NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Ruth Bloomfield Margolin, of Westfield, N.J., serves on the boards of several community nonprofit groups. For the past three years she has given talks at area libraries on crossword construction — lately adding Zoom presentations to her repertoire. Ruth created a crossword for her son’s July wedding (now postponed), which included the couple’s favorite board game, Pandemic. Whoops! She’s revising that puzzle now to feature only “fun” things. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Front
7 Spanish rice
12 Little sucker? 15 Smallish batteries 18 Like a seacoast after a
storm, maybe 19 Ferris Bueller’s girlfriend 20 ____ B. Wells, civil
rights pioneer 21 ____-mo
22 S as in soup?
23 Kind of drawing 25 Icarus’s downfall 26 Skip work for health
reasons
28 Words after ‘‘Ooh, ooh!’’ 29 Beau, to Brigitte 30 Verbal stumbles 31 Baseball catcher
32 Ire
34 Boy band with two members who previously starred on ‘‘The Mickey Mouse Club’’
36 Little suckers 37 Headgear for a tailgater 39 One of the Arnazes 40 ‘‘… but it’s up to you’’ 43 Famously green shampoo 45 Rap’s Shakur
47 Pope after Benedict IV 48 Winter vacation
destination 51 Parades
54 Barely beat
55 Goals
56 Silverback gorilla, e.g. 58 Moreno with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony
60 Drag-racing vehicles 62 ‘‘____ trap!’’
63 Meager
65 Tired
66 In perfect order … or, as two words, what’s formed by applying the answers for the five italicized clues to the circled letters 70 Dined at home
71 More skeptical 73 ‘‘Hamilton’’ actor Leslie
____ Jr.
74 Break down, to a Brit 76 Theory
77 Sea ____
79 Prefix with -plasm 80 Piece paid by Pisans for a piece of pizza, previously
82 Safe places 84 Multi-episode narrative 87 Crucifix inscription 88 Relentlessly question 90 En ____ (as a whole) 91 Having tattoos 92 Event that’s a bit off? 94 The butler, stereotypically 97 It gives Ford an ‘‘F’’: Abbr. 99 Buff
100 First Alaskan on a
major U.S. party ticket 101 E-4, E-5 and E-6, in
the U.S. Navy, in brief 102 Successors to LPs 105 Part of Canada above
Alta. and Sask. 106 One of the Gandhis 109 Where to get a mullet
trimmed
112 ‘‘____ get it now!’’ 113 Civic center
115 Colored ring
116 Washington’s Sea____ Airport
117 Non’s opposite 118 Ban … or bandit 119 By and large
120 College entrance
exam org.
121 Hosp. V.I.P.s
122 Author Zora ____
Hurston 123 Son of Aphrodite
DOWN
1 Compete in one leg of a
modern pentathlon 2 Loud, as the surf
3 Chills
4 Not incl.
5 Set the boundaries of 6 Perfect
7 Smart ____
8 Painter of the ‘‘Four
Freedoms’’ series, 1943 9 Sound from a cheering
crowd
10 Even
11 Pinnacle
12 ____ Chemical Company, onetime maker of VapoRub 13 Writer Serwer of The
Atlantic
14 Event planner’s need 15 Attempts
16 They’re listed by degrees 17 ____ boom
19 Struck, old-style 24 Bygone Apple
messaging app 27 Members of a blended
family
33 Move, in Realtor jargon 35 Airport logjam
36 Rick, Ilsa and Victor had
one in ‘‘Casablanca’’ 37 First lady between
Eleanor and Mamie 38 Fanny
40 Accented cheer 41 Raggedy Ann and
Raggedy Andy, for two 42 Restricted zone 44 ‘‘Ba-dum-tss’’ 46 Education support grps. 48 ____ Paulo, Brazil
49 Sea route, e.g. 50 ‘‘Frozen’’ queen 52 Endless YouTube
viewing, e.g. 53 French island off the coast of Newfoundland 57 Tropical yellow fruits 59 Writer Rand
61 New York city with a
marina
62 Suffix with tour or Tory 64 ____-El (Superman’s
birth name) 65 Conflict during which the Lusitania was sunk: Abbr.
67 Fateful date
68 What’s left at sea 69 Dig in
72 Flat, round bread
cooked on a griddle 75 Noted congresswoman from the Bronx, familiarly 78 After-bath application 79 Anatomical sac 81 Hoped-for response to
an SOS
83 Lien holder, e.g. 85 Ahab’s father in the Bible 86 Desert’s lack 89 Hogwarts professor who was secretly a werewolf 91 ‘‘Awkward Black Girl’’
creator and star 92 ‘‘Who cares?’’ 93 Slapstick silliness 95 Gary who created ‘‘The
Far Side’’
96 Award to be hung 98 Start of a playground
joke
99 U.S. govt. bond
101 Compass letters 102 Unisex fragrance 103 ____ Street, Perry
Mason’s secretary 104 Strong ropes used to
support masts 107 Verb preceder
108 Bad things on motorists’
records, for short 110 ‘‘Dies ____’’ (hymn) 111 Curb, with ‘‘in’’ 114 The Jazz, on
scoreboards