The New York Times Magazine - USA (2022-03-20)

ACROSS

9 Love one’s share
of fuss and bother?
(9)

10 Mission of Texas
in the style of
Missouri (5)

11 Backstabbing,
corrupt senator (7)

12 Big cat wandering
El Prado (7)

13 Cook while
splitting baloney
(5)

14 Hollywood’s Fisher
and Cheadle had an
affair? (7,2)

16 Prominent reason
for failing to get a
dinner reservation?
(7)

18 Passage Tristan
adapted (7)

20 Lucky talent,
catching fish in a
can (9)

22 Purple goose’s tail
feather (5)

23 Wash Los Angeles

beneath the surface

(7)

25 Less serious match,

say (7)

26 False claim

maintained by an

extraterrestrial (5)

27 Roll in a ball much?

(9)

DOWN

1 Not easily upset,

convict keeps on

the move (4-4)

2 One who predicts

changing foster

care (10)

3 B-plus pooch (6)

4 Salt injected into

tree top (8)

5 Fishing enthusiast

left in outrage (6)

6 Sing at Christmas

in a divided state

(8)

7 Holy figure held

back by Kamala (4)

8 Court room made

of boards (6)

15 Awful democrat is

being a blowhard?

(10)

17 Jumping around

(8)

18 Storage option Le

Duc Tho developed

(3,5)

19 Conjectures he

introduced to

conservatives (8)

20 Collapsed, like

guys (6)

21 A second-rate

route out of the

country (6)

22 A deity in the

Keystone State

temple (6)

24 We hear you make

sweaters. What’s

standard for

measurements? (4)

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

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SPELLING BEE

By Frank Longo

How many common words of 5 or more letters can

you spell using the letters in the hive? Every answer

must use the center letter at least once. Letters may

be reused in a word. At least one word will use all 7

letters. Proper names and hyphenated words are not

allowed. Score 1 point for each answer, and 3 points

for a word that uses all 7 letters.

Rating: 9 = good; 19 = excellent; 29 = genius

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Our list of words, worth 32 points, appears with last week’s answers.

SNAKE CHARMER

By Patrick Berry

NORINORI

By Prasanna Seshadri

Shade certain cells so that every outlined region has

exactly two shaded cells. Every shaded cell must share

an edge with exactly one other shaded cell, like a

domino. Dominoes cannot touch, except at their corners.

Ex.

Each answer begins in the correspondingly numbered

space and proceeds clockwise around the S, ending

in the space before the next consecutive number.

The chain of 11 answers will snake its way around the

grid twice.

Clues

1. Vehicle from Avis or Hertz (2 wds.) 2. Fellow


2. Momentarily (3 wds.) 4. Like poodle skirts and
   beehive hairdos 5. Poet ___ Khayyám 6. Part of
   London associated with Cockneys (2 wds.) 7. Devoid
   of growth 8. 1 on the Mohs hardness scale 9. Country
   whose name derives from the Latin word for “silver”


3. It might be behind a revolving bookcase (2 wds.)


4. Specialties 12. Work as a mixologist (2 wds.)

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