New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” channel

4 Counterpart of “highway” in an m.p.g. rating

8 Little rapscallions 12 Weapon that’s thrown 17 Male buddy, in slang 18 Source of some

penetrating notes 19 Infiltrator

20 In two pieces

21 Took a chill pill 23 Danger for coastal

residents

25 He hosted the secondever episode of “Saturday Night Live” 26 Event in nuclear

physics

27 It “should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable,” according to a saying 28 Incompetent sort,

slangily

29 Reveals

30 Braves’ division, briefly 31 Pirouette

33 War loser, usually 34 Like beer and baking

dough

35 Try Sinatra at karaoke,

say

37 Boost

40 Member of a South

Asian diaspora 41 Format accommodating

poor vision

43 Fate, in Greek myth 46 Like some sheets 51 Requests

52 Depiction in Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” 53 Presage

54 “I kid you not!” 55 Vietnamese soup 56 Went white

57 Vittles

58 For the most part

59 1972 Bill Withers hit 61 The miser’s daughter in

Molière’s “The Miser” 63 Cuddly-looking bear 64 They’re full of hot air 66 Shoe with lots of holes 67 Fleet-footed 69Crash site?

72 Alternative to

Corinthian

73 First word in many a

limerick

74 H. H. Munro’s

pseudonym

75 ____ Club

76 “You’ve gotta be

kidding”

77 It may lead to taxevasion charges 78 Sci-fi subgenre with “retrofuturistic” technology

80 Blabbed 82 Widespread unrest 84 Shield of Greek myth 85 Facebook users’

multitude 88 Doppelgänger

90 Oscar winner for

“Shakespeare in Love” 92 Language family that includes Crow and Lakota

93 Helms

94 Rain unsteadily 95 Digital world

98 French toast

100 Hot chili designation 102 Not like the odds of,

say

103 Steinbeck novel featuring the madam Dora Flood

104 Title in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”

105 Hoodwink

106 Comedic actor

Wareheim

107 “Wonder Woman”

antagonist

108 Over

109 Feature of an oldfashioned swing 110 Peace Nobelist Walesa 111 What the Czech word “ano” means in English, paradoxically DOWN 1 Gym rat’s development 2 High pitch, maybe

3 1984 Steve Perry hit

4 Act over protectively toward

5 Bygone Apple laptop 6 Word with boom or skip 7 Ache 8 Acher’s lament

9 Ragtag

10 Lumbers (along)

11 One working on an

estate

12 Role for a biology grad

student, perhaps 13 Works with numbers 14 One might be thrown

from a horse

15 Flotilla of merchant

ships

16 Hospital tube

17 Animal with tusks 21 Worker with numbers,

for short

22 French fashion icon 24 Does groundbreaking

work?

26 The “Aladdin” song “A Whole New World” takes place on one 29 Approx. 1,055 joules 32 Refuses to share 34 What a cake candle

often represents 35 Give it up, so to speak 36 Reckless

38 Fencing sword

39 Like “mailman” and

“waitress”

40 Clobber

42 Cowboys and Spurs 44 Barbra Streisand album

“A Love Like ____” 45 “Uh ... sure”

47 Like the central planet

in “Dune”

48 Surprised

49 Not 100%

50 Rival of BAL and BOS 56 Gave extra juice 58 Family business

60 Tres y tres 62 Actress Petty of “A

League of Their Own” 63 What might get you a

“ladle” drunk? 64 Handyperson’s inits. 65 Sushi topper

66 Quaff quickly 68 Engineer who coined the term “horsepower” 70 Hilton alternative 71 Sounds of

disappointment 73 Larrups

75 Something journalists

may work on

79 Its wingspan can reach

30 feet

81 Problem usually

encountered at night 83 Aetna’s business: Abbr. 85 Say uncle

86 Searched for truffles,

maybe

87 Delightful event? 88 Stretching or

tightening muscle 89 Dangling part of a

rooster

91 Isle named for a Gaelic

goddess

92 Shade of black 93 Capital once known as Thang Long (“Ascending Dragon”) 94 Like some booms 96 Bow-wielding god 97 Mini manufacturer 99 Winnow

100 Meter reading

101 Erato’s instrument 103 Bit of old-fashioned

animation