Author: Daniel Grinberg
Editor: Will Shortz
Across
Pink, purple and blue Pride display, familiarly BIFLAG
Hound NAG
Kind of opening JOB
Frontwoman for the Pussycats JOSIE
Nipple rings AREOLAE
Target of an inventory scan BARCODE
Acting like APING
Fault line? GUILTYASCHARGED
Qualifier for a date CIRCA
Olaf’s creator in “Frozen” ELSA
Nickname that drops “An-” DRE
A gig has a thousand of these MEGS
Permitted OKAYED
Permitted LET
Fine line? CANTCOMPLAIN
Atomic number of neon TEN
Preserves things? JARS
Shaped like a kiwifruit OVATE
Processes DIGESTS
___ attachment EMAIL
Anatomical stabilizer TOE
The Green Hornet’s assistant KATO
Not down, in a way SIP
Fishing line? TELLMEIMPRETTY
Mediterranean morsel OLIVE
Get just right NAIL
Long-running police procedural, for short NCIS
Catalan artist Joan MIRO
Thought the world of ADORED
“To Kill a Mockingbird” setting ALABAMA
Match well with BEFIT
First color TV manufacturer RCA
Subway line? SIXINCHORFOOTLONG
Tittle DOT
s-’80s Supreme Court justice ___ F. Powell Jr. LEWIS
Scams RIPSOFF
With an eager spirit GAMELY
Landed ALIT
Flying formations VEES
March ___ HARE
South American grassland LLANO
Assembly line? PLEASEBESEATED
Variety ILK
Boxing stats TKOS
Celestial shape ORB
British bottoms ARSES
Ladybugs and fireflies BEETLES
Some sports car features TTOPS
Currency replaced by the euro MARK
North American fish with toxic roe GAR
Power line? YOURETHEBOSS
Simple card game WAR
Groundskeeping equipment MOWERS
It’s signed after a break CAST
Otherworldly creatures, for short ETS
Z, to Zeno ZETA
Illegal offering BRIBE
Subject line? GODSAVETHEQUEEN
Passage of rite? AISLE
Two outs left, in baseball ONEAWAY
Performed really badly STUNKAT
Timetable: Abbr. SCHED
“There’s more to the story, right?” AND
“The Shining” prop AXE
Quakes SEISMS
Down
There’s a hole in one BAGEL
Gloater’s cry IRULE
One-named indie singer with the 2007 hit “1234” FEIST
Kinks hit that starts “I met her in a club down in old Soho” LOLA
Neighbor of Ctrl ALT
Sense of orientation GAYDAR
Peacock parent NBC
Exclamation of amazement AAH
Alternative to nana GRAMMA
Shake slightly JOGGLE
Ukraine’s third most populous city ODESA
Where a lot of lying happens BED
Item in a trunk JACK
Post-surgery prescription OPIATE
Private line? SIRYESSIR
Motivator INCENTIVE
“Crikey!” EGAD
Brings in EARNS
Moved like a cat burglar CREPT
Word after dead or data SET
Volunteer’s declaration ONIT
Soothe CALM
Communal housing arrangements COOPS
/, in math OVER
Director Lupino IDA
Co-founder of the Joining Forces initiative, with Michelle Obama JILLBIDEN
One role in a classic interrogation trope GOODCOP
Zoomed SPED
World Heritage Site in Sicily ETNA
Ground grain MEAL
Dame Edna, for Barry Humphries ALIAS
“Enough! I get the picture already!” TMI
Capital of Japan until 1868 KYOTO
Hostile state ENMITY
Volunteer’s declaration ICAN
Like many retired professors EMERITA
Petty arguments TIFFS
TLC or Run-D.M.C. TRIO
Person of interest? LOANSHARK
HBO comedy about a sports agent ARLISS
Salamander named after an Aztec deity AXOLOTL
___ knife BOWIE
Gives a hand? CLAPS
Hot spot HELL
Genealogist’s chart TREE
Kids and nannies GOATS
Liberated FREE
N.S.A. agents, e.g. FEDS
Superficial, in a way GLIB
Rich with metaphor ALLEGORIC
Party line? MAKEAWISH
What might lead to a bridge VERSE
Subside EBB
Second-year: Abbr. SOPH
Bunny ___ (photo prank) EARS
Janitor’s ringful KEYS
Spanish “bear” OSO
Kind of clef TREBLE
Switched TRADED
Actress Thompson of “Westworld” TESSA
Canadian Tulip Festival location OTTAWA
Light-headed sorts? MOTHS
Selling points ASSETS
School name that sounds like a Canadian territory UCONN
Hip Hop Awards channel BET
Gestational metric WEEKS
First-stringers ATEAM
Posts in a rage, perhaps RANTS
Degrees for C.F.O.s MBAS
Bog plant REED
New Mexican tribe ZUNI
___-courtin’ GOA
Shot in the arm, slangily VAX
Word after stink or pink EYE
What’s what in Oaxaca QUE
