New York Times Sunday Crossword
Portmanfaux
ACROSS
1 Era of ignorance 9 Elevators in an office
building?
14 Houston squad,
casually
19 Eaglelike 20 Mississippi River
bottom feeder 21 “Wouldn’t that be
nice!”
22 Satchel for a homicide detective?
24 Joe of “Goodfellas” 25 Something found at the top of many a Google search page 26 Manufactured 27 Baking soda has
many of these 29 Tush
30 Danny Ocean’s exwife in “Ocean’s Eleven” 31 Unseasonal wear on a winter vacation? Map
Parisian waters Jewish mourning period
Zoom, e.g. Baseball stats sometimes called 39Down
Jerk
Static
Swiss canton that was home to William Tell
49 Variety of stud poker, familiarly
50 Berry with two diacritics in its name 51 “Get ____!” 52 Late-morning meal for a TV family? Dorm overseers, for short
59 Sports event with two diacritics in its name
Cry after “Company” Who wrote, “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king”
One way to buy mustard cheaply? 67 Like the number i,
mathematically 34 36 37
38 39
42 46 48 58 60 61 64 68 69 70 71 77 80
81 82 83 84
86 87
88 90 92 93
98 99
100 101
102
105 107
110 111 112 113
114 115
1 2 3
4 5
6 7 8 9
10 Burns writing Strong bond
A pillar of Islam Emails such as “Click this link to become an Apollo astronaut”?
Erie Canal city ____ Spiegel, cofounder of Snapchat “Darling, won’t you ____ my worried mind” (“Layla” lyric) Peter’s chief of staff on “The Good Wife” Down-on- their-luck sorts
Hit the hide off the baseball Beauts Backgrounds in theater Tempur-pedic rival Seawater compound Neophytes Collection of Yulecentric posts? Boxing venue Nagy of Hungarian history Wooded valley Bird on Walden Pond in “Walden”
Like services covered by a health insurer Drops
Utensil for eating some cured meat? Link with Brainpower
See to it
When a happy hour might start Haven
Seizure cause
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Deaden acoustically Blue shade Kingdom in “The Prisoner of Zenda” Leg-pullers
Div. for the Red 106-Down Secures with a band S.A.S.E., e.g.: Abbr. They require stitches What the rotator cuff rotates
School extension? 11 12
13
14 15 16
17 18 20
23 28
32 33 34
35 Neutral shades Word from the Latin for “noose”
One caught by a 12-Down
Nurse Can-can dancing? Formula for slope in math
Costa Rican president who won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize
Stuffed ____
Clay and oil, for artists
“For heaven ____” Some ways on Waze: Abbr.
Split personality? Branch of Islam Appurtenance for a cartoon Neanderthal Mannheim mister 39 40
41
43 44 45
47
49 53
54
55 56
57 62 63 Delmonico steak cuts Document listing technical specifications
TV network with a science-y name Prefix with puncture More sensible One is roughly the mass of a speck of dust Festoons with Charmin, for short Charged up Laura of “Big Little Lies” Confucian philosopher ____ Hsi Really trendy
Hit just beyond the infield Hightail it, saltily Ocean froth “The Simpsons” bar 64 65 66 67
70 72 73 74 75
76 78
79 85
86 Asian fruits used in Western alternative medicine Norwegian king near the end of the first millennium Non-____ (food label) Western powwow held every year or so “Come again?” Limit
“Fancy that!” People like you Orfeo in Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice,” e.g.
Not catch Crescent-shaped Italian pastries Piedmont wine town Alternatives to gelcaps Semiliquid stuff 87 89 91 92 93 94 95
96 97 98 103 104 106 108 109 Neural junction So-so filler? Lunkheads Holiday glitter Flora and fauna Plaster for painting Animal used to guard sheep and goats Spanish crockery Munchkin “____-Tikki-tavi” Misreckons
“It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is ____”: Churchill
See 5-Down Numerical prefix Much Top 40 music now