SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Jeremy Newton, of Austin, Texas, is an engineering manager for a mobile games company. This is his 26th crossword for The Times – mostly Sundays, and most of those having visual elements, a bent he attributes to his artistic background. Jeremy attended a magnet high school for visual arts, the Art Institute of Dallas and then an N.Y.U. Tisch graduate program in code-driven art installations. He likes the large “canvas” that Sunday puzzles afford him.
ACROSS
1 Delights 5 Seesaw-powered vehicle on railroad tracks 12 They may be wireless 16 Mass approvals
18 Bay Area start-up mecca
19 Powered (by)
21 Where Lords Byron and Tennyson studied 23 Site of a claw machine 24 Private meeting 25 Add, as cilantro to guacamole
27 “____ of course!” 28 Alternative to Google 29 Failed web venture, in slang
33 Previously, in poetry 34 Biggest club in Vegas? 35 Flabbergast
36 Real dump
38 Features of Russian Orthodox churches 40 Trekker to Mecca 43 Org. that employed WWII-era Donald Duck as a spokesperson
44 Murals or graffiti, e.g. 46 How one might sing an R&B ballad
50 It might make your hair stand on end 51 Whales swim in them 52 Declaration upon arrival
55 Mormon Church inits. 56 Sensational reading material 60 ____-repeated 61 Longstanding rivalries 62 Stir up
64 Expansive 65 Recreational ____ 66 1937 Steinbeck novella
70 Pedicure target 71 Count on one hand? 73 Airer of the morning show “Get Up”
74 Do the bare minimum 75 Olive in old comics 76 “You!?” whimsically 77 Former MLB left-handed pitchers Jackson and Leiter
79 Like the moon in a solar eclipse
81 Malicious Mr. of fiction 82 A regular in Italian clubs?
85 2002 hit song for No Doubt
87 Cry for a spell? 90 Angsty and brooding 91 Significant piece
92 In the heart of, poetically
93 Due ÷ due
94 Fast-food chain with a sunrise in its logo
98 Call in a ring, for short 99 Dweller in a tree hollow 101 Obnoxiously fratty sort
102 “Allow me to demonstrate?”
106 Be an ambassador for, in brief
107 “It all makes sense now”
110 Like some economies and moisturizers
112 Left-wing protest group
114 Past disagreements that are no longer of concern … or each block of shaded squares in this puzzle?
118 Don’t give up on 119 How ancient mariners relied on the stars
120 Actress Witherspoon 121 Sport
122 Apt word spelled from this puzzle’s “covered” letters, top to bottom
123 Office monitor, in brief
DOWN
1 Son of Isaac
2 Citizen neighboring 3-Down
3 Nation across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait from Djibouti
4 Make out, in London 5 Must
6 Drink from the tap? 7 Negative connector 8 They often need new suits for work, for short 9 Move up
10 “____ girl!” 11 “Succession” TV family 12 Left jobs on bad terms, say
13 Remote button 14 Home of the Rosa Parks Museum
15 Siren, for one
17 Space heater? 18 Alternative to a cab 19 “Sounds reasonable” 20 Abominate 22 Go-aheads
26 “Hi there, friend” 30 Practices diplomacy 31 How Reubens are made 32 O.R. VIPs
35 Suffer
36 Put together
37 Fad figurine with colorful unkempt hair 39 What takes a toll? 40 Chooses sidewalk over subway, say
41 Long story short?
42 Au ____ (menu phrase) 45 Dum-dum
46 Life partner
47 It’s a lot for a lord to manage
48 “I mean … uh … it’s just …”
49 Don Juan
53 Adler who outwitted Sherlock Holmes
54 Worn ____ frazzle 57 “Go ahead and decide”
58 Co-star of “Airplane!” and “Hot Shots!”
59 Left quickly, with “out” 61 “The Crown” actress Claire
63 How some Cajuns converse
64 Crumb lugger 67 Required EMT skill 68 Much of it is junk 69 “C—mo ____ usted?” 72 Mastodons’ defenses 77 Taking after
78 Lapis ____, blue gem pulverized for paint during the Renaissance 80 “Arabian Nights” prince
81 1950s school dance 83 Over the line, so to speak
84 Texter’s “To me … ” 86 Sludge
87 Operator of the Texas Eagle and Southwest Chief
88 Perfectly refurbished 89 Rescue dog, e.g. 90 School-email ender 95 Some low-risk government issues, informally
96 Take for ____ (bamboozle)
97 Natalie with 12 Top 40 hits
100 “Are you serious?!” 101 Unlink from a social media post, say
102 California’s San ____
County
103 Barbecue leftovers 104 “Hoo-boy!”
105 Brainstorm
108 Lowly deckhand 109 What one star may mean 111 [shiver]
113 Bitter brew, in brief 115 Cause of a swollen head
116 Air … or chair
117 Illegal car maneuver, often