SUNDAY CROSSWORD: ANIMAL HYBRIDS
ACROSS
1 Gaelic garment 7 Creatures described as catarrhine, from the Latin for “downwardnosed”
11 Like Antarctica 15 Spare part? 18 Granada grandpa 19 Cut deeply
20 “Ugh, ____
people!”
21 Go down, in a way 22 Get a party started? [bee, hare, tick] 24 Morning TV host
Kotb
25 “Potent Potables for $1,000, ____” (onetime TV request) 26 Crestfallen 27 Actress Seyfried of
“The Dropout” 28 Buzzkill [bat, elk,
newt]
30 Bias
31 Subjects of some
promotions 33 Natural source of
glitter
34 A little of a lot?
[carp, pig, snake] 38 TV, newspapers, streaming services, etc. 42 How a video game might be played by beginners 43 Ending with orange 44 Best-selling author
Hoag
45 Strong connection 46 Pennsylvania
school, for short 47 Locale of many vines [cat, elephant, worm] 51 Opposite of une
adversaire
52 Fancy flower
holders
53 Life preserver? 54 Al-____, family of
Syrian leaders 55 Goes wild
57 Glitzy, informally 59 Prankster’s
offerings 61 Nonmedical org.
that uses X-rays 62 Something you might step on by the shower [cobra, moth, seal]
65 Inits. in biotech 68 Legal-contract
phrase
69 “My bad!”
70 Make dry, as
salmon 72 Pain-relief pill 75 Placeholder inits. 76 3 ft. x 5 ft., e.g. 77 “So it goes” 78 Long-running soap opera that debuted in 1963 [ant, gorilla, sheep]
83 One might be accessed by a QR code, nowadays 84 Warrant
85 Guard seen around
a castle
86 401(k) alternative,
in brief
87 Lean toward
9/11/22
89 Certain sports
tiebreaker 91 London landmark
[beetle, hog, rat] 94 Place
95 ____ song 97 Overnight perch 98 Bridge that’s painted International Orange [dog, eel, gnat]
101 Devilish look?
103 Boardroom V.I.P. 106 Drink with a spoonstraw
107 Floor square
108 Mixes animal species ... as eight answers in this puzzle do?
110 Actress Perlman 111 In good condition 112 Wave to one’s
math professor? 113 Gets around
114 Part of U.C.L.A.
115 Poetic tributes
116 Fire-tablet
competitor
117 One of the
Williamses
DOWN
1 Things seen in a
window 2 Magic-trick starter 3 Felt bad about 4 Word with garden
or party 5 Lime and soda, e.g. 6 A handful
7 Pros with
negotiations
8 Was worthwhile,
with “off”
9 Bit of tomfoolery 10 With 47-Down, “That’s all” follower
11 Like a vampire’s face, stereotypically 12 Rhizome, to a
botanist
13 Site to flick
through flicks 14 Request for a hand 15 Fashionable spots 16 “Oh, gotcha” 17 Immediately
following
21 ‘N Sync member who later became a gay rights activist
23 Spend time
together, in slang 28 “SmackDown” org. 29 Goal
30 Pair in the Winter
Olympics
32 Maker of
Chromebooks 34 Warhol’s “Marilyn
Diptych,” e.g. 35 Antagonism 36 Target of a modern
scan
37 Light touches 39 Medical-plan inits. 40 Sapa ____
(ancient emperor’s title)
41 Common cause of some impulsive behavior, in brief 44 Details to be
negotiated
47 See 10-Down 48 Sacred hieroglyph 49 Sirs’ counterparts 50 “Beep!” source 52 Second caliph of
Sunni Islam 56 Doubleday who is miscredited with inventing baseball 57 Merchant’s stock 58 Cut (off) 59 Auctioneer’s aid 60 Name that’s a letter off from 25-Across
63 One might develop consciousness in a sci-fi story 64 Nightspot in a Manilow hit, in brief
65 What you can rarely do at a red light
66 Kvetch
67 “Yeah, whatever
you say”
68 “Beats me”
71 Tried to fight
72 A long, long time 73 Genesis matriarch
©2022 New York Times 74 Matriculation
group
75 “No! Not true!” 76 Wild guess
79 End up being 80 ____ Malnati’s, Chicago-style pizza chain
81 Rug thickness 82 Strong hold 87 Gray-brown
flycatchers
88 Book
90 Summer top
91 Test for future
Ph.D.s
92 Wiped out 93 Sippy-cup
users
96 Agenda
topics
98 Word with power,
talk or band 99 Number of planetas en el sistema solar
100 Fasten with a belt 102 Chaplin of “Game
of Thrones”
103 Surrender
104 Summit of Mount Purgatory, in Dante’s “Divine Comedy”
105 Mount in Greek
myth
108 Show with a Miami
spinoff
109 Symbol for an
audio device