Crossword Puzzle 30

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Puzzle No. 30

Sam Ezersky, edited by John Chaneski

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1
C sharp's equivalent
6
Good ol' boy
11
Hired killers, in mob lingo
17
Taj ___
22
Food-thickening substance
26
"Bow down to me!"
27
Jill, who coached the World Cup-winning National Team
28
Mexican beer brand
29
Hour after noon
30
Soda pop
31
*Engineering school in Butte
33
Dangler on a collar
34
*Bodybuilder's pride
36
Texter's "When are you coming?"
37
Surrounding glow
38
Ready, willing, and ___
39
Sonneteers, e.g.
41
Response to a funny meme
42
Li'l doggo
43
"Meh" responses
46
Times New Roman alternative
49
Spherical shapes
51
"Hello" singer
53
Thanos vis-à-vis the Avengers
55
Image in an election recap
57
Wolf (down)
59
Get a new ___ on life
61
Cornered
63
Nebraska's largest city
66
Supplement
68
Hairdo that's hard to hide under a hood
70
Opposite of barely
72
Involve
76
Fa follower
77
Buddhist state
79
Neighbor of a Wyomingite
81
Baby's boo-boo
83
Brain blast, so to speak
85
Coffee, slangily … or a hint to the starts of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues
86
*Concerted effort
89
Ice cream helpings
91
*Popular sport in the Mideast
95
Home of the 2018 and 2020 Olympics
96
Categorize
97
Clipping from a cereal container
98
Score-related wagers in sports gambling
99
"Family" of criminals
100
Tear apart
101
Self-congratulatory cheer
102
Like much deep-fried food
103
Animals that honk
104
Butcher's discards

DOWN

1
Items that, ironically, contain nickel
2
Latte foam
3
Kind of rover or calendar
4
Crtl-___-Delete
5
Beverage sipped with scones
6
Male suitor
7
Like a state-of-the-art TV screen, nowadays
8
Cloudy vision
9
Maker of Clic Stics
10
It's gray in a tray
11
Website for cinephiles
12
*Settle down after a fit of rage
13
Lawn-trimming tool
14
Encountered
15
Go by
16
Cancelled mission
17
"Fo sho!"
18
Licoricelike flavor
19
Bad spelling?
20
Program on a web page
21
Response to a funny meme
22
Cutesy cry of dismay
23
Lose one's cool
24
Discography listing
25
Like some smokers' voices
32
Cape Canaveral org.
35
See 90-Down
38
Pie ___ mode
40
A piece of cake
44
"The nerve!"
45
Feed on the field
47
Duplicate specimen, in biology
48
Actor Kendrick
50
*Lickable candy with a chewy center
52
Food storage sites
54
Crossword publisher since 1942: Abbr.
56
Fast-casual café chain
58
Bitterness
60
$5 bill, informally
62
Hang tight (with)
63
Best Picture or Best Director
64
Bullwinkle is one
65
Poker player's final bet, maybe
67
Variety of wheat
69
Focus of genealogy
71
Singer Mann
73
In ___ (quickly)
74
Ancient Greek colony
75
8.5" x 14" paper size
78
Like quiches and custards
80
Big inits. on the Hang Seng Index
82
Game for a long car ride
84
Programming counterpart of "if"
87
Young chap
88
Plaything
90
With 35-Down, stain removal brand
91
Piece in the system
92
"___ Maria"
93
"I love," in Spanish
94
Half-___ (coffee order)
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Sam Ezersky is the associate editor of puzzles for The New York Times. He has been creating crosswords for the paper since 2012 — while still in high school — and now currently edits The Times' latest digital word games, Spelling Bee and Letter Boxed. When he's not working on puzzles, Sam can be found glued to the latest stories on ESPN or meticulously curating the various playlists in his music library.

 










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