sauce brand 39 Chaired 40 Word with small or deep 41 Perturb 42 Some spots for vaccines, in brief 43 Buses and trains 46 Film role played by a terrier named Terry 47 Saudi Arabia neighbor 49 Animal whose name comes from the Narragansett word for ‘‘twig-eater’’ 52 Parts of A.T.M.s 53 ____ chart 55 Some recesses 56 Wine cocktail 57 Legal suffix 58 Actress Aniston, familiarly 59 I, to Claudius 60 Prominent manufacturer of A.T.M.s 62 Daily grind 63 Mary ____, first lady’s maiden name 64 Large jug 65 Grande who has broken 27 (and counting) Guinness world records for musical accomplishments 66 Partly covered, in a way 69 Cut with a letter opener? 70 High times? 71 ‘‘My Way’’ lyricist Paul 72 Debate airer 73 The Rose City, so nicknamed for its pink sandstone 74 Bounds 78 Sun, in Santiago 79 Hit list 80 I.R.S. employee: Abbr. 81 Without direction 82 [I know it’s wrong] 83 Snippy 84 The creeps 86 1980s-’90s legal drama 87 All over again 90 Passover servings 91 ____ dozen 92 Some acids, informally 98 Student ____ 100 Phil ____, Joan Baez contemporary 101 Antipiracy org. 102 Role for George Burns, Morgan Freeman and Whoopi Goldberg 103 Tax amount 104 Pointer for an Olympian? 105 Scare word 106 Safari or Chrome address, in brief 107 Slip into 108 Catch sight of