THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE CROSSWORD
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
MERGER MANIA
By Dick Shlakman and Will Nediger/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 15
Across
1 Men are pigs (after she’s
through with them, anyway!)
6 The ‘‘A’’ of James A. Garfi eld
11 Naysayers
20 Lower-cost option on a popu-
lar rideshare app
21 Egg: Sp.
22 Frontiersman’s headgear
23 Result of a merger between
Quaker Oats and Greyhound?
25 Maintaining equilibrium
26 Discourage
27 Soft drink concentrate, e.g.
29 ‘‘Night on Bald Mountain’’ or
‘‘Finlandia’’
30 With 18-Down, what has four
legs and sprints?
32 Musician who was booed
in 1965 for playing electric
guitar
34 Letters before Gerald R. Ford
and Ronald Reagan
35 Luau instrument, for short
37 Zoom
39 Corner
41 Second-longest human bone,
after the femur
46 Result of a merger between
Kraft and Hershey’s?
51 Result of a merger between
Google and Planters?
53 Like the wights on ‘‘Game of
Thrones’’
54 Best of the best
56 Spelling ____
57 What Santa checks twice
58 R-rated
59 Rulers’ staff s
61 Fire man?
63 On the ____
64 Poet Lazarus
66 Prefi x with thermal
67 Bad sound for an engine
68 Result of a merger between
Hasbro and Nikon?
72 Bird like the Canada goose or
4 Home to the Minoan civili-
zation
5 Shine
6 ‘‘Now I get it!’’
7 2021 Super Bowl champs
8 Drink up during a timeout,
say
9 Tex who directed the fi rst
Bugs Bunny cartoon
10 Iraqi city on the Tigris
11 Kimono accessory
12 Natural talent
13 ____ Young-White, come-
dian/correspondent for ‘‘The
Daily Show’’
14 Lead-in to an Indiana ‘‘-ville’’
15 ____ Ng, author of the
2017 best seller ‘‘Little Fires
Everywhere’’
16 Piehole
17 ‘‘Oops!’’
18 See 30-Across
19 Part of a musical note
24 Held forth
28 ‘‘Two thumbs down’’ review
31 Answer to ‘‘Are you asleep?’’
that can’t be true
33 Drift off to sleep
35 Ordinary
36 ‘‘Eh, not really’’
38 1981 hit Genesis album
whose name resembles a
rhyme scheme
40 Balls in the sky
42 Little sounds
43 Muscular
44 ‘‘Who’s there?’’ response
45 Nancy who served as the fi rst
female member of the British
Parliament
47 Come together
48 Like some thinking
49 A.O.C., e.g.
50 Meets
52 Evening prayer
55 Come together
59 Raw material?
C O.
37
46
47
32
49
50
64
73
70
42
43
44
45
77
78
79
93
61
118
83
84
94
103
113
99
104
100
105
106
115
120
107
116
121
122
124
125
126
127
128
79 In essence
81 Where heroes are made
82 Sass
83 Co-founder of the N.A.A.C.P.
85 Word that, when spelled
backward, becomes its own
synonym
88 Member of the inn crowd?
90 One of the Canterbury
pilgrims
92 One doing the lord’s work
93 In which you might do a deep
dive
95 Mistruth
98 JAMA contributors
102 Tool in a wood shop
104 Shred
108
117
123
60 Quintana ____ (Mexican
state that’s home to Cancún)
62 Mayhem
65 Land governed by the House
of Grimaldi
67 Obedience school command
68 More hackneyed
69 A head
70 A head
71 Best-case scenarios
72 Clipper parts
73 ‘‘You can’t fi re me!’’
74 Italian poet Cavalcanti who
infl uenced Dante
77 Procrastinator’s problem
78 [Bo-o-o-oring!]
85
95
114
119
62
90
98
102
112
57
89
97
111
41
76
82
88
92
101
19
71
81
96
18
67
75
91
17
56
66
74
87
16
52
60
65
80
110
40
55
69
86
15
34
51
59
68
109
33
54
63
14
29
39
48
58
72
28
38
53
CL
SOP
C
L AT SO
P
STIB
UT IN G
STI
BUT
D I STIBUT
C O.
31
36
13
25
27
30
12
22
24
26
35
11
21
23
arctic tern
75 Lummox
76 Cheese off ered tableside at
Italian restaurants, informally
77 Recipe amt.
80 Eagle constellation
81 Passive acquiescence
84 Voice a view
86 Firm decision maker?
87 Revolutionary Guevara
89 Klum of ‘‘Project Runway’’
90 ‘‘My love,’’ in Madrid
91 Result of a merger between
Procter & Gamble and
Jacuzzi?
94 Result of a merger between
Hormel and Instagram?
96 Warehouse
97 10 to 10, say
99 ____ reform, cause for the
Marshall Project
100 Middling grade
101 Pub choice
103 Shot across the bow?
106 ____ Waldorf, the so-called
‘‘Queen B’’ on ‘‘Gossip Girl’’
109 Leaves nothing to the
imagination
114 Measured
116 ‘‘Been there, done that’’
feeling
118 Disney’s world
120 Result of a merger between
Ralph Lauren and Starbucks?
123 ‘‘Stop your foolishness
outside!’’
124 Not on
125 Chops up fi nely
126 Was uncomfortably hot
127 Basil-based sauce
128 ____ Allen, one of the
founders of Vermont
Down
1 ____-de-sac
2 Ditto, in scholarly journals
3 Brexit vote, e.g.
20
10
105 ____ hole
107 Battery part
108 Language group related to
Yupik
109 Birkin stock?
110 From scratch
111 Quinceañera, e.g.
112 Man’s name that spells a fruit
backward
113 Passed-down stories
115 ‘‘Stop stalling!’’
117 ‘‘The slightest’’ or ‘‘the foggi-
est’’ thing
119 Oscar-winning lyricist
Washington
121 Classic Pontiac
122 Phishing target, for short
WE DISTRIBUTE
DISTRIBUTE MANY
MANY PACIFIC
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
NORTHWEST BREWS:
BREWS:
WE
LOCALLY OWNED - LARRY PERKINS, RON & KIM WILLIAMS
1375 SE 12th Place, Warrenton, OR 97146
503-861-4275
Astoria Brewing Company
Astoria
Oregon
THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021 // 13