New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Warming periods 6 Activates, as yeast 12 Chatter

15 Great Britain,

geographically

19 ‘‘My ____ (You’re Never Gonna Get It),’’ 1992 hit by En Vogue 20 Not a big Mac?

21 Nail, as a test

22 ‘‘I am not a glutton — I am an explorer of ____’’: Erma Bombeck

23 Kitchen at a barbecue

restaurant? 25 Potentially adoptable

pup

27 Misfit

28 Result of a 1960s Haight-Ashbury shopping spree?

30 It’s in your blood 31 Play parts

33 Ones coming ‘‘home’’

at homecoming 34 Quick-moving

36 Corp. shake-ups

37 Host

38 Highly visible belly

button?

40 Up to, informally 42 Actress Fisher of

‘‘Now You See Me’’ 46 Curious in the extreme 47 Streamlet

48 Good friend who

won’t stop snooping? 51 The first one was built in 1925 in San Luis Obispo, Calif.

53 What to add to ‘‘Iraq’’

to make it adjectival 54 Subwoofer sound 55 Jhumpa ____, author of the Pulitzerwinning ‘‘Interpreter of Maladies’’

56 Take a load off

58 Some cameras, in brief 60 SETI subjects 62 Language in which

‘‘puzzle’’ is ‘‘pid sa’’ 63 Burnable media 66 Prenuptial agreement? 69 ‘‘Geaux Tigers!’’ sch. 70 Be an agent for 71 Feature of Sylvester’s

speech

72 Comedian Rudolph 73 Taiwanese president

____ Ing-wen 75 Skateboard tricks 77 Went 90, say

79 ____ Tac (mint) 81 Throat bug

85 Long anecdote from a

complainer?

87 Italian mount 88 Astronomer Sagan 89 Takes a load off

90 One with an

underground colony 91 Tinker Bell or Puck? 94 Fruit-based dessert

. . . or a possible description of its flavor

97 ‘‘Sorry to say, you

guessed wrong’’ 99 What many clocks and

card games have 100 Whence feng shui 102 Skiing areas

103 Didn’t give forever 104 Bad person for a gambler to make bets with?

106 Plant with purplepink flowers

109 Rustic abode

110 Acolyte with a bad

temper?

114 Part of Q.E.D.

115 Cozy stopover

116 Nueva York, por

ejemplo

117 Word with code or

rehearsal

118 Cozy spots

119 It appears blue as a result of Rayleigh scattering

120 Chimes and dimes vis-à-vis this clue’s answer

121 Difficult to climb, in

a way

DOWN

1 Trio with the 1995 No. 1

hit ‘‘Waterfalls’’

2 Jolly laugh

3 Passionate

4 Fragrant medicinal plant

also called colicroot 5 Most snarky

6 Finish second 7 Something to hang your

hat on 8 Elect

9 Plains tribe

10 Not to go

11 Bugging people,

perhaps

12 Displays of shock 13 Start to play?

14 Put on no pretensions 15 ‘‘Fine by me’’

16 Sin city

17 Commits piracy 18 Avant-garde

24 ‘‘My name is Prince, and I am ____’’ (Prince lyric) 26 Proficient

29 Sauces made with

basil and pine nuts 31 Songs to be played at a

concert

32 Slinky, e.g. 34 Sales-promotion

acronym

35 Hoot

36 Downfall

37 Shifty

38 ‘‘The Office’’ role 39 Gives a grand speech 41 It’s up for debate 43 Alternative to sparkling 44 Turkish money 45 Letters found in a so-called ‘‘supervocalic’’ word 48 ‘‘Yuck!’’

49 Spots on a Rorschach

card

50 They don’t require

much study

52 Stahl of ‘‘60 Minutes’’ 54 I’m toast!

57 Like chicken cordon

bleu, originally 59 British sailor, in slang 61 One who’s rolling in

money 63 Is exultant

64 City of 16+ million straddling the Yamuna River

65 7-10, e.g., in bowling 67 Big name in printing 68 Plants used in

wickerwork furniture 74 ‘‘Worth a try’’

76 Gut feelings

78 Bit of hype, informally 80 Scoop

82 Worry for a speakeasy 83 Slips up

84 Layer

86 Parlor offering, for

short

87 Language in which

‘‘puzzle’’ is ‘‘puzal’’ 91 ‘‘Is that understood?’’ 92 ‘‘Is that understood?’’ 93 State of uneasiness,

informally

95 Seton who wrote

‘‘Dragonwyck’’ 96 Prayer leaders

98 Hang around

100 Taking out the trash,

for one

101 Navajo dwelling

102 One of the Corleones 103 Interlocking bricks 104 Made a case

105 Word that may come

from a pen

106 ____ Park, home to the University of Chicago

107 One-on-one Olympics

event

108 ‘‘All ____!’’

111 Farm structure

112 Top part of Scotland? 113 ‘‘Are you thinking what I’m thinking?’’ feeling