See the 5 answer words debuted by Jon Schneider.
C | O | A | R | S | E | H | A | S | T | E | A | S | P | I | C | |||||
A | P | P | E | N | D | S | C | O | S | S | E | T | P | L | O | U | G | H | ||
T | H | E | D | U | D | E | R | A | H | R | A | H | A | L | U | M | N | A | ||
S | E | X | G | A | L | L | E | R | Y | M | I | S | T | S | P | O | T | |||
P | L | A | Y | S | L | A | V | S | R | O | O | T | E | D | I | R | T | |||
A | I | M | E | E | P | I | E | T | A | P | A | L | M | T | R | E | E | |||
W | A | S | A | T | C | H | C | R | O | W | D | I | N | C | H | O | I | R | ||
C | H | A | S | E | P | R | E | A | C | H | E | N | T | |||||||
C | U | T | S | O | U | T | S | E | T | I | N | H | E | L | L | |||||
A | L | A | C | R | I | T | Y | R | E | P | O | R | U | B | O | F | F | |||
B | A | S | R | A | E | X | P | O | N | E | N | T | S | N | O | L | I | E | ||
S | N | E | E | Z | Y | I | S | L | E | O | I | N | T | M | E | N | T | |||
A | Z | A | L | E | A | I | N | S | O | L | E | B | O | N | E | |||||
T | A | M | W | O | L | V | E | S | C | L | O | S | E | |||||||
T | H | R | E | W | S | M | E | L | T | E | R | S | T | P | E | T | E | R | ||
R | E | T | R | E | A | T | S | A | S | S | A | M | S | N | A | R | E | |||
I | F | S | B | O | T | T | O | M | S | W | A | B | S | C | L | U | B | |||
R | A | C | E | K | O | R | N | W | E | L | C | O | M | E | E | D | U | |||
E | T | A | L | I | A | E | L | A | I | N | E | N | E | A | T | N | I | K | ||
M | E | M | O | R | Y | E | A | R | N | E | D | G | A | V | O | T | T | E | ||
E | S | S | I | E | T | Y | K | E | S | R | E | E | S | E | S |
Jon Schneider, of New York City, is a research scientist for Google, working on problems in machine learning and economics. Anderson Wang, of Mountain View, Calif., is a software engineer currently between jobs. They met at M.I.T. in the early 2010s, where they lived in the same hall. They've been making and solving puzzles together ever since.
This is the first New York Times crossword for each of them.