MAKING ARRANGEMENTS

Randolph Ross, of New York City, is a retired high school principal and math teacher. He is one of the longest-running active crossword contributors to The Times, having had well over 100 puzzles published during the past 30 years. He writes: “Staying in my apartment so much these days has increased my crossword solving and constructing. I feel fortunate I have an avocation that keeps my brain engaged.’’ — W.S.

ACROSS

1 Because of 8 ‘‘Pet’’ with green ‘‘fur’’ 12 Illegal thing to grab in

football 20 Handkerchief, in

British slang 21 Disney+ alternative 22 Turkey piece? 23 Sign at a chemical plant: ‘‘This facility is ____ — ____’’ (with 114-Across) 25 Lists of grievances 26 It ends in Nov. 27 ‘‘When pigs fly!’’ 28 Recess retort 30 Moody who wrote ‘‘Coming of Age in Mississippi’’

31 Question to an English teacher: ‘‘Why did Poe write his poem ‘____’?’’ Answer: ‘‘____?’’ (with 98-Across) 36 Ingredients in mulled wine

39 ‘‘Everything’s ready on my end’’ 40 Idiosyncrasy 41 Rodriguez who starred in ‘‘Jane the Virgin’’

42 Scheming sergeant of

old TV

45 We can tell the boss’s assistant is a ____ because he always ____ (with 87-Across) 50 My weight increases when traveling because ____ during ____ (with 84-Across)

54 Scrabble threepointers 55 Indescribable

religious ideal 56 Status for a library book

57 Ice pads?

60 Nick’s cousin 61 Dandy, on Downing

Street

62 Advantage

63 List makers 64 Someone who is ____ years old now will be ____ in six years (with 68-Across) 68 See 64-Across 71 Small-truck maker 72 Agrees (with)

74 Way to go

75 To boot

76 Some cymbals 78 Unlikely candidates

for loans

82 What might be broken

by doing a flip? 83 Cover some ground 84 See 50-Across 87 See 45-Across 91 Light measurement 92 Scores 93 Prefix with puncture 94 Creator of the identity eiπ + 1 = 0

96 ‘‘Dallas’’ family 98 See 31-Across 105 Music played on a sitar 106 Ollie’s foil, in old films

107 ____ Marbles (classical Greek sculptures)

108 Opposite of nord 111 Dictatorial leadership 114 See 23-Across 118 Hit (with)

119 One of Zoe’s best friends on ‘‘Sesame Street’’

120 Thistlelike plants 121 Some trolleys 122 Words said in passing

123 ‘‘But wait, there’s more!’’ e.g.

DOWN

1 Like some music

collections

2 Courts

3 ‘‘____ it true ...?’’

4 The puck stops here 5 Oddly, it’s not the biggest size at Starbucks 6 Broncobusters, e.g. 7 Pointed arch

8 Winning quality

9 QB’S cry

10 Suffix with percent 11 Open-book

examinations? 12 Untruth

13 Bit of negativity? 14 Attendee of the

Jellicle Ball, on Broadway

15 In-flight info, for short 16 Jackie Robinson, in his only year in the Negro Leagues 17 Dress with a flare

18 City south of Florence 19 Casey with a countdown

24 Read Across America

org.

29 ‘‘____ So Unusual,’’ debut album by Cyndi Lauper 31 Opposite of après 32 Collaboratively

written page

33 Popular video-making

software

34 Things proposed by the Greek philosopher Democritus

35 Business slumps

36 Sci-fi film f/x 37 Mythomaniac

38 ‘‘You can count ____’’ 42 National park with

Lake Louise

43 Sit out on a frozen

lake, say

44 Old Ford

46 Board hire

47 Troubled

48 One tending to 49-Down

49 See 48-Down

51 ‘‘Get ____ here!’’ 52 Home to Paris 53 Breakfast fare from

Kellogg’s 58 Valentine-candy word 59 Work

60 Absolutely, slangily 62 Best Buy buy 63 Dispatched

64 Kind of acid found in asparagus

65 Get-go 66 Howard Hughes

property, once 67 Routing word

69 ‘‘The Gates of Hell’’

sculptor

70 Gambling game 71 ‘‘Toodles!’’

73 Big Sur home to the human-potential movement

76 Blah

77 Promising words 78 Kapow!

79 Part of an escalator 80 Hot spot for a pot 81 Reason for a bad air day?

83 Org. with a pet cause? 85 Product of

coagulation

86 Some toy dolls of the

1980s

88 Like the Devil

89 Puts in order

90 Arizona county or

its seat

95 Laura of ‘‘Love

Actually’’ 96 Put in a good word? 97 Dressed like for Halloween

98 Spot to sample perfume

99 Poker Flat chronicler 100 Lead-in to phobia 101 Key

102 Second takes

103 Major street through Yale’s campus 104 Anxiety

108 Snick and ____ 109 Sch. with the most N.C.A.A. men’s basketball championships (11) 110 Piece of dorm-room furniture

112 Elvis’s longtime label 113 Europe’s secondlargest country in area, after Russia: Abbr.

115 Encouraging word 116 Doc bloc

117 Reptile seen in hieroglyphics