SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Rich Katz of Park City, Utah, does freelance work in corporate restructuring. This is his third crossword for The Times – all Sundays. The puzzle started when Rich was ruminating on the expression “two wrongs don’t make a right.” One thing led to another, then another. This punny puzzle was the result. Rich does all his constructing at home on a table overlooking a gorgeous Rocky
Mountain vista. – W.S.
ACROSS
1 Pulled one’s pants up? 7 Group of mimes, maybe 13 Neither crushed it nor got crushed
18 Revenue source for a website
19 Excitement
20 Really bad
21 But wait!
23 One of the Wayans brothers
24 Output of Michel de Montaigne
25 Asian honorific
26 Bone insert following an accident
27 In the past
28 She shares a home with Homer
31 Small plateau
33 Broad key
35 Pig
36 Potato, in Indian cooking
37 Buffoon
38 To peace!
41 Totally phat 43 Nail-polish brand 44 Queen’s accessory 45 “Star Wars” queen 47 Go ____
50 Classic Greek archetype?
54 Word for word, in Paris?
55 Holy Week
58 Get ready
59 Place to drop off a package
61 With 2-Down, end of the Gettysburg address? 62 Wipe clean 63 Lhasa ____
65 Pointer
66 “E pluribus unum” appears on one 69 Crushed (it)
70 “The Glass Bead Game” author
72 Lipa who sang “Levitating”
74 Martini ingredient 76 Text tweaks
77 Air rights
79 “Cool” that’s no longer cool
82 Mind-numbing detail 84 Skip a party, in a way 85 French cosmetics chain
87 Coming ’round again 89 Padre’s hermana 90 Psychedelic dose 91 Bare feet
96 Snoop
98 Ones who get setters better?
99 Surface alternative
100 One praised at the Kaaba
101 Actress Rowlands
103 One winging it?
104 “And so on”
105 Professional connections
106 Guacamole or tahini 108 Air-____ (extra-secure, as a computer)
110 “How considerate!” 112 We won!
117 Goes “bottoms up”? 118 Brainstorms
119 Beethoven work once called the “Bonaparte” Symphony
120 Impatiently agitated 121 Volkswagen model 122 One of eight in a V8
DOWN
1 Visit to the Kaaba 2 See 61-Across 3 Certain web portal 4 Deliver (on), as a promise
5 Beethoven wrote a piece “für” her 6 Relaxation spots 7 Lock
8 Spoil
9 Yours and mine 10 Loan shark 11 Grilled sandwich on
Italian bread
12 Part of a Western herd 13 You might get it for a lot
14 “____ been thinking … ” 15 Peak once known as Mount McKinley
16 First state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms 17 “Star Wars” Jedi 19 “Mmm, I see what you’re saying”
20 Hershey toffee confection
22 Scottish toppers 26 Commit a holiday-etiquette no-no 28 Term of address that becomes less formal when its middle letter is removed
29 Enterprise alternative 30 Flew by
32 Have ambitions
34 One of its uses is boring
35 One doing kickflips and ollies, in slang 37 Red-faced
39 Exhaust … or something found near the exhaust
40 Wrathful
42 Yoga equipment 43 Memorable part of Rossini’s “William Tell” 46 First of five at the Globe Theater
48 Toss in
49 Infuser contents
51 See in
52 Trick
53 Column that might lead to a row? 56 Home-organizing guru Marie
57 Focuses of some sonograms
60 Put on airs 63 [purposeful cough] 64 Salon treatment, for short
67 Book before Obadiah 68 Like those at the top, it’s said
71 Ingredient in perfumes 73 Early ISP
74 Using an e-cigarette 75 Delivery org. 77 Sources of winter strains
78 “You’ve got the wrong guy”
80 Muse of love poetry 81 Blue Ribbon beer 83 Connective tissues in the legs, informally 86 Some YouTube content, in short
88 Real head-turner 91 Midday nap
92 “____ Girl” (Billy Joel hit)
93 Ketchup container, maybe
94 “Well, aren’t you the cat’s meow!” 95 Complains, complains, complains
96 Manages to acquire, as a table at a popular restaurant
97 Bear whose porridge was too hot
102 Everglades bird
103 ____ dish
105 Like a leaky pen
107 Smartphone predecessors, for short 109 Word with school or cook
111 1040 collector
112 Currency unit in Laos 113 Flight spec 114 Small problem
115 Lead-in to sphere or system
116 Sought office