NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
OVER THE MOON BY OLIVIA MITRA FRAMKE
ACROSS
1 Pest-control product 5 Luggage label
10 Color effect in graphic
design 18 Video-game princess of the Kingdom of Hyrule
19 Writer Zora ____
Hurston
20 Take part in a D.&D.
campaign, e.g. 21 Brand of fruity hard
candy
23 Personae non gratae 24 Uranus 25 ‘‘Arrivederci!’’
26 Jerks
27 ‘‘____ to differ!’’
28 One taking the long
view?
31 Tarot-deck character 35 Some surgical tools 38 ‘‘Unit’’ of fun
39 All-star duo? 40 Comfort in not
knowing, say 47 Request
50 Jupiter
51 Ships passing in the
night?
52 Sch. on the Rio Grande 54 Hollers
55 Like some parties and
flowers
56 ‘‘Back to the Future’’
antagonist
60 Hit movie released as
‘‘Vaselina’’ in Mexico 62 Husk-wrapped dish 65 Colorful tropical fish 66 Song standard on ‘‘Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits’’ 71 Saturn
72 With 11-Down, hit 2001 film with an ‘‘!’’ in its title
73 Stirred up
74 Cold shower? 75 Muralist ____ Clemente
Orozco 76 2021 Super Bowl
champs
80 Boy, in Barcelona 81 Animated character who wears a red shirt and no pants
82 Time before computers, facetiously
85 Fleet runner: Abbr. 86 One feature of a perfect nanny, in a ‘‘Mary Poppins’’ song 91 Mars
92 Hesitate in speaking 93 More inquisitive 98 Jaded sort
99 Solo flier?
105 Prefix meaning ‘‘both’’ 106 Welled (up)
108 Like people who are
much looked up to 109 Insurance-fraud ploy 110 Determiner of
cannabis legality, e.g. 113 Classic carnival ride 116 Cherished family
member
117 Neptune
118 Golding of ‘‘Crazy Rich
Asians’’
119 Sporty car
120 Deliver a speech 121 World of Warcraft
spellcaster
DOWN
1 Leans (on)
2 Claim
3 Pastoral poem
4 ____ es Salaam
5 Navel type
6 Sticker on the back of a
laptop, say
7 Home to the Sugar Bowl and Heavenly ski resorts
8 Draft pick?
9 Neighbor of Belg. 10 Word after focus or
11 See 72-Across 12 Mountain map figs. 13 Ones getting the
message 14 Rio beach of song 15 Hollow center? 16 Turner who led an 1831
slave rebellion 17 Grateful sentiments, in
online shorthand 18 ‘‘The Greek’’ of film 21 Corner space in
Monopoly
22 Juggling or magic, in a
talent show
26 Nobel laureate
Morrison
29 Poker variety
30 ‘‘This Will Be’’ singer
Natalie 32 Sommelier’s métier 33 ‘‘Monsters, ____’’
34 Be on the level? 36 ‘‘Notorious’’ Supreme
Court initials 37 Knocked ’em dead 39 Not spoiled
41 Suffix with serpent 42 One of five in ‘‘pronunciation’’: Abbr.
43 Choice of sizes, briefly 44 Celebratory, quaintly 45 Deception
46 Cowboy or Patriot, for
short
47 Zeros
48 Distinct melodic
segment
49 Not waver from
53 Fruit also called a custard apple or prairie banana 55 Baby’s cry
56 Cue at an audition 57 Land jutting into il
Mediterraneo 58 Quaker
59 Community of
followers 61 Thesaurus listing:
Abbr.
63 Melber of MSNBC 64 Candy featured in a classic ‘‘MythBusters’’ episode 65 Confucian’s spiritual
path
67 In ____ (peeved) 68 Nintendo dinosaur who eats fruit and throws eggs
69 Bring to court
70 2003 best seller whose title is one letter different from a fantasy creature 75 Pleasures
77 Grammy winner
DiFranco 78 Rendezvoused
79 ____ gow (Chinese
domino game) 81 Money earned from an
event, say
82 Gush
83 Archaeologist’s find 84 Brian once of glam rock 86 U.S. health org. 87 ‘‘Hands off, that’s
mine!’’
88 Austrian article
89 Sent off
90 Lose a layer
94 Bit of luau wear
95 ‘‘No question!’’ 96 Magazine whose 60th anniversary issue had the cover line ‘‘Denzel, Halle & Jamie’’
97 What’s hard about a
melon?
99 Origami shape called
‘‘orizuru’’
100 Tree surgeon, at
times
101 Interior chambers 102 Gem weight
103 Bonnie’s partner in
crime
104 Quadratic formula
subj.
107 Oodles
109 Measurement in plane
geometry
110 Camera type, briefly 111 As well
112 DuVernay who
directed ‘‘Selma’’ 113 Queue before P 114 Canal locale
115 Piece de resistance?