SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Gustie Owens, of New York City, is a research assistant at MDRC, a nonprofit education and social policy research organization. She has been solving crosswords since middle school. Last spring, while a senior at Barnard, she was a member of The Times’s first Diverse Crossword Constructor Fellowship program. This is her first puzzle for the paper. – W.S.
Across
1 Concerning sights at beaches
5 Badly
8 Catherine O’Hara’s role on “Schitt’s Creek”
13 Get in the loop? 18 Smart ____
19 Regard
21 Regarding
22 “Gotcha,” more informally
23 A lover of gossip, the Netflix user …
26 Savage
27 Actor Channing 28 Defense of a history paper?
29 Andy who voiced Gollum in “The Lord of the Rings”
30 Goal of some criminal justice advocacy groups 32 Honey
33 Flower cultivated by the Aztecs
35 Like a dream scenario 37 “Bodak Yellow” rapper ____ B
39 Farm share inits.
41 The smoothie-bar worker …
49 Food thickener 50 Ending with book or boor
51 Home of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi
52 Hang loose 53 Proportion 55 Cretan-born painter who was a leader of the Spanish Renaissance 58 Anti-anxiety drug with a palindromic name 59 The Boston Harbor worker …
63 Denim jacket adornment
65 Farm female 66 Assembly kit piece 67 “Woot woot!”
68 Print maker 71 Clock-changing time, for daylight saving time 72 The cooking-show contestant …
76 “____ bleu!”
79 Draws out
81 Currency exchange option
82 ____ Questionnaire, character assessment that might ask “What is your idea of perfect happiness?”
84 Plane prefix
85 Big name in wings 88 Words after break or shake
89 The athlete in the locker room …
94 “____ is never finished, only abandoned”: Leonardo da Vinci
95 Puts in order
96 New York City’s mayor after de Blasio
97 Auction actions
99 Bag
101 Useless
105 Small lump
107 Wash with a spray 111 Sneeze guard?
113 ____ acid
114 And the up-andcoming trial judge … 116 Red animal in the 2022 Pixar film “Turning Red”
117 Home of the rides Frozen Ever After and Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure
118 Big name in party
cups
119 “Peter Pan” pirate 120 Teenage torment 121 Toots
122 “That’s a big ____” 123 Baking-soda unit:
Abbr.
Down
1 What many do during Ramadan and Yom Kippur 2 Representative Omar 3 “Suh-weet!”
4 Second- or third-stringer
5 Things that may be checked at the door, for short
6 Handouts at some protests
7 Former “Tonight Show” host
8 Econ subfield
9 It’s used to tune an orchestra
10 Money promises 11 Gets fully depleted 12 Football box score
abbr.
13 Print issue? 14 Best-selling Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie novel whose protagonist leaves Nigeria for a U.S. university 15 “Hang loose” hand
gesture
16 Avid assent in
Acapulco
17 Goes (for)
20 High-end countertop choice
24 Communicate with, in a way
25 Silicon Valley exec 29 Drew away
31 Savory rice cake of southern India
34 Chime in
36 “That feels good!” 37 One-named collaborator with Missy Elliott on “1, 2 Step” and “Lose Control”
38 Teenage torment 40 Penne ____ vodka 41 Tough
42 Clearly stunned 43 Audited a class, perhaps
44 Edible piece from a pomegranate
45 Suddenly say “I don’t” to, say
46 Push
47 Auditing guideline 48 Dr. Ruth’s field 54 Where Wells Fargo got its start
55 Delicacy with kabayaki sauce
56 47-Down experts, for short
57 Home of Wheeler
Army Airfield
60 Phillipa of Broadway’s “Hamilton”
61 What comes before the night before Christmas?
62 Half: Prefix
64 Dreidel, e.g.
67 Times of one’s life: Abbr.
68 Medicare section that covers prescription drugs 69 Francophile’s love 70 Like some old-money Americans
71 Some sources of old money
72 Loses layers 73 Grammy-nominated Amos
74 “____ out?” (question to a pet)
75 Bankrupt, say 76 Destination for a “Treat yourself” day 77 Opera highlight 78 Wearing down
80 Part of PRNDL
83 How March may be written
85 Syd tha ____, onetime hip-hop moniker
86 Some fall weather attire 87 ____ pants
90 Musical skill
91 Fit
92 They must be avoided at all times
93 Welcome, with “in” 98 Ice cream treat
99 Fits, as matryoshka dolls
100 Big inits. in home
security
102 Nightmarish address,
for short
103 Slangy thing that may be “dropped” in a serious relationship 104 Sweat spots
105 Spot for Golden State
estates
106 U.N. member
classified as a sultanate 108 In times past
109 Subway map dot 110 “No way!”
112 Mourn, maybe
114 It’s designed to catch
bugs
115 Doin’ just fine