THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE CROSSWORD
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By Jesse Goldberg/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
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Answers on Page 15
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1 Certain music royalties collec-
tor, for short
6 Viva ____ (aloud)
10 Dirty look
15 Even once
19 Part of R.I.
20 Big exporter of saff ron
21 Sci-fi intro to ‘‘forming’’
22 Foul
23 ‘‘Enjoy the food!’’
25 Sportscaster who memorably
asked, ‘‘Do you believe in
miracles?’’
27 Crush
28 Emmy-winning FX series
created by Donald Glover
29 ‘‘Curses!’’
30 Challenger astronaut Judith
31 ‘‘With enough butter, ____’’
34 Commanded
36 Fuel-economy authority, for
short
37 Main artery
38 ‘‘A party without cake is
____’’
48 Retin-A target
49 Healthful property of a beach
town
50 Chicken or veal dish, in brief
51 Merit
55 Boardroom plot?
57 Hangout rooms
58 Pair of quads
59 The Powerpuff Girls, e.g.
60 Filmmaker with a distinctive
style
62 Affi xes, as a cloth patch
64 Something that’s gone bad
if it fl oats when placed in a
bowl of water
65 ‘‘If you’re alone in the kitch-
en and you drop the lamb,
you can always just pick it
up. ____?’’
71 Word mistakenly heard at a
Springsteen concert
74 Under way
75 Beethoven’s Third
Down
1 Shady spot
2 Less-than-subtle basketball
foul
3 Temporary road markers
4 ‘‘I don’t give ____!’’
5 Pharmaceutical picker-upper
6 Penthouse perk
7 ‘‘Coff ee ____?’’
8 Stone memorial
9 Suffi x with exist
10 Actor Jason who was once
on Britain’s national diving
team
11 Four-stringed instruments
12 Financial adviser Suze
13 Dry with a twist
14 Milk: Prefi x
15 NASA spacewalk
16 Try to win
17 Page who became the fi rst
openly trans man to ap-
pear on the cover of Time
magazine (2021)
18 L.A. neighborhood refer-
enced in Tom Petty’s ‘‘Free
Fallin’?’’
24 Coolers
26 Comedian Minhaj
28 How some bonds are sold
32 Himalayan legends
33 Fetch
35 Provided tunes for a party,
in brief
38 Backbone of Indian classi-
cal music
39 Earth tone
40 Body sci.
41 Toon fi rst introduced in
the 1945 short ‘‘Odor-able
Kitty’’
42 Neighbor of Oman: Abbr.
43 Japanese honorifi c
44 Florida attraction with 11
themed pavilions
45 ‘‘His wife could ____ lean’’
46 Family name in Steinbeck’s
‘‘East of Eden’’
47 ‘‘That’s it for me’’
52 Exist
53 Outfi t
54 Drink garnished with
nutmeg
56 Quizzical responses
58 Part of NGO: Abbr.
61 Change from portrait to
landscape, say
62 Neither red nor blue: Abbr.
63 Benchmark
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66 Locks-up shop?
67 Any set of elements in a
column on the periodic table
68 Japanese port near Sapporo
69 War zone danger, for short
70 ‘‘A Room of One’s Own’’
novelist
71 Mac
72 Gastric acid, on the pH scale
73 Tribute in verse
76 Classic Langston Hughes
poem
77 First name in fashion
78 Saharan
80 Snacks that sometimes come
in sleeves
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79 Reverse
81 Tons
82 Seriously hurt
86 Move quickly, informally
87 ____ o’clock (when happy
hour begins)
88 Host’s off er at a housewarm-
ing
89 Spongelike
91 Focal points
92 ‘‘I enjoy cooking with wine.
Sometimes I ____’’
96 ‘‘Same here’’
99 Word with noodle or nap
100 ____ lepton (elementary
particle)
101 ‘‘The only time to eat diet
food is while you’re waiting
for ____’’
108 Stamps (out)
113 One of Abraham Lincoln’s is
in the Smithsonian
114 ‘‘Welcome to the Jungle’’
rocker
115 Born with a silver spoon in
one’s mouth
117 Cause of a smartphone
ding, perhaps
119 Chef quoted in this puzzle’s
italicized clues
120 Guitar part
121 Member of la famiglia
122 Letters on an F-22 Raptor
123 One given onboarding
124 1975 Wimbledon champ
125 Like voile and chiff on
126 What may make the grade
127 Direct
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82 Words to live by
83 The Cardinals, on scoreboards
84 Large Hadron Collider bit
85 Many a rescue dog
89 It’s not the whole thing
90 Mount ____, California
volcano
93 Critical
94 Rank for a rear admiral
95 What the Unsullied warriors
are on ‘‘Game of Thrones’’
96 She turned Arachne into a
spider after losing a weaving
contest
97 Wags a fi nger at
98 Separate
102 Tough period of the school
year
103 Bayt ____ (destination for
a Muslim pilgrim)
104 Krispy ____
105 Crooner Mel
106 Handy
107 Caff eine-rich nuts
109 Still alive, in dodge ball
110 Laissez-____
111 N.J. city on the Hudson
112 Meal at which parsley is
dipped in salt water
116 Serious divide
118 Candy-aisle name
119 Protrude
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