The new york times
ACROSS
1 Begin to flower
4 In conflict 9 Basketball-stats category
Neckwear provided at some restaurants 19 Pikes Peak people 20 One-dish meal 21 “You’re playing with
fire!”
22 Game-night cry 23 “First, I founded an aerospace start-up, but I never ... “Messy room
Make the first bet Go back over Proverbial hard workers
30 Bourne’s employer in “The Bourne Identity,” in brief 31 Popular indoor tree 33 Total revolution? 34 Ardennes assent 35 Singer’s asset 37 Daughter of Muhammad
“When that fell through, I tried my hand at fishmongering, but we ... “
43 Sensitivity 45 Common
resolutions
46 Squat, so to speak 47 Pop singer with noted bangs (and bangers!)
48 Go back down 51 J.?M. Barrie,
for one
53 What Ralph represents in a Freudian analysis of “Lord of the Flies” 54 Betrays
56 “Next, I pivoted into breakfast restaurants, but competitors ... “61 Passages 62 Medal-earning
mettle
16 26 27 28 29
39
Funny Business | John Westwig
63 Purchase printout: 116 “Enjoyed” some
Abbr. humble pie 66 New Year’s Day 117 Bolting Bolt 67 Place of prayer 118 Union contract? 69 Sat ____ (GPS 119 Counterpart of
system) “thx”
70 Behind 120 Corrupting 72 Library section influence
73 Broski 121 Full ____
75 There are 768 of 122 Over time period?
these in a gallon 77 “When I tried candlemaking, all my workers ... “81 Section of the
nosebleed seats 83 Poetic preposition 84 Lead-in to zone 85 Some music collectibles, for short 86 Whiz 87 Counterpart of
science, they say 88 Freight, e.g. 90 Uncles, in Uruguay 92 “I decided to try operating an airport, but just before launch we ... “96 Goes first 100 Wrote, as a bad
check 101 Moose’s mating
season 102 Universal donor’s designation, informally 104 Betray one’s
standards 105 Bridge component 106 “We’ll see” 108 Backdrop 110 Exclamation before an ill-advised action, maybe 111 Creature that swallows its prey whole 112 “Finally, I decided to buy a grocery store on an intersection, but a rival had ... “
“Wise” one
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1 “Leave me alone!” 2 Heaven on earth 3 Pick up on
4 State lines? 5 Hammer wielder of
myth
6 The missus
7 ____ Butts,
inventor of Scrabble 8 CVS competitor 9 Thunderstruck 10 Slump
11 Big name in jeans 12 Quintessential 13 Turn (off)
14 Spam holders 15 Health-class subj. 16 Sloan or Wharton 17 Opposite of relief, in
printmaking
18 ____ wonder 24 Traditional makers
of anoraks
25 Like kale vis-à-vis
lettuce
30 Call of a raven 32 Break, as a window 34 Aid in getting a leg
up?
35 Knot again! 36 Pizazz
38 Bow (to)
40 Desert bordering
Sinai
41 Regarding
42 Harry Potter’s
mother
44 Hubbub
48 Disney theme park 49 Yankees manager
Aaron
50 Absolute minimum
required 52 Listlessness 55 Soul
57 Portmanteau pastry 58 1972 Bill Withers hit whose title sounds like a command 59 “Allegory of the
cave” philosopher 60 1956 Elvis hit whose title sounds like a command 64 Centerfold, say 65 Bits of
troubleshooting 68 Football receiver 70 Yiddish word
meaning “woe” 71 Eradicates starting
from the bottom 73 Follow closely
74 Zac of “Baywatch” 76 Share a side 78 Identity theft, for
one
79 Snow-day project 80 The 380-foot-tall
Hyperion, for one 81 Bit of carefree fun 82 Trendy treat of
Brazilian origin 88 Swiss cheese 89 Man cave, maybe 91 Bacchanalian beast 93 Ref. work that began as a Philological Society project
94 Swiss “cheese” 95 “Whatcha gonna do
about it?”
97 Cub or colt
98 “Holy ____!” 99 Perfect in every
way
103 Extract
106 Tiniest bit
107 Talking horse of
‘60s TV
108 Apt rhyme of
“nude” and “crude” 109 Send off
111 Catchy song, in
slang
112 Thing to catch in a
city
113 Tobiko or masago 114 ____ second