1027-19 NY Times Crossword 27 Oct 19, Sunday

Constructed by: Michael Paleos
Edited by: Will Shortz

Today’s Theme: How Sweet It Is!

Themed answers are the names of CANDIES, and those CANDIES run up and down as STRIPES in the grid:

  • 68A Pattern once used for hospital volunteer uniforms, with a hint to this puzzle’s theme : CANDY STRIPE
  • 1D Big fat lies : WHOPPERS
  • 4D Pop covers : BOTTLE CAPS
  • 8D Types who think school is too cool : NERDS
  • 11D Derisive chuckles : SNICKERS
  • 14D Gold digger’s goldmine : SUGAR DADDY
  • 18D Pipsqueaks : RUNTS
  • 42D Heaps : MOUNDS
  • 48D Biweekly occurrence, for many : PAYDAY
  • 60D What x’s sometimes represent : KISSES
  • 65D What lettuce lends to a sandwich : CRUNCH
  • 72D They come through when you need them most : LIFESAVERS
  • 74D Total stunners : HOT TAMALES
  • 81D Its closest neighbor is Andromeda : MILKY WAY
  • 87D Scatterbrains : AIRHEADS
  • 100D Tiny objections : PEEPS
  • 104D Jag : SPREE

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Bill’s errors: 0

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Complete List of Clues/Answers

Across

1 Iraq War concern, in brief : WMD
4 An earl outranks him : BARON
9 Billiards maneuver : MASSE
14 Exclaim “@#%!” : SWEAR
19 Tilling tool : HOE
20 QB defenders, collectively : O-LINE
21 Relating to a certain arm bone : ULNAR
22 ___ Kenyatta, president of Kenya starting in 2013 : UHURU
23 Something set by a stove : OVEN TIMER
25 Year of the final flight of the Concordes : MMIII
26 French-speaking African nation : GABON
27 Eyedropper, essentially : PIPETTE
28 Submission to a record label, once : DEMO CD
30 Rodeo loop : LARIAT
31 Accessory with a bass drum : PEDAL
32 Major fuss : STINK
33 Wedding bands? : GARTERS
34 Way out there : ESOTERIC
38 Hand over : CEDE
39 Take a mulligan on : REDO
40 ” ” button: Abbr. : REW
41 Ricochet like a hockey puck : CAROM
43 To a certain extent, colloquially : SORTA
45 Ad phrase indicating higher pricing tiers : … AND UP
49 Amtrak stop: Abbr. : STN
50 Infomercial imperative : ACT NOW!
52 Pill bug, biologically : ISOPOD
54 Intake suggestion, briefly : RDA
55 Unlock, to Shakespeare : OPE
56 Third-longest river in Europe, after the Volga and Danube : URAL
58 Tear to shreds : REND
59 Partner of 46-Down in the frozen food business : EDY
60 Brown seaweeds : KELPS
63 U.S. island owned almost entirely by billionaire Larry Ellison : LANAI
65 Manic-looking, in a way : CRAZY-EYED
67 Neutral response from a therapist : I SEE
68 Pattern once used for hospital volunteer uniforms, with a hint to this puzzle’s theme : CANDY STRIPE
70 Loser of a beauty contest, in myth : HERA
71 Birds known to mimic car alarms and human speech : STARLINGS
73 Graduate’s “honor” : LAUDE
74 Carousel mount, to a tot : HORSY
75 Mark of a scam artist : SAP
76 Hooked on : INTO
77 Laura of “Big Little Lies” : DERN
78 Emulate Johnny Appleseed : SOW
79 H, to Hellenes : ETA
80 “Ya dig?,” in more modern slang : FEEL ME?
82 Get up in the face of : ACCOST
85 Emma Stone’s role in “La La Land” : MIA
88 Protagonist in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” : SETHE
90 Skate park features : RAILS
92 Place for regulars : HAUNT
93 Handel’s “___, Galatea e Polifemo” : ACI
94 Glenn Frey’s “The Heat ___” : IS ON
96 Bad thing to come up in a title search : LIEN
98 Total failure : DISASTER
100 Important members of the community, so to speak : PILLARS
103 Where menisci are found : KNEES
105 What socks usually do : MATCH
106 Bitter green : ENDIVE
107 Regards covetously : EYES UP
108 Display piece for tchotchkes : ETAGERE
110 Virtual sticky : E-NOTE
111 Battling it out : AT WAR
112 Boondocks : RURAL AREA
114 One of 11 in a Christmas carol : PIPER
115 Provide an address : ORATE
116 French novelist Zola : EMILE
117 Bit : TAD
118 Company that once offered “the Thrift Book of a Nation” : SEARS
119 Excited, with “up” : KEYED
120 Foil alternatives : EPEES
121 Meditative syllables : OMS

Down

1 Big fat lies : WHOPPERS
2 Where you might need to get a grip : MOVIE SET
3 In one’s heart of hearts : DEEP DOWN
4 Pop covers : BOTTLE CAPS
5 Stopped a flight : ALIT
6 Frosty encrustation : RIME
7 Its square equals its square root : ONE
8 Types who think school is too cool : NERDS
9 They’re kept under wraps for a long time : MUMMIES
10 Nut extract used in skin care : ALMOND OIL
11 Derisive chuckles : SNICKERS
12 Didn’t just hint at : SAID
13 Verdi’s “___ tu” : ERI
14 Gold digger’s goldmine : SUGAR DADDY
15 Alma mater of Tesla’s Elon Musk : WHARTON
16 Jazzman Blake : EUBIE
17 Like a crowd when the headliner takes the stage : AROAR
18 Pipsqueaks : RUNTS
24 Like some servings of Scotch : NEAT
29 “You get the idea” : ETC
30 New Guinea port that was Amelia Earhart’s last known point of departure : LAE
33 Large, purple Hanna-Barbera character : GRAPE APE
35 Campaign … or a campaign topic : RACE
36 Original N.Y.C. subway line : IRT
37 Non-pro : CON
42 Heaps : MOUNDS
44 Steamy : TORRID
46 Partner of 59-Across in the frozen food business : DREYER
47 Dairy sources : UDDERS
48 Biweekly occurrence, for many : PAYDAY
51 Actress Fay of the original “King Kong” : WRAY
53 Neuf + deux : ONZE
55 Abbr. between * and # : OPER
57 Separation at a wedding? : AISLE
60 What x’s sometimes represent : KISSES
61 Executor’s charge : ESTATE
62 Pounce on, as an opportunity : LEAP AT
63 The “two” in “two if by sea” : LANTERNS
64 Portuguese-speaking African nation : ANGOLA
65 What lettuce lends to a sandwich : CRUNCH
66 Popular D.I.Y. site : EHOW
68 Endeavor recognized by the César awards : CINE
69 Reid of “The Big Lebowski” : TARA
72 They come through when you need them most : LIFESAVERS
74 Total stunners : HOT TAMALES
77 Sketch out : DELINEATE
78 W-2 IDs : SSNS
81 Its closest neighbor is Andromeda : MILKY WAY
83 Mr. Wrong : CAD
84 All-vowel avowal : OUI
85 Carry some relevance for : MATTER TO
86 Mode, on a menu : ICE CREAM
87 Scatterbrains : AIRHEADS
89 Neon marker : HI-LITER
91 Is blinded by rage : SEES RED
95 Cent : euro :: ___ : krona : ORE
97 Modern, in Munich : NEU
99 Epic narrative : SAGA
100 Tiny objections : PEEPS
101 What many a navel-gazer gazes at : INNIE
102 Treatment for Parkinson’s : L-DOPA
104 Jag : SPREE
107 Word repeated in “___ ou ne pas ___” : ETRE
108 Lake bordered by four states and a province : ERIE
109 Yarn : TALE
111 Just ducky : A-OK
113 Person who might call you out : UMP