The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Turns Of Phrase
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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