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The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Turns Of Phrase

- By Nancy Stark and Will Nediger / Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Web site? 6 Browser

window 9 Streaming service acquired by Fox in 2020 13 Civil rights grp. once led by M.L.K. 17 Fictional character who says, “I will take the ring, though I do not know the way” 18 Scorpion, for

one

20 Wasn’t overturned on appeal

21 Artists sketching

pectorals? 23 Stays out all

night? 24 Glowing or

shining

25 Work rotations 26 French “I like” 27 “Right on!” 28 Spot at a casino 30 Either side of a beaming grin, in a phrase

31 Tony winner

Mcdonald 32 Something to make after you wake

33 Vow to remain mum about hotel guests’ secrets? 37 Hoops org. 40 Possibilit­y 41 Scoffing sound 42 Driver of film 43 Nonbinary people, informally 47 Declined 49 Over-poetical? 50 Modern-day

“carpe diem” 51 Early times in

verse

52 Small distance covered by a naval armada? 56 First sitting prez to fly in an airplane 57 Words after

walk or cash 58 Hyperbolic wait

time

59 Like climates where cactuses thrive

60 Pointy part of a

charger? 62 Group of

followers 64 Willem who played Jesus in “The Last Temptation of Christ”

66 Some pianos and motorcycle­s 68 2000s Fox teen

drama 69 Playwright

Simon 70 “Emotion in motion,” per Mae West 71 Thomas ____, British general at Bunker Hill 72 Sweetie

73 Boxer lacking a

left hook?

77 One of the

boxing Alis 78 Gumbo

ingredient

80 :-) alternativ­e 81 Below par 82 Something unleashed in a denial-of-service attack 83 Destinatio­n for a

return flight 84 Himalayan

humanoid 86 ____ eyes 88 “I’m a frayed ____” (punchline of a classic joke) 89 What brassband music has?

92 Court

95 Groups of Greeks, informally 97 Watcher of the

skies, for short 98 Old ____ (motherland, affectiona­tely) 99 Announced

100 You can count

on them

101 Beat in a race 104 Very productive 106 Not even a little

off

107 Tree feature in

winter?

109 Quaint bathroom

sign

110 Galosh

111 Lumberjack’s favorite kind of beer?

112 “What are the

____?” 113 Audience for Cocomelon, the most-viewed Youtube channel in the U.S.

114 Omega’s place 115 Columns with

angles

DOWN

1 Home with a

pointy roof 2 Worked on Wall

Street

3 Bring to a repair

shop, say 4 Creative

springboar­d 5 Cereal once advertised by Woody Woodpecker 6 Subject for

Laozi

7 Sounds from a

lab

8 “The Art of Fugue” composer 9 One’s kin,

casually 10 Loosen, in a way 11 Some zeros and

ones

12 Bar necessitie­s,

at times

13 It has several

steps

14 What a dog walker and a strong-willed pooch might vie for?

15 Run easily 16 Makeup of some music libraries

19 Main

20 Huge quantity 21 Lacking color 22 Brief period of

work

26 “Easy ... everything’s going to be OK” 29 Bottle marked with a skull and crossbones 31 Cost for a spot 33 Garden-shed

items 34 Caramel-filled

candy 35 “You can leave this to me” 36 Declaratio­n by one who’s done playing 38 Benjamin Franklin famously considered it “a rank coward” with “bad moral character” 39 “Te quiero”

sentiment 43 Mideast V.I.P. 44 Response to

“No offense” 45 The Bee Gees’ Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb?

46 It might gather

lint 48 Somersault 52 Adversary 53 To’s opposite 54 Old-timey

reproach 55 Scottish cap 58 Aromatic trees 61 Really bother 63 Jacqueline or

Jacques

64 For sure, for

short 65 Something a snowboarde­r catches

66 Last word of

“Ulysses” 67 Goal in musical

chairs

69 Nick of “48

Hrs.”

70 Beer brand whose name spells an article of apparel backward 72 Knock on the

head 74 Carolers’

repertoire 75 ____ dancer 76 Minotaur’s foot 77 Bird known in the U.K. as a diver

79 Draws 82 Red-light district establishm­ent 85 Like some

vodkas

87 Fly into a rant 90 Spuds

91 Tall tales 92 Dispensed

with

93 N.H.L. team with five championsh­ipwinning seasons in the 1980s

94 Praising

poetry

96 Ballet sections 99 Play station? 100 Got rid of

101 “Duh,” in

modern slang 102 Pine

103 Like the Radio City Music Hall sign

105 Harvest

106 Something swollen on a pro athlete?

107 Totally fine

108 Alternativ­e to Webster’s, in brief

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