SATURDAY PUZZLES N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Language
suffix
4 “Do or do not. There is no ____” (6-Down quote)
7 Call me!
10 Sources of vitamin C, for short
13 Enroll, with “in”
16 Bit of wellwishing on a hot day
19 Sixth word in the Gettysburg Address
20 “Fine by me”
22 1962 Beatles
hit
23 London’s ____
Gardens
24 Wavering vocal
effects
25 Friends, to
Hercule Poirot
26 Quaker in the
woods
29 Spoils
30 Murse, by
another name
33 Best of the
best
34 Like some clouds and kittens
36 Francisco with
frescoes
37 “Sounds to me
like ... “
38 Former senator
Trent
39 Quaint double
contraction
41 She’s a believer
42 C.S.U. or U.S.C.:
Abbr.
43 Like some
wonders
46 They’re used to
catch bugs
47 Steam-engine
sound
49 Juno : Roman :: ____ : Greek 51 Company aptly hidden in “Japanese games”
52 Coconut
extraction
53 Cop’s catch
54 Zoom button
56 Beach ____
57 Playtex product
58 Vegas casino with a musical name
59 Lea low?
62 “Aye, aye,
captain!”
63 Where a spill
might end up
64 Freudian
constructs
65 ____ golf
66 Mo. when the
Titanic sank
67 Dominates,
slangily
68 “One card left!”
69 Kids ... or, informally, a snack for kids 71 “Born” in France
72 Gymnast
Suni
73 Keep reminding,
say
74 Temple official
75 Empty nester’s
lack?
77 Domain’s partner in math
79 “Seize the day”
of today 81 Risk a ticket
83 Kind of number system in which 7 is the highest digit
84 Terrarium
animals
87 Setting
88 “We will, we will ROCK YOU!” e.g.
89 Make malleable
using heat
91 Pirate-ship
features
92 Shoe secured
with a click
94 Things checked at baggage checks
95 Crash before
dinner?
96 Rummikub
piece
98 Close
100 Greenlit
101 “____ modus in rebus” (“Moderation in all things”)
103 Creatures mummified in ancient Egypt
105 Close to
closed
106 Go steady
with
107 Green trattoria
topping
109 Ventriloquist Shirley Dinsdale was the first person to win one (1949)
110 Indian flatbread
111 One getting fired after a strike?
114 Really, really big
116 Cause to blush
118 Cause to jump
120 “M-m-m-my ____” (1970s song lyric) 121 He placed a call to Armstrong and Aldrin minutes after their landing
122 Basis for some
civil cases
123 Replacement of a computer part without powering down
124 Novelist
Deighton
125 Olympic tracks?
DOWN
1 Religion in which zakat is practiced
2 Leaf pore
3 Woo-hoo! The engines are firing, all systems are go, and we are feeling good!
4 Channel with “Silent Sunday Nights” programming
5 Orange sushi
topper
6 See 4-Across
7 Where a batter goes for a Bundt?
8 Tommy Lee Jones’s role in “Men in Black”
9 Farfalle shapes
10 Dust Bowl-era
migrant
11 Quick left, say
12 The Euphrates
bisects it: Abbr.
13 And just like that, sky and clouds are behind us!
14 Mathematician’s creation
15 Snappish
17 “I’ll have it on your desk tomorrow” 18 Oops, zoned out for a sec. Houston, can you retransmit our coordinates?
20 Thrilled to report that we’ve made it to lunar orbit!
21 General acknowledgments?
27 D.C. V.I.P.
28 Former labor secretary Robert
31 Writer Rand
32 Our lunar rover is collecting samples at long last. It’s been sitting in storage for months!
34 Moving in zero-G is just blissful!
35 Chaney of
horror
39 Cheap and
trivial
40 Oddball
44 Exotic pet
45 Feminine- hygiene product
48 “Bearded”
blooms
50 Where to walk
the walk?
53 Femininehygiene product
55 The Monstars in “Space Jam,” e.g., for short
59 Last book of the
Old Testament
60 It’s run up, then
rung up
61 Green trattoria
topping
70 Ouch! Drifted too far and bonked my head on that darn window ... but wow, would you look at the view!
74 Re-entry time - let’s make sure we do this simply and practically!
76 Be nerdy, with
“out”
77 Who’s on a mission in today’s puzzle?
78 Musician who sang about a 77-Down
80 Let borrow
81 Storage facility
82 Window, e.g.
85 Hot pot
86 Like some
advice
87 Stat that doesn’t apply to E.V.s
90 Microdosing
drug
92 Insult
93 Part of an
udder
97 Large white
sheet
99 Label for Whitney Houston
102 So far
104 Strong-willed daughter on “Downton Abbey”
105 Burning bridges,
e.g.
106 Really hurt
107 Swanky
108 Bouncer in an
alleyway?
112 Go silent, with
“up”
113 Chops
115 ____ mood
117 Chopper
119 Unit often used
exaggeratively