NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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1 ‘‘Bon ____!’’
8 ‘‘See ya later!’’
13 It covers more than 30 percent of the earth’s surface 20 Donna ____, member of Bill Clinton’s cabinet
21 Klein who wrote the best seller ‘‘This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate’’
22 Desert whose soil has been compared with that of Mars
23 Biting writings 24 Breakfast treat 25 Persuades a customer
to pay more
26 ‘‘Or so’’
27 Much of a delivery
person’s income 29 Makes a choice 31 Hoppin’ 32 Prearranged
33 Suffix with official 34 Nickel found in a
pocket, say
35 Actor Barinholtz of
‘‘The Mindy Project’’ 36 Classic Camaro
38 ____ K. Smith, poet who won a Pulitzer for ‘‘Life on Mars’’ 40 Cosmetic that can be
applied with a brush 42 Neighbors of
exclamation marks 43 ‘‘La Dolce ____’’ 45 Stuffed one’s face 47 Bump on a frog 49 Question regarding
a mic
51 Hubbub
52 One of the Blues
Brothers
55 Above criticism 56 Question from the
befuddled 57 Syrian city with a
historic citadel 58 What ‘‘10’’ can mean 60 Extra
62 Rolled one’s r’s, say 63 Linguistic unit 64 Giraffe’s closest living
relative
65 Deb ____, secretary of the interior starting in 2021
66 Opposite of ’neath 67 Regarding
69 Exams for some future
clerks: Abbr.
71 Cold open?
72 Hang out on a line 73 U.K. award bestowed
by the queen 74 West Coast news inits. 75 Blunder
76 They cast lots
78 ‘‘Love covers a multitude of ____’’: I Peter 4:8
79 Lawn material 82 Something’s essential what’s spelled out by letters in this puzzle’s eight ‘‘cups’’ 87 Comedian Margaret 90 2011 film for which Octavia Spencer won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar
92 It takes blades to
blades
93 Deal
95 Like the consonants
‘‘t’’ and ‘‘d’’
97 Eject forcefully 98 Records request inits. 99 ____ history
101 Utah’s state flower 102 Org. that sets permissible exposure limits 103 Karaoke instruction
starting at 10-Down 109 P.R. consultant on
‘‘Ted Lasso’’
110 Start playing for pay 111 Into really small
pieces
112 Scott who sued for
his freedom 113 Afford, casually 114 Add salt to, say
Down
1 Home of St. Clare 2 Starfleet weapon 3 Election night what’s traced by the circled letters 4 Name that’s 6-Down
backward
5 Save it for a rainy day! 6 La Corse, par exemple 7 Brewery employee 8 Comb through
9 Bubs
10 Worker’s ‘‘on vacation’’
inits.
11 ‘‘Actually, I disagree’’ 12 Rococo painter of ‘‘Allegory of the Planets and Continents’’
13 They might be
pregnant
14 Organic energy
compound, for short 15 ‘‘Mi ____ es su ____’’ 16 Part of a cold
compress
$ m make like the object represented by the circled letters
18 ‘‘So then my response
¨¨
19 Hereditary divisions 28 Physicist Newton 30 Loyalty that’s pledged 37 Lemonlike fruit
38 Big rigs
39 ‘‘Well, fine then’’ 40 Age beautifully,
informally
41 Cuss out
42 Big Brother’s creator 44 Pink pad on a paw, in
slang
46 The Lord, in the
Hebrew Bible 48 Start of a simple
request
49 Roly-poly,
scientifically
50 ____ torte (Austrian
cake)
53 Warm-up act
54 Move shakily
59 Ross Perot founded it
in 1995
60 Lack of engagement 61 More wacky
62 ‘‘You’re just assuming’’ 68 It’s blown in the winds 70 Showed off one’s
pipes
77 Airport with a Harvey
Milk terminal: Abbr. 78 Harry Styles tune about a woman who ‘‘lives in daydreams’’ 79 Lines of notes
80 Sight line?
81 Cooked with hot
seasoning
82 Prefix with -lithic 83 Not against the rules 84 It’s under @ on a
keyboard
85 ____ lodge
86 Rowing machine,
informally
87 Event for moving
vehicles
88 Super
89 Actress Tatum
91 Folk medicine
practitioner 94 Foolish sort
96 Sports fan’s cheer 97 Universal Human
Rights Mo.
100 Ability to sustain
long-term interest 101 Kiss, in Kent
104 Sports fan’s cheer 105 Gift wrapper’s final
touch
106 Nail-polish brand 107 Buffet table item 108 Zoo animal whose name rhymes with ‘‘zoo’’