The New York Times Crossword
TODAY: DOUBLE DUTY (0414)
Tracy Gray lives in Hunt Valley, Md. She and her husband recently retired after 35 years of owning and operating a lawn-and-landscaping business outside Baltimore. This puzzle started with its title, which Tracy then brainstormed themes to fit — the crossword equivalent of putting the cart before the horse.
ACROSS
1 ‘‘We’re doing
this!’’
6 Rear ends 14 Mensa prereq 20 Lightweight
curtain fabric 21 Folded brunch
fare
22 Tito who wrote
‘‘Oye Como Va’’ 23 Song performed three times in ‘‘The Wiz’’ 25 Give a kick, say 26 What ‘‘American Airlines’’ means in poker lingo 27 Marty Feldman’s role in ‘‘Young Frankenstein’’ 28 Cioppino
ingredient 30 Crumbly coffeehouse confection 31 Container for
movie popcorn 32 ____ Nation (annual music festival)
33 One place to find
a pair of parrots 35 Backless stool 37 DFW stat 38 Riddle-me-____ 39 Group with the 2009 hit ‘‘I Gotta Feeling’’ 41 Boldness
43 Apple variety whose name sounds like part of a flower 45 Steph Curry and LeBron James, e.g.
49 ‘‘Yes, cap’n!’’ 51 Move quickly
(through) 53 Pinnacle 54 Mérida mister 56 Layering garment 59 Number of Gospels in the New Testament 61 Author Koontz 62 Big ____ 63 Fitness enthusiast’s mantra
66 Old Italian
currency
67 The one who got
away? 69 Japanese
vegetable 70 Suffering memory
loss
73 Nicholas II was
the last one 74 Start of some
cautionary advice 79 PreCheck org. 80 POTUS’s military
title
81 Bird whose first
letter is silent 82 Baby ____ 83 Low-lying wetland 85 Real looker 87 List-ending abbr. 89 Mean
91 Rubs the rite
way? 93 Surfboard/kayak
hybrid
96 Casey of classic
radio
100 Take advantage of
an opportunity 102 Where the buck
might stop? 104 Alex and ____
(jewelry brand) 105 2022 No. 1 hit
for Taylor Swift 108 Snoopy, to Charlie
Brown
109 Actress Campbell of the ‘‘Scream’’ films
110 N.Y.C. subway
inits.
111 Former African country, and its currency
112 Jewish rite for an
8-day-old
114 Weather the
storm
115 Sow and hoe for
dough, say 116 F-14 fighter jet 118 You love to see it 122 Fashion designer
Pucci
123 Broke a nationalpark
rule 124 Emoticon’s
mouth, for short 125 Apple-processing
plant
126 Church parts vulnerable to lightning 127 Hip spot for a
drink?
DOWN
1 ‘‘No food for me,
thanks’’ 2 ‘‘Adorbs!’’ 3 Angle-measuring
instrument 4 Ransom Eli ____ (pioneering automaker) 5 Opposite of
paleo
6 What ‘‘the Hill’’ is
a metonym for 7 Recess retort 8 Paint brand 9 Fútbol cheer 10 ‘‘Come ____ the Sea’’ (Thomas Moore poem) 11 Daytona vehicle 12 List-ending abbr. 13 Calm
14 Computer addresses, for short
15 Cheesy appetizer
with chips 16 Variety of tiny dog 17 Belgian Surrealist
painter James 18 Peach pit 19 Doctrinal belief 24 ‘‘The Good ____’’ (Emmy-winning series)
29 Bread spread 32 ‘‘Still awake?’’ 33 Olympian
Raisman 34 Zodiac animal 36 ‘‘The View’’ cohost Joy 39 Emptier 40 Butter cutter 42 Amazon Prime
vehicle
44 Early name in
digital recording 46 Unlikely donors to
the AARP
47 Kinda close 48 Largest of New York’s Finger Lakes 50 Pennsylvania city that’s home to Gannon University 52 Luau finger food 54 Word with jam or
joint
55 Best animated feature winner of 2021
57 Curved line between musical notes 58 Hot cocktail
60 It owns the trademark for ‘‘The Greatest Snow on Earth’’ 62 ‘‘You ____!’’ 64 Streak on a
cheek
65 ____ speak 68 Where to see the
midnight sun 71 Barbenheimer in the summer of 2023, e.g. 72 Aaron Judge, e.g.,
in brief 75 Teeny-tiny 76 When a football
may be snapped 77 Walt Whitman,
notably
78 Fail miserably 81 Preamble start 84 Nutritional fig. 86 Like love on Valentine’s Day, it’s said
88 Bad spot to leave
food unattended 90 Laundry purchase in an orange container 92 Belgrade resident 94 Service center? 95 Tympanostomy performer, for short
97 Iraqi city on the
Tigris
98 ‘‘Mains’’ 99 Former TLC reality show set in a Florida tattoo parlor
101 Standards of
behavior 103 O.T.C. part 105 Like the emblem
on Mexico’s flag 106 Two-time Australian Open winner Osaka 107 Unlikely to make
the first move 109 Like some credit
cards
113 ‘‘Really, though?’’ 114 PC shortcut key 115 A little horse 117 Nursery item 119 It merged with Bell Atlantic to become Verizon 120 With it, in old
slang
121 Letters on some skin-care products