New York Times Crossword
Jesse Goldberg is a software engineer in San Francisco. Last year, finding himself between jobs, he tackled a big project he’d been thinking about for 30 years — creating an app to assist in designing and filling crossword grids. The result, Crosserville, is available online (free for now). Jesse isn’t the first person to build a crossword-construction app, but his is a highly versatile one. This is Jesse’s second puzzle for The Times. — W.S.
ACROSS 74 Under way 4 “I don’t 1 Certain music 75 Beethoven’s give ____!” royalties collector, Third 5 Pharmaceutical for short 79 Reverse picker-upper 6 Viva ____ (aloud) 81 Tons 6 Penthouse perk 10 Dirty look 82 Seriously hurt 7 “Coffee ____?” 15 Even once 86 Move quickly, 8 Stone memorial 19 Part of R.I. informally 9 Suffix with exist 20 Big exporter of 87 ____ o’clock 10 Actor Jason who
saffron (when happy hour was once on 21 Sci-fi intro to begins) Britain’s national
“forming” 88 Host’s offer at a diving team 22 Foul housewarming 11 Four-stringed 23 “Enjoy the food!” 89 Spongelike instruments 25 Sportscaster 91 Focal points 12 Financial adviser who memorably 92 “I enjoy cooking Suze asked, “Do with wine. 13 Dry with a twist you believe in Sometimes 14 Milk: Prefix miracles?” I ____” 15 NASA spacewalk 27 Crush 96 “Same here” 16 Try to win 28 Emmy-winning 99 Word with noodle 17 Page who FX series created or nap became the first by Donald Glover 100 ____ lepton openly trans man 29 “Curses!” (elementary to appear on the 30 Challenger particle) cover of Time
astronaut Judith 101 “The only time magazine (2021) 31 “With enough to eat diet food 18 L.A.
butter, ____” is while you’re neighborhood 34 Commanded waiting for ____” referenced in 36 Fuel-economy 108 Stamps (out) Tom Petty’s “Free authority, for 113 One of Abraham Fallin’?” short Lincoln’s is in the 24 Coolers 37 Main artery Smithsonian 26 Comedian Minhaj 38 “A party without 114 “Welcome to the 28 How some bonds
cake is ____” Jungle” rocker are sold 48 Retin-A target 115 Born with a silver 32 Himalayan 49 Healthful property spoon in one’s legends
of a beach town mouth 33 Fetch 50 Chicken or veal 117 Cause of a 35 Provided tunes
dish, in brief smartphone ding, for a party, in 51 Merit perhaps brief 55 Boardroom plot? 119 Chef quoted 38 Backbone of 57 Hangout rooms in this puzzle’s Indian classical 58 Pair of quads italicized clues music 59 The Powerpuff 120 Guitar part 39 Earth tone
Girls, e.g. 121 Member of la 40 Body sci. 60 Filmmaker with a famiglia 41 Toon first
distinctive style 122 Letters on an introduced in 62 Affixes, as a cloth F-22 Raptor the 1945 short
patch 123 One given “Odor-able Kitty” 64 Something onboarding 42 Neighbor of that’s gone bad 124 1975 Wimbledon Oman: Abbr. if it floats when champ 43 Japanese placed in a bowl 125 Like voile and honorific of water chiffon 44 Florida attraction 65 “If you’re alone 126 What may make with 11 themed in the kitchen the grade pavilions and you drop the 127 Direct 45 “His wife could lamb, you can ____ lean” always just pick it 46 Family name in up. ____?” Steinbeck’s “East 71 Word mistakenly of Eden” heard at a 47 “That’s it Springsteen for me” concert 52 Exist
DOWN
1 Shady spot
2 Less-than-subtle
basketball foul
3 Temporary road
markers 53 Outfit
54 Drink garnished
with nutmeg
56 Quizzical
responses
58 Part of NGO:
Abbr.
61 Change from portrait to landscape, say
62 Neither red nor
blue: Abbr.
63 Benchmark
66 Locks-up
shop?
67 Any set of elements in a column on the periodic table
68 Japanese port
near Sapporo
69 War zone danger,
for short
70 “A Room of One’s
Own” novelist
71 Mac
72 Gastric acid, on
the pH scale
73 Tribute in verse
76 Classic Langston
Hughes poem
77 First name in
fashion
78 Saharan
80 Snacks that sometimes come in sleeves
82 Words to
live by
83 The Cardinals, on
scoreboards
84 Large Hadron
Collider bit
85 Many a rescue
dog
89 It’s not the whole
thing
90 Mount ____, California volcano
93 Critical
94 Rank for a rear
admiral
95 What the Unsullied warriors are on “Game of Thrones”
96 She turned Arachne into a spider after losing a weaving contest
97 Wags a
finger at
98 Separate
No. 0725
102 Tough period of
the school year 103 Bayt ____ (destination for a Muslim pilgrim)
104 Krispy ____
105 Crooner
Mel
106 Handy
107 Caffeine-rich
nuts
109 Still alive, in
dodge ball
110 Laissez-____ 111 N.J. city on the
Hudson
112 Meal at which parsley is dipped in salt water
116 Serious
divide
118 Candy-aisle
name
119 Protrude
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