N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “Let me repeat ... “6 Musical speeds 11 When repeated, a cry of approval 15 Like many creatures in modern sci-fi movies, for short
18 Light wood
19 Cross figure
20 New Jersey’s
Sea ____ City
21 Spot for a shot
22 Spook some creatures in an aquarium’s touch tank?
24 Fiery matches?
26 Band with the 1994 hit “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?”
27 Some vocal
solos
28 In the style of
30 “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” playwright Edward
31 Bad material for a silk purse, proverbially
33 Deliver a blow
to Dracula?
37 With “the,” a sudden flip from attraction to disgust, in modern parlance
38 Brand whose stock price increased 50 percent in the first six months of 2020
40 Blooms named
for their shape
41 Set of
selections
43 “You sure?”
44 Before
45 No. calculated
from letters
47 References a Vatican Library source?
49 Went down a
slippery slope
50 ____ Palmas,
Canary Islands
51 Kind of history
52 About, on a
memo
53 Certain Ivy
Leaguer
54 Support
55 “Forget it!”
57 Welcomes at
the door
59 Tender spots
60 Referees a Tennessee football game poorly?
64 Common pet
fish
67 Superlative held by the Atacama Desert
68 “Barry” or
“Ballers”
72 Stadium
sounds
73 Plain
74 Cap’s place
76 It might be a
stretch
77 Suffix with Manhattan or meteor
78 Fortitude 79 Write an ode to a caffeinated soda?
82 Airport abbr.
83 Addresses
online
84 Sound unit found in many Asian languages
85 Nip and tuck, so
to speak
86 Like some teas
88 Kind of edition with bonus tracks, perhaps
89 Stadium cheer
90 Start preparing
borscht?
92 Fully commit
96 Court cry
97 Garnet is its birthstone: Abbr.
98 Sculpting stuff
99 Super ____ (GameCube predecessor)
101 “Bather in the
Woods” painter
104 Make smash
burgers?
108 Pretty cool
stuff
109 Burn a little
110 Decides that
one will
111 Major artery
112 ____ cha beef
(Chinese dish)
113 Jumped over, as a checkers piece
114 Michelangelo work whose name translates to “compassion”
115 Suddenly think
of
DOWN
1 Letter-shaped support piece 2 Certain corporate department
3 Mission San Antonio de Valero, more familiarly
4 Neighbor of Leb.
5 World’s oldest capital city, settled in the third millennium B.C.
6 Taylor Swift song that begins, “Combat,
I’m ready for combat”
7 Makes a gaffe
8 “Mamma ____!”
9 “Gangnam
Style” rapper
10 Comment from someone exiting the mall on Black Friday
11 Pedal-operated
instrument
12 That, in Toledo
13 Umbrella term for eboys or goth girls
14 Struck out
15 Stealthy
criminal
16 City feature that’s been found to improve mental health
17 “None for me,
thanks”
19 Kind of seeds in a healthful smoothie
23 Footslog
25 Balm ingredient
29 ____ Luthor, nemesis of Superman
32 Vintage restaurant items? 33 Spoil, with “on”
34 Git
35 “Just a little
longer!”
36 Lauder of
cosmetics
39 Do some light
work on?
41 Barcelona museum subject
42 H’s on some
college houses
43 “The Lorax”
setting
44 Actress Cravalho who voiced Moana
46 Doesn’t just
assume
47 Swindle
48 Wedding-cake
layer
49 Survive
53 Chuck, slangily
54 Final phase of a video game, perhaps
56 Big name in
records
57 [Actually, don’t
change that]
58 Sounds of
doubt
59 ____-Caps
(candy)
61 Birds known for their loud, complex songs
62 Royal title
63 Assist in a crime
64 Gooey pairing
with fig jam
65 Economicjustice catchphrase
66 Its water is nearly 10 times saltier than ocean water
69 Animal
product
70 Foreboding
sign 71 “Impressive!”
73 Who cries, “You get a car, you get a car!” in a viral meme
74 Toy brand for a budding engineer, maybe
75 “I don’t like
that,” in Spanish
78 Take away
79 Police captain on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
80 Burden
81 Enthusiastic
agreement
84 Genre for many
a boy band
87 GPS suggestions: Abbr.
88 Part of the
D.O.J.
89 It’s a four-letter
word, aptly
90 Neighbors of
the Navajos
91 One-named singer born in Reykjavik
93 What Ove’s name was changed to for the American film adaptation of “A Man Called Ove”
94 Like neon
95 “Groovy!”
98 Sibilant
summons
100 “South Park”
boy
102 Density symbol,
in engineering
103 1990s Indian
prime minister
105 Sch. in N.Y.
106 Quebec’s
Festival d’____
107 “You’re
accusing me?!”