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New York Times, Sunday, July 9, 2023
Author:
Christina Iverson
Editor:
Will Shortz
Italian meat entree, informally
Christina Iverson
| Total | Debut | Latest | Collabs |
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| 28 | 7/30/2019 | 4/26/2024 | 21 |
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| 10 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Rebus | Circle | Scrab | Debut | Fresh |
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| 3 | 3 | 1.59 | 163 | 48% |
This puzzle:
Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 80 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 20 for Ms. Iverson. Sunday freshness: 1%
Will Shortz notes:
Christina Iverson, of Ames, Iowa, is an assistant puzzle editor for The Times. She reviews crossword submissions and helps edit the accepted ones for publication. This puzzle started as an ... read more
Christina Iverson notes:
As Will mentions in his intro, the first draft of this puzzle was an 11x11 grid where every single clue was an emoji. The theme entries were things like for FASHION ICON and for MIRROR ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Kudos to the NYT team for doing something distinctive in the Sunday Magazine! I loved seeing illustrations in the clues, and finding out that they're Iverson originals makes them even ... read more
Jim Horne notes:
Why hast thou not the visage of a sweetie or a cutie?
Kind of an Ode to Duty (58-Across) is not your typical Ogden Nash poem.
1 W | 2 O | 3 V | 4 E | 5 T | 6 E | 7 A | 8 R | 9 Y | 10 T | 11 O | 12 A | 13 D | 14 M | 15 A | 16 T | |||||
17 A | H | E | A | 18 D | 19 O | N | G | O | A | 20 L | 21 O | S | L | O | 22 A | X | E | |||
23 C | H | A | R | A | 24 C | T | E | R | S | K | E | 25 T | C | H | E | S | 26 K | I | A | |
27 O | I | L | 28 L | E | E | W | A | Y | 29 T | W | E | A | K | 30 D | E | S | K | |||
31 P | 32 S | A | L | M | S | 33 M | A | I | L | 34 E | 35 K | E | S | |||||||
36 I | 37 N | A | T | I | E | 38 S | 39 P | I | T | T | I | 40 N | G | I | M | A | 41 G | 42 E | ||
43 N | E | R | O | 44 S | 45 P | 46 I | K | E | S | 47 S | A | O | 48 S | O | F | A | S | |||
49 C | O | M | P | 50 U | T | E | R | I | C | O | 51 N | 52 M | 53 I | S | S | O | R | T | ||
54 S | L | A | T | E | 55 C | 56 O | 57 V | E | N | 58 O | D | E | ||||||||
59 D | I | N | 60 E | P | 61 A | 62 P | I | P | E | 63 C | 64 A | 65 L | L | E | R | |||||
66 L | E | G | A | 67 L | R | E | P | 68 R | E | S | E | N | 69 T | A | T | I | O | N | ||
70 H | E | A | N | E | Y | 71 A | S | E | A | 72 N | I | H | 73 R | E | F | |||||
74 A | N | D | 75 E | 76 S | T | E | E | 77 S | E | 78 P | I | A | ||||||||
79 R | O | G | 80 U | 81 I | S | H | 82 L | 83 O | 84 T | 85 T | O | D | R | A | W | 86 I | 87 N | 88 G | ||
89 E | V | I | T | A | 90 E | 91 L | 92 I | 93 N | A | E | N | A | E | 94 A | R | I | A | |||
95 M | O | V | I | N | 96 G | P | I | C | 97 T | U | R | E | 98 C | 99 A | K | I | N | G | ||
100 E | L | S | A | 101 Z | E | U | S | 102 T | 103 H | E | S | E | S | |||||||
104 B | 105 R | A | E | 106 S | 107 N | A | I | L | 108 A | 109 B | R | U | P | T | 110 H | 111 B | 112 O | |||
113 R | O | W | 114 S | P | O | R | T | S | 115 I | L | L | U | S | T | R | 116 A | T | E | D | |
117 A | L | A | 118 P | E | N | D | 119 A | T | T | A | C | K | 120 O | N | E | N | D | |||
121 T | O | Y | 122 A | D | O | S | 123 T | O | B | E | Y | 124 T | A | T | S |
© 2023, The New York Times7/9/23 ( No. 26,906 )
Across
1
Entwined : WOVE
5
Emotional, in a way : TEARY
10
Warty hopper : TOAD
14
Easily removable part of a car's interior : MAT
17
In the offing : AHEAD
19
Like a good shot in soccer : ONGOAL
21
Capital in the Land of the Midnight Sun : OSLO
22
Prop in "The Shining" : AXE
23
: CHARACTERSKETCHES
26
Soul proprietor? : KIA
27
Concerning driveway sight : OIL
28
Elbow room : LEEWAY
29
Adjust : TWEAK
30
Newsroom post : DESK
31
Source of the line "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands" : PSALMS
33
Knight-wear? : MAIL
34
Squeezes (out) : EKES
36
Even : INATIE
38
: SPITTINGIMAGE
43
His death sparked a civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors : NERO
44
Adds liquor to : SPIKES
47
Title in Portuguese : SAO
48
Davenports : SOFAS
49
: COMPUTERICON
52
File a Led Zeppelin album under Z, say : MISSORT
54
Blank ___ : SLATE
55
Charming bunch? : COVEN
58
Ogden Nash's "Kind of an ___ to Duty" : ODE
59
Letters that aptly fill in the blanks of this word: _ _sturba_ce : DIN
60
Org. created the same year as Earth Day : EPA
62
Portal in Mario games : PIPE
63
Person on talk radio : CALLER
66
: LEGALREPRESENTATION
70
Seamus ___, Nobel Prize-winning poet : HEANEY
71
Sailing : ASEA
72
Medical research org. : NIH
73
Zebra : REF
74
"Also …" : AND
75
First name in cosmetics : ESTEE
77
Nostalgic filter : SEPIA
79
Like a rake : ROGUISH
82
: LOTTODRAWING
89
Madonna title role : EVITA
90
Film director Roth : ELI
93
Dance craze of the 2010s : NAENAE
94
What might follow a recitative, in music : ARIA
95
: MOVINGPICTURE
98
Getting crusty : CAKING
100
Baby name that doubled in popularity in 2014, thanks to Disney : ELSA
101
Greek god of the sky : ZEUS
102
Ph.D. projects : THESES
104
Hill in the Highlands : BRAE
106
Slowpoke : SNAIL
108
Sudden : ABRUPT
110
"The Gilded Age" channel : HBO
113
Noisy fight : ROW
114
: SPORTSILLUSTRATED
117
According to : ALA
118
Be in limbo : PEND
119
"Charge!" : ATTACK
120
Like hair after being rubbed with a balloon, maybe : ONEND
121
Fiddle (with) : TOY
122
Kerfuffles : ADOS
123
Maguire of "Spider-Man" : TOBEY
124
Ink : TATS
Down
1
City that calls itself "The Heart of Texas" : WACO
2
"Huh, fancy seeing you here!" : OHHI
3
Italian meat entree, informally : VEALPARM
4
Canal locale : EAR
5
Symbolic object : TOTEM
6
Celebrity gossip show : ENEWS
7
City in Uttar Pradesh : AGRA
8
Optimistic : ROSY
9
Source of Tibetan cheese : YAK
10
Ben Jonson love poem of 1616 : TOCELIA
11
Grp. going over the falls? : OSHA
12
Brewery container : ALEKEG
13
Column in an advice column : DOS
14
Humiliates : MAKESAFOOLOF
15
___ & Allies (board game) : AXIS
16
Water-resistant wood : TEAK
18
Half of a religious title : DALAI
20
Unleash upon : LETAT
24
Instrument that sounds much like a glockenspiel : CELESTA
25
Subjects to slight ridicule : TWITS
30
First steps in many home renovation projects, informally : DEMOS
32
Red alert? : STOPSIGN
33
___ soup : MISO
35
Peck : KISS
36
Relative of Ltd. : INC
37
Paleo's opposite : NEO
38
___ jumping (Olympic sport) : SKI
39
Push-up muscle, in brief : PEC
40
Alaskan city that sounds like it belongs in a 41-Down : NOME
41
Plot, perhaps : GARDEN
42
Organic chemical compound : ESTER
45
Picker of a peck of pickled peppers : PETER
46
"Let me say that again ..." : IREPEAT
50
Ones holding hands? : ULNAE
51
Long-running procedural set in D.C. : NCIS
53
Builders of braided fiber bridges : INCA
56
Unsolved, as a math problem : OPEN
57
Deer departed? : VENISON
59
Clear sign : DEADGIVEAWAY
61
Mihrab : mosque :: ___ : church : APSE
62
"Split" bit : PEA
64
Heart chambers : ATRIA
65
Suffer from insomnia : LIEAWAKE
66
ThinkPad maker : LENOVO
67
Caustic substances : LYES
68
Actor's audition tape : REEL
69
Whom a public defender might go up against, familiarly : THEDA
70
Kind of pants that are baggy : HAREM
76
"Old ___," country standard performed by Hank Williams, Elvis and Johnny Cash : SHEP
78
General rule : PRECEPT
80
Handy : UTILE
81
Actors Holm and McKellen : IANS
83
Responsibility : ONUS
84
Blacken : TAR
85
Start at the end? : TEE
86
McEntee's product : IRISHTEA
87
Influential writer of erotica : NIN
88
[barf] : GAG
91
Komodo dragons and Gila monsters : LIZARDS
92
Seal the deal : ICEIT
96
Was shocked ... shocked! : GASPED
97
City on the Arkansas River : TULSA
99
"The Jetsons" dog : ASTRO
102
Cease-fire : TRUCE
103
Hoarse … or a dog : HUSKY
104
Little stinker : BRAT
105
Hershey candy brand : ROLO
107
Don't : NONO
108
Kind of sax : ALTO
109
Let the cat out of the bag : BLAB
111
Like a spoon in a magic show : BENT
112
Nine to five, maybe : ODDS
114
Detox destination : SPA
115
Hairy cousin of TV and film : ITT
116
Flik was one in a Pixar flick : ANT
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