THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE CROSSWORD
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
JOB SHARING
By Daniel Okulitch and Doug Peterson/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 15
Across
1 Research subject for which
Bohr won a Physics Nobel
5 Grimm account
9 Musical medley
15 Like cranberries
19 Protagonist of Colson
Whitehead’s “The Under-
ground Railroad”
20 Big-time
21 Tarot deck grouping
22 Trash day reminder,
maybe
23 Side hustle for a hairstyl-
ist?
25 Rodent-catching feline
26 Maker of Regenerist
products
27 Oust
28 French auto pioneer Louis
30 Dan Conner and Danny
Tanner, e.g.
32 [Blown kiss]
34 Side hustle for a veteri-
narian?
36 Manage OK
39 Dangerous crowd
41 Try to lighten up, per-
haps?
42 New York Cosmos star of
the ’70s
43 Metal precioso
44 Polite rejection
46 National gemstone of
Mexico
50 Side hustle for a thera-
pist?
56 “A Confederacy of Dunces”
author
57 Shed, with “off ”
58 Many a Sharon Olds poem
59 Leaf-to-branch angles
62 It may be glossed over
63 Turned
65 Its fleece is hypoaller-
genic
66 Part of a gig
19
23
67 Side hustle for an anes-
thesiologist?
73 Leon who wrote “Battle
Cry”
74 Avid bird-watcher, say
75 URL divider
76 “Mr. Mayor” airer
77 First stroke of the day
78 Holy ones: Abbr.
81 Spanish city north of León
84 Encrusted
87 Side hustle for a carpen-
ter?
90 Netted
93 Give an address
94 Home in the mud
95 Christmas purchase
96 Like Athena
98 Moving ____
100 Record label for Otis
Redding and Big Star
101 Side hustle for a mar-
riage counselor?
106 Small sweater?
108 Cold-weather jacket
109 Person with lots to show
111 Kind of license
115 Museum that awards the
Turner Prize
116 “Oh yeah? Watch me!”
118 Side hustle for a drill
instructor?
120 Tech tutorials site
121 Sub groups?
122 Set of showbiz awards,
in brief
123 Hightail it
124 Actress and inventor
Lamarr
125 Where the tradition of
shaking hands as a greet-
ing originated
126 Clinches, with “up”
127 Show off at the gym
Down
1 “Because freedom can’t
protect itself ” org.
2 Animated figure
3 Evil creatures in 7-Down
4 Defiant retort
5 Large orchestral gong
6 Mahershala of “Moon-
light”
7 Frodo’s film franchise,
familiarly
8 Blues great Waters
9 One with a nesting
instinct
10 Inflame
11 Shape
12 Something made in a
hurry
13 A in French class
14 One getting down, so to
speak
15 Cheery “Ciao!”
16 Two-time opponent of
Dwight
17 Map lines
18 Guilt-producing meet-
ing, perhaps
24 Maxim
29 Nobel-winning author
Gordimer
31 Park supervisor?
33 Refine
35 Economic stat.
36 Male swans
37 Like one Freudian fixation
38 Bouncy toys
40 Thrift-store fashion,
informally
45 Blue
46 Order member
47 Hindu, for one
48 Justice beginning in 2006
49 New Testament miracle
recipient
51 “Uh-oh” sounds
52 ____ fresca
53 Its etymology may derive
from the diminutive of
“borough” in Italian
C O.
24
27
28
32
36
37
33
38
39
43
51
52
77
84
85
90
30
41
102
18
46
47
48
49
55
82
83
113
114
56
60
61
62
66
71
72
75
78
86
87
91
17
42
59
70
16
31
65
81
89
94
97
98
104
108
80
93
96
103
79
88
92
95
101
26
45
69
76
15
35
64
74
14
25
58
73
13
22
54
68
12
21
53
63
11
29
40
57
67
10
34
44
50
105
109
99
106
110
117
107
111
112
116
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
54 “Mission: Impossible”
theme composer Schifrin
55 Convention center event
60 Some HDTVs
61 1979 Commodores hit
with the lyric “Good times
never felt so good”
64 Singer Celine
65 One of two in “Hamilton”
66 Aggressively mainstream,
in slang
67 Unit of prevention
68 ____ legend
69 Revise, as text
70 Org. with Divisions I-III
71 Suspense novelist Hoag
72 Pandora native in “Avatar”
118
100
115
CL
SOP
C
L AT SO
P
STIB
UT IN G
STI
BUT
D I STIBUT
C O.
20
9
78 Side of a block
79 Word after high or weak
80 Classic skit comedy show
82 Sole ingredient in some
cookies?
83 Rock with colorful bands
85 Sum total
86 “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”
vampire
88 Like a bad outcome for all
89 Great deal
91 Causing quite a stink
92 Opposite of morn
96 Frank
97 “Hold on …”
99 Hotel room restriction
100 Drive to the station, say
119
101 Come down with
102 Nonsensical
103 Checked a box, maybe
104 Accent ____
105 Wizards’ wear
107 Giant bird of Arabian
myth
110 Blow a fuse
112 Starbucks size
113 Slurpee relative
114 Party mix ingredient
117 Big game show prize
119 Scatter
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, DECEMBER 23, 2021 // 13