THINK TWICE
SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
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
8/29/21
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 dindin
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-à-vis 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
©2021 New York Times 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
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