NOVEL THINKING New York Times Crossword
John Martz is a cartoonist, an illustrator and a book designer in Toronto, Ontario, who specializes in picture books and graphic novels for kids. This is his first published crossword. He found that constructing it was akin to composing a page of comics. “The processes share a similar choreography of boxes and words and visual design.” In the past he has created an end-of-year crossword for co-workers. This puzzle, coincidentally, grew out of last year’s. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Nickname of the Looney Tunes animator Ben Hardaway
5 Occupied, as a
desk
10 Language of
Lahore
14 Cantankerous
sort
18 Siouan people
19 1984 comedy in which Daryl Hannah plays a mermaid
20 Takes a turn
21 “Stop right
there!”
22 Rapper ____
Dogg
23 Private address? 24 “Little House on
the Prairie,” e.g.? 26 “The Haunting of Hill House,” e.g.?
29 Grilled cornmeal cake popular in Latin America
30 Singer Zadora
31 No. in an email
signature line
32 The “A” of P.G.A.:
Abbr.
35 They’re in it for
the long haul
38 Cocktail made
with grenadine
40 “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” e.g.?
42 One studying for a bar or bat mitzvah, usually 43 Onboarding
participants
44 Wetland
45 “Back to
Treasure Island,” e.g.?
48 “Ideas worth spreading” offshoot
49 Designers’ degs. 50 Ripen
51 Grandmother:
Ger.
52 Prayer support? 53 Ballerina’s asset 54 Slugger Sammy 56 Justice ____
Brown Jackson 59 Like a bialy
61 “Crime and Punishment,” e.g.?
65 Make certain
67 Running the show, so to speak
68 Site of Vulcan’s
forge
72 Vinaigrette vessel 73 Bit of butter
75 Suffix with block
or stock
76 ____ vivant
77 Some family members, informally
78 Apple feature not found in the Apple logo
80 “If Beale Street Could Talk,” e.g.?
85 Some speaker
systems, in brief 86 They often have large dollar signs on them, in cartoons
88 Stage name (and middle name) of Robyn Fenty
89 “Fantastic Mr.
Fox,” e.g.?
91 They run parallel in a grocery store
93 14-time winner of the French Open
94 Fortune
95 Reddit Q. and A. 96 Some campers,
in brief
97 Author Calvino
99 “The Help,”
e.g.?
105 “The Secret Life
of Bees,” e.g.? 109 One hundred, in
Honduras
110 Sound from
R2-D2
111 Ice cream flavor
with a crunch
112 Straddling
113 Purple-crayoncarrying boy of children’s literature
114 Spot for a trough 115 Autodom’s 88 or
Toronado, once 116 Letters before the ZIP code 10001
117 Fresh
118 Terrier type
DOWN
1 Hit it!
2 Sundance Film
Festival site
3 Break down
4 Uses X-ray vision
on
5 One side in the Battle of Thermopylae
6 On the same
team
7 How guitars are
strung
8 Sparkling wine
region
9 Ergo
10 “Nasty!”
11 Hundred Acre Wood resident who sometimes falls into mouse holes while practicing jumping
12 Issued an edict,
say
13 App developer’s
target
14 Place of worship 15 Cat breed with a shabby-sounding name
16 Fermented brew 17 Seoul singers
19 Indy-to-Memphis
dir.
25 Toluca lucre
27 Reserved, as
seats
28 Big affair
33 One might have three parts, with or without its last letter
34 Strength
36 “Whatevs”
37 Pick up
38 Spaghetti-sauce
brand
39 Chaired
40 Word with small
or deep
41 Perturb
42 Some spots for
vaccines, in brief 43 Buses and trains 46 Film role played by a terrier named Terry
47 Saudi Arabia
neighbor
49 Animal whose name comes from the Narragansett word for “twigeater”
52 Parts of A.T.M.s 53 ____ chart
55 Some recesses 56 Wine cocktail
57 Legal suffix
58 Actress Aniston,
familiarly
59 I, to Claudius
60 Prominent manufacturer of A.T.M.s
62 Daily grind
63 Mary ____, first lady’s maiden name
64 Large jug
65 Grande who has broken 27 (and counting) Guinness world records for musical accomplishments
66 Partly covered, in
a way
69 Cut with a letter
opener?
70 High times?
71 “My Way” lyricist
Paul
72 Debate airer
73 The Rose City, so nicknamed for its pink sandstone 74 Bounds
78 Sun, in Santiago 79 Hit list
80 I.R.S. employee:
Abbr.
81 Without direction 82 [I know it’s
wrong]
83 Snippy
84 The creeps
86 1980s-’90s legal
drama
No. 0101
87 All over again
90 Passover
servings
91 ____ dozen
92 Some acids,
informally
98 Student ____
100 Phil ____,
Joan Baez contemporary 101 Antipiracy org. 102 Role for George Burns, Morgan Freeman and Whoopi Goldberg
103 Tax amount
104 Pointer for an
Olympian?
105 Scare word
106 Safari or
Chrome address, in brief
107 Slip into
108 Catch sight of
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