SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD |
Will Nediger, of London, Ontario, is a professional crossword constructor. This is his 46th puzzle for The Times. A typical Sunday crossword has 140 answers, but this one has only 136, affording some longer “fill” outside the theme. Occasionally, as here, constructors include things personal to them in their grids. Will writes, “As a parent of two young kids, 49-Down next to 50-Down really resonates with me.” — W. S .
Across
1 British dandy
5 Dennis the Menace types
10 Really grand
14 The “A” in STEAM, for educators
18 Maker of the Aspire laptop
19 Pain-relief brand 20 Recordings for oral historians
22 Bound
23 Slow-driving holiday parade in December? 26 “Huh, didn’t expect to run into you here!’’ 27 Musical piece like Smetana’s “Vltava” 28 Club collections 29 Movie genre … or a shout on a movie set 31 Onetime Yves Saint Laurent employer
32 Make
33 Words at a pity party 34 Arrange by category 37 Update Wikipedia after the 2012 election? 41 Yiddish for “pancake’’ 42 Enthralled
43 Like some landscape photography
44 Assert confidently 45 Banned, in a way 47 Brand of “old-fashioned” root beer 48 Delicate bit of hair 52 Subject of study for an insect psychologist? 55 “Don’t love it, don’t hate it’’
56 Against 57 Communication method that may be written with Stokoe notation, in brief 58 Investigative journalist Farrow
59 Heroes that don’t wear capes 61 Trademarked refrigerant
62 Kind of gel 64 Condiment drizzled on a taco
66 Shot followers 68 Drumroll followers 69 Blacken
70 Pale purple
72 Holi powder
73 Some announcements interrupting in-flight movies, for short 74 Intelligence grp. featured on “Quantico” 76 Promise from actor Damon’s friends regarding his movie premiere?
79 “To Sontag, to Sondheim, to anything taboo” musical
80 Ceramic stewpot 82 Philosophy influenced by the “I Ching’’
83 Eager assistant’s declaration
84 “It is what it is,” e.g. 86 Corn ____
87 Art-shop purchase 88 Words accompanying an offering to the ruler of the donkeys?
93 Partner worth holding on to
94 Open acknowledgment 95 Uncreatively draws from
96 Busy locale in December
97 Leah who wrote “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology’’
98 Ivan the Great, for one 99 Some holiday-tree decorations
103 Home of the poet Forugh Farrokhzad
104 Arrive too late to see a hotel being built?
108 Number of worlds in Norse myth
109 Thought spot 110 Russian pancakes
111 Disney’s Queen of Arendelle
112 Pontiac muscle cars 113 “The Crown ____ Worth Much” (Hanif Abdurraqib collection) 114 One who questions people’s motives
115 Collect from the fields
Down
1 Arbitrator’s asset 2 Eight, in Spanish
3 Plant with no flowers or seeds
4 Southern dish often made with buttermilk and cornmeal
5 Tuchus
6 Film composer Bernstein
7 Ore locale 8 Electronics-aisle array 9 Jiffy
10 Ancient Italian region 11 Dealt with minor issues?
12 Some business-news topics, for short
13 What’s still in cartoons? 14 Many
15 Bring back on board 16 Mount Rainier’s ____ Glacier
17 Small piano
21 Done hurriedly and carelessly
24 Skyscraper feature 25 First of all 30 Screenwriter/actress Michaela
32 Moved cautiously 34 Soft white mineral 35 Snapshot of a gamer’s progress
36 Duo inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2001
37 Aggravation
38 Grab a midday meal with someone
39 Trolleys
40 Heads or tails 42 Getting rid of 45 Berkshire school since 1440
46 Western settlement area led by Brigham Young
48 Major conflicts
49 Tired expression? 50 When to read aloud to kids
51 Bowling-alley device 53 Swimming/cycling/ running competitions, informally
54 Zero-____ game 60 Grow to a huge size 61 Part of a clock 63 Booby-prize winner’s place
65 Unflinchingly candid 66 Within a point or two, as scores
67 Two-time Olympic gold medalist in soccer 69 Flagella relatives 71 Medium for a birthday message
74 Body part that a dog uses to shake, e.g. 75 77-Down’s color 77 75-Down gemstone 78 “To be continued … ’’ 81 Charlotte Corday, to Jean-paul Marat
84 Word after better or worse
85 Simple graphics editor, informally
87 Guy 88 Getting along
89 No longer obsessed 90 Italian-style cheese 91 Strong strings 92 Adjust the spacing between, in typography 93 Like a deserved comeuppance 96 Soprano Nixon 98 Director Ming-liang 99 Pass the threshold 100 Memphis’ river
101 Pancake served with sambar
102 Onesie closure
105 Plan for the future, in brief?
106 “America’s Got Talent” network
107 Do the Wright thing