The New York Times Crossword Puzzle: Jigsaw Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Part of a pie or the earth 6 Style that makes waves

10 Doe in a court

case

14 Flubs

19 Keister

20 China holder? 21 Axe target 22 Some Madison

Avenue workers 23 End of many a sports broadcast 24 Freestyles,

perhaps 25 Barflies

26 Botch

27 “First, you’re going to want to dump out the box and ____” 31 Francis of old game shows 34 Bounded 35 Capital on a 126-mile-long canal that’s used as a skating rink in the winter 39 English breakfast, e.g.

40 “What’s most useful next is to ____” 45 College-app component 46 Role for “Ronny” Howard

48 Joshes 49 State flower of Utah

50 One of the B’s in BB&B 51 Field work of note in 1979 54 Rifle, in frontier lingo 57 “To connect things up you’ll have to ____”

63 Ones getting the crumbs? 66 Bonnie with five Top 40 hits in the 1990s 67 Euphoric feeling 71 Love to bits 72 More like a dive bar or certain bread 74 Beehives, but not hornets’ nests 75 Daredevil’s hashtag

76 Very in

78 One of the B’s in BB&B

79 Good name for an investor? 82 High-end Italian auto, informally 83 “As you go, make sure you exercise your ____”

88 At peace 89 Little bouquets 90 “KA-POW!” 93 “With patience and perseverance you’re sure to ____” 97 Course goal 100 Songs that can

be trilling?

102 Castigates

103 Fairy-tale figure 105 Confer, as

credibility

106 Gets wild and

crazy

108 Legendary

109 Leave skid marks,

maybe

111 N.F.L. standout 113 Homes for high fliers 114 Instruction to drivers leaving cars at a garage 115 “C’mon, slowpoke!” 116 Ends, as a mission

117 Mary Poppins, for one

118 Pick up on

DOWN

1 O-line anchor 2 Feel regret 3 Trojans’ sch. 4 Distinctive part of a cookie cutter 5 “Tap tap tap ... “activity

6 Get into a lot 7 Jacob’s brother, in the Bible

8 Moved like waves or muscles 9 A certain degree

10 St. ____ University (Philadelphia school) 11 Rescue dog, for one 12 Response to the Little Red Hen 13 Language related to Manx

14 Egg, e.g. 15 Keats, for one 16 Sounds in a yoga studio 17 Government economic org., at any rate? 18 ____-Cat

28 Big suit 29 Derby, e.g. 30 Menial laborer, metaphorically 31 Loads

32 Take back, for short 33 Retreat 36 “Was it ____ I saw?” (classic palindrome) 37 Mists, e.g. 38 Feeling it after a marathon, say 41 Approves 42 Perspective 43 Achievement for Whoopi Goldberg, in brief

44 Like cioccolato or torta

47 Titus and Tiberius 50 Bosom buddies 52 Staple of skin care 53 Sought office 55 U.P.S. competitor 56 Steady, maybe 58 Wrath 59 Exercise program since the 1990s 60 Sharp, on a TV, informally 61 Peak sacred to the goddess Rhea 62 Noshed on 63 “You’ll ____ for this!”

64 Words with a ring to them? 65 Letter between foxtrot and hotel in the NATO alphabet

68 How people often scroll through social media 69 “That’s gotta hurt!”

70 “The Puzzle Palace” org. 72 More straightfaced 73 Creamy Italian dish

76 Word that becomes its own opposite by putting a “T” at the front

77 Singer whom M.L.K. Jr. called the “queen of American folk music”

80 Play again, as a TV special 81 Companion in Brittany 84 Brain diagnostics, for short 85 Used as a rendezvous point 86 Devote 87 Name suffix meaning “mountain”

90 Fir tree

91 “Is it still a date?” 92 Roman goddess of wisdom 94 Prefix with color or state 95 Sugar ending 96 W.W.II fighters 97 Apps made with jalapeños and cheese

98 “You agree?” (*nudge, nudge*) 99 Gathers some intel

101 Actor Brody 104 Singer Willie 106 Annoying

107 Grannies

110 Blood line

112 Temporal ____