New York Times Sunday Crossword Think Twice
1 Confound
6 Sarcastic internet
laughter
10 Most Times Square
signage 13 Performance check 17 Dark hair and a warm
smile, for two 19 Samoan capital
20 To’s opposite 21 Full-length 23 Something that bugs
criminals? 25 Blabberer
27 Duplicitous 28 Musicianship
30 ____ dress
31 Pasture
32 Signed off on
33 Ukr. or Lith., formerly 34 Places for development
36 Corn kernel, e.g. 38 Actress Merrill 40 Genre for BTS or Blackpink
43 Added to the staff? 45 Alerts
48 ____ of lies 49 Aquafina : Pepsico ::
____ : Coca-cola 52 #$%& and @%¢! 55 Practice whose name means, literally, “union”
57 Words before “before” 58 “Deck the Halls”
contraction
59 Symbol on the Connecticut state quarter 60 Stop along the highway
61 Quite
64 Finished brushing
one’s teeth, say 66 Racial-justice movement since 2013, in brief
67 “Really, though?” 68 Word in many font
names
69 Betray … or a hint to four answers in this puzzle
73 ____ the Cat (fictional feline of children’s books)
74 Thin incision 75 Some $200 Monopoly
properties, in brief 76 Set of 50 on the Argo,
in myth
77 Coaxed (out of) 79 Insurance giant bailed
out in 2008
80 Word before cap or
pop
81 Awesomest bud 82 Spirit in Arabian myth 83 Arizona county or its
seat
85 Pushing up daisies 90 Neighbor of Mozambique
92 Nonwriting credentials for Conan Doyle and Chekhov, informally
93 Seller’s need 95 Artificial habitat
97 Abolitionist Lucretia 98 The avant-garde “artists” Congo and Pierre Brassau
100 Hedy of the 2017 documentary “Bombshell”
103 Kind of chip
105 Question of perplexion 108 “The Raven” writer’s
inits.
109 Like
110 Big believer in the
freedom of assembly? 112 Press ____
113 What the beleaguered
are behind
115 Classic folk story that teaches a lesson of sharing
118 Be up for some biking?
120 Fast runners
121 Advanced math degree?
122 Ninny
123 Sternutation
124 Real cutup
125 Landscaper’s supply 126 In the past
127 “As You Like It” forest DOWN
1 Novelist Margaret 2 Absorb the beauty of,
as a scene
3 Lacked the gumption
to
Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). 4 Gladly, old-style 5 Jazzy James and Jones 6 First law-enforcement org. in the U.S. to hire a female officer (1910) 7 Nail-polish brand
8 List of performers 9 Star man?
10 Half of a ’55 union
merger
11 “That’s enough arguing out of you!” 12 Lip-puckering 13 Things that may be
rubbed after din-din 14 Playwright Will who was a 2005 Pulitzer finalist
15 Crew implement 16 One getting special
instruction
18 Ink holders in pens
and squid
22 “Just like ____!” 24 Like morning people vis-à-vis night owls, around dawn 26 Response to “How
bad was it?” 29 Extends, in a way 35 Lead-in to call
37 Cause for an onslaught of yearly txts 39 “If the pessimists are
right …”
41 Stroke
42 East: Ger. 44 Wednesday, but not
Friday
46 Accelerator particles
47 Overwhelm
48 Some tax breaks 50 Boos and cheers
51 Light
53 Latin list ender 54 Some Hershey candies 56 Bought in 61 Time-consuming
assignment to grade 62 Xanax alternative 63 Monthly publication of the National Puzzlers’ League, with “The”
64 More convinced 65 “The Magic School Bus” was its first fully animated series 66 Sound at the end of December, appropriately?
67 Beach with a girl who
“swings so cool” 70 Part of many a corsage
71 Bite site
72 Job to do 78 High-quality cannabis,
in slang
80 “Success!”
81 Decorate
82 “I. Can’t. Even.” 84 Spain’s Duchess of
____
86 Classic novel with the line “You must be the best judge of your own happiness” 87 Environmental opening
88 When repeated, a
reproof
89 Overturned
91 Most chiffonlike 94 Figure out
96 Not thinking
97 The Supremes’ record
label
99 Bad temper
100 Makeup target
101 Where a “Married at First Sight” contestant meets his or her mate 102 Language in which
“kia ora” is a greeting 104 Up on
106 Confused responses
107 Fight site
111 Long runs?
113 “A man’s character is
his ____”: Heraclitus 114 “Suds”
116 Prefix with classical
117 Prof’s degree
119 Post on Insta