SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
DOUBLE-DOUBLES
ACROSS
1 British dandy 5 Dennis the Menace
types
10 Really grand
14 The “A” in STEAM,
for educators 18 Maker of the Aspire
laptop
19 Pain-relief brand 20 Recordings for oral
historians
22 Bound 23 Slow-driving holiday parade in December?
26 “Huh, didn’t expect
to run into you here!” 27 Musical piece like
Smetana’s “Vltava” 28 Club collections 29 Movie genre ... or a shout on a movie set
31 Onetime Yves Saint
Laurent employer 32 Make
33 Words at a pity party 34 Arrange by category 37 Update Wikipedia after the 2012 election?
41 Yiddish for
“pancake” 42 Enthralled
43 Like some landscape
photography 44 Assert confidently 45 Banned, in a way 47 Brand of “oldfashioned” root beer 48 Delicate bit of hair 52 Subject of study for an insect psychologist? 55 “Don’t love it, don’t
hate it”
56 Against 57 Communication method that may be written with Stokoe notation, in brief 58 Investigative
journalist Farrow 59 Heroes that don’t
wear capes 61 Trademarked
refrigerant
62 Kind of gel 64 Condiment drizzled
on a taco
66 Shot followers 68 Drumroll followers 69 Blacken
70 Pale purple
72 Holi powder
73 Some announcements interrupting in-flight movies, for short 74 Intelligence grp. featured on “Quantico” 76 Promise from actor Damon’s friends regarding his movie premiere?
79 “To Sontag, to Sondheim, to anything taboo” musical
80 Ceramic stewpot 82 Philosophy influenced by the “I Ching”
83 Eager assistant’s
declaration
84 “It is what it is,” e.g. 86 Corn ____
87 Art-shop purchase
11/20/22
88 Words accompanying an offering to the ruler of the donkeys?
93 Partner worth
holding on to 94 Open
acknowledgment 95 Uncreatively draws
from
96 Busy locale in
December
97 Leah who wrote “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology” 98 Ivan the Great, for
one
99 Some holiday-tree
decorations
103 Home of the poet Forugh Farrokhzad
104 Arrive too late to see a hotel being built?
108 Number of worlds in
Norse myth
109 Thought spot
110 Russian pancakes
111 Disney’s Queen of
Arendelle
112 Pontiac muscle
cars
113 “The Crown ____ Worth Much”
(Hanif Abdurraqib collection) 114 One who questions people’s motives 115 Collect from the fields
DOWN
1 Arbitrator’s asset 2 Eight, in Spanish 3 Plant with no flowers or seeds 4 Southern dish often made with buttermilk and cornmeal
5 Tuchus
6 Film composer Bernstein
7 Ore locale 8 Electronics-aisle array
9 Jiffy
10 Ancient Italian region
11 Dealt with minor issues?
12 Some businessnews topics, for short
13 What’s still in cartoons?
14 Many
15 Bring back on board 16 Mount Rainier’s ____ Glacier
17 Small piano
21 Done hurriedly and carelessly 24 Skyscraper feature 25 First of all 30 Screenwriter/actress
Michaela
32 Moved cautiously 34 Soft white mineral 35 Snapshot of a
gamer’s progress 36 Duo inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 37 Aggravation
38 Grab a midday meal
with someone 39 Trolleys
40 Heads or tails 42 Getting rid of 45 Berkshire school
since 1440 46 Western settlement area led by Brigham Young
48 Major conflicts 49 Tired expression? 50 When to read aloud
to kids 51 Bowling-alley device 53 Swimming/ cycling/running competitions, informally 54 Zero-____ game 60 Grow to a
huge size
61 Part of a clock 63 Booby-prize winner’s
place 65 Unflinchingly
candid
66 Within a point or
two, as scores ©2023 New York Times 67 Two-time Olympic gold medalist in soccer
69 Flagella relatives 71 Medium for a birthday message 74 Body part that a dog uses to shake, e.g. 75 77-Down’s color 77 75-Down gemstone 78 “To be continued ... “81 Charlotte Corday, to Jean-Paul Marat 84 Word after better or worse
85 Simple graphics editor, informally 87 Guy
88 Getting along
89 No longer obsessed 90 Italian-style cheese 91 Strong strings 92 Adjust the spacing between, in typography
93 Like a deserved comeuppance 96 Soprano Nixon 98 Director Ming-liang 99 Pass the threshold 100 Memphis’s river
101 Pancake served with sambar
102 Onesie closure
105 Plan for the future, in brief?
106 “America’s Got Talent” network
107 Do the Wright thing?