NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

From the publishers of TV Guide

COMMON CORE

ACROSS

1 Conveniently forgets

to mention, maybe

6 Big name in investing 12 How many writers

work

18 Ran out of patience

19 Meghan ____, Grammy’s 2015 Best New Artist

21 Get warmed up

22 Word with water or

Electric

23 Meaningful work?

25 Rock bottom

26 Special ____

27 Like TV’s Niles Crane

and Monica Geller

28 Their existence is

debatable

30 Conflict in 2017’s “Wonder Woman,” in brief

32 Source of Supergirl’s

powers

33 Clothing line

36 Ballet supporter, e.g.

41 N.A.A.C.P. ____ Awards 43 REI competitor

44 Shout of support

45 Gamelan instruments 46 Unflappable

51 Basic point

52 Main squeeze, in

modern lingo

53 Texas hold ‘em pair

nicknamed “ducks” 54 “____ and Fugue in D Minor” (piece used in “Fantasia”)

56 Lucifer

58 The “vice of narrow

souls,” per Balzac

59 Goddess who sprang

from her father’s head 60 Bibliophile : books ::

oenophile : ____

61 “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism” author

62 Muck

63 Present without being

present

66 Ship for 28-Across

69 Like a space cadet

70 Part of the body named after Dr. Ernst Gräfenberg

71 Accustomed (to)

73 On edibles, say

75 A shore thing

76 Posted one’s

thoughts

77 Makes a comeback? 78 Souvenir for a Final

Four team

79 Ingredient in many

balms

81 Hones

82 Lock

83 Company with an iconic yellow Running Man logo

84 “The Lion King” trio 86 Receiver of private

instruction

87 Ritzy transports

94 Japanese prime

minister before Suga 95 Hosp. diagnostic

96 Where Gal Gadot was

born: Abbr.

97 Instigate

98 Once

102Not worth

a ____

105Pal of Buzz

Lightyear 106You wouldn’t want them to have a crush on you

110 Director DeMille

111 Chuck E. Cheeses, in

part

112 One way to go

113 Better than

114 Off course

115 One of the Magi, along with Melchior and Balthazar

116 Designated things for

bikes and buses

DOWN

1 “Sick burn!”

2 Peace Nobelist

Yousafzai

3 Cry of success

4 More orderly

5 Fuel for a camp stove 6 Houston A.L.er

7 Field’s yield

8 Macbeth trio

9 Golfer Michelle

10 Sight on an M. C.

Escher Möbius strip

11 Balkan region

12 Director Welles

13 Fastidious

14 Feng ____

15 As things might

happen 16 Something bottled in

Cannes

17 Price abbr.

20 GPS recommendation: Abbr.

21 Look over

24 Get a move on

29 Kenan Thompson is its longest-tenured member, for short

30 Reminiscence about

an epic party

31 Ming-Na who starred as Mulan in 1998’s “Mulan”

34 Played a Halloween

prank on

35 Pickle

37 Olympic gold-medal

gymnast Korbut

38 Govt. agency that Jimmy Woo works for on “WandaVision”

39 Santiago of “Scandal” 40 Horse of a different

color

41 “Aha!”

42 Sit shiva, e.g.

46 Male deer

47 Completely,

after “in”

48 Diez menos dos

49 Most of Greenland 50 Like dim sum

52 One hitting the low

notes

53 Name that means

“God is my judge”

55 Some Chevy S.U.V.s

57 Present, e.g.

58 She/____

60 Droll

61 Kid ____

64 Denouement

65 One who asks a lot of

questions

66 The munchies, e.g.

67 Step 2?

68 Nine to five, for

example

69 Animal on Ontario’s

coat of arms

72 “Not this again!”

73 Take out of the game 74 Law that led to a 1773

revolt

75 Actress Ward

76 Abacus piece

77 James who sang “At

Last”

78 Nary a trace (of)

80 & 83 Puzzle solver’s

starting point

84 Altitudes: Abbr.

85 It guards against

UVB

88 Like the sun at dawn

Wedding photographer Lindsey (Emily Tennant) 89 Lite gets her big opportunity 90 Little blob

when Josh (Tyler Johnston), 91 Critic of the Great

Society asks her to shoot his 92 Radicchio relative

sister’s wedding. 93 Distinctive flairs 95 Real, in Rio 99 Disney villain voiced

by Jeremy Irons 100 Bar mixer 101 The Cardinals, on McCall (Queen Latifah) scoreboards

comes closer than ever to 102Series that might feature a long-lost being captured when she father-uncle 103Only known animal to prey on great white sharks 104Person calling tech

support, say 106Bleat 107 Some

conjunctions 108 Summer worker, in

brief?

109French possessive

DIAGONALS

(in mixed order)

• Breakfast side dish

• Compassionate

• Nickname for Mars

• Starts drinking

• Truly magnificent

WHAT TO WATCH

Ghost Hunters

discovery+

This revival of the ghost investigation series finds original team leader Jason Hawes joining Steve Gonsalves, Dave Tango and Shari DeBenedetti.

Happy Halloween Movie Marathon Concludes

TCM, beginning at 5 a.m.

The weekend of horror movies continues with “Phantom of the Rue Morgue” (1954), “Macabre” (1958), “White Zombie” (1932), “Cat People” (1942), “The Leopard Man” (1943), “Mad Love” (1935), “Horror of Dracula” (1958), “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1961), “Curse of the Demon” (1958) and “Horror Hotel” (aka City of the Dead, 1960), “Psycho” (1960) and “Blow Out” (1981). Very late and into Sunday, the network will feature “Vampyr” (1932), from Germany, and “Häxan,” a 1922 silent film from Sweden.

A Picture Perfect Wedding

UPtv, 6 p.m. The Equalizer

CBS, 7 p.m.

races to prevent the murder of District Attorney Grafton.

Call the Midwife

PBS, 7 p.m.

With Sister Hilda (Fenella Woolgar) at a refresher course, Sister Julienne ( Jenny Agutter) steps in to carry out home visits.

Ghost Adventures

Travel Channel, 7 p.m.

The crew begins their unprecedented lockdown at Zak’s Haunted Museum during the pandemic.

Hightown

Starz, 7:55 p.m.

Former cop Ray begs Saintille (Dohn Norwood) for his job back.

The Canterville Ghost

BYUtv, 8 p.m.

This four-part retelling of Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost,” from BBC Studios Productions, marks BYUtv’s first commission of a British drama.

NCIS: Los Angeles

CBS, 8 p.m.

Kilbride (Gerald McRaney) enlists NCIS to help find a truckload of stolen guns.

Chapelwaite

EPIX, 8 p.m.

Jakub (Christopher Heyerdahl) and his army attack Charles (Adrien Brody) and his fighters.

SEAL Team

CBS, 9 p.m.

On a mission to Africa, Bravo Team rushes to prevent terrorist attack.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

HBO, 9:30 p.m.

Larry (Larry David) investigates the case of a malfunctioning toilet and helps buddy Jeff ( Jeff Garlin) solve a mystery of his own.