South Florida Sun-Sentinel Palm Beach (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Michael Schlossberg is an internist in Bend, Ore. He has been making puzzles for The Times since 2020. Eugene T. Maleska, The Times’s crossword editor from 1977 to 1993, famously had 40 rejections from the old New York Herald Tribune before his first submission was accepted back in the day. Michael says he had 50 rejections of Sunday puzzles from us before he got a yes. That must set some sort of record for perseverance. — W. S.
ACROSS
1 Gumshoes
5 ____ Hall, ‘‘Days of Our
Lives’’ actress
11 D.C. lobbying group with a Star of David in its logo
16 Back
19 Italian menu word
20 Gave out
21 Handy
22 Cut back a lot?
23 Fresh pair of loafers? 26 Actor McShane
27 Engraves with a
machine
28 Plant also called
herb-of-grace
29 Apollo 11’s lunar
lander
31 Follow
32 Wilford who co-starred in 1985’s ‘‘Cocoon’’
36 Blanc’s opposite
37 ‘‘____ life?’’
38 Forerunners of flip
flops?
43 Singer Rita
44 Many nonscholarship
athletes
45 Protein-rich fluid
46 Slip before putting
on a boot?
50 Backup groups
54 They’re found in pods 55 Lose fizz
58 Home of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque: Abbr.
59 Opposite of a no-no? 62 Company that manufactures Silly Putty
65 Colorful breakfast
bowlful
66 Peddle
67 Noted name in clogs? 71 Navigation app
72 Movement whose name may derive from the French for ‘‘hobbyhorse’’
73 They quiet one’s
footsteps
74 Came (from)
76 It’s mined, all mined! 77 Ladybug or firefly
79 Starting point for
many soul singers
81 The ‘‘I’’ of 11-Across
83 Collectors of
moccasins?
90 Number of swans
a-swimming
93 Star in Scorpius
94 Bon ____
95 Custom-fitted pumps? 100 Ship pole
101 Plot driver in
‘‘Romeo and Juliet’’ 102 ‘‘I can . . . almost . . .
reach it’’
103 Bit of grass
104 Metro costs
106 What a doll!
107 Dying stars
111 Elev.
112 1970s-era sneakers? 117 Green, say
118 Distant
119 ‘‘You’re welcome,’’ in
Spanish
120 Comic-strip canine 121 Ingredient in a
Waldorf cocktail
122 ‘‘Gnarly!’’
123 So-called dog daisies 124 The stuff of legends?
DOWN
1 Make the rounds at a
restaurant
2 ____ Fagan, Billie
Holiday’s birth name 3 Conflict associated
with Marxism
4 Plea to a superhero
5 Part of a spine
6 Genesis brother
7 ‘‘Who ____?’’
8 Razzie Award winners,
typically
9 Jewish title
10 URL ending
11 Fall
12 ‘‘That makes things
a little better’’
13 Word before hole or
crust
14 Org. with a ‘‘Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books’’ list
15 Give up
16 Chums
17 Networker?
18 Titleholders
24 Spleen
25 H.S. math topic
30 Comic book : manga :: film : ____
32 Judge’s seat
33 Put on the line
34 Afore
35 ____ Linda, Calif.
38 Scrap
39 Simple pond
organism
40 Nasdaq and N.Y.S.E.:
Abbr.
41 Polynesian staple
42 Taker of a dog DNA
test
44 Sinewy
47 Certain tree-hugger 48 Land of Ozymandias 49 Fixing things
51 Acoustic
52 Johnnycake grain
53 Health-class topic, in
brief
56 Winter bug
57 Flight
59 ‘‘Me too’’
60 They’re sometimes in
Roman numerals 61 One saying, ‘‘Back in
my day . . . ’’
62 Result of a perm
63 Mature
64 Beverage suffix
65 Show off a new dress,
say
68 Clinch
69 Chewable stimulant 70 Some French wines 75 Supports
77 Grouse 78 Star of the 1965 comedy ‘‘Harum Scarum’’
79 More than singe
80 Stag
82 Digression
84 Sighs of relief
85 Kind of a jerk?
86 Greek vowel
87 Savory pastry whose name comes from the Spanish for ‘‘breaded’’ 88 Occasion for playing
I Spy
89 Underlines
91 Prefix with tourism 92 Low whinnies
95 Family ____
96 ‘‘Are you pulling my
leg?’’
97 Chocolate-and-pecan
confection
98 Tips off
99 Jacket specification 100 Zig and zag 103 Momentous
105 Conference booty 107 Artist Magritte
108 Site with a Daily
Deals option
109 ‘‘My man!’’
110 Mardi ____
113 When fools rush in?:
Abbr.
114 Fields medalist
Terence
115 Hubbub
116 Cowboy nickname