South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Meghan Morris is an appellate public defender in Denver, where she lives with her partner and twin kindergartners. She got into crosswords at the University of North Carolina, where she did them in The Daily Tar Heel. ‘‘I can’t promise that I never worked on a crossword in class,’’ she says, adding, ‘‘My college roommate recently reminded me that she and I would bemoan when the
crossword was on the fold, because then it was hard to do discreetly.’’ — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Do some backup dancing?
6 Things with wires, often
10 Sweets
14 Musical whose name is an anagram of the members of a musical
18 ‘‘Here, take this’’
20 Hit hard
21 Many a donor, for short
22 ‘‘You may disagree, but . . .,’’ to a texter
23 *What’s in your wallet
26 Actress ____ Flynn Boyle
27 Confidence-building mantra
28 Burdens with
29 Trimmer
30 Dash dial
31 Stretches of time
32 *Press junket
34 Country whose capital is named after an early U.S. president
37 Odd-numbered page, typically
39 Take in
40 Buzzing about
41 Bird watcher’s org., once
43 *Barbershop quartet
49 *Rocket scientist
53 Lines on which music is written
54 Opera whose title character is a singer
55 Complete
56 Hermanos de la madre
58 Like Legolas in ‘‘The Lord of the Rings’’
60 Muscle used in a pullup, informally
61 Word between ‘‘what’’ and ‘‘that’’
63 R.&B.’s India.____
65 Profit
68 *Security blankets
74 ‘‘Black Jeopardy!’’ for one
75 Apocalypse
76 Qantas hub, on luggage tags
77 Org. that merged with the 41-Across in the
1970s
78 Off-limits
82 Letters to ____ (rock group)
84 Cargo
87 Likely to offend, in brief
90 Author Ellison
92 *A drop in the bucket
95 *Ticketmaster
98 United hub, on luggage tags
99 Expected
100 League designation for the Durham Bulls and Salt Lake Bees
101 Cut choice
103 Power
106 *Ballet movements
111 Game of who, what and where
112 Ancestor of Methuselah
113 Is grating
114 Start of a literary series
116 Cottoned on (to)
120 ____ mater
121 Has no plan B . . . or, when parsed differently, what each of the starred clues does vis-à-vis its answer?
123 Having South Asian roots
124 Small table fare?
125 Summers on the Seine
126 Chorus section
127 Global brand of men’s dress shirts
128 Pair
129 Laura of ‘‘Big Little Lies’’
130 Consulted for feedback about
DOWN
1 Designation on some pronoun pins
2 Rapper with the
2011 hit album ‘‘Ambition’’
3 The before-times?
4 Reel off
5 Auto hobbyist’s project, maybe
6 Airer of the crime drama ‘‘Luther’’
7 Circulation unit
8 Draws
9 Stands
10 Steps up to the plate
11 John Legend’s ‘‘____
Me’’
12 ____ Park, city west of
Anaheim 13 Lifesaver, for short 14 Pico de gallo
ingredient
15 Leave slack-jawed
16 Confuse
17 Doesn’t just increase
19 Faint pattern
24 Occupy
25 Weekend destination for an N.Y.C. getaway, maybe
29 Twitch, for instance
33 Fountain of youth?
34 Twitch problem
35 ‘‘The very ____!’’
36 Power (up)
38 Like the head of a badminton racket 42 How you should ‘‘take
me,’’ in a phrase 44 Modern reproductive
tech inits.
45 Some votes in the Bundestag
46 Spanish 101 verb
47 Bitter
48 Major water source
50 Tool chain
51 Missouri county on the Arkansas border
52 Moved fast
57 ‘‘Chandelier’’ singer,
2014
59 Suffix with bad, mad, sad and glad
62 Huff
64 Period in curling
66 ‘‘Schitt’s Creek’’ role for Sarah Levy
67 Title play character who never shows up
68 Open, as a gift
69 Bias
70 Maker of the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game
71 ‘‘What’s up, ____?’’
72 ____ sci
73 They’re heard in a chorus
74 Reasonable
79 Focus of many a law
80 German chancellor Scholz
81 Sir Isaac Newton work on the fundamentals of light
83 ‘‘Let’s begin our adventure!’’
85 Opera that aptly premiered in Egypt
86 Good name for an archaeologist?
88 Idiot
89 Grumps
91 Excavated, with ‘‘out’’
93 Give for a time
94 Jennifer Affleck ____ Lopez
96 It’s bad overseas
97 What the Beatles never did
102 With 104-Down, playground fixture
104 See 102-Down
105 One of South Africa’s official languages
106 Longtime Miami Heat great, to fans
107 Subleased
108 Playground comeback
109 Wood that sinks in water
110 ‘‘More or less’’
115 Greenlit
117 Zero ____
118 Tesla, for one
119 Website with a Home Favorites page
121 Crumple (up)
122 QVC alternative