The New York Times Crossword
Across
1 Nickname of the Looney Tunes animator Ben Hardaway
5 Occupied, as a
desk
10 Language of
Lahore
14 Cantankerous sort 18 Siouan people
19 1984 comedy in which Daryl Hannah plays a mermaid
20 Takes a turn
21 “Stop right there!” 22 Rapper ____ Dogg 23 Private address? 24 “Little House on the
Prairie,” e.g.?
26 “The Haunting of
Hill House,” e.g.? 29 Grilled cornmeal cake popular in Latin America
30 Singer Zadora
31 No. in an email
signature line
32 The “A” of P.G.A.:
Abbr.
35 They’re in it for the
long haul
38 Cocktail made with
grenadine
40 “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” e.g.?
42 One studying for a bar or bat mitzvah, usually
43 Onboarding
participants
44 Wetland
45 “Back to Treasure
Island,” e.g.?
48 “Ideas worth spreading” offshoot
49 Designers’ degs.
50 Ripen
51 Grandmother: Ger. 52 Prayer support?
53 Ballerina’s asset
54 Slugger Sammy
56 Justice ____ Brown
Jackson
59 Like a bialy
61 “Crime and
Punishment,” e.g.? 65 Make certain 67 Running the show,
so to speak
68 Site of Vulcan’s
forge
72 Vinaigrette vessel 73 Bit of butter
75 Suffix with block or
stock
76 ____ vivant
77 Some family members, informally
78 Apple feature not found in the Apple logo
80 “If Beale Street
Could Talk,” e.g.? 85 Some speaker
systems, in brief 86 They often have large dollar signs on them, in cartoons 88 Stage name (and middle name) of Robyn Fenty
89 “Fantastic Mr. Fox,”
e.g.?
91 They run parallel in
a grocery store
93 14-time winner of
the French Open 94 Fortune
95 Reddit Q. and A.
96 Some campers, in
brief
97 Author Calvino
99 “The Help,” e.g.? 105 “The Secret Life of
Bees,” e.g.?
109 One hundred, in
Honduras
110 Sound from R2-D2 111 Ice cream flavor
with a crunch
112 Straddling
113 Purple-crayoncarrying boy of children’s literature 114 Spot for a trough 115 Autodom’s 88 or
Toronado, once
116 Letters before the
ZIP code 10001
117 Fresh
118 Terrier type
Down
1 Hit it!
2 Sundance Film Festival site
3 Break down 4 Uses X-ray vision on 5 One side in the Battle of Thermopylae
6 On the same team 7 How guitars are
strung
8 Sparkling wine
region
9 Ergo
10 “Nasty!”
11 Hundred Acre Wood resident who sometimes falls into mouse holes while practicing jumping
12 Issued an edict, say 13 App developer’s
target
14 Place of worship
15 Cat breed with a shabby-sounding name
16 Fermented brew
17 Seoul singers
19 Indy-to-Memphis
dir.
25 Toluca lucre
27 Reserved, as seats 28 Big affair
33 One might have three parts, with or without its last letter
34 Strength
36 “Whatevs”
37 Pick up
38 Spaghetti-sauce
brand
39 Chaired
40 Word with small or
deep
41 Perturb
42 Some spots for
vaccines, in brief 43 Buses and trains 46 Film role played by a terrier named Terry
47 Saudi Arabia
neighbor
49 Animal whose name comes from the Narragansett word for “twigeater”
52 Parts of A.T.M.s
53 ____ chart
55 Some recesses
56 Wine cocktail 57 Legal suffix
58 Actress Aniston,
familiarly
59 I, to Claudius
60 Prominent manufacturer of A.T.M.s
62 Daily grind
63 Mary ____, first lady’s maiden name
64 Large jug
65 Grande who has broken 27 (and counting) Guinness world records for musical accomplishments 66 Partly covered, in a
way
69 Cut with a letter
opener?
70 High times?
71 “My Way” lyricist
Paul
72 Debate airer
73 The Rose City, so nicknamed for its pink sandstone
74 Bounds
78 Sun, in Santiago
79 Hit list
80 I.R.S. employee:
Abbr.
81 Without direction 82 [I know it’s wrong] 83 Snippy
84 The creeps
86 1980s-’90s legal
drama
87 All over again
90 Passover servings 91 ____ dozen
92 Some acids,
informally
98 Student ____
100 Phil ____, Joan Baez
contemporary
101 Antipiracy org.
102 Role for George Burns, Morgan Freeman and Whoopi Goldberg 103 Tax amount
104 Pointer for an
Olympian?
105 Scare word
106 Safari or Chrome
address, in brief 107 Slip into
108 Catch sight of