San Antonio Express-News (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Not express, in a way 6 Second person in the
Bible
10 One of the Blues
Brothers
14 “History of the World, ____” (Mel Brooks film that doesn’t actually have a sequel)
15 Grp. with Bills and
Chargers
18 Bridal adornment at
Indian weddings
20 Buckets
21 Goggle
22 Bird that went the way of the dodo (before the dodo)
23 Mr. ____, scheming
socialite in “Emma” 24 See 105-Across
25 Popular action film franchise ... or what trying to find the item in this puzzle can be described as
29 “There’s no use” ... like trying to find the item in this puzzle?
31 “The ____ Holmes Mysteries,” young adult series made into a 2020 film
32 Hosp. procedure
33 Keys
34 Architect Maya
35 Foreign correspondent, maybe
38 1976 greatest hits album with a palindromic title
41 Site of Hercules’ first
labor
45 What’s-____-name
46 Experimental
offshoot of punk
49 Echidna’s prey
50 Service with nearly
two billion users
53 ____ reaction
54 Deep cut
55 Liquor store requests 56 Frees (of)
57 Quiet summons
59 Greases
61 What’s at the center of some court battles?
62 City of Angels
64 Danger for an
exterminator
65 Scratch the surface of 66 Certain customizable computer game character
67 Kick starter?
70 America of “Ugly
Betty”
72 [Batman punches a
bad guy]
73 Onetime name for
China
74 They have big mouths 76 Over
77 More than umbrage 78 Two-wheeled carriage 79 “Anchorman”
anchorman
80 Simple earrings
81 Duck Hunt console,
for short
82 Walking with flair
84 Odd article of clothing to wear with a tank top
85 Reached
87 Man’s name that
anagrams to HYENAS 88 Did a Don Corleone
impression, maybe 92 Consonantless “yes” 94 Actress Atwell of the
“Avengers” movies
96 Product whose sizes
have letters
97 Clickable images
99 “As you can imagine ...
”
103Item hidden somewhere in this puzzle (where is it?) 105With 24-Across, Emmy winner for “Once and Again” 106Writer Horatio
107 Word before an
explanation
108 Boxer Ali
111 Bookmarked things 112 Vowelless “yes”
113 Personal datum:
Abbr.
114 Long-gone
115 Site that competes with Amazon Handmade
116 Affliction also known
as a hordeolum
117 Mean
DOWN
1 Collectible records
2 ____ milk
3 Packs tightly
4 Areas in many malls 5 Eldest of the von
Trapp children
6 Mnemosyne’s
daughters
7 Benefits
8 En pointe, in ballet
9 Pizza chain since
1943, familiarly
10 Weapon for Samson
against the Philistines 11 Whatsoever
12 “North” or “South”
land
13 Undoing
15 Faulty
16 Subway fare
17 Impact equally in the
opposite direction
19 Actor Elgort of “The
Fault in Our Stars”
26 Taints
27 Sheepish response to “Where did the last cookie go?”
28 How checks are
written
29 Hellion
30 “Boyz N the Hood”
protagonist
36 Run an online scam 37 Feel rotten
39 Bona fide
40 Big brush maker
42 Starting point on a
computer 43 Won over
44 See 50-Down
47 Become rigid and
inflexible
48 Slides
50 With 44-Down, making futile attempts ... and an extra hint to this puzzle’s theme
51 Small black-andwhite treat
52 Batman portrayer on
’60s TV
57 Google Photos
precursor
58 Workers in forges
59 Murder weapon in “The Talented Mr. Ripley”
60 What “/” may mean 63 Key used to get out,
but not in
64 Man’s name that
means “king”
68 Palindromic leaders 69 Doctor’s order
71 They may be fixed 74 Highland beauty
75 The titular bad guy in
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
79 Capital of Saudi
Arabia 80 Singer with the 2016 platinum album “This Is Acting”
82 In good shape
83 “Know what I’m
talkin’ about?”
84 Secret rendezvous
86 Like child’s play
89 Block where Sesame
Street can be found? 90 Notable period
91 It’s constantly breaking around the world
93 “The straight path” 95 German steel city
97 Like neon
98 Bar rooms?
99 It never occurs above the Arctic Circle during the summer solstice
100 One may be sworn 101 Claw
102Seat of Florida’s
Marion County 104Eugene O’Neill’s “Desire Under the ____”
105Go after
109Word before ride or
slide
110 Which card to pick from a magician?