San Antonio Express-News (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
YOU DO THE MATH
ACROSS
1 Supply for an ultimate
Frisbee team
6 2019 box-office flop described by one critic as “Les Meowsérables” 10 Picks the brain of
14 Extemporizes
19 “Why should ____?”
20 Feeling tender
21 Apartment, in real
estate lingo
22 How spring rolls are
cooked
23 Oscar-winning actress
born Mary Louise
24 One side of a 2015
nuclear agreement
25 It’s irreversible
26 University of Florida
athlete
27 “That was great!” - “No,
it stank!”
31 Setting for Jo Nesbo’s best-selling crime novels
32 They have stems and
white heads
33 Mild, light-colored
cigars
36 Have because of
38 Drive (from)
39 Recurring pain?
42 Route 70 in {Route 10, Route 95, Route 101, Route 70, Route 25}
45 Snitch
47 Hit film set aboard the
spaceship Nostromo 48 Cereal grain
49 Fastener that leaves a
flush surface
51 Modern party-planning
tool
52 Lofty
53 Collector’s item
55 Word after combat or
cowboy
58 What two Vikings have
explored
59 Royal staff
61 Sort represented by the
emoji
64 Fruits often used in
sushi
66 Cattle in [cattle/pigs] 69 Burrito condiment
73 Vodka mixer
74 Hopeless predicament 79 Birthstone for Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris and Alexandria OcasioCortez
80 Toffee bar brand
82 What the nose knows 84 Major move, for short 85 “... unless you
disagree”
87 Naturally occurring
hexagonal crystals
90 “Dames at ____”
(Broadway musical)
91 Was fed up
92 Comics character with
the dog Daisy
95 Bear x tiger
98 “Billions” airer, for short 99 Et ____
101 Hamilton, to Burr
102 Green cards, informally 103 Offering to a
houseguest
105 Hardly any
106 Car in {plane, car, train,
horse, car, car, train}
113 Pong company
114 Shakespeare character who inquires, “Are your doors lock’d?”
115 Greet grandly
116 Provide funding for 118 Was accepted
119 ____ mess, English dessert of berries, meringue and whipped cream
120 Its merchandise often comes with pictorial instructions
121 “Set Fire to the Rain”
singer
122 Part of a golf club
123 Mathematician
Descartes
124 Credit-application figs. 125 PC platform popular in
the 1980s
DOWN
1 Grow faint
2 Coffee-order
specification
3 Garment whose name
sounds like an apology 4 Sign of distress
5 Like many wildflower
seeds
6 Boutros BoutrosGhali’s home city
7 Nearly 5,000 square
yards
8 Comparative word
9 Matched up
10 What has interest in a
car?
11 Sound of disdain 12 Long, loose robe
13 Leave momentarily
14 Brief evocative
account
15 Diarist Nin
16 “Hello ____” (old
cellphone ad line)
17 Subatomic particle
18 Some nice cameras, for
short
28 Wife of Albert Einstein 29 Wipe out, slangily
30 “____ deal”
33 Has a tête-à-tête
34 Pale pinkish purple
35 Light-footed
36 Muhammad’s fatherin-law
37 Cause of
a smudge
39 First work read in Columbia’s literature humanities course
40 Like some news
coverage
41 Squeeze
43 “Nice going!”
44 Crux of the matter
46 Rating for risqué shows 50 ____-in-the-hole (British
dish)
53 Whale constellation
54 Massive ref. books
56 Have things
in common 57 Like music that uses conventional keys and harmony
60 Org. whose website has a
“What Can I Bring?” section
62 Summer Olympics
host before Tokyo
63 They may come in a
boxed set
65 Summer hrs. in Iowa 67 Co. captains?
68 First line of a Seuss
classic
69 Parts of cars and
stoves
70 High-profile interviewer of Harry and Meghan
71 Style of “Roxanne” in
“Moulin Rouge!”
72 Drawn out
75 Easterlies
76 Done again
77 Chef Waters who pioneered the organic food movement
78 Mrs. ____, “Beauty and
the Beast” character 81 Kind of vaccine used
against Covid
83 Slippery
86 Partly 88 Two-person
meeting
89 Certain sots
91 Words often replaced when singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”
93 Disney character who says “Some people are worth melting for”
94 Less sportsmanlike
96 Where the King lived
97 Tennis’s Nadal,
familiarly
100Make sparkling
103 Font flourish
104 Tease
105 Cartographic
collection
106 In Touch and Out, for
two
107 Texter’s “Then again ... “108 Cloud contents
109 Trees under which
truffles might grow
110 “De ____” (response to
“Merci”)
111 Took too much, for
short
112 ____ contendere
117 ____ Moore, antipoverty entrepreneur of the Robin Hood
Foundation