the new york times
Turns Of Phrase
ACROSS
1 Web site?
6 Browser window 9 Streaming service acquired by Fox in 2020
13 Civil rights grp.
once led by M.L.K. 17 Fictional character
who says, “I will take the ring, though I do not know the way” 18 Scorpion, for one 20 Wasn’t overturned
on appeal
21 Artists sketching
pectorals?
23 Stays out all night? 24 Glowing or shining 25 Work rotations 26 French “I like” 27 “Right on!”
28 Spot at a casino 30 Either side of a
beaming grin, in a phrase
31 Tony winner
McDonald 32 Something to make
after you wake 33 Vow to remain mum
about hotel guests’ secrets?
37 Hoops org. 40 Possibility 41 Scoffing sound 42 Driver of film 43 Nonbinary people,
informally 47 Declined 49 Over-poetical? 50 Modern-day “carpe
diem”
51 Early times in verse 52 Small distance covered by a naval armada?
56 First sitting prez to
fly in an airplane 57 Words after walk or
cash
58 Hyperbolic wait
time
59 Like climates where
cactuses thrive 60 Pointy part of a
charger?
62 Group of followers 64 Willem who played Jesus in “The Last Temptation of
Christ”
66 Some pianos and motorcycles
68 2000s Fox teen drama
69 Playwright Simon 70 “Emotion in motion,” per Mae West
71 Thomas ____, British general at Bunker Hill
72 Sweetie
73 Boxer lacking a left hook?
77 One of the boxing Alis
78 Gumbo ingredient 80 :-) alternative 81 Below par 82 Something unleashed in a denial-of-service attack 83 Destination for a
return flight 84 Himalayan
humanoid
86 ____ eyes
88 “I’m a frayed ____” (punchline of a classic joke) 89 What brass-band
music has?
92 Court
95 Groups of Greeks,
informally 97 Watcher of the
skies, for short 98 Old ____ (motherland, affectionately) 99 Announced
100 You can count on
them
101 Beat in a race
104 Very productive
106 Not even
a little off
107 Tree feature in
winter?
109 Quaint bathroom
sign
110 Galosh
111 Lumberjack’s favorite kind of
beer?
112 “What are
the ____?”
113 Audience for Cocomelon, the most-viewed YouTube channel in the U.S. 114 Omega’s place 115 Columns with
angles
DOWN
1 Home with a pointy
roof
2 Worked on Wall
Street
3 Bring to a repair
shop, say
4 Creative
springboard
5 Cereal once advertised by Woody Woodpecker 6 Subject for Laozi 7 Sounds from a lab 8 “The Art of Fugue”
composer
9 One’s kin, casually 10 Loosen, in a way 11 Some zeros and
ones
12 Bar necessities, at
times
13 It has several steps 14 What a dog walker and a strong-willed pooch might vie for?
15 Run easily 16 Makeup of some
music libraries 19 Main
20 Huge quantity 21 Lacking color 22 Brief period of work 26 “Easy ... everything’s going to be OK”
29 Bottle marked with a skull and crossbones
31 Cost for a spot 33 Garden-shed
items 34 Caramel-filled
candy
35 “You can leave this
to me” 36 Declaration by one who’s done playing 38 Benjamin
Franklin famously considered it “a rank coward” with “bad moral character”
39 “Te quiero”
sentiment 43 Mideast V.I.P. 44 Response to “No
offense”
45 The Bee Gees’ Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb?
46 It might gather lint 48 Somersault 52 Adversary
53 To’s opposite 54 Old-timey reproach 55 Scottish cap 58 Aromatic trees 61 Really bother 63 Jacqueline or
Jacques
64 For sure, for short 65 Something a snowboarder catches
66 Last word of
“Ulysses”
67 Goal in musical
chairs
69 Nick of “48 Hrs.” 70 Beer brand whose
name spells an article of apparel backward
72 Knock on the head 74 Carolers’ repertoire 75 ____ dancer 76 Minotaur’s foot 77 Bird known in the
U.K. as a diver 79 Draws
82 Red-light district
establishment 85 Like some vodkas 87 Fly into a rant 90 Spuds
91 Tall tales 92 Dispensed with 93 N.H.L. team with five championshipwinning seasons in the 1980s 94 Praising poetry 96 Ballet sections
99 Play station?
100 Got rid of
101 “Duh,” in modern
slang
102 Pine
103 Like the Radio City
Music Hall sign
105 Harvest
106 Something swollen
on a pro athlete? 107 Totally fine
108 Alternative to Webster’s, in brief