DOING A DOUBLE TAKE
Christina Iverson of Ames, Iowa, is a stay-at-home mom with an almost-2-year-old and a child on the way. She started solving puzzles only in the summer of 2018. She found it was an easily interrupted activity when her baby was constantly waking up in the evenings. Also, ‘‘Crosswords met my need for something more intellectually stimulating than reading ‘Goodnight Moon.’’’ Soon she made it a goal to have a puzzle published in The Times. Her collaborator, Jeff Chen, is a writer and professional crossword constructor in Seattle. They met through Jeff’s daily column on the website Xword Info. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Sandwich with an apostrophe in its name
6 Last-minute ebay
bidders
13 ____ Speaker
18 Family written about by Margaret
Mitchell
20 Laureate
21 California city whose name translates to “the table”
22 Concise and to the
point
23 Improvement 24 Desirous
25 Word with coin or
ring
26 Enclosure for a slush
pile, for short
28 Salsa and guacamole 30 Foe of the Jedi
31 Boor
32 This puzzle’s subjects, by another name 36 Beats by ____ (audio
brand)
37 For now
41 One of 24
42 Group running a celeb’s social media accounts, say
46 “My ____”
47 Fragrant item in a
fireplace
49 Doorway
50 What violence might
lead to
52 Political figure on whom Snowball is based in “Animal Farm” 54 Hitting close to home?
57 Pattern on a barber
pole
61 Shade
62 Word before rip or
slip
63 F.D.R.’S last veep 66 Boatload
67 Youngest animal in the Hundred Acre Wood
68 Daily cable show that has covered Hollywood since 1991
71 Part of a parade float
on New Year’s Day 74 Send over the moon 76 Duties imposed
78 Airer of “Arrow”
and “izombie”
79 Party notifications
sent with a click 81 Members of un
monastère
82 “Well, golly!” 84 Maximally mannered 85 “None for me, thanks” 87 Brain, slangily
89 Cry just before the birthday guest arrives at a surprise party 92 Juniors, to their
fathers
96 Tingling, in a way 100 Tousles, as hair 103 Muscat native
104 Bog growths
107 Bit of off-road equipment
108 Where Orange County is, in brief
109 Something with many variables to consider 110 Chow down on, biblically
112 Judea and Sheba, in the Bible 114 Warehouse stacks 118 Relating to theft on the high seas 122 Some South Africans 127 French schoolteacher 128 Chord known as “the devil in music” on account of its unsettling sound 129 Title role played by Hilary Swank in a 2009 biopic
130 “Alas ...”
131 Good thing to find on a boat
132 Agreeable response to a parental order
DOWN
1 Can opener
2 Company that introduced Etch A Sketch
3 Takes the plate in
place of
4 World of Warcraft
enemies 5 “Boo-____!”
6 “Quiet, you!” 7 Admonishment before
Christmas morning 8 Dutch banking giant 9 “____ supuesto!” (Spanish “Of course!”) 10 Presidential time 11 Contributors to “the front page of the internet”
12 Welcome, as a guest 13 ____ tai
14 Tsps. or tbsps. 15 George W. Bush’s nickname for himself, with “the”
16 Where to set
your butts down 17 Pandemonium
19 ____ admin
21 Retro-cool
music purchases 27 Producer of bills 29 When repeated,
“Cheerio!”
33 The Jets, but not the
Giants
34 Lead-in to long
35 Drink with a straw 38 Hatcher of “Lois &
Clark”
39 Lawman at the O.K. Corral
40 In the slightest
43 What amber comes from
44 Cleaning up the mess,
for short?
45 Texter’s “ciao”
47 Certain bean or horse 48 “____ run!”
51 Levels
53 Provocative poster 54 Keeper of the books? 55 One who fixes flats? 56 One of Chaucer’s
pilgrims
58 Hot under the collar 59 Things students take 60 “Whither thou ____ …”
63 Mischievous titter 64 Erupt
65 Fortune 500 category,
informally
69 Most sinewy 70 Florist’s cutting 72 Weather phenomenon whose double lights were said to represent this puzzle’s subjects 73 Baseball double play, in slang … or a hint to understanding the 12 Across answers that have circles
74 Like a “mwa-ha-ha”
laugh
75 Freedom
77 Abbr. on a keyboard
key 80 Derrière
82 India’s smallest state 83 Orange Sesame Street monster
86 It’s a start
88 Founder of the Ottoman Empire 89 “That’s odd …”
90 Chits inits.
91 Wet firecracker, e.g. 93 Genre akin to goth 94 ____ fly
95 Finish of three U.S. state names 97 Flash-drive port 98 The big eau
99 Org. that began welcoming girls in 2019
101 California’s ____ National Forest 102 Wiped
105 Seasoning in a yellow-and-blue tin 106 Disgusting, quaintly 111 Picks, with “for” 113 Near impossibilities on par-5 holes
114 Fig. watched by some dieters 115 Bit in a feedbag
116 Some fraternity-row letters
117 G.R.E. administrator 119 Coastal inlet
120 “The pond”: Abbr. 121 Here’s the kicker! 123 Marks out
124 Its seeds whirl to the ground
125 Hit 2011 animated movie
126 Pusher of green eggs and ham