THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE CROSSWORD
WHY? WELL, WHY NOT?
By Jesse Goldberg/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 19
Across
1 Condiment at a pho shop
9 Got too scared, with “out”
15 Shelve
20 Big picture
21 Author/journalist Welteroth
22 “The ____ Holmes Myster-
ies” (young-adult detective
series)
23 Nationwide competitor
24 Places where some belts are
tightened?
26 Longtime surname on late-
night TV
27 Rooibos by another name
28 Simpson imp
29 Stephen Crane’s “The Red
Badge of Courage,” e.g.?
32 Gave the scoop
35 Its presence on Mars off ers a
clue to life
38 Growler’s contents
39 Actress Lena
40 Can
41 Medical gloves and N95
masks, for short
42 Pen
44 Andy Dufresne in “The Shaw-
shank Redemption,” e.g.
48 Pear-shaped instrument
49 Buy a lot of, with “on”
51 Lawyer with absurdly exag-
gerated humor?
54 Where Camus’s “The Plague”
is set
56 Circuit-board components
57 Count, e.g.
58 Sleep phase?
60 Coconut-covered cookie
63 It might get the weed out
64 Flagship vehicle line for
Mercedes-Benz
65 Encourage
67 Dallas-to-Austin dir.
70 Test, as a new mattress
71 Harvesting machine that
needs cleaning?
73 Didn’t just sit there
76 Vouch for, with “to”
79 Mythical weaver
80 Doctor’s description of the
birth of triplet sons?
84 “Well, maybe”
85 Connect, as two devices
86 Rhetoric
87 Relax
89 No longer active: Abbr.
90 Golf ball’s path
91 City north of Des Moines
92 Slangy turndown
93 Cinco plus uno
94 They might get all over the
fl oor
96 Battle between Tinker Bell
and Princess Ozma?
102 Cream
103 “Ready?”
104 Some Guinness records
108 Census-taking of a Midwest
capital?
111 Begin
113 Bel ____ (Italian cheese)
114 Charm
115 Become aware of... or a
homophonic description
of four letter shifts in this
puzzle’s grid
116 Partners of hinds
117 Reaches
118 Comes clean
Down
1 Proceeded down a lane,
maybe
2 Tick off
3 Without much thought
4 Excise surgically
5 Household robot from Amazon
6 Abyss
7 Like some towels and topics
8 Put away
9 Big name in grills
10 ____ la Cité, home of
Notre-Dame
11 Smallest country in the
E.U., by area
12 Stacked
13 Musical artist known as the
Queen of New Age
14 Interior secretary Haaland
15 Hold in custody
16 ____ nous
17 Server error
18 The Liberty Tree, e.g.
19 Some free housing recipi-
ents, for short
25 Longtime surname on late-
night TV
27 Fwy. or expy.
30 Clutch, e.g.
31 Name hidden in “global
economy”
32 Couleur de l’océan
33 Rhapsodize over
34 Caterpillar alternative
35 Disruption for a poolside
sunbather
36 God associated with the
moon
37 American ____
39 Marsupial that goes into
shock when frightened
42 Kind of parking
43 Each
44 Arab leaders
45 “I spilled ____ remover on
my dog. Now he’s gone”:
Steven Wright
46 Dancer Charisse of “Singin’ in
the Rain”
47 Wizard
48 Sci-fi daughter of Padmé
50 D as in D.C.? Abbr.
52 Some prosecutors, for short
53 Primeval
55 First name in folk
59 Some wide-brimmed hats
61 Killer of the Night King on
“Game of Thrones”
62 ____ Day, early collaborator
with Prince
65 “r u 4 real?”
66 Serving with a meze platter
67 It’s a ball
68 Japanese honorifi c
69 Pries (from)
70 Icky look
71 Boots, helmets, rope, etc.
72 Prefi x with puncture
73 For face value
74 One-named entertainer from
Spain
75 Hand-held device used by
Mr. Spock
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77 Lunar New Year
78 General name for a dish?
81 Shade of red
82 Ticks off
83 Like Juliette Gordon Low,
founder of the Girl Scouts
88 Fish in a poke bowl
91 Unfairly takes advantage of,
as a policy
92 WaPo alternative
93 Square fi gure?
95 Like a tasty cake
96 Ice-cream treat
97 They might hold on to their
caps, for short
98 “Failure ____ an option”
99 Back in style
100 You can see right through it
101 Beginning of a toast
103 What concealer might
conceal
105 Soaks (up)
106 Co-author of 2016’s “The
Book of Joy,” along with the
Dalai Lama
107 Break... or brake
108 Inits. on the road
109 Inits. on the road
110 Darkroom item, in brief
111 Personal-ad abbr.
112 No-win situation
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