NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
DOWN FOR THE COUNT BY LAURA TAYLOR KINNEL
Laura Taylor Kinnel, of Newtown, Pa., teaches math and is the director of studies at a Friends boarding school near Philadelphia. She got her interest in crosswords at a young age through her grandmother, who used to solve the Sunday Times puzzle and ask for Laura’s ‘‘help.’’ The first crossword Laura made was a year-in-review puzzle for a 2018 Christmas letter. This puzzle is her debut in The Times. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 TV-screen inits.
4 Steinful
7 Cut (off)
10 “Nope”
13 Lucky strikes? 15 Massage target 17 Capital of Belarus
19 Spa amenity
20 1/x, for x
24 Top type
25 Hay-fever irritant 26 Online payment option 27 Record holder for the most Indianapolis 500 laps led (644)
29 Lowly workers 30 Mythical being depicted in bronze in Copenhagen Harbor 31 Followers of dos 32 Home of the N.C.A.A.’s Rhody the Ram, for short
34 Director DuVernay 36 Govt. org. often impersonated on scam calls
37 Picked a card 39 Abstainers … or the central column’s answers visà-vis 20-, 39-, 74- and 101-Across, respectively 44 One in a pocketful 45 Has finished
47 Speed that would enable a 23-minute D.C.-to-L.A. flight 48 Where fans are often
placed on high? 50 Org. whose academy’s
motto in English is “The sea yields to knowledge”
52 One who might give
you a shot
53 Miss
54 Food that Marge Simpson once served with “a whisper of MSG”
58 Big name in denim 59 Collected $200, say 63 “Te ____”
64 Former superstore chain selling diapers and strollers 67 “Egads!”
68 Quite a tale
70 Spirit
71 Charitable offering 73 Film character who says, “Kiss me as if it were the last time” 74 It postulates a spacetime fabric 80 Congressional budget
directives
81 San Francisco’s ____
Valley
82 Radio medium 83 Renaissance-themed
festival
84 Tears to pieces
86 Who once had all 10 of the top 10 Billboard hits simultaneously 87 “The Gift of the Magi”
author
89 “Seriously?”
91 Gobbles (down)
94 Doze (off)
95 Mr. Incredible’s actual
surname
96 College town of George
Washington Carver 98 Hither’s partner 99 “Absolutely!”
101 Little Richard hit with “the most inspired rock lyric ever recorded,” per Rolling Stone
104 Sea eagle
105 Many-time N.H.L. AllStar Jagr
107 Sheepish
108 Fashionable
110 Nonbinary identity 111 Focus of an egoist’s gaze 112 Magazine with annual Women of the Year Awards
113 President Ford and
others
114 Traditional, if bulky,
presents in Santa’s bag 115 Opening words?
DOWN
1 Super Bowl trophy
eponym
2 Deep-fried doughy treats 3 Picked nits
4 ____ tear (athlete’s injury) 5 Thieves’ place
6 Yosemite attraction 7 Hides one’s true nature 8 Group with the 2012 chart-topping album “Up All Night,” to fans 9 It's pitchfork-shaped 10 “Why do you ask?”
response
11 The 1 in (1,2), in math 12 Work times, typically 14 Phaser setting 15 Admiral Graf ____
(German W.W. II ship) 16 Leaf (through) 17 Bearing
18 One might be taken in
protest
19 Longtime NPR host Diane 21 Satellite inhabited continuously since 2000: Abbr. 22 Complement of turtledoves in a Christmas song 23 Obsolescent TV companion 28 Paris’s ____ La Fayette 30 Disfigure
33 ____ sleep
35 Perturb
38 “The Caine Mutiny” author 39 End of some school
names, for short 40 Orbicularis ____ (eyelidclosing muscle) 41 “We ____ Kings”
42 What fools might make
of themselves
43 “Je ne ____ quoi” 44 Joint winner of FIFA’s Player of the Century award in 2000 46 Top-level foreign-policy grp. 49 Monopoly quartet: Abbr. 51 Fold
53 Fuel line
54 Wallop
55 1935 Triple Crown winner 56 Top-ranked professional tennis player for a record 237 consecutive weeks
57 Ark contents
59 ____ fast one 60 Labor-day setting? 61 “Beau ____”
62 Signs off on
65 “I tell ya!”
66 Charlotte of “The Facts
of Life”
69 Universal self, in
Hinduism
70 Preserves something? 72 Houston A.L.’ers 73 Trump who wrote 2017’s
“Raising Trump”
75 Tiny margin of victory 76 When one usually goes
through customs 77 Purple pool ball 78 Brushed up on 79 Lucky-ticket-holder’s cry 84 Famed Chicago
steakhouse
85 A couple of Bible books 87 Completely unrestrained 88 Tribute
89 Swollen, as a lip 90 Drain, as blood
92 Swiss dish
93 Derisive expressions 95 Runs smoothly
97 They can’t do without
does
100 Prefix for a polygon with 140° interior angles
101 Headed for overtime 102 A short rest, so to
speak
103 He: Lat.
104 Top female baby name
of 2014-18
106 Year that Michelangelo’s “The Crucifixion of St. Peter” was completed 109 Things the Energizer
bunny may need