The New York Times Crossword
Across
1 Begin to flower
4 In conflict
9 Basketball-stats
category
16 Neckwear provided at some restaurants
19 Pikes Peak people 20 One-dish meal
21 “You’re playing
with fire!”
22 Game-night cry 23 “First, I founded an aerospace start-up, but I never ... “
26 Messy room
27 Make the first bet 28 Go back over
29 Proverbial hard
workers
30 Bourne’s employer in “The Bourne Identity,” in brief 31 Popular indoor
tree
33 Total revolution? 34 Ardennes assent 35 Singer’s asset
37 Daughter of
Muhammad
39 “When that fell through, I tried my hand at fishmongering, but we ... “
43 Sensitivity
45 Common
resolutions
46 Squat, so to speak 47 Pop singer with noted bangs (and bangers!)
48 Go back down
51 J.M. Barrie, for
one
53 What Ralph represents in a Freudian analysis of “Lord of the Flies”
54 Betrays
56 “Next, I pivoted into breakfast restaurants, but competitors ... “61 Passages
62 Medal-earning
mettle 63 Purchase printout:
Abbr.
66 New Year’s Day
67 Place of prayer
69 Sat ____ (GPS
system)
70 Behind
72 Library section
73 Broski
75 There are 768 of
these in a gallon 77 “When I tried candlemaking, all my workers ... “
81 Section of the
nosebleed seats 83 Poetic preposition 84 Lead-in to zone 85 Some music collectibles, for short
86 Whiz
87 Counterpart of
science, they say 88 Freight, e.g.
90 Uncles, in Uruguay 92 “I decided to try operating an airport, but just before launch we ... “
96 Goes first
100 Wrote, as a bad
check
101 Moose’s mating
season
102 Universal donor’s designation, informally
104 Betray one’s
standards
105 Bridge component 106 “We’ll see”
108 Backdrop
110 Exclamation before an illadvised action, maybe
111 Creature that swallows its prey whole
112 “Finally, I decided to buy a grocery store on an intersection, but a rival had ... “
115 “Wise” one
116 “Enjoyed” some
humble pie
117 Bolting Bolt 118 Union contract? 119 Counterpart of “thx”
120 Corrupting influence
121 Full ____
122 Over time period?
Down
1 “Leave me alone!” 2 Heaven on earth
3 Pick up on
4 State lines?
5 Hammer wielder of myth
6 The missus
7 ____ Butts, inventor of Scrabble
8 CVS competitor
9 Thunderstruck
10 Slump
11 Big name in jeans 12 Quintessential
13 Turn (off)
14 Spam holders
15 Health-class subj.
16 Sloan or Wharton 17 Opposite of relief, in printmaking
18 ____ wonder
24 Traditional makers of anoraks
25 Like kale vis-à-vis lettuce
30 Call of a raven
32 Break, as a window
34 Aid in getting a leg up?
35 Knot again!
36 Pizazz
38 Bow (to)
40 Desert bordering Sinai
41 Regarding
42 Harry Potter’s mother
44 Hubbub
48 Disney theme park
49 Yankees manager Aaron
50 Absolute minimum required 52 Listlessness
55 Soul
57 Portmanteau pastry 58 1972 Bill Withers hit whose title sounds like a command
59 “Allegory of the
cave” philosopher 60 1956 Elvis hit whose title sounds like a command
64 Centerfold, say 65 Bits of
troubleshooting 68 Football receiver 70 Yiddish word
meaning “woe”
71 Eradicates starting from the bottom
73 Follow closely
74 Zac of “Baywatch” 76 Share a side
78 Identity theft, for
one
79 Snow-day
project
80 The 380-foot-tall
Hyperion, for one 81 Bit of carefree fun 82 Trendy treat of
Brazilian origin
88 Swiss cheese
89 Man cave, maybe 91 Bacchanalian
beast
93 Ref. work that began as a Philological Society project 94 Swiss “cheese” 95 “Whatcha gonna
do about it?”
97 Cub or colt
98 “Holy ____!”
99 Perfect in every
way
103 Extract
106 Tiniest bit
107 Talking horse of
‘60s TV
108 Apt rhyme of “nude” and “crude”
109 Send off
111 Catchy song, in
slang
112 Thing to catch in a
city
113 Tobiko or masago 114 ____ second