New York Times Sunday Crossword

Rhymes, Schmymes

ACROSS

1 Picnic annoyance 8 Cold quarters 13 Racetrack informant 20 Like okapis and

giraffes

21 Sit pensively

22 Cry from a survivor 23 Conversation over a

few whiskeys? 25 Wear

26 Pose

27 Mario Vargas Llosa’s

country

28 Strummed instrument, for short 29 Where butter and

cheese are produced 30 ____ buddies 31 Moreover

32 Org. for drivers 33 Return to base 36 2015 Verizon purchase

38 Filth covering pecans

and such?

45 Borodin opera prince 46 Fasten, in a way,

with “in”

48 Asian holiday

49 Tush

50 Venison spread? 53 Relics, to Brits 55 “You betcha!”

56 Very beginning? 58 Give a leg up ... or a hand

Lose one’s coat Casting need Notwithstanding Brings on Sprayed in the face Hardly a dolt? Powerful scents Made up

Virus fighters Director Wenders Unnamed character in Camus’s “The Stranger” Ground cover? Connections Buds come in them Office’s counterpart Avoid a jerk? 59 60 61 63 64 67 68 69 70 71 72

73 74 75 80 83 85

86 88

89 90 93 94 95

96 98 100 105 106

107 110 111

114 115 116 117 118 119

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16 17 Mozart’s Don Alfonso and Leporello Shout with an accent Gathered intelligence (on)

It has lots on the internet

Break up with an “unbreakable” Ellie Kemper character? “Black-ish” network Part of a kit

It may be found next to a spade Sashimi option Ready for battle DNA building block Restroom sign “What’s Going On” singer, 1971 Tampa Bay N.F.L.’ER Beats in the race Puts a stop to sentimentality?

Term for a word that isn’t the dictionary but maybe should be Subject of una serenata

Subject of the 2006 documentary “When the Levees Broke” Promenades Rehab program Plug

DOWN

Cake with rum Hovering craft Understand Industry, for short Treat on a stick Stuns, in a way Intruded (on) Watson’s company Cavity filler

Be a witness Exude

Loving verse? Some pageant wear Brought charges against

Daddy Criticize severely Part of a makeshift swing 18 19 24

29 30 33 34

35 37

39 40

41 42 43 44 ____ after Depend

“Just pretend I’m right”

Singer of high notes Scottish accents Dusted off, say James who won a posthumous Pulitzer Says, informally “When the Levees Broke” director High ____ Publisher in a robe, familiarly Algonquian Indians Open, as a bottle Prince and others Some drink garnishes 46

47 51 52 54 57 61

62 63 64 65

66 67 68 Fish whose name sounds like the past tense of 46-Across? Greets silently Begets

Take back

3-3, e.g.

Site of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Professional fixer, for short

Uses Gchat, e.g. Scornful sound

H. G. Wells villain Four-time Australian Open winner Picasso, e.g. Recent arrival Personalized music gift 69 70

71 73

75

76 77

78 79 81 82

84 87 Backyard shindig, informally Perfect score, or half of a score Smart remarks Zooey of Fox’s “New Girl”

Long, narrow pieces of luggage Modify

Where Hemingway wrote “The Old Man and the Sea”

Old Chrysler ____ terrier Parties

Pastor role in “There Will Be Blood” Keeper of the books, for short Japanese appetizer 91 92 94 97 99 100 101 102

103 104 107 108 109

113 Lifts Everything Appear that way 101 course

“... I’ll eat ____!” Order (around) May or Bee Prevent from clumping, say In conclusion Sway Random data point ____ Reader Powerful politico 111 & 112 Coupled “Collage With Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance” artist