New York Times Crossword No. 0218
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. — W. S.
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-mostpopulous 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 N.S.A. 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 C.F.O.s
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