The New York Times Crossword
TODAY: JIGSAW PUZZLE (0815)
Christina Iverson, of Ames, Iowa, is a stay-at-home mom with two young kids. Jeff Chen is a writer and professional crossword constructor in Seattle. This puzzle’s theme started with the vague concept of moving pieces and morphed from dominoes to magnets and finally to jigsaws (“all interests of my son,” Christina says). This is the pair’s second Sunday collaboration. — W.S.
Note: When this puzzle is done, insert the five shaded jigsaw pieces into the box at the bottom to get a three-word phrase, reading across, for what jigsaw puzzles provide.
ACROSS 1 Part of a pie or
the earth
6 Style that makes
waves
10 Doe in a court
case
14 Flubs
19 Keister
20 China holder? 21 Axe target 22 Some Madison
Avenue workers 23 End of many a
sports broadcast 24 Freestyles, perhaps 25 Barflies
26 Botch
27 ‘‘First, you’re going to want to dump out the box and ____’’ 31 Francis of old
game shows 34 Bounded 35 Capital on a 126-mile-long canal that’s used
as a skating rink in the winter 39 English breakfast,
e.g.
40 ‘‘What’s most useful next is to ____’’ 45 College-app
component 46 Role for “Ronny”
Howard
48 Joshes
49 State flower of
Utah
50 One of the B’s in
BB&B
51 Field work of note
in 1979
54 Rifle, in frontier
lingo
57 ‘‘To connect things up you’ll have to ____” 63 Ones getting the
crumbs? 66 Bonnie with five Top 40 hits in the 1990s
67 Euphoric feeling 71 Love to bits 72 More like a dive bar or certain bread 74 Beehives, but not
hornets’ nests 75 Daredevil’s
hashtag
76 Very in
78 One of the B’s in
BB&B
79 Good name for an
investor? 82 High-end Italian
auto, informally 83 ‘‘As you go, make sure you exercise your ____’’
88 At peace
89 Little bouquets 90 ‘‘ka-POW!’’ 93 ‘‘With patience and perseverance you’re sure to ____’’
97 Course goal 100 Songs that can be
trilling?
102 Castigates 103 Fairy-tale figure 105 Confer, as
credibility
106 Gets wild and
crazy
108 Legendary 109 Leave skid marks,
maybe
111 N.F.L. standout 113 Homes for high
fliers
114 Instruction to drivers leaving cars at a garage 115 ‘‘C’mon,
slowpoke!’’ 116 Ends, as a
mission
117 Mary Poppins,
for one
118 Pick up on
DOWN
1 O-line anchor 2 Feel regret 3 Trojans’ sch. 4 Distinctive part of
a cookie cutter 5 ‘‘Tap tap tap . . . ‘‘
activity
6 Get into a lot 7 Jacob’s brother,
in the Bible 8 Moved like waves
or muscles 9 A certain degree 10 St. ____ University (Philadelphia school)
11 Rescue dog, for
one
12 Response to the
Little Red Hen 13 Language related
to Manx
14 Egg, e.g.
15 Keats, for one 16 Sounds in a yoga
studio 17 Government economic org., at any rate? 18 ____-Cat
28 Big suit
29 Derby, e.g. 30 Menial laborer,
metaphorically 31 Loads
32 Take back, for
short
33 Retreat
36 ‘‘Was it ____ I saw?’’ (classic palindrome) 37 Mists, e.g. 38 Feeling it after a
marathon, say 41 Approves 42 Perspective 43 Achievement for
Whoopi Goldberg, in brief
44 Like cioccolato or
torta
47 Titus and Tiberius 50 Bosom buddies 52 Staple of skin
care
53 Sought office 55 U.P.S. competitor 56 Steady, maybe 58 Wrath
59 Exercise program
since the 1990s 60 Sharp, on a TV,
informally
61 Peak sacred to the goddess Rhea
62 Noshed on 63 ‘‘You’ll ____ for
this!’’
64 Words with a ring
to them? 65 Letter between foxtrot and hotel in the NATO alphabet
68 How people often scroll through social media
69 ‘‘That’s gotta
hurt!’’
70 ‘‘The Puzzle
Palace’’ org. 72 More straightfaced
73 Creamy Italian
dish
76 Word that
becomes its own opposite by putting a ‘‘T’’ at the front 77 Singer whom M.L.K. Jr. called the ‘‘queen of American folk music’’
80 Play again, as a
TV special 81 Companion in
Brittany
84 Brain diagnostics,
for short
85 Used as a
rendezvous point 86 Devote
87 Name suffix meaning ‘‘mountain’’
90 Fir tree 91 ‘‘Is it still a
date?’’
92 Roman goddess
of wisdom 94 Prefix with color or
state
95 Sugar ending 96 W.W.II fighters 97 Apps made with jalapeños and cheese
98 ‘‘You agree?’’
(*nudge, nudge*) 99 Gathers some
intel
101 Actor Brody 104 Singer Willie 106 Annoying
107 Grannies
110 Blood line 112 Temporal ____