The new york times
Note: Once filled in, the contents of the six shaded squares will spell a word associated with this puzzle’s theme.
ACROSS
1 New dog owner’s
purchase 6 Dog-adoption grp. 11 Pop group with
an “army”
14 Setting for “Heidi” 18 “We’re not standin’
in their way!” 19 Pepper grinder? 20 Put to work
21 Word with
good or blood 22 Extra lives or additional gems, for a freemium game 24 [Gasp!]
26 Pastoral setting? 27 “Who am I? Twofour-six-oh-____!” (“Les Misérables” lyric)
28 Cracker shape 29 “____-Olution”
(2002 rap album) 30 Avoided a tag,
in a way
31 “The kids these days have gotten way better than me” 35 Two-million-yearold discovery in 2022 in the frozen soil of Greenland 36 Cereal bit 37 Something to
butter up
38 Text communication inits.
41 Shaggy
hairstyle 42 File-creating
command
44 Actress Thompson 48 Former minor-league team that played at
Aloha Stadium 51 Spot for food and
craft beer
53 Opt
54 Significant stretch 55 Crane look-alike 57 “Do you really see
me that way?” 58 Range rover ... or something to do in a Range Rover 59 Craft that uses
drafts
63 What a cracker
might crack 64 Something for the
rest of the military? 65 Scrabble bonus seen six times in this puzzle
70 “The Chase” channel
72 Was published
73 In which “Ciamar a tha thu?” means “How are you?” 74 Booped body parts 77 Member of the fam 78 Count for a jury
80 I, in German
81 Slip past
82 Product lines? 84 Something delivered by Jake Tapper or Anderson Cooper 89 Kofi of the U.N. 90 Pan feature
91 Yank
92 When repeated,
[“Is this thing on?”] 93 Battle royale 96 Nickname next to a heart emoji, perhaps
97 Cyrillic letter pronounced like the “zz” of “pizza” 98 “The English
Patient” actress
104 Attenuated
108 “South,” in Hanoi 109 Place to chill,
paradoxically
110 Home of the
Hockey Hall of Fame: Abbr.
111 Device that works
with CarPlay
113 Single guy?
115 Executive’s acumen 117 Apt domain for basketball’s
King James
118 Scanning inits.
119 Something to
believe in
120 Didn’t just assume 121 Part of the
body to slap
122 Queen ____
123 To be, in Spanish 124 Easily irritated
DOWN
1 Film-archive bits 2 Kidney-related 3 Maker of the
Flashback console 4 Lukewarm
5 Birds with deep
booming calls 6 “Better Call Saul”
channel
7 Very sexy
8 Texas city that’s
home to Frito-Lay 9 Lawyer’s bundle
of work
10 “____ you not
entertained?” 11 “Au contraire!” 12 Cannon fodder,
at times
13 Appear that
one may
14 Urgent time to start gathering tax documents: Abbr. 15 TikTok star
Gray
16 B.Y.U.’s
city
17 Scatter
about
21 “Here’s the
thing ... “
23 A group of them is
called a “crash” 25 Texter’s reaction
button
28 Post
32 Syrupy covering
for ham 33 Protagonist in “2001: A Space Odyssey” 34 Crockpot
filler
35 ____ Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table 38 “____ All That” (1990s teen comedy) 39 Soda-shop
order
40 Vegetable often eaten without utensils 42 Aviculture : bird ::
heliciculture : ____ 43 Campfire
remains 45 Out-of-this-world
outfit
46 Rikishi compete
in it
47 Slightly 49 Taiwanese tech
giant
50 Pink-furred cat in
“Garfield” 51 Antipasto dish of tomatoes on grilled bread 52 Campus military
org.
56 Make more
meaningful
60 B.S., for one 61 Letter that rhymes with the letters before and after it 62 Direction giver’s
suggestion: Abbr. 66 Jab
67 Tony winner Renée
____ Goldsberry 68 High-strung
69 Coin collection 70 Enclosed rhyme
scheme
71 Cereal bit
75 Poet St. Vincent
Millay
76 Creep out,
perhaps 78 Counterpart of
“been there”
79 Sgt. or cpl. 83 Engine
parts
85 Bigwig
86 Coup d’____ 87 Time when most
people are asleep 88 One birthed
in Perth
90 Shrug or
wave
94 Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of war, takes the form of one 95 Place in
a crypt 98 Announce one’s
presence, in a way 99 Invisible household
hazard
100 “My luck’s bound
to turn around!” 101 Adorable sort
102 Beginning stage 103 Crete’s highest
point, for short
104 The ones nearby 105 Indicates “Out
of my way!”
106 Miniature
map
107 High-maintenance,
say
112 Exam with “calculator” and “no calculator” math sections
114 G.I.’s rations
115 Dating inits.
116 Negative
Boolean operator