THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE
‘CLUE’: THE MOVIE By Brandon Koppy Puzzles Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
1 Syllables when you forget the words
4 The universe has an estimated 1,082 of them
9 ‘‘A mouse!’’ 12 Beyoncé chart-topper ‘‘Single ____ (Put a Ring on It)’’
18 Simile center 19 ____ Lawrence College
20 Magazine cofounded in 1945 by Hélène Gordon Lazareff 22 Similar-sounding phrase, such as ‘‘I scream’’ for
‘‘ice cream’’
23 Field of Dreams
26 Guys and Dolls
27 Lucrative and undemanding 28 Ingredient in a Mcdonald’s Mcflurry 29 Seasonal winds 31 Fictional brand of rocket-powered roller skates
32 ‘‘Cross my heart!’’ 35 Fam girl
36 Sounds of doubt 38 Star Trek
40 Woodworker’s tool 42 Some tourist spots in San Francisco
43 Tax pro, for short 45 Ancient work that describes the sacred tree Yggdrasil 46 Trendy home gym purchase
50 Top Gun
55 Baseball family name much seen in crosswords
56 Jerkface
59 Tightly affixed 60 Parrot’s sound 61 Insurance department
63 ‘‘____ for me, thanks’’
64 Big no-nos
66 Letters From Iwo Jima
67 The Imitation Game
69 The Fifth Element
73 Perfectly comfortable
75 1930s migrant to California
76 Spirits
77 Sesh on Reddit
80 Speed reader?
81 Gave, as gossip
83 Trimmed parts of green beans
84 A Man for All Seasons
87 Matricidal figure of Greek myth
89 Golden-rule word
90 Spanish ‘‘Listen!’’
91 Dostoyevsky’s Prince Myshkin, so the book title declares
93 Cause for switching positions
97 Scent of a Woman
104 ‘‘____ you decent?’’
105 ____ Toy Barn (‘‘Toy Story 2’’ locale)
106 Small things that you pluck
107 Breakout band for Harry Styles and Zayn Malik, familiarly
108 Overlie
111 Mad magazine cartoonist Drucker
112 Get the juices flowing?
113 Wayne’s World
114 Space Jam
118 Gene variant
119 Denominator in the velocity formula
120 Beam for train tracks
121 Fragrant ring
122 Candy with the slogan ‘‘Not sorry’’
123 Skosh
124 Main artery
125 Panic button, of a sort
DOWN
1 Pet that should come with a lint roller?
2 Given that
3 Exasperated parent’s retort
4 Flue-like
5 Confucian philosophy
6 Singer Rita
7 ‘‘Floating terror’’ of the sea
8 Many social media users
9 Donkey with a pinned-on tail
10 Two in a million?
11 ‘‘The Kiss’’ painter
12 Successfully uses a password
13 Melodious
14 Place to develop one’s chops
15 Innate
16 Part of a makeup test?
17 Texting tech, briefly
21 ‘‘____ es!’’ (‘‘That’s right!’’: Sp.)
24 ‘‘Clueless’’ protagonist
25 Accept eagerly, with ‘‘at’’
30 Org. with an annual Codebreaker Challenge
32 Double-crossed and half-baked
33 Embarrassing public episode
34 Restless desire
37 Luxurious 39 Product for one who wonders, ‘‘Am I expecting?’’
40 Increased into something much more valuable
41 Spy novelist Deighton
44 Weave off the shoulder?
46 Get ready for vacation
47 Civil rights activist Baker
48 It may be forgiven
49 Mystic’s board
50 4x World Series winner Martinez
51 [more info below]
52 Ice cream containers
53 ____ compensation (subject of modern debate)
54 Spanish marinade
57 Drawer of shorts, e.g.
58 Cutthroat mentality
62 Cardinal’s hat, in Britain
65 Tender areas
67 Pop in the fridge
68 Hershey’s chocolate-and-toffee bar
70 Diatribe
71 Quaint sign word
72 Noun-making suffix
74 Fumble for words
76 Dodos
77 City that replaced Lagos as Nigeria’s capital
78 Cameo
79 Predatory insect living in woodpiles
82 French fabric
85 Caramel or hot fudge, basically
86 Euphemistic exclamation
88 Ike’s domain in W.W.II
91 Reason the physicist stayed in bed?
92 ‘‘The Shape of Water’’ director
94 Natasha ____, Boris’s partner against Rocky and Bullwinkle
95 Some water-park rides
96 Olympics symbol for Madrid’s country
98 Sang along when you forgot the words
99 Ingredient in heal- ing gel
100 Latte art medium
101 Arch support
102 Bill killers
103 Utopian
106 Like a birthday cake, pre-party
109 ‘‘____ All That’’ (1999 film)
110 Frequently, quaintly
112 Lugosi of horror films
113 Fish with an elongated jaw
115 Singer Sumac
116 Describe in a negative way
117 Toke
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