SUNDAY CROSSWORD: GROWTH SPURTS
ACROSS
1 Sweeties
5 Heaven on earth, to
the ancient Greeks 12 International pizza chain founded in Brooklyn 18 Pipsqueak
19 “We’re not ready to
joke about this yet?” 20 Caps that lack brims 21 Apt name for a Whirlpool salesman?
22 Trying to get a rise
out of
23 Gut
24 Deserved
26 “Don’t believe one
word of that!” 28 Visibly scornful 29 Reptile with a big
bite, informally 31 Surprise and delight 32 Slip up
33 One of the seven in
“Se7en”
34 Agcy. that oversees
the Secret Service 35 One’s natural
habitat 38 Sequin-covered undergarment popularized by Lady Gaga
41 Permitted
42 Place to rest your
head
46 Musician Parks or
Guthrie
47 ____ cit. (footnote
abbr.)
48 They’re just over two
feet
50 Lake on the MalawiMozambique border 51 Subatomic particle 52 Release, as a trailer 54 Campus military grp. 56 “Your” of yore 57 “Monday Night Football With Peyton & ____” 58 “The results ____ ...” 59 Japanese “yes” 61 Showy flowers
native to Mexico 63 Thrills
65 Political org. with a quadrennial convention 66 Website with info
about the stars 68 Well, in both French
and Spanish
69 Get by
71 “Top Chef” judge
Simmons
73 Bother, with “at” 75 Classic name in
wafers
78 One who doesn’t
have a prayer? 81 Producer of
sketches, in brief 82 Addis ____
84 When doubled, fake
laugh 85 “Yellowjackets”
network, for short 86 Subscribe again 88 Fox-hunting shout 90 Where the proverbial buck stops
91 Actress Hedren 93 Mississippi city in a
Neil Simon title 95 Marathoner’s wear 96 World capital near
the 60th parallel
11/20/22
97 How a Broadway
star might break out 99 What a stiffed server
receives
100 Football rival of the Brigham Young Cougars
102 20-sided shape
104 Question of
introspection
105 Upper-left keyboard
key
106 Fertility-lab supply 109 Most mountainous
Caribbean nation 110 Cry of faux-surprise 112 French brothers
115 Reasons to wear
socks post-vacation 118 Resort offering that might include a lift ticket
120 Ones catching
waves?
121 “Impossible!”
123 Poet Pound
124 Behind
125 One might improve a pupil’s performance
126 Hurl with gusto, in
Gen Z slang
127 One of a recordsetting 3,234 for
Sue Bird
128 Wraps up
in fabric
129 Some old jets, for
short
DOWN
1 Pub orders 2 “Autumn Song” poet 3 Barbecue buffet offering?
4 Princess Di or Prince, once
5 In check
6 Sound from a den 7 Invent the sound of a cash register? 8 Fall blooms
9 1982 Stevie Wonder hit
10 It’s never free of charge 11 Home-services website
12 Fully divests one’s stake
13 Yao Ming, before joining the N.B.A.? 14 Actress Taylor-Joy 15 Search (through) 16 Show again 17 Blender brand 20 Doozy
23 Detector of nonsense, informally 25 Toymaker Rubik 27 Language that gave us “mulligatawny” and “patchouli” 30 Peruvian road sign? 34 Spoke monotonously 36 English philosopher William of ____
37 Go by air 38 Shirley Bassey and Agatha Christie, for two
39 Gloater’s words 40 Photo-editing
option
41 Midback muscle 43 Reasons that South American furniture stores have superlong lines?
44 Org. concerned with plant-based wellbeing?
45 Methods
49 Nursery purchase 53 Historic quinoa
cultivators 55 Amount owed 58 Things like “What do we want?” “Headache relief!” “When do we want it?” “Now!”? 60 Best-case 62 California congresswoman Barbara
64 Fawn’s mother 67 Affectionate squeeze of an infant’s bottom? 70 Language suffix 72 Altogether 74 Setting for many
Gauguin works 76 The ____ Honors (annual picture-book awards)
©2023 New York Times 77 Black-and-white
cookies
78 Italian wine region 79 Flimsy
80 Where you might
get into hot water 83 Bubble tea
87 Things that kids are encouraged to break
89 Sass
90 Items exchanged when a relationship gets serious 92 Polynesian food 94 Access an account 98 Bit of soccer or
hockey equipment 101 Nickname for a muscly Disney protagonist
103 Plucked instrument 104 Start of a famous
Kennedy quote
106 Tennis’s Naomi
107 Roof toppers
108 The opposition
111 Yoga pose
112 Destinies
113 Everglades wader
114 What tickets may
afford
116 Comedian Lydic of
“The Daily Show”
117 Virtual replications,
for short
119 North or south end 122 One might be spotted on a farm