New York Times Sunday Crossword
Cracking Wise
ACROSS
1 52-story Boston skyscraper, familiarly
7 Brass instrument
with a mellow sound 15 ____ Malfoy, student
at Hogwarts 20 Sorkin and Spelling 21 Kind of equinox 22 Puerto ____
23 “Stop! You’re killing
me!”
25 ____-garde
26 Give some lip 27 Uncut
28 More than willing 30 For whom the Lorax
speaks
31 Internet home to “Between Two Ferns”
Latin for “womb” Monsieur’s mate
Y or N, maybe Shakespeare character who says, “This above all: to thine own self be true” Actor Jason Zugspitze, e.g. A person skilled at deadpan has one 52 What “4” may stand for
French river or department Beseech Advert’s ending? Designer Geoffrey Carrier to Karachi Tugboat sounds Decked out Unimpressed response to someone’s one-liner
72 ____ intolerance 73 Novo-ogaryovo is the official one of the Russian president
74 Lavatory sign 75 Hawke of “Training
Day”
76 Regrettable 79 Broadway’s Hagen 81 “Roméo et Juliette”
segment
85 Coin-toss call 34 38 41 42 45 47 50 54
55 56 57 58 61 65 67 86
92 93 94 95
97 99 100
104 107 108
110 114 115 120 121
122 123
124 125
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1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10
11 12
13 14 15 Stand-up chain started in Los Angeles Big engine additive Log-in needs Verbally assail “Iglu,” for “igloo”: Abbr.
Cover over, in a way Start limping
It might involve someone being “so poor” or “so old” “____, amigo” Count ____ Nail-salon employees, at times
Its “reeds are a pain / And the fingering’s insane,” per Ogden Nash
Lipinski and Reid “Jeez ... lighten up!” Be grandiloquent To this day, Marie Curie’s are still radioactive Mystery Lacoste and Descartes
Star of 1976’s Oscar winner for Best Picture Smoothed in a shop
Some body art, for short “Hilarious!” Noteworthy times Lobster traps Med. professionals who take a pledge named for Florence Nightingale Welcomes Plaster Condition for filmdom’s Rain Man Suffix with speed “Oh, what the hell ... I’ll do it”
“Uh, you’ve told me quite enough” Where Michael Jordan played coll. ball Meadow call Poet Ginsberg “Game of Thrones” creature 16 17 18 19
24 29 30
31 32
33
34 35 36
37 Joan who quipped ”A Peeping Tom looked in my window and pulled down the shade”
“Pick ____ ...” “Pretty please?” Doing a pirouette, say
Poison ivy, e.g. Some sneakers Something carried onstage? “Terrif!”
Fifth category of taste with a Japanese name “Peter ____ Greatest Hits” (1974 album) High hairstyle Doughnut figures Late ’50s singing sensation
One of many scattered in a honeymoon suite, maybe Light bark
Cry from Homer Kind of port for a flash drive Manage Night vision? Bowl
Maid’s armful Made an appeal Hymn starter Habitation Around the time of birth
Chains Car-rental giant Poet who wrote “Fortune and love favor the brave” 63 Org. that offers Pre? enrollment
64 ____ fly
66 One on the left?:
Abbr.
67 Greatly bother 68 TV blocking device 69 Tops 39 40 43
44 46 47 48 49 51 52 53
59 60 62 70 71 72
77 78
80 82 83 84
87 88 89
90 91 93
95 96 98 Finish all at once, in a way
Things taken by government officials “Sounds like a plan!”
“Don’t be ____!” ____ Walcott, Nobel Prize-winning poet Patriots’ org.
Bad state to be in Mine transport Modern party summons
Euros replaced them Bustle
Grp. that puts on a show
Fleets
Wall St. bigwigs Like Mount Narodnaya
Empty
Brings a smile to Like some angels and dominoes 100 101
102
103 105 106 108 109 110
111
112 113 116
117 118 119 Champion Airport that J.F.K. dedicated in 1963 Erin of “Joanie Loves Chachi”
Locks up Concoct
Bug
Jester
Feeling Anthony Hopkins’s “Thor” role
City NNE of San Antone
“My treat!”
“My stars!” Cambodia’s Angkor ____
Court org.
Skit show, for short What makes you you?