The New York Times Crossword
Katie Hale, originally from Houston, is a stay-at-home mom in London. She and a friend run the Reading Network, which finds homes for used children’s books. A lifelong devotee of crosswords and sports, she set out to make a sports-themed puzzle that would be accessible to non-sports fans.
ACROSS
1 One known as “the Alive, the
Eternal’’
6 Checkout option
11 Org. featured in 2011’s
“Contagion’’
14 Tiff
18 ____ Rose, Catherine O’Hara’s character on “Schitt’s Creek’’
19 Chevron subsidiary
20 Language in the Tai family
21 Kind of skirt
22 Your ex’s new date whom
you just can’t stand?
25 Tabloid twosome
26 Lose sleep (over)
27 Off
28 “Su-u-ure’’
29 Half of a legal warning
30 There are 24 in a
cuboctahedron
32 Make a big stink
34 Kegels, e.g.? 39 Getting up
there
42 Poet Rainer Maria ____
43 “____ yourself’’
44 First winner of the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel (1965)
46 It’s just passing
47 Therapists’ org.
48 Director Craven
51 First square of a crossword?
55 Walking the dog, for
instance
58 One might bend over
backward
59 Who actually lives in
Lapland, some say
60 Accord maker
61 Author of 29 Federalist
Papers
64 Laugh and a half
65 Playwright who wrote, “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything’’
68 “I’ll be your waiter tonight,’’
e.g.?
70 Raison d’____
71 Do a certain developer’s job
72 Something a mover or a
movie might have
73 Threesome
75 The “B’’ in its name stands
for “brush’’
77 Oldest independent state in
the Arab world
78 Genre for “Booksmart’’ and
“Clueless’’
82 Conspiracy theory so wild
that it can’t be aired?
86 Trident look-alike
87 ____ jam
88 Small bird
89 “I did it!’’
90 Southern cooking staple
92 Things you can crack
without damaging them
94 Affix with a click
96 Plan to leave at a very
specific evening time?
100 Orangish shade 103 Fill with joy
104 Stirs up
106 Doctor Zhivago
107 Where subs are standard
109 Semiaquatic creature
113 Missing
114 Blackjack dealer?
117 Niche mag
118 Stick (out)
119 Product that increases
volume
120 “Moonlight’’ actress Janelle
121 Joie de vivre
122 One doing inside work
123 Chain whose name derives from its founders, the Raffel brothers
124 Orchard products
DOWN
1 Book before Obadiah
2 Converted apartment,
perhaps
3 “That’s ____’’
4 Question after an argument
has died down
5 Solo traveling in space
6 Crafts
7 Frequent subjects of Taylor
Swift songs
8 Measures, in music
9 Word that can precede or
follow pack
10 Actor Menzies who won an
Emmy for “The Crown’’
11 Fills (in)
12 One hell of a writer?
13 One way for packages to
arrive, in brief
14 Protect
15 “Quiet!’’ rudely 16 Lager alternatives
17 Subdued
19 “It takes a licking and keeps
on ticking’’ brand
23 Herb used in smudging rites
24 Theater award
29 Stars 31
Approached
32 Actress Moreno
33 ____ Kong
34 Melee
35 Abdominal procedure, for
short
36 Skin-care brand
37 Dry biscuit used as baby
food
38 Op. ____ (footnote abbr.)
40 Any slice of pizza,
geometrically
41 Greek goddess associated
with witchcraft
44 Archaeologist’s workplace
45 Workers’ advocate,
informally
49 Young partner?
50 Back way, often
52 Winona of “Stranger Things’’
53 Work, work, work
54 Texas border city
56 “C’est la vie’’
57 “Ay’’ follower
61 “Now We Are Six’’ author
62 Crush, as a test
63 German denials
65 Members of a certain den
66 Enter without permission
67 A wood frog’s ability to freeze itself in winter and an octopus’s ability to change color, for two 69 Vaccine holder
74 In with
76 Props for majorettes
78 Bird with an annual 18,000mile round-trip migration
79 Instrument that’s a
homophone of 69-Down
80 Crucifix inscription inits.
81 ____ New York (Brooklyn
neighborhood)
83 2020 Democratic also-ran
84 It’s nada to Nadal
85 Actor/comedian Barinholtz
91 Dieted
93 Summer shoe style
95 Bed of straw
96 Who’s talking on the phone?
97 Personality that’s hard to
read
98 Pass over, in a way
99 Mathematician John Forbes
_ _ _ _ Jr.
101 Visually evaluate
102 Out of practice
104 Boo-oo-oo, say
105 Boo-boo
107 Smear
108 Site for some creative
entrepreneurs
110 What Vulcan’s forge lay
underneath, in myth
111 Sport
112 “____ chic!’’
114 Party people, for short?
115 Repeated word in the U.S.
postal creed
116 Rapscallion