THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE CROSSWORD
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GAME CHANGERS
By Angela Olson Halsted and Doug Peterson/Puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 15
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1 Chow down on
6 ‘‘Exactly like this’’
12 Word with mild or well
20 Character often found in
children’s books
21 Emotionally process, in
modern lingo
22 Repeated cry in 1931’s
‘‘Frankenstein’’
23 *Perfect curveball?
25 Ivy League city
26 Jam
27 Crucial
28 White coat?
30 Course standards
31 Emergency-room concern
33 *Batting coach’s instruction to
a lackadaisical hitter?
37 Habitual drinkers
39 Opposed (to)
40 *Apprentice groundskeepers?
46 Singer/songwriter Parks with
the 2021 album ‘‘Collapsed in
Sunbeams’’
47 It might get pulled in both
directions
50 New York’s Mount ____
Hospital
51 Dark wine grape
52 Part of a heartbeat
54 Diplomatic offi cial: Abbr.
55 Corn core
57 Cancels
60 Alacrity
61 Afternoon socials
63 Where dreams are made
65 *Overenthusiastic description
of a routine base hit?
68 Stand-in for Middle America
71 Pair of socks?
72 *Umpire’s aid in judging foul
balls?
78 GPS approximation
79 Sgt. and cpl., e.g.
83 Airer of ‘‘Nancy Drew’’
84 Old salt
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1 Bird that can spend up to 10
months in the air without
landing
2 Absolute bottom
3 Digital assistant
4 Food packaging abbr., once
5 What’s heard at many a
coff eehouse
6 Group sometimes said to be
‘‘out’’
7 French article
8 Pampering place
9 In use
10 Candle choice
11 Gumbo pods
12 Goddess with a sacred owl
13 Designers’ studios
14 Its capital is Sydney: Abbr.
15 ‘‘Uh-uh’’
16 Go by
17 Compete with
18 Part of EGBDF
19 Places to play cards, often
24 The Daily ____ (online
news site)
29 ____ culpa
32 It plays a role in arm-twisting
33 ‘‘Venerable’’ saint
34 Manual readers
35 Air France hub
36 It brought Hope to the world
38 When doubled, a Nabokov
protagonist
40 Pre-bar challenge, briefl y
41 ‘‘Je t’____’’
42 Org. with Fire and Sparks
43 It was fi rst won by the N.Y.
Mets in 1969
44 Snowblower brand
45 Word on some Oreo
packages
47 Nothing special
48 Tina Turner, voicewise
49 Goldenrod, e.g.
53 Append
56 Instrument with a fl ared end
58 Chinese steamed bun
59 Ratio of an angle’s opposite
side to the hypotenuse
62 Blueprint details
64 Runs out of juice
66 Eye cream ingredient
67 Symbol on Captain America’s
shield
69 Villainous English king in
‘‘Braveheart’’
70 Outstanding pitcher
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72 Former Ford models
73 Seller of Belgian waffl es
and French toast (fi ttingly,
considering the ‘‘I’’ in its
name)
74 Super Soaker Soakzooka
brand
75 Like some orders
76 Ancient halls
77 Eldest Stark son on ‘‘Game of
Thrones’’
80 G.I.’s garb, at times
81 Speedskater Johann ____
Koss, winner of four Olympic
golds
82 One-named Nigerian Grammy
winner
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86 Fury
88 State where M.L.K. marched:
Abbr.
89 Some fi ns
92 King James on a court
94 Do as Henry VI did
96 Letters on some foundations
97 Jumpy sorts, in brief
99 *Long hours of fi elding
practice?
101 ____ only
103 Tilting
104 *Imperceptible fastball
movement?
109 All over the place
113 Jimmy ____ (luxury shoe
brand)
114 Scientist buried in
Westminster Abbey
115 Pop artist who sings
‘‘Satisfi ed’’ on ‘‘The Hamilton
Mixtape’’
116 New ____ (cap brand)
117 Trouble, metaphorically
120 Ballgame extenders . . . and
what can literally be found in
the answers to the asterisked
clues
124 Beekeeper
125 ____ to go
126 Run-D.M.C. and the Jonas
Brothers, for example
127 Bands’ performance sheets
128 Unruffl ed
129 ____ Domingo
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85 Pained sound
87 In the Renaissance, they
were known as ‘‘mala insana’’
(‘‘mad apples’’)
90 Baseball’s Gehrig and Piniella
91 Most reliable
93 Russian city on the Ural River
95 Butterlike spread
98 French West Indies resort
island, familiarly
100 Keep from fl ying, maybe
101 Profession
102 Camera inits.
104 ‘‘With any luck . . . ’’
105 Tag line?
106 Fancy pourers
107 Paper route hour, maybe
108 Headliner’s cue
110 Land between Togo and
Nigeria
111 Insider’s vocabulary
112 Catch with a throw
113 Alternative to Chuck
115 Wistful sound
118 Man’s name that’s
123-Down reversed
119 Stanza contraction
121 Home of the world’s largest
carnival
122 Word with red or army
123 Man’s name that’s 118-Down
reversed last year) since 2011.
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