N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
SATURDAY PUZZLES AS HEARD AROUND THE DINNER TABLE
ACROSS
1 Commuter’s
ticket
8 They take bows
15 G-rated, say
19 “It’s not coming
to me”
20 Floral brew
21 Quintessential ingredient to borrow from a neighbor
22 Dine out
24 Competitive setting in Fortnite
25 Like many
phone cards
26 Oftenmispunctuated word
27 Lets it all out,
say
28 Aurora, to the
Greeks
31 Powerful weapon, for short
32 Pop option
34 Firefly, e.g.
35 Aid in some makeshift repairs
38 Blackhead
remover
40 Company that
created Pong
41 They can make
a huge impact
42 Spongy
mushroom
43 Movie character who said “I love you” to 110-Across
45 Network supported by “Viewers Like You”
46 Literary character who cries, “I am madness maddened!”
50 Bog
51 Ill humored
52 “Cool!”
55 Act theatrically
56 “Meet the Press” host Chuck
57 Attractions for
antique hunters
60 Donnybrooks
61 Ironically funny
62 Part of many a
weight-loss ad
64 Buck chaser?
65 Something checked at a T.S.A. checkpoint
67 One vs. 52?
68 Go on and on
69 “Cool!”
70 Crib
71 Bad
impression?
72 Tiny bit of work
73 Famed Deco
designer
74 Whitman of
“Parenthood”
77 Aftermath of a
toddler’s meal
78 Train that stops in New Haven and New York
80 They often don’t mature until they turn 30
84 Yucatán native
85 Lie out on a
scorching day 89 Landmark at the entrance to Narnia
92 “Yeah, but still ...
“
93 Online handicrafts marketplace
94 Bareilles who sang “Love Song”
95 Tribe native to
the Great Basin
96 Suit fabric
97 Agcy. impersonated in some scam calls
98 Crouched in
terror
101 Private
102 Vegetarian options
... or what the shaded letters in this puzzle are, phonetically
108 “The Three Musketeers” action scenes
109 Flatten
110 Movie character who replied “I know” to 43-Across
111 They may be long and shocking
112 Clink
113 Gray matter?
DOWN
1 Tom Hanks movie featuring a giant piano
2 It might turn out to be a drone
3 Barfly
4 Blue diamond in “Titanic,” e.g. 5 Lab-culture
medium
6 Star close to
Venus?
7 Take
responsibility
8 Bandleader
Shaw
9 Share the ____ (sign)
10 Fort Collins sch. 11 “____ Loss” (2022 No. 1 album by Drake and 21 Savage) 12 Cyber Monday merchant 13 Mall security guard, pejoratively 14 Exams with a 400-1,600 range 15 Soup-serving dish
16 Interfacers with publishers 17 Layer between the crust and the core
18 Need for a tough crossword, perhaps 21 Command for creating a revised draft
23 Sushi-bar
drink
28 Wax-coated
cheese
29 Like words this
clue the in?
30 Easily
frightened sort
32 Where you might go down in the ranks?
33 Bauxite or
galena 34 Things usually made in the morning
36 What’s in
37 ‘Fore
38 MADD ad, e.g.
39 Lefty
41 Apple wireless file transfer
43 Do nothing
44 Paris bar
tender?
46 Reddit Q. and
A.
47 “The nerve!”
48 Finally
49 Under siege
51 Turned red,
say
52 Like an allegro
tempo
53 Landed
54 Subjects of VH1’s “I Love the ... “series
55 ‘Fore
56 Packaging
string
58 Actress Ward
59 Many teens’ rooms, to parents
60 Pulitzer-winning columnist Stephens
62 “Du-u-u-ude!”
63 Large coffee
vessels
66 Made a fast
stop?
68 “Previously on
...” segment
74 “The kissing
disease”
75 “Coming face to face with yourself,” per Jackson Pollock
76 Otherworldly 77 Minority in New Zealand’s parliament
78 What goes “up to 11,” in “Spinal Tap”
79 Pot grower?
80 Skinflints
81 Does well on a
test, say
82 Wild donkey
83 Fellow
85 Along
86 Many a Monopoly property
87 Ear piece?
88 Marx’s co-author for “The Communist Manifesto”
89 They can be passed but not failed
90 Franklin who sang “R-E-S-PE-C-T”
91 Robin Hood’s
love
94 On the wagon
97 Little mischiefmakers
98 Veggie that’s
often pickled
99 Virgil described its “cloud of pitch-black whirling smoke”
100 Sign of neglect
103 Channel that airs old MGM and RKO films
104 ____ BankmanFried, fallen crypto mogul
105 Excessively
106 Boston’s Liberty
Tree, for one
107 Kind of sauce
for dim sum