The New York Times Crossword
Across
1 Farm cry
6 Singer Celia Cruz or actress Rosie Perez
16 Second-leastpopulous state capital, after Montpelier
17 Like fire drills and
dress rehearsals 19 It may give a
bowler a hook
20 “We must wait to see what happens”
22 Pause, in music
23 Legal profession? 25 Embarrassing miss 26 ____ culpa
27 Gently enter
29 Fifth-century nomad of Central Asia
31 “____ Te Ching”
32 Needing another
dryer cycle, say
33 Org. that regulates pet food and false eyelashes
34 Design, as
software
37 Showcase for a first chair in an orchestra
40 Some Minecraft
blocks
41 Only sch. to have
a gold-medalwinning athlete in every Summer Olympics since 1912
42 Nuclear model named for a physicist
44 Actress Dennings 45 Symbol of longevity in Chinese numerology
46 “We don’t need to
hear the details!” 48 Carpentry peg
50 Attack, Quixotestyle
52 Specialized
vocabularies
53 Indicators of status in Maori culture 55 Disney girl who
fosters an alien 56 J.G. Ballard dystopia about a man stranded between motorways
59 Huff
60 Agreement
61 Has an
understanding
63 Where many
people walk out? 65 Juan ____, baseball star nicknamed “Childish Bambino”
66 Seattle team
67 Pressed (down) 69 Sci. class with
dissections
71 E.C. ____, creator of
Popeye
72 Pharmaceutical company whose Nasdaq symbol is MRNA
73 Kind of high-fat diet used as an epilepsy therapy 74 “The Marvelous
____ Maisel”
76 Set aside
78 Like Plan B, for
short
79 Fromage base
80 Royal house on the Arabian Peninsula
82 It’s back on
Broadway
83 “Candyman”
director DaCosta 84 Online shopping site for handicrafts
85 Vanilla unit
87 Kangaroo ____
88 Mermaid’s home,
maybe
90 Connections
91 Like many a dinner
function
95 Orpheus’s
instrument
97 They’ve taken the
veil
98 Its falls are quite
dramatic
101 Freeway dividers 103 Dillydallying 104 “We’re all
here”
105 Informal favor
request
106 Some bishops
Down
1 Response to
“Danke”
2 “If we must die, O ____ us nobly die”: Claude McKay
3 Like the concept
of a flat Earth
4 Side-by-side
calculation
5 Certain chew toy
6 Fitting
7 Cold, as agua
8 Word on an invoice 9 What the musicals “Beggar’s Holiday” and “Rent” are based on
10 Compendium of
case reports
11 Met highlight
12 Like one on stilts 13 “C’mon, ____ be
fun”
14 Small fault
15 Words before “gratia plena, Dominus tecum” 16 Italian dance form from the Spanish for “walk in the street”
18 Erbium, terbium or
ytterbium
19 Dance move that resembles a front flip
21 Momentary slip 22 Negative
responses
24 Performers wearing pa’us and malos
28 “Seems likely”
30 Having free time 32 “That’s enough lip
out of you!”
35 Kind of tape
36 “Mighty Morphin”
TV character
38 Crystalline
structure
39 Useless
43 Utility-company
professional 47
Descriptor for IHOP’s Fresh ‘N Fruity pancakes 49 Result of a delay
51 Twitter titter
53 Actress/activist
Jane
54 Minds
56 Portuguese city with a historic university founded in 1290
57 They don’t express
gender
58 After-school activities one wouldn’t list on a college app
60 Really wallops
62 Noisemakers dangling below a “Just Married” sign
64 Keystone State
airport code
67 Tallied
68 Journalist/ screenwriter ____ Rogers St. Johns 69 Bongo-playing
1950s stereotype 70 Introduction to an
adage
72 Dirk Nowitzki, for 21 seasons, in brief
73 Designer Anne
75 High-speed races
with gates
77 Guide outside a
bus station, often 81 Triangular snack
chip
86 New Jersey athlete 89 Cloud on a
summer day
91 Like suboptimal kite-flying weather
92 Singer with the
album “Voyage to India”
93 Ethiopia’s
Lake ____
94 Kind of bra cup
96 Overhaul
99 Day-____
100 Word with hot or
headed
102 Bit of land in
mer la