The New York Times Crossword
TODAY: SENDING A MESSAGE (1106)
Addison Snell, of Mountain View, Calif., is the C.E.O. of Intersect360 Research, a consulting firm in high-performance computing. This is his second New York Times crossword, and his first Sunday.
Note: This completed puzzle contains a 114-Across, comprising the eight shaded answers. Put these in order, one after the other. Then use the following key to get a line spoken by 25-Across in ‘‘The 40-Across’’: A = R, B = I, C = J, D = P, E = A, G = H, I = O, J = C, K = L, L = U, N = T, O = Z, P = Y, R = M, S = E, T = D, U = S, V = G, X = N, Y = K.
ACROSS
1 Flight path?
7 Pain in the neck? 13 Wish
19 Climbed, as
1-Across 20 TV-schedule info 21 Early online forum 22 Pacific harbinger of wet West Coast weather
23 Some tiki bar
orders
24 Out in the sun too
long, maybe 25 English computer scientist who pioneered the breaking of ciphers generated by the 98-Across 27 Driver of some
engines
29 Bind
30 Part of a seat
assignment 31 Observed during 33 ____-Seltzer 35 Ready to blow 37 Leaf producer 40 2014 movie
portraying
the work of 25-Across, with ‘‘The’’
44 Fission locales 46 Set of clubs 47 ‘‘The Merchant of Venice’’ character who favors wordplay 48 Brazilian jiu-____ 50 Prey for a lion 52 Fitting
53 Connect with on social media, maybe
54 How some popcorn is popped 55 Gradually slid
(into)
57 Lead-in to dermis 60 Location of the Chair of St. Peter within St. Peter’s Basilica
61 Thin porridges 63 Modern prefix with
health 64 Appearance 66 ‘‘My dear man . . .
’’
67 Civil rights leader
Medgar 69 Troublesome
engine sound 71 Hoover, for one 74 One way to segment demographic data 76 Tibia’s place
77 Sly plan 80 Space-oriented engineering discipline, informally
82 What ‘‘ . . . ’’ sometimes means 84 Troublesome
engine sounds 86 Arrive at, as an
idea
87 Ones without
owners
89 What a ‘‘Wheel of Fortune’’ contestant might buy when looking for __NSP__ RAT__ON 91 Startled squeal 92 Forthrightly
asserts
93 Genghis Khan,
notably
94 Herbert Hoover’s
middle name 96 Many a maid of
honor
98 W.W. II-era
encoding device 101 Currant-flavored
liqueur
103 Itsy-bitsy
104 Santa ____
(desert winds) 105 Wear for a Sufi
scholar
107 Hello in São Paulo 109 One with an
inside job
111 Takes seemingly
forever
114 Sort of encoded message found in this puzzle’s grid [SEE NOTE]
117 From long, long
ago
119 Express momentary uncertainty over 121 Classified cost? 122 Icon to click for
more icons 123 Eeyore’s creator 124 Tidy
125 Radial patterns 126 Failed to maintain a poker face, perhaps
127 Figure the
worth of
1 Curse
2 Rat out
3 Longtime media figure suspected of being the inspiration for ‘‘The Devil Wears Prada’’
4 Have ____ for 5 Wilbur is one, in ‘‘Charlotte’s Web’’
6 Like some insurance benefits 7 Designer Versace 8 It’s for paper
shapers 9 Cousin of Gomez
Addams 10 Some quinceañera giftgivers
11 Send off 12 Moves from a table to a booth, say 13 Dunderhead 14 Ending with legal
or Senegal 15 ____-service 16 Implies
17 Go over, as a cold
case
18 When you should
be off, in brief
DOWN
20 Cosette, to Marius, in ‘‘Les Misérables’’ 26 Pull out 28 Comedian Wong 32 Soapbox rant 34 Polar expedition
attire
36 Out of juice 38 Frequent victim of Calvin’s pranks in ‘‘Calvin and Hobbes’’
39 Crew vessel 41 Add chocolate sauce and a cherry to, say 42 Pre-deal payment 43 Come to ____ 45 Rude way to break up with someone 48 Celebratory
dances
49 Letters on a
crucifix 51 One accepting the terms and conditions 56 Transports from Midway Airport to the Loop 58 Nose-dives 59 Na+, for one 62 Its in French 65 Rubber-stamps 68 Migration
formation
69 Ho ____ Minh 70 Word after party
or date 71 Worsen
significantly 72 Emotion felt con
el corazón 73 ____ Wearhouse
(retail chain) 74 Alvin ____, first African American to be elected Manhattan’s
district attorney 75 Cellist who performed at the Biden-Harris inauguration 76 Attitude
78 Some back-andforths
79 They generate a
lot of buzz 80 Makes right 81 Pulitzer Prizewinning W.W. II correspondent 83 Class for which
trig is a prereq 85 Mountain cover 87 Bird of the Baltic 88 Runs down, in a
way
90 ‘‘I’m good,
thanks’’ 94 Honeydew
relatives
95 One of 14 in a fist 97 Carlos in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
99 End of Q1, on co.
reports
100 Bank run, perhaps 102 Some writing
surfaces
106 Memory part 108 Affirmations from
the congregation 110 Sci-fi character who was originally a puppet before C.G.I.
112 Rock subgenre associated with David Bowie and Elton John 113 ____ Valley, Calif. 115 Laudatory works 116 French for ‘‘fat’’ 117 O’er and o’er 118 Side in checkers 120 Love of soccer?