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By Kevin G. Der / Puzzles Edited by Will Shortz
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Leave a permanent mark on
Stows, as a banner
Ice carving?
Frequently
Romance writer Roberts
Ultimately succeed
Coin portraying Queen Victoria, once
Quaint cry of disapproval
Play by heart?
Monastery title
Sphere
Personal problems
Relay segment
Roman emblem of power adopted by
Mussolini
Big name in grills
Toward the back
Gymnastics event
Means of death for Judas Iscariot
A plus average?
Tight-lipped
Took first
2007 Peace Prize recipient
Rio greeting
Makes minor observations?
Gum that comes in Fire and Ice varieties
Begot
Letterhead?
“Star Trek: T.N.G.” counselor
Leeway
Life force in Eastern medicine
Handle with care?
Chart of the heavens
River more than 2,700 miles long that
crosses the Equator twice
Two turtledoves, e.g.
Cry at a surprise party just before the
honoree arrives
Get a groove on?
Drink Gatorade after a workout, say
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78 Blow it
79 Red-haired biblical twin
80 Marco Polo crossed it
81 “Gnarly!”
82 What a lead runner sets
85 Learns
88 Some Bavarian brews
91 Under the weather
92 “Pronto!”
93 Part of a film studio tour
95 Disney Channel’s “____ and Maddie”
96 Grab and go?
104 Land bordering Nepal
105 Errands, e.g.
106 A.T.M. expense
107 Provider of limited coverage?
109 Subject to a recall, maybe
111 Ginger ____
112 “You betcha!”
114 Middle X or O
115 Milne young ’un
116 Stay ahead of the curve?
120 Dec. 31, e.g.
121 ____ Hawkins dance
122 Glossy fabric
123 Baja’s opposite
124 Setting for much of “Lord Jim”
125 Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse ____
126 Stuck-up sort
127 Spot for brooding
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Support, as a foundation
Dara who swam at five Olympics
Curmudgeonly
Common Christmas entree
Former Saudi king
Release from shackles
Way up a bunny slope
San ____ Obispo, Calif.
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Thérèse, e.g.: Abbr.
Make available
Bars for swingers?
Go (for)
Coral bleaching locale
Drive mad
Salty or spicy
Event with steeply discounted prices
Interest piquer
Sports team tally: Abbr.
Boeing competitor
Dollar, in slang
Pittance
One of nine for Tina Fey
Swedish lake that’s the largest in the
European Union
Suffix with beta or cyclo-
Drops
Metaphor for punishment
Standing
Luau locale
Cupronickel, e.g.
Like some uncertain dates
Poppycock
1998 N.L. M.V.P.
Night at the museo?
____ the line (obeying)
Canoe builder’s bark source
“Quite true”
Padlock’s place
Find common ground
What spirits can do
Toward the back
Kept for later
“A Visit From St. Nicholas” writer
Very loud
Isn’t over yet
Maker of the fragrance Sauvage
Wreck, informally
Russian moolah
Triangular road sign
‘Whatever’ claims US title as most annoying word
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.
(AP) — A poll has found
that the most annoying
Life
is
‘All In The
Timing’
See you at the PAC
Jan. 13+
word or phrase used in
casual conversation in
America is “whatever.”
The Marist College poll
released Wednesday indi-
cates the word irritates 38
percent of Americans.
The pollsters offered
up five options for most
annoying word or phrase:
“Whatever,” “No offense,
but,” “Ya know, right,” “I
can’t even” and “huge.”
“No offense, but” is
second with 20 percent. In
third place is, “You know,
right,” which is irksome
to 14 percent of people,
tied with “I can’t even.”
“Huge” grates on the
nerves of 8 percent.
“Whatever” is losing
some steam, though. Last
year it topped the list at 43
percent.
Age matters. Among
Americans under 30, “I
can’t even” takes top
honors.
The Dec. 1-9 survey of
1,005 adults has a sam-
pling error margin of plus
or minus 3.1 percentage
points.
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94 Soy-based frozen- dessert brand
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98 Fisher of fashion
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82 Imagines
83 Like a machine that prints, scans and
faxes
84 Provider of the fizz in a gin fizz
86 Worm or fly
87 Blubber
89 Setting for some aerial maneuvers
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103 Passes
108 Onetime alternative to Facebook Messenger
110 Website with a Watch list
112 Vigorously debate (with)
113 Man cave, maybe
117 Employee badges, e.g.
118 It’s a “gift”
119 Name whose Italian equivalent is
Giovanni
Dad shares kid’s visit downsides
CAPE ELIZABETH,
Maine (AP) — Clothes all
over the house, milk left out
of the fridge, loud gatherings
with friends. These are some
of a Maine dad’s complaints
about his college daughter
being home for Christmas.
Dan Howard, of Cape
Elizabeth, posted a humorous
two-minute video on Face-
book in which he describes
scenes that are likely familiar
to any parent with a child
home from college. It has
more than 900,000 views after
Howard’s daughter, Shannon,
shared it on the Facebook
page of High Point Universi-
ty, where she goes to school.
“It took off from there.
She knows it’s good na-
tured,” Howard said.
Howard has three chil-
dren; Shannon is his second
in college. He says he was
inspired to create the video
after tripping over one of
Shannon’s suitcases that
she’d left in the living room
for days after arriving home.
Howard retreated upstairs,
where his family thought he
was working. But he was
actually recording the video.
“We call it Hurricane
Shannon when she comes
home,” he said.
Howard’s video describes
what each day is like with a
student home from college.
On Day One, he explains, he
has to carry a heavy, broken
suitcase through the airport.
Day Two, he says, is when
Shannon has her friends
over for late-night baking —
which they don’t clean up.