New York Times, Sunday, September 22, 2024
To sweeten the deal
Jeremy Newton
| Total | Debut | Latest | Collabs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 6/15/2008 | 9/22/2024 | 4 |
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Rebus | Circle | Scrab | Debut | Fresh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 9 | 1.75 | 388 | 64% |
Tracy Gray
| Total | Debut | Latest | Collabs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 9/8/2010 | 9/22/2024 | 10 |
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| Rebus | Circle | Scrab | Debut | Fresh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 7 | 1.62 | 228 | 50% |
This puzzle:
Rows: 19, Columns: 23 Words: 141, Blocks: 80 Missing: {JQZ} Grid has mirror symmetry. Puzzle has duplicate clues. This is puzzle # 28 for Mr. Newton. This is puzzle # 37 for Ms. Gray. Sunday freshness: 57%
Joel Fagliano notes:
Jeremy Newton, of Austin, Tex., works as an engineering manager for a mobile game company. Tracy Gray, of Hunt Valley, Md., is recently retired from the lawn and landscaping business.They found that ... read more
Jim Horne notes:
Andy Dufresne starts in the 4x3 prison cell at the bottom of the grid, carves out a hole with the letter Y (look behind the poster of Rita Hayworth), and tunnels through various gray shafts to escape.
1 B | 2 A | 3 T | 4 H | 5 E | 6 R | 7 U | 8 M | 9 P | 10 S | 11 S | 12 S | 13 N | 14 S | 15 T | 16 O | 17 D | 18 A | 19 T | 20 E | |||
21 U | P | H | E | R | E | 22 K | E | E | P | 23 S | O | P | E | N | 24 I | R | O | N | E | D | ||
25 S | L | E | W | E | D | 26 U | T | T | E | R | F | O | O | L | 27 M | A | N | D | M | S | ||
28 T | O | S | S | 29 E | 30 E | L | 31 E | X | I | T | S | 32 H | 33 E | R | 34 T | Y | P | E | ||||
35 S | M | H | 36 B | M | X | E | 37 R | S | 38 E | 39 M | O | P | O | 40 P | 41 D | O | L | |||||
42 B | A | 43 D | A | P | P | L | E | 44 P | 45 U | 46 T | 47 A | S | A | B | O | 48 N | U | S | ||||
49 W | O | N | T | 50 E | S | 51 C | A | P | E | 52 A | C | T | 53 B | E | E | F | ||||||
54 F | 55 I | S | H | F | I | 56 N | 57 T | O | R | N | A | D | O | 58 H | I | T | A | R | 59 U | 60 T | ||
61 U | G | H | 62 F | O | O | 63 T | S | P | A | 64 M | E | N | 65 S | A | N | S | 66 E | N | O | |||
67 S | L | A | 68 V | 69 N | W | A | 70 A | C | 71 R | E | S | 72 I | M | S | 73 P | S | S | T | ||||
74 S | O | N | I | 75 C | 76 A | R | 77 T | 78 H | O | V | 79 E | M | U | 80 W | A | N | E | S | ||||
81 O | K | T | O | 82 Y | O | U | 83 T | U | B | E | 84 C | L | I | P | 85 A | L | E | E | ||||
86 A | M | 87 C | 88 T | N | U | T | 89 N | A | S | A | 90 S | T | E | |||||||||
91 S | 92 A | 93 F | E | P | A | 94 S | S | A | G | E | 95 T | R | E | N | 96 C | H | C | O | 97 A | 98 T | 99 S | |
100 E | R | R | 101 U | N | O | 102 H | A | H | 103 G | O | P | |||||||||||
104 P | O | O | 105 R | T | A | S | 106 T | 107 E | 108 D | 109 O | 110 E | 111 A | 112 S | I | F | I | 113 C | A | R | E | ||
114 T | U | N | N | E | L | O | U | T | 115 I | N | D | 116 D | U | C | T | T | A | P | E | D | ||
117 E | N | D | S | 118 S | O | F | A | 119 R | U | N | 120 A | C | H | E | 121 B | E | A | U | ||||
122 T | D | S | 123 T | N | T | 124 T | S | A | 125 K | I | D | 126 S | T | P |
© 2024, The New York Times9/22/24 ( No. 27,347 )
Across
1
One getting into some hot water? : BATHER
7
Home monitors : UMPS
11
Data sought in phishing attempts, in brief : SSNS
15
Thus far : TODATE
21
Cry from a treehouse : UPHERE
22
Doesn't rule out, as a possibility : KEEPSOPEN
24
Wrinkle-free, say : IRONED
25
Turned on an axis : SLEWED
26
Real no-brainer? : UTTERFOOL
27
Colorful ingredients in some cookie recipes : MANDMS
28
Trash : TOSS
29
Reef lurker : EEL
31
Ways off : EXITS
32
Part of H.M.S. : HER
34
Word with body or blood : TYPE
35
Texter's alternative to an eye roll emoji : SMH
36
Olympians on stunt bikes, informally : BMXERS
38
Genre for Fall Out Boy : EMOPOP
41
U.S. currency: Abbr. : DOL
42
Negative influence on others, metaphorically : BADAPPLE
44
Expressed : PUT
47
To sweeten the deal : ASABONUS
49
Declines to : WONT
50
Houdini's signature feat … or a hint to the circled squares in this puzzle : ESCAPEACT
53
Basis for a feud : BEEF
54
Rudder found in nature : FISHFIN
57
"Bad luck, I guess … It was my turn, that's all. I was in the path of the ___" (quote from 18-Down) : TORNADO
58
Became stuck : HITARUT
61
"This is the worst!" : UGH
62
Receptacle for soaking before a pedicure : FOOTSPA
64
Brainy bunch : MENSANS
66
Electronica pioneer Brian : ENO
67
Bulgarian or Bosnian : SLAV
69
Rap group inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame : NWA
70
The White House grounds have 18 of them : ACRES
72
Some online pings, in brief : IMS
73
"Yo!," on the down-low : PSST
74
Lightning-fast hedgehog of video games : SONIC
76
What "washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life," per Picasso : ART
78
Lane for carpoolers : HOV
79
Six-foot-tall Aussie sprinter : EMU
80
Grows dimmer : WANES
81
"Are you ___ drive?" : OKTO
82
Certain online video snippet : YOUTUBECLIP
85
Downwind, to seafarers : ALEE
86
"Breaking Bad" channel : AMC
88
Fastener that's one letter ahead of "U-bolt" in the dictionary : TNUT
89
Org. with the Artemis program : NASA
90
Office building unit: Abbr. : STE
91
What a police escort may offer : SAFEPASSAGE
95
Classic cover-ups for spies : TRENCHCOATS
100
Fumble or bumble : ERR
101
Card game with a Power Grab edition : UNO
102
"Good joke!" : HAH
103
Red side, in brief : GOP
104
Indecency : POORTASTE
108
Female in the forest : DOE
111
"Like that matters to me!" : ASIFICARE
114
Stage a jailbreak à la 18-Down : TUNNELOUT
115
Annual May race, familiarly : IND
116
Held together in a makeshift way : DUCTTAPED
117
Wraps : ENDS
118
Sizable challenge for a mover : SOFA
119
Make a break for it : RUN
120
Yearn (for) : ACHE
121
Swain : BEAU
122
Parts of N.F.L. highlight reels, for short : TDS
123
This really blows! : TNT
124
Airport monitor, for short : TSA
125
Razz : KID
126
Pennzoil competitor : STP
Down
1
Exceeds 21, in blackjack : BUSTS
2
Poise under pressure : APLOMB
3
With 6-Down, prison drama released on September 23, 1994 : THESHAWSHANK
4
Hacks with an ax : HEWS
5
Ahead of, in poetry : ERE
6
See 3-Down : REDEMPTION
7
Instrument strummed in the Train song "Hey, Soul Sister" : UKULELE
8
Popular gala venue, with "the" : MET
9
Sneaky ___ (sly dogs) : PETES
10
Glasses, informally : SPEX
11
Like cashmere : SOFT
12
Imagine, casually : SPOSE
13
Prefix with -lithic : NEO
14
16-time gig for Steve Martin : SNLHOST
15
Portrayer of 18-Down : TIMROBBINS
16
"Cup ___ cone?" : ORA
17
Terse admonishment : DONT
18
Lead role in 3-Down/6-Down : ANDYDUFRESNE
19
They're measured in beats per minute : TEMPOS
20
Famed Ford flop : EDSEL
23
Honorific from Sanskrit : SRI
30
Date on a debit card: Abbr. : EXP
33
Pollution-regulating org. : EPA
36
Resort town in Alberta's Rockies : BANFF
37
Kicks back : RESTS
39
"The Heart of Georgia" : MACON
40
___ Corner, section of Westminster Abbey : POETS
43
"What was I thinking!?" : DOH
44
Fall accessory? : PARACHUTE
45
Bygone channel that launched with the two-hour pilot of "Star Trek: Voyager" : UPN
46
4x100 relay, for one : TEAMEVENT
48
Org. with Student Success Grants : NEA
51
___ América (quadrennial soccer championship) : COPA
52
Juice drinks : ADES
54
To-do : FUSS
55
Yeti's commercial rival : IGLOO
56
"Ain't gonna happen!" : NOWAY
58
Overplay : HAMUP
59
Erase from one's memory, in slang : UNSEE
60
Target audience for "Peppa Pig" : TOTS
63
Decks with cards numbered I through XXI : TAROTS
65
Apelike : SIMIAN
68
Curriculum ___ : VITAE
71
Take inventory? : ROB
73
Prefix with -lithic : PALEO
75
Make sense : COMPUTE
77
Ingredient in a niçoise salad : TUNA
79
Conditional coding word : ELSE
80
"Hey, I'm walkin' here!" : WATCHIT
83
Harbor helper : TUG
84
It might get booted : CAR
87
Main blvd. through N.Y.C.'s Chinatown : CANALST
90
Treated unfairly, informally : SHAFTED
91
The swans in "The Twelve Days of Christmas," e.g. : SEPTET
92
In the area : AROUND
93
Some makeshift fans : FRONDS
94
"Already?!" : SOSOON
96
Ostentatiously stylish : CHICHI
97
Early Christian meals of love and fellowship : AGAPES
98
Unwrapped with gusto : TOREAT
99
Accelerated : SPEDUP
105
Shot makers, for short : RNS
106
Top of a titmouse : TUFT
107
H on a frat house : ETA
108
Shoveled stuff : DIRT
109
Unwelcome obligation : ONUS
110
Irish novelist O'Brien : EDNA
111
Coding pioneer Lovelace : ADA
112
Be bad, like really bad : SUCK
113
Kin of a zin : CAB
Answer summary:
19 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
