The New York Times Crossword
Across
1 Visitor-center
handouts
5 Crew supervisor on
a merchant ship
10 QB Patrick who was 2018’s N.F.L. M.V.P.
17 Like a pub crawler’s
breath, perhaps
18 *Embarrassing
pants mishap?
20 Set apart
21 Relative of “ciao” 22 “I never met a ____ I didn’t like”: Garfield
23 Like some tans
24 *Shipper of British
toilets?
26 Something you might use just for the halibut?
27 ____ Plaines, Ill.
28 Hill worker
29 Modern-day
groundskeeper? 30 Wanda Sykes, Regina Hall and Amy Schumer, for the 2022 Oscars
31 Divides into sectors 33 5-Down, in Spanish 34 “I’m not impressed” 35 Some sci-fi effects 37 Fast line at the
airport, informally 41 Small figures?
44 *Big fight for a Disney heroine from Polynesia?
47 Some track-andfield races
48 “They tell me ... “50 Impulsive sorts?
51 Spanish gentlemen 52 Standing at the
ready
54 Affectionate
attention, for short 55 Neither blows it nor
crushes it
56 Grabs lunch, say
59 Word with cane or
cone
61 As a friend, in
French
64 “That hits the
spot!”
65 Voyage by rocket ... or a feature of the answers to the 12 starred clues? 68 U-Haul offering
69 One rounded up in
a roundup
72 A car that won’t start is a common one in horror films 73 Ties again
76 Pulitzer-winning
novelist Lurie
78 Extreme vexation 80 Alliance
81 Symptom of
burnout
83 Take up a notch
86 Singer Abdul
87 Keg attachment 88 *Shortage of
slime?
90 Appear
91 “Is that a
challenge?!”
92 Part of E.S.L.: Abbr. 93 Voice of dissent
94 Scratch (out)
96 Film brand
98 Seoul singers?
99 Component of some high-tech dog collars
103 Kind of card sold in many international airports
106 Metric for a Met,
for short
107 Diane Sawyer’s real
first name
109 *Rest spot for a
tabby?
110 Angry and
impatient
112 Parent who’s fluent in emojis and modern slang, maybe
114 “Your ____ ran over my dogma” (classic dad joke) 115 Sovereign’s singular 116 *Brew that’s both
bitter and fruity? 117 Tiny arachnids
118 Cries feebly
119 Do some barbering
on
120 Language of the
Emerald Isle
Down
1 French wine region 2 Series of trade discounts? Portmanteau invitations 4 Website overseers,
in brief
5 Image on a postcard from Yellowstone
6 Western Hemisphere treaty grp.
7 *Painting of
potatoes, e.g.?
8 Exhorts
9 ____-Down (what
this is)
10 Botch
11 *Main course featuring Egyptian snake meat?
12 Street smarts
13 Portuguese
greeting
14 “S.N.L.” alumna
Rudolph
15 Boarding school where tailcoats are part of the dress code
16 On its way
17 Show some
reluctance
18 Item tossed into a fire at the end of “Citizen Kane”
19 Buddy
25 “Va-va-____!”
30 Set of options
31 Acne spot,
informally
32 Brawl site in old
westerns
34 West of
Hollywood
35 Agree
36 ____ Goose, cousin
of Donald Duck
38 *Iditarod, for one? 39 Bourbon
alternative
40 The start of
something?
41 Byproduct of
composting
42 “Wow, super!”
43 *Staging of a narc
sting?
45 How a parent serving as the tooth fairy might walk
46 Supported
49 Stephen of “The
Crying Game”
51 Anguish following a
dance marathon 53 N.F.L. positions that sound like a fastfood chain
55 “I’m sorry, ____, I’m afraid I can’t do that” (line from HAL in “2001”)
57 Mountain lake
58 Green prefix
60 Fish with a long
snout
62 Layer beneath the
earth’s crust
63 Something made
off the cuff?
66 Closing words
67 Office PC setup
70 One-percenters
71 Frustrating process 74 Noted speedway
sponsor
75 What a beehive is
made of
77 *Terrific messenger
at Hogwarts?
79 *Friend in a
competition?
81 Furbys or fidget
spinners, e.g.
82 In the manner of 83 Many millenniums 84 Small batteries
85 “Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you ____!”: Dr. Seuss
88 Lead-in to X, Y or Z 89 Substance
95 Sign unlikely to have been written by the person it is attached to
97 Hill workers
98 Swell
99 Hindu embodiment
of virtue
100 Stolen treats in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” 101 Mann of music
102 Mardi ____
103 Knights and
noblemen
104 Privy to
105 Request for
permission
107 TV screen option,
for short
108 Chits
109 Manage
111 Dallas hoopster, for
short
113 Lotta money