The New York Times Crossword
Across
1 Game option represented by a flat palm
6 Singer with the 2016 No. 1 album “A Seat at the Table”
13 Disney queen
17 Not clash
18 Front lines?
19 Said without
saying
21 CERISE + LAVENDER = certain baby animals
23 God sometimes
depicted with green skin
25 State in which “Parks & Recreation” is set: Abbr.
26 Pull some strings,
maybe?
27 Clinches
29 Chip away at
30 Employee on an airline or cruise ship
32 CORAL + GOLD = pet-store purchase
36 Veto
37 ____ stick
38 Quarterback who holds the N.F.L. record for most consecutive games started (297)
39 “You’re on!”
41 Train set
42 Tailor, maybe
43 One-named singer with the album “Lovers Rock”
45 Lipstick choice
46 AMBER + GREEN
= imported brew 48 Final Fantasy character who shares his name with a U.S. city 49 Sashay, say
50 ____ B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting
51 A bunch
52 PEAR + CRIMSON = fighting group
54 Bottle flipping in the mid-2010s, e.g. 55 Hospital settings,
briefly
56 Poster board?
57 Max’s opposite
58 Bo or bonsai
60 LIME + MAGENTA
= visualization
64 [“You’re still
talking?”]
68 Subj. of some collegiate bragging
70 Actor Gallagher
71 Go astray
73 “Herc could stop
a show/Point him at a monster and you’re talking ____” (lyric in Disney’s “Hercules”)
74 RUST + SCARLET = celestial group
78 Daughter in the comic strip “FoxTrot”
80 Cha chaan teng
serving
81 Plot problems
82 Dis-tressed
83 CREAM + PEACH = nonviolent protest
85 Plantings lining
the Literary Walk in Central Park
86 Skier’s
accessory
87 Many an art print,
briefly
88 “No injuries here” 89 2019 space film
91 B’s in math?
92 Devotee,
informally
93 A ways
94 TEAL + OCHER =
breakfast option 97 Absolves
100 Fisher of 2018’s
“Eighth Grade” 102 One towering over the rest of the
field?
103 Actress Rooney 104 ____ Giedroyc, co-host of “The Great British Bake Off ”
105 Nappy : U.K. :: ____
: U.S.
107 MAUVE + TANGERINE = restaurant handout
112 African antelope
113 Frenzied 114 Goddess who turned Picus into a woodpecker
115 Throws in
116 Unbelievable rumors
117 Takes the edge off
Down
1 2024 Olympics
host
2 Deal maker
3 Christopher Street
Day celebration
4 Still, for a poet
5 Outlet store
come-on
6 Miffed
7 Fantasy creature whose name is an anagram of another fantasy creature
8 Rural setting
9 What’s the point
of leatherwork? 10 Newcomer
11 Artist El ____
12 “The motor industry’s Titanic,” per a 1994 book 13 Nwodim of “S.N.L.” 14 Ne’er-do-wells
15 Keep from
sticking, say
16 “Wait for It” singer
in “Hamilton”
18 Stave (off)
20 Got ready for
guests, in a way 22 Prefix with centric
or vision
24 Volleyball teams,
e.g.
28 Lost traction while
driving over
31 Sinuous dance that emulates a
creature
32 3/4 and 7/8, e.g.
33 Done
34 Hound sound
35 Homophone of the sum of this clue number’s digits
38 Took off
40 Who says “That
I did love thee, Caesar, O, ‘tis true”
41 Wood in some
incense
42 Bring down
43 Truth ____
44 “Jung at heart”
persona? 46
47 48
49
Talent
Par for the course ____ to go Chemistry, for
one: Abbr. Grinding tooth Come out High on marijuana,
in slang
59 Way to go
61 Twangy, as a
singer
62 “Us,”“It” or “Her” 63 Progressive
alternative
65 Ones doing stellar
work
66 Total
67 One arranging for
flood insurance? 69 Parts of many
gaming rigs
72 Payment sent
74 In a bundle, as
documents
75 Wasn’t straight
76 Culinary phrase
after “pollo” or “scaloppine”
77 Vessels hunted by
K-ships
78 Element in many
henna designs
79 “I’m in heaven!”
sounds
83 Doner kebab
bread
84 Latin 101 word
86 For
87 Film director ____
Isaac Chung
90 “That’s it”
91 Heavy footwear
choice
92 Evening in Italy
95 Car model name made entirely of
Roman numerals 96 Novelist Ferrante
97 Of the flock
98 Cross swords
99 Sooty channels 101 Modern checkout
device
103 Diagnostic scans,
for short
106 Map lines: Abbr. 108 Clean-energy grp. 109 Stuff in cigarettes, but not e-cigarettes
110 “... is there
more?”
111 Rapper known
offstage as Mathangi Arulpragasam
52
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