The New York Times Crossword
STEP ON IT! By Laura Taylor Kinnel / Edited by Will Shortz
Laura Taylor Kinnel of Newtown, Pa., was asked by her son and his fiancé to construct a crossword for their wedding reception. The result was printed on a large foam board and guests used dry erase markers.
ACROSS 1 Letting up
8 35mm. options
12 Rotter
15 What a cafeteria tray can be used as
19 Creative, as thinking
20 Tug of war or capture the flag
22 Le Pew of Looney Tunes 23 Hypotenuse-finding formula
25 Opposed to, in dialect 26 Frost
27 Prefix with pronoun
28 “No ifs, ____ or buts’’
29 Asia’s vanishing ____ Sea
30 Ethereal glows
32 Young Henry V, to Falstaff
33 Eins + zwei
34 A-lister
36 Evening, informally
38 Pharmaceutical pioneer Lilly
40 Having an impeccable reputation, say
43 One drinking soft drinks at a party, perhaps
48 “Le Bonheur de Vivre’’ painter
49 “Dust Tracks ____ Road’’ (Zora Neale Hurston memoir)
50 Egg on
51 Implement at a regatta
52 Doesn’t comply with 53 A Kool-Aid flavor
56 Serve
58 Ham it up
59 Member of the fam
60 Eliot’s “____ Marner’’ 61 Cause of class struggle? 66 Boor
67 Symbol of Irish heritage 69 Garnish on a Moscow mule 70 Some young ladies abroad: Abbr.
72 Things frequently stolen 73 Pierre ou Marie 75 Auditioners’ goals
76 Like some lips
78 Common frequency for college classes
80 Bum
84 Non reversal?
86 Langston Hughes classic 87 Insta blurb
88 Invertebrate with a floral eponym
89 “The Pink Panther’’ character
92 Having successfully made it, slangily
94 Top-level foreign policy grp. 95 Avant-garde
96 ____ de leche
97 Internet star Majimbo known for her comedy videos
99 Prince, but not a princess 101 “Go jump in a lake!’’
105 Oil alternative, in baking 106 Durable furniture material 107 Texter’s transition
108 ____ Antipova (“Doctor Zhivago’’ character)
109 Gallic greeting
110 Composer who studied under Joseph Haydn
115 Bit by a bit
116 Tournament favorites 117 Group of tonal languages 118 Day originally marked by a full moon in the early Roman calendar
119 Hunk
120 Like some forecasts and complexions
121 Wish otherwise
DOWN 1 Leader of the pack
2 Gulf Coast habitat 3 Fragrant oil
4 Resident of the most populous city in western Asia
5 Income source for some older folks, in brief 6 Do more than nudge 7 Day-_ _ _ _
8 “Mean’’ Joe Greene, e.g. 9 Simple shelter
10 When doubled, overly enthusiastic
11 Windshield annoyance 12 Rapper with the 2018
No. 1 album “Invasion of Privacy’’
13 Midwest college town 14 Biden or Harris, for short 15 One on a rack
16 “In witness whereof,’’ “as hereinbefore mentioned,’’ etc.
17 Disorder from which Dostoyevsky and many characters in his novels suffered
18 Cozy spot
21 Approach 24 Protein-mimicking molecule
29 Compound at a nail salon 31 Ink on a contract
32 Beats around the bush ... or bushes
33 Sublime soprano
35 Brings up, as a subject 37 39+ weeks, for a pregnancy
39 Mane character in “The Wizard of Oz’’?
41 Leaves out
42 Prefix with constriction 43 Wedding-cake supports 44 Charm
45 Didn’t participate
46 Big cheese’s place?
47 Physicist Schrödinger
52 Like carbon monoxide
54 James who sang “A Sunday Kind of Love’’ 55 Like sumo wrestlers, medically speaking
57 Single-handedly
60 Adheres
62 Blackthorn fruit
63 Shiny top
64 Voting rights matriarch ____ Boynton Robinson 65 “Who, me?’’ response 68 Deceived, in a way
71 Like one who’s seen a ghost
72 In a few words
74 Hand warmer
75 Post-merger overhauls, informally
77 Digital digest with the motto “Cure ignorance’’ 78 Tastes
79 Something to knock on 80 Remunerated
81 Made invalid
82 Prevaricate
83 Preceders of pis
85 Pres. Carter’s alma mater
89 Post-merger acquisitions?
90 Cloud nine feeling
91 Swirling storm
93 Essential
98 Many a Winter Olympian
100 ____ goal (soccer blunder)
102 Cousin of a crow
103 Childish retort
104 Painter ƒdouard often confused with painter Claude
106 Fancy Feast flavor
107 Some boxers
109 Name found in “Variety’’
110 Setting for simmering
111 Onetime auto make with the Metro and Prizm models
112 Stately shade tree
113 Howe’er
114 Ball-and-socket joint