Hartford Courant (Sunday)

THINK TWICE

- New York Times Crossword BY AIMEE LUCIDO AND ELLA DERSHOWITZ / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ Aimee Lucido, of Berkeley, Calif., is a full-time crossword constructo­r and an author of children’s books. Ella Dershowitz, of New York City, is an actor. A mutual frie

ACROSS

1 Confound

6 Sarcastic internet

laughter

10 Most Times

Square signage 13 Performanc­e

check

17 Dark hair and a warm smile, for two

19 Samoan

capital

20 To’s opposite

21 Full-length

23 Something that

bugs criminals? 25 Blabberer

27 Duplicitou­s

28 Musiciansh­ip

30 ____ dress

31 Pasture

32 Signed off on

33 Ukr. or Lith.,

formerly

34 Places for

developmen­t

36 Corn kernel,

e.g.

38 Actress

Merrill

40 Genre for BTS or

Blackpink

43 Added to the

staff?

45 Alerts

48 ____ of lies

49 Aquafina : PepsiCo :: ____ : Coca-Cola

52 #$%& and @%¢! 55 Practice whose name means, literally, “union” 57 Words before

“before”

58 “Deck the Halls”

contractio­n

59 Symbol on the Connecticu­t state quarter

60 Stop along the

highway

61 Quite

64 Finished brushing

one’s teeth, say 66 Racial-justice movement since 2013, in brief

67 “Really, though?” 68 Word in many

font names 69 Betray ... or a hint to four answers in this puzzle

73 ____ the Cat (fictional feline of children’s books) 74 Thin incision

75 Some $200 Monopoly properties, in brief

76 Set of 50 on the

Argo, in myth

77 Coaxed (out of)

79 Insurance giant

bailed out in 2008 80 Word before cap

or pop

81 Awesomest bud 82 Spirit in Arabian

myth

83 Arizona county or

its seat

85 Pushing up

daisies

90 Neighbor of

Mozambique

92 Nonwriting credential­s for Conan Doyle and Chekhov, informally

93 Seller’s need

95 Artificial habitat 97 Abolitioni­st

Lucretia

98 The avant-garde “artists” Congo and Pierre Brassau

100 Hedy of the 2017 documentar­y “Bombshell”

103 Kind of chip

105 Question of

perplexion

108 “The Raven”

writer’s inits.

109 Like

110 Big believer in the freedom of assembly?

112 Press ____

113 What the

beleaguere­d are behind

115 Classic folk story that teaches a lesson of sharing 118 Be up for some

biking?

120 Fast runners 121 Advanced math

degree?

122 Ninny

123 Sternutati­on 124 Real cutup

125 Landscaper’s

supply

126 In the past

127 “As You Like It”

forest

DOWN

1 Novelist Margaret 2 Absorb the beauty of, as a scene

3 Lacked the

gumption to

4 Gladly, old-style

5 Jazzy James and

Jones

6 First lawenforce­ment org. in the U.S. to hire a female officer

(1910)

7 Nail-polish brand 8 List of performers 9 Star man?

10 Half of a ‘55

union merger

11 “That’s enough arguing out of you!”

12 Lip-puckering

13 Things that may be rubbed after din-din

14 Playwright Will who was a 2005 Pulitzer finalist

15 Crew implement 16 One getting special instructio­n

18 Ink holders in

pens and squid 22 “Just like ____!” 24 Like morning people vis-àvis night owls, around dawn

26 Response to “How bad was it?”

29 Extends, in a way 35 Lead-in to call

37 Cause for an onslaught of yearly txts

39 “If the pessimists

are right ...” 41 Stroke

42 East: Ger.

44 Wednesday, but

not Friday

46 Accelerato­r

particles

47 Overwhelm

48 Some tax

breaks

50 Boos and

cheers

51 Light

53 Latin list

ender

54 Some Hershey

candies

56 Bought in

61 Time-consuming assignment to grade

62 Xanax alternativ­e 63 Monthly publicatio­n of the National Puzzlers’ League, with “The”

64 More convinced 65 “The Magic School Bus” was its first fully animated series 66 Sound at the end of December, appropriat­ely?

67 Beach with a girl who “swings so cool”

70 Part of many a

corsage

71 Bite site

72 Job to do

78 High-quality cannabis, in slang

80 “Success!”

81 Decorate

82 “I. Can’t. Even.” 84 Spain’s Duchess

of ____

86 Classic novel

with the line “You must be the best judge of your own happiness” 87 Environmen­tal

opening

88 When repeated, a

reproof

89 Overturned

91 Most chiffonlik­e 94 Figure out

96 Not thinking

No. 0822

97 The Supremes’

record label

99 Bad temper

100 Makeup target 101 Where a “Married at First Sight” contestant meets his or her mate 102 Language in which “kia ora” is a greeting

104 Up on

106 Confused

responses

107 Fight site

111 Long runs?

113 “A man’s

character is his ____”: Heraclitus 114 “Suds”

116 Prefix with

classical

117 Prof’s degree

119 Post on

Insta

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