The new york times
ACROSS
1 OutKast or Black
Star
7 Shift neighbor 11 Striped minnow used in drug development 20 Character who lives on the “tippy-top floor” of the Plaza Hotel
21 What integrals
calculate
22 Got comfortable
with
23 Holiday building material (GABARDINE) 25 Stay up all night finishing a book, maybe (GABARDINE) 26 Chocolate brand with a mountain logo
27 Like some language
exams
28 Slangy term of
endearment
29 “You ____?” 30 Without
31 Lighter alternative
to a laptop
32 Makes some
stitches 33 “Siddhartha”
author
34 Elixir
36 In itself
37 Captcha target 38 Washington post
(SATEEN) 40 Thumbs-up
(SATEEN)
44 James of “The
Blacklist” 46 Location for a
tragus piercing 47 Site with a “Culturally Jewish” option
50 “Calvin and Hobbes” bully
51 The Diamondbacks,
on scoreboards 52 Fare that’s filled
and folded
55 Fends (off)
56 Makes a decision 57 Lead-in to wife or
life
58 “Pay attention!” 59 Mongolian word in an honorary title
Fabric-Ations | Alina Abidi
60 Brooklyn art school 109 Big ask? 61 Having similar 110 Reacts to a grand qualities ... or gesture, maybe what four pairs of answers in this puzzle are? 65 French film director
Claire 66 Rapper who popularized AutoTune 67 Hawkins who wrote “The Girl on the Train” (2015) 68 Mother ____ 70 Latin “Behold!” 71 Clog in a bathtub
drain, maybe 72 Monkeys (around) 73 Part of an old-age
plan, for short 74 Nev. neighbor 75 Where Six Flags theme parks originated 76 Severe punishment 77 Floors 79 Precursor to the main act (NEOPRENE) 81 Liable to make mistakes (NEOPRENE) 84 Follower of sit or
stand 85 Object of wishful
thinking? 87 “____ we all?” 88 Like most running
shoes 91 Easily shockable
sort 92 Recipe verb 93 “Pop ____,” British show that launched Simon Cowell’s TV career 97 List ender 98 Voting groups 99 12-month rentals,
often: Abbr. 100 Country that’s more than 2,600 miles long 101 Grabbing distance
(CASHMERE) 103 Philadelphia specialty (CASHMERE) 105 Carnival
performer 106 Jamaican
tangelo 107 Got close to, with
“on”
108 “Understood”
DOWN
1 Grand
2 Skirt style
3 Ornate garden
features
4 Broken down 5 Visits, as a
restroom
6 “Love, Reign ____ Me” (song by the Who)
7 Formula 1 event 8 Sole protector? 9 True
10 Young fellow 11 Famed New York
City deli
12 Weed gummy, e.g. 13 Bugaboos 14 Dungeons & Dragons and others, for short
15 Did a great job, in
Gen Z lingo
16 Pride : lions ::
business : ____ 17 Components of a
mind map 18 Superbig fans 19 _____ conjecture, one of math’s Millennium Prize Problems
24 Toy with verbal
commands 28 Lancaster of old
Hollywood
31 Ready for battle,
say
32 Galette fruit 33 “Weapon” in a backyard water fight
35 Unrepeated
instances
36 Kind of moss 37 What vampires don’t turn into, in “Twilight”
38 Gave in
39 Get seriously
conked 41 Understand
someone else’s side 42 Away
43 Try out
44 Altman who’s the
C.E.O. of OpenAI 45 Energy sanctions
measure
47 A red one is sweeter than a green one 48 Soaps, e.g. 49 Goodbyes
53 Carbon levy, for
instance
54 Filipino spring roll 55 “As It ____” (Harry
Styles hit)
56 It’s found next to mercurio on the periodic table 59 Bear’s home
60 Type of
quasiparticle 62 Common Father’s
Day gift
63 Towel word
64 How everything appears in hindsight 65 Visual-arts style 69 “Hip Hop Is Dead”
musical artist 71 Towel word
72 Dark plain on the
moon’s surface 75 Take care of 76 Baguette topper 78 “It must be exhausting always rooting for the ____” (Taylor Swift lyric)
80 TV-ratings name 81 Extrema
82 Kind of comb 83 Rainbow creator 85 Mr. Whipple of old
commercials, e.g. 86 Trick-taking card
game
88 Thumbs (through) 89 Some hotel lobbies 90 Car model whose name comes from the Japanese word for “crown”
91 Who said, “Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance” 92 Something that
may be cast 94 Painter Rivera 95 “WandaVision”
actress Elizabeth 96 ____ United,
English soccer team 98 Grin with a glow 99 Ship that may have inspired Homer’s “Odyssey”
100 Masticate
102 Old car inits.
103 Part of a Yahtzee
set
104 Pharmacy
giant