The New York Times Crossword
Aimee Lucido of Berkeley is crossword constructor and a children’s books author. Ella Dershowitz of New York City is an actor. A mutual friend introduced them. “We bonded immediately through being artsy puzzle people,” Ella said.
ACROSS
1 Confound
6 Sarcastic internet laughter 10 Most Times Square signage 13 Performance check
17 Dark hair and a warm smile,
for two
19 Samoan capital
20 To’s opposite
21 Full-length
23 Something that bugs
criminals?
25 Blabberer
27 Duplicitous
28 Musicianship
30 ____ dress
31 Pasture
32 Signed off on
33 Ukr. or Lith., formerly
34 Places for development
36 Corn kernel, e.g.
38 Actress Merrill
40 Genre for BTS or Blackpink 43 Added to the staff?
45 Alerts
48 ____ of lies
49 Aquafina : PepsiCo :: ____ :
Coca-Cola
52 #$%& and @%¢!
55 Practice whose name means,
literally, “union’’
57 Words before “before’’
58 “Deck the Halls’’ contraction 59 Symbol on the Connecticut
state quarter
60 Stop along the highway
61 Quite
64 Finished brushing one’s
teeth, say
66 Racial-justice movement
since 2013, in brief
67 “Really, though?’’
68 Word in many font names
69 Betray ... or a hint to four
answers in this puzzle
73 ____ the Cat (fictional feline
of children’s books)
74 Thin incision
75 Some $200 Monopoly
properties, in brief
76 Set of 50 on the Argo, in
myth
77 Coaxed (out of)
79 Insurance giant bailed out in
2008
80 Word before cap or pop
81 Awesomest bud
82 Spirit in Arabian myth
83 Arizona county or its seat
85 Pushing up daisies
90 Neighbor of Mozambique
92 Nonwriting credentials for Conan Doyle and Chekhov,
informally
93 Seller’s need
95 Artificial habitat
97 Abolitionist Lucretia
98 The avant-garde “artists’’
Congo and Pierre Brassau 100 Hedy of the 2017
documentary “Bombshell’’ 103 Kind of chip
105 Question of perplexion 108 “The Raven’’ writer’s inits. 109 Like
110 Big believer in the freedom
of assembly?
112 Press ____
113 What the beleaguered are
behind
115 Classic folk story that
teaches a lesson of sharing 118 Be up for some biking? 120 Fast runners
121 Advanced math degree? 122 Ninny
123 Sternutation
124 Real cutup
125 Landscaper’s supply
126 In the past
127 “As You Like It’’ forest
DOWN
1 Novelist Margaret
2 Absorb the beauty of, as a
scene
3 Lacked the gumption to
4 Gladly, old-style
5 Jazzy James and Jones
6 First law-enforcement org. in the U.S. to hire a female officer (1910)
7 Nail-polish brand
8 List of performers
9 Star man?
10 Half of a ’55 union merger 11 “That’s enough arguing out
of you!’’
12 Lip-puckering
13 Things that may be rubbed
after din-din
14 Playwright Will who was a
2005 Pulitzer finalist 15 Crew implement
16 One getting special
instruction
18 Ink holders in pens and squid 22 “Just like ____!’’
24 Like morning people vis-à-vis
night owls, around dawn
26 Response to “How bad was
it?’’
29 Extends, in a way
35 Lead-in to call
37 Cause for an onslaught of
yearly txts
39 “If the pessimists are right
...’’
41 Stroke
42 East: Ger.
44 Wednesday, but not Friday 46 Accelerator particles
47 Overwhelm
48 Some tax breaks
50 Boos and cheers
51 Light
53 Latin list ender
54 Some Hershey candies
56 Bought in
61 Time-consuming assignment
to grade
62 Xanax alternative
63 Monthly publication of the National Puzzlers’ League, with “The’’
64 More convinced
65 “The Magic School Bus’’ was
its first fully animated series 66 Sound at the end of
December, appropriately? 67 Beach with a girl who
“swings so cool’’ 70 Part of many a corsage
71 Bite site
72 Job to do
78 High-quality cannabis, in
slang
80 “Success!’’
81 Decorate
82 “I. Can’t. Even.’’
84 Spain’s Duchess of ____
86 Classic novel with the line “You must be the best judge of your own happiness’’
87 Environmental opening
88 When repeated, a reproof 89 Overturned
91 Most chiffonlike
94 Figure out
96 Not thinking
97 The Supremes’ record label 99 Bad temper
100 Makeup target
101 Where a “Married at First Sight’’ contestant meets his or her mate
102 Language in which “kia ora’’
is a greeting
104 Up on
106 Confused responses
107 Fight site
111 Long runs?
113 “A man’s character is his
____’’: Heraclitus
114 “Suds’’
116 Prefix with classical
117 Prof’s degree
119 Post on Insta