Crossword Puzzle The New York Times Magazine

Mind the Gap

ACROSS

1 Experts 6 Accord

12 The Harry Potter novels, e.g.

18 External

parasites 20 Minuscule,

cutesily

21 Not yet packed,

say

22 Another nickname for Old Abe … or a description of the circled letter?

24 Got fit

25 Funny Brooks 26 Eight: Prefix 27 Astronaut’s

place …

29 Aves.

30 Let out, as a

sigh

33 Venus, but

not Serena 34 Truckful

35 A lid usually covers it at night

37 Naval rank:

Abbr. 38 Counterpart

of Venus 42 Screen or

partition … 47 Kitchen-sink

attachment 50 Much-disputed part of an airplane 51 Where decongestant spray goes … 53 Animal

with a snout 54 Candidate’s

goal

57 “____ time” 58 Discontent 59 Alternatively 60 Kind

61 Cellular

messenger 62 CBS drama beginning in 2018 63 Negative

connector 64 Cyberexpert’s

worry …

69 ____ Poke

(caramel candy) 72 ____-rock 73 Each “O” of

BOGO

74 “____ and the Real Girl” (2007 comedy) 75 “What have

I done!”

79 Part of an auto garage’s business 81 Hawaiian

mash-up? 82 Product much advertised during football games

83 Clutch

84 Office device … 87 “That’s my

intention”

89 At the end of

the day

90 Heist figure … 93 General ____

chicken

94 Bear: Sp. 96 Soon 97 Memphis-to-

Nashville dir. 98 Coinage during the 2008 presidential election

101 “Spider-Man”

baddie

103 ____ drive

106 Bit of good

fortune …

111 Something you might get your mitts on

112 By birth

113 Away from work

for a while

114 Store banner … 118 Early ____

119 Scowling

120 Worry in

East Africa

121 Something to

chew on

122 Some seethrough curtains

123 “Ni-i-i-ice!”

DOWN

1 Common phobia source 2 Overturn 3 Omani money 4 Powerful arm 5 What a “singleton” is, in baseball lingo

6 City from which the U.S. moved its embassy in 2018

7 Big retailer of camping gear 8 Middle-earth denizen

9 About

10 Keep busy

11 Dr. Seuss

title animal 12 Be a lousy bedmate, say 13 Physicist Mach 14 Little protestation 15 “Ain’t I somethin’?!” 16 Cabinet dept. 17 Kind

19 Is on the

up and up? 21 Part of a

place setting 23 Mom-and-pop

org. 28 Followers of talks

31 “____ tu” (Verdi

aria)

32 Chose not to 34 Whigs’

opponents 36 “Water, water, everywhere,” per Coleridge 38 “You’re in

my spot!” 39 Like an increasing amount of immigration to the U.S. nowadays 40 Rizzo in “Midnight Cowboy” 41 More cunning 42 The “r” of

r = d/t

43 Kind of hygiene 44 Experts in the

field? 45 Publisher’s

announcement 46 Wet

48 Visits a

school, maybe 49 Feeling with a deadline approaching 52 Like carbon 12, but not carbon 14 55 Trip up 56 Intrinsically 60 Eyeball layer 61 Calif.’s 101, e.g. 62 Containing iron 65 Gung-ho 66 Quick signatures, quickly 67 Grammy winner Corinne Bailey ____ 68 Poet who originated the phrase “harmony in discord” 69 Apostle of Ireland, for short 70 Lounges 71 Have because

of

76 Respond to a bumper sticker, maybe 77 Bill

78 Lilac or

lavender 80 Section at a

zoo

81 Distant source

of radio waves 82 “X” isn’t really

one 83 Void

85 Wallop

86 Org. founded

under Nixon 88 General rule 91 “Aw, nuts!” 92 Converts to

binary, e.g. 95 Literally,

“great O’s” 98 “Pretty slick!” 99 Expression

of dismay

100 “Gah!”

102 Egg: Prefix

103 Join

104 Have a feeling 105 Bring into

the world

106 Truckful

107 Computer

command

108 Problem

for a plumber 109 Remained fresh 110 ____ chips (trendy snack food)

115 Scot’s refusal 116 Scottie’s

warning

117 ____ Amsterdam (name on colonial maps)

For Starters

ACROSS

1 Eponymous Chanel perfume 5 Eagerly enjoy,

as praise 10 Latitude

14 Not barefoot 18 Banned fruit

spray 19 Gladiator’s

realm 20 Pull-up

beneficiaries 21 Mold

22 Three types of (see circled letters) 26 Naturally lit

room

27 “500” initials 28 Stick in one’s

craw

29 Q and A part:

Abbr. 30 Allocate, with

“out”

31 Word often paired with “great” 32 Three types of (see circled letters) 40 Mimics 41 Gadget’s rank:

Abbr.

42 Ann and May 43 Much of “Deck

the Halls” 45 Eclipse, maybe 46 Wharton postgrad awards 48 “Bravo!” 49 Speech

problem 50 Three types of (see circled letters) 57 Resting place 58 Reception

vessel

59 Most healthy 60 More than

proper 61 Electrolysis

particle

63 [not my error] 64 Solemn 66 “__ in the Boy’s Room”: 1973’74 hit 69 Prepares to

transplant 72 Control 73 Small

batteries 76 Three types of (see circled letters) 80 “Chestnuts roasting __ open fire” 81 Supermodel

Carangi 82 “Hamlet”

quintet 83 Clambake

trash 84 Graphics file

extension 85 “Let’s Make __” 87 Hit the bottle 89 History Muse 90 Three types of (see circled letters)

95 Les États-__ 96 Gray matter?:

Abbr.

97 __ es Salaam 98 “The Birds”

actress

101 Special Forces

cap

103 Causes of fear 108 Three types of (see circled letters)

111 Confine

112 Works in the

garden

113 He’s got the

life

114 “Tosca” tune 115 Swing noisily,

as a shutter 116 Omegas’

counterparts 117 Chip dip

118 Ballpark figs.

DOWN

1 Pic takers 2 Parkay

product 3 Director

Reiner 4 Marine

predator 5 About onethird of MLB players

6 Fire up 7 Waves

overhead? 8 Acapulco

article 9 Astronomical

measures 10 Mars, for one 11 Sgt. Friday’s

force 12 Resting on 13 Designing

initials

14 Black eye 15 Online break

in 16 Australian

export 17 Remove from

a manuscript 21 Prestige 23 Many Qatar

natives 24 Eagerly enjoy 25 About to

explode 30 Stand-up sort 31 Star of the animated short “Two Scent’s

Worth”

32 Farr of

“M*A*S*H” 33 Flip over 34 Computer list 35 Chinese city known for its Terracotta Army

36 PC screen

images 37 High-end hotel employees 38 Radar screen

images 39 Havens 44 Agile

45 Fed. fiscal

agency

46 Fine wool 47 Bath in Baja 49 Made, as a bet 51 Roman

garment 52 Door fasteners 53 Eclectic mixes 54 Prefix with

linear 55 Salmon egg

deposits

56 In __:

published 61 Analogous 62 Nile valley

native 65 Perfectly 66 Many a

bagpiper 67 Bouncing off

the walls 68 Norwegian king, 9951000 70 Spiral-horned African antelope 71 Attack

verbally 73 Bubbling hot 74 Monastery

head

75 Part of CBS:

Abbr. 77 Author James and baseball’s Tommie 78 Cakedecorating artist 79 Censorship

fighting org. 85 Gulf War journalist Peter 86 “Nothing __!” 87 Radio knob 88 Figures of

speech? 89 Diamond

weight

91 Root

vegetable 92 Gentle touch 93 Brings out 94 Major

Japanese port 98 Not quite a

majority 99 Bad to the

bone

100 Spanish lady 101 Cheese on

crackers

102 Barely beat 103 Cotton

capsule

104 Highlands

hillside

105 Pair in a

dinghy

106 Bypass

107 Resorts with

body wraps 109 Carpentry tool 110 Langley org.