SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
PUNCH LINES
Daniel Grinberg, of Philadelphia, researches user experience for a utility company. This is his fifth crossword for The Times. It was inspired at a party when he heard someone with a new haircut cry out [the answer to 47-Across]. To which he thought [the clue to 47-Across] — which became the seed of this puzzle. Apart from the theme, Daniel tried to include new vocabulary in the grid. 1A, 116A, 10D, 15D, 36D and 74D are all appearing in a Times crossword for the first time.
ACROSS
1 Pink, purple and blue Pride display, familiarly 7 Hound
10 Kind of opening 13 Frontwoman for the Pussycats
18 Nipple rings
20 Target of an inventory scan
22 Acting like
23 Fault line?
25 Qualifier for a date 26 Olaf’s creator in “Frozen”
27 Nickname that drops “An-”
28 A gig has a thousand of these
29 Permitted 30 Permitted
31 Fine line?
35 Atomic number of neon
36 Preserves things? 37 Shaped like a kiwifruit 38 Processes
41 ____ attachment 44 Anatomical stabilizer 45 The Green Hornet’s assistant
46 Not down, in a way 47 Fishing line? 53 Mediterranean morsel 55 Get just right 56 Long-running police procedural, for short 57 Catalan artist Joan 58 Thought the world of 59 “To Kill a Mockingbird”
setting
61 Match well with 62 First color-TV manufacturer
63 Subway line?
68 Tittle
69 1970s-’80s Supreme Court justice ____ F. Powell Jr.
70 Scams
73 With an eager spirit 76 Landed
77 Flying formations 79 March ____
80 South American grassland
81 Assembly line? 84 Variety
85 Boxing stats 88 Celestial shape 89 British bottoms 90 Ladybugs and fireflies 92 Some sports-car features
95 Currency replaced by the euro
97 North American fish with toxic roe
98 Power line?
101 Simple card game 104 Groundskeeping equipment
106 It’s signed after a break
107 Otherworldly creatures, for short 108 Z, to Zeno
109 Illegal offering 110 Subject line?
114 Passage of rite? 115 Two outs left, in baseball
116 Performed really badly
117 Timetable: Abbr. 118 “There’s more to the story, right?”
119 “The Shining” prop 120 Quakes
DOWN
1 There’s a hole in one 2 Gloater’s cry 3 One-named indie singer with the 2007 hit “1234”
4 Kinks hit that starts, “I met her in a club down in old Soho”
5 Neighbor of Ctrl 6 Sense of orientation 7 Peacock parent
8 Exclamation of amazement
9 Alternative to nana 10 Shake slightly 11 Ukraine’s third-most-populous city 12 Where a lot of lying happens
13 Item in a trunk 14 Post-surgery prescription
15 Private line? 16 Motivator
17 “Crikey!”
19 Brings in
21 Moved like a cat burglar
24 Word after dead or data
29 Volunteer’s declaration
31 Soothe
32 Communal housing arrangements
33 /, in math
34 Director Lupino 36 Co-founder of the Joining Forces initiative, with Michelle Obama 39 One role in a classic interrogation trope 40 Zoomed
41 World Heritage Site in Sicily
42 Ground grain
43 Dame Edna, for Barry Humphries
44 “Enough! I get the picture already!” 45 Capital of Japan until 1868
48 Hostile state 49 Volunteer’s declaration
50 Like many retired professors
51 Petty arguments 52 TLC or Run-D.M.C. 54 Person of interest? 58 HBO comedy about a sports agent 60 Salamander named after an Aztec deity 61 ____ knife
64 Gives a hand?
65 Hot spot 66 Genealogist’s chart 67 Kids and nannies 71 Liberated
72 NSA agents, e.g. 73 Superficial, in a way 74 Rich with metaphor
75 Party line?
77 What might lead to a bridge
78 Subside 82 Second-year: Abbr. 83 Bunny ____ (photo prank)
86 Janitor’s ringful 87 Spanish “bear” 91 Kind of clef 92 Switched
93 Actress Thompson of “Westworld” 94 Canadian Tulip Festival location 95 Light-headed sorts? 96 Selling points 99 School name that sounds like a Canadian territory
100 Hip Hop Awards channel
101 Gestational metric 102 First-stringers 103 Posts in a rage, perhaps
104 Degrees for CFOs 105 Bog plant
108 New Mexican tribe 110 ____-courtin’ 111 Shot in the arm, slangily
112 Word after stink or pink
113 What’s what in Oaxaca