NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

CONSTANT CONSONANTS by Will Nediger / Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Socializes (with)

6 With 20-Across, fire

the whole staff

11 Most exorbitant

19 Showing more craft 20 See 6-Across

21 Artillery

22 With 105-Across, “What walks on four dino legs in the morning, four dino legs at noon and four dino legs in the evening?” and other riddles?

Genre for “Rush Hour” and “Lethal Weapon” Oversupplies

The band Ben Folds Five, oddly

The “A” of BART

Any nonzero number to the zeroth power “Little Women” sister Pioneering silent director Weber

Bitter

Shopping binge

Says “Quack” instead of “Buzz”?

Like Cinderella’s stepsisters

Like tennis player Anna Smashnova’s name

“High-five!”

Melodic opera passages

Something a new parent might take Audio engineer’s device

Tables in an Old West saloon, e.g.?

“My Gal ____” Admirer’s words Source of hand-medowns

Unloading sign

The stuff of legends Member of the Be Sharps, Homer Simpson’s barbershop quartet Kerfuffle

Olympic powerhouse in boxing

Confuse “stem” with “stern,” e.g.

Claude ____, villain in “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”

Some Dior dresses Change to the Constitution first proposed in 1921, for short

Chess gambit employed by gangster Tony Montana? Separate

Invite out for

Things that may be kicked

Verse, quaintly

English novelist McEwan

“Je t’____”

Claims that Louis XIV’s palace is better than all the other buildings in France combined?

In the middle of, oldstyle