New York Times Sunday Crossword Movin’ On Up
ACROSS
1 [ omg haha!!]
5 Left speechless 9 Reward for sitting,
say
14 Entice
19 Something we share 20 Rocker John whose surname sounds like a leafy vegetable 21 “____ Man Chant,” song by Bob Marley and the Wailers 22 Diarist Nin
23 Where some stable
relationships form? 25 San Diego State
athlete
26 Verge
27 Name that’s 98
Across backward 28 The sky, they say
29 “All the Light We Cannot ____” ( 2015 Pulitzer- winning novel)
30 Certain Chinese teas 32 Roman emperor
after Nero and Galba 34 Heep of “David Copperfield”
36 Drop the “Donuts” from “Dunkin’ Donuts,” e. g.
38 Some four- year
degrees: Abbr.
39 Kind of attack with
no attacker 40 Michael Jackson hit whose title is heard 88 times in the song 41 What might accompany a grave admission?
44 Claws
47 Cheese with a light,
nutty flavor
49 Quite an uproar 52 Design style influenced by Cubism 53 Fabric often dyed
with indigo
55 Each of its interior angles measures 135 degrees
56 Swing preventer, of a
sort
58 Like some vows 60 Run off together
61 Personal ID
62 Like a sweater that shrank in the dryer, maybe
64 Its alphabet includes
delta 65 Some Brothers
Grimm villains 66 Artless nickname? 68 Tease
70 Sarcastic punch line
71 That guy’s
72 40 winks
75 Threads
77 Tepid greeting 79 Second word of
many a limerick 82 Sans- serif font 83 Thesis writer 85 Meaning of a signal
flare
88 2021 Aretha Franklin
biopic
90 Strained
92 Greek name meaning
“golden one” 93 Something filmed in Broadway’s Ed Sullivan Theater, with “The”
95 Journalist Skeeter in the Harry Potter books
96 Train segment
97 Butt end
98 Name that’s 27
Across backward
99 “Sweet dreams!”
101 Rapper ____ Rida
102 It’s not a good look 106 Family/ species gobetween
107 The last thing you
need?
109 Like the community portrayed in Netflix’s “Unorthodox”
111 Piercing tool
113 Tickle
115 Evian, in its native
land
117 Cruciverbalist’s
favorite cookies?
118 “Well, gosh!”
120 Tipsy trips
122 Teatro alla ____
123 Takes a car, in a way 124 Lab assistant in “Young Frankenstein”
125 It may be upper or
lower
126 Blue- book filler
127 Much of a sponge
128 Mad, with “off”
129 Word of surprise
DOWN
1 Santa ____, Calif. 2 Closing section 3 Banana wielded by a
maestro in a pinch? 4 Drug that can be
microdosed
5 Berry in a bowl 6 Animated short
before a Pixar movie? 7 New York resting
place for Mark Twain 8 In the stars
9 Give a scathing review of a major camera brand? 10 Demolish 11 Compound with a
fruity smell
12 Had a hero, say 13 Mexican street- food
mogul?
14 Pair of small hand
drums
15 Defunct company of accounting fraud fame
16 Smaug, in “The
Hobbit”?
17 Send an e- message
to
18 Makes shame- y noises 24 Does a fad 2010s
dance
31 Pro using cuttingedge technology? 33 Movie rating that’s
practically NC- 17 35 Political staffers
37 Retreat
42 “Fingers crossed!”
43 Window units 44 Small amounts 45 God whose name sounds almost like the ammunition he uses 46 Starts to go haywire 48 Where 122- Across
can be found 50 Places for placentas
51 Surrounding lights 54 Movement championed by the Silence Breakers
57 Get rid of
59 Light- headed sorts? 63 Word after gas or
ice, in astronomy 65 Novelist Achebe 66 Wizard’s name in
books and movies 67 Spun things
69 Kind of patch that may create holes instead of repairing them
72 Otis and ____ ( 1960s
R& B duo) 73 Disciplines 74 Response to “Why
art thou queasy?” 76 What Amazon retirees enjoy most? 78 Result of love at first
sight?
79 What a dog greets its
returning family with? 80 Inter ____
81 Trade jabs
83 Retail takeover
scheme?
84 Fix, as laces 86 Nomad 87 Annyeonghaseyo : Korean :: ____ : English
89 Tailgating dish
91 “Tarnation!”
94 Very, colloquially 100 Compassionate
103 Actress Davis who was the first African American to win the Triple Crown of Acting
104 Start of a guesstimate
105 Like a proverbial
beaver
108 Model material
109 Place for a run?
110 Rainbows, e. g.
112 “____ saved!”
114 Large amount
116 Bookstore sticker 119 “Euphoria” airer
121 Excellent service?