THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Fancy water pitcher 7 Cranks (out) 13 Iranian president Rouhani

19 National park near Bar Harbor 20 Shoulder-supported launcher

22 Go against

23 Put in another light

24 What do you get when you cross 26-Across with a 5-Down?

26 A group of them may be called a memory

28 Bestow

29 Not down so much?

30 Item that can be blown or thrown 31 Coastal-environment simulator at an aquarium

34 Onesie protector 36 Some Instagramfeed posts

37 Pool unit 38 Tokyo-to-iwo Jima dir.

39 Iraqi currency 41 Symbols of watchfulness

46 Krispy ____ 49 Musical tone below A

53 Rock climber’s tool 54 Neighbors of Saudis

56 ‘‘Cheese’’ products? 57 What do you get when you cross 63-Across with a 45Down?

61 Jungian feminine side

62 Not natural, say 63 Coop group 64 Dazed and confused

66 Went (against) 68 Caper

69 London theater district

72 Flatbread often garnished with rosemary

77 Creatures that can have two sets of jaws and teeth

81 Kind of squash 82 What do you get when you cross 77-Across with a 40Down?

85 Begin dozing 87 Dandelion lookalike

88 Congregate to rest 89 Fill with love 90 ____ Malfoy, Harry Potter antagonist 91 Logs on to, say 94 Criticizes harshly 96 Tirana’s country: Abbr.

98 Cabinet inits. since 1980

99 Abe Lincoln’s youngest son

102 ____ de los Muertos

103 Napoleonic symbol

106 ‘‘If all ____ fails .?.?. ’’

110 Confess

112 Got to work 114 ‘‘____ in the Garden’’ (Robert Frost poem)

116 What do you get when you cross 114-Across with a 93Down?

120 ____ 101, world’s tallest building before the Burj Khalifa 121 Sporty Chevy 122 Picked (up) 123 Shaping wood using a curved blade 124 Get short with 125 Coldly determined

126 Direct

DOWN

1 Wasn’t indifferent 2 D.c.-to-boston transport 3 Nonvenomous, fastmoving snake 4 Get accustomed (to) 5 School group

6 Erode

7 ‘‘CSI’’ broadcaster 8 Spots on ships for anchor cables 9 Weapon used by the Terminator 10 CD-____ 11 Aurelius, for Lucius Aurelius Commodus

12 Burrowing lizard 13 Spicy appetizer 14 When National Beer Day is celebrated: Abbr.

15 Tater

16 Gandhi of contemporary Indian politics 17 Queried

18 They might take a few swallows

21 Along with 25 Geographical locale whose name means ‘‘waterless place’’ 27 Back of the neck 32 ‘‘For shame!’’ 33 Make bubbly 35 Rice variety

37 Lex Luthor’s sister 39 Classroom assignment

40 What’s known for its poker face?

41 Take in the newspaper

42 ____ Stix

43 Suffix with launder 44 Department stores since 1901

45 Ika, at a sushi bar 47 Ireland, poetically 48 Some lapel attachments

50 First letter of the Arabic alphabet

51 Do, ____, fa .?.?. 52 Exam for collegebound H.S. students 55 ‘‘Mad Men’’ channel

58 Pest-control brand founded by Lee Ratner (!) in the 1950s 59 ____ Island

60 Sega mascot 65 Home to Natural Bridges National Monument

67 1,000%

68 Ghana’s capital 69 Lessen in power 70 Business class, for short

71 Pop

72 ‘‘Never ____!’’ 73 Prefix with -gon 74 M.R.I. alternative 75 Cactus bump 76 Org. with a classified budget

78 Many stars have big ones 79 ____-majesté 80 Concordes et al. 83 Some HDTVS 84 Father of the Amazons, in Greek myth 86 ‘‘Sorry, Charlie’’ 92 ‘‘Moonstruck’’ Oscar winner 93 Smallest of the big cats

95 Home to the Hana Highway 97 Touchingly? 99 Soothing powders 100 Flighty?

101 Strongly held beliefs

103 Weather-forecast figures

104 Inception

105 Hen

106 ‘‘My Fair Lady’’ protagonist

107 Fatty acid, e.g. 108 ‘‘____ evil’’

109 Endorse online 111 Striking sound 113 Big name in vitamins 115 Lessen in power 117 Singing syllable 118 16th letter 119 Palindromic prepositiontop right and lower left corners are completely Harrison’s. The two wrote the clues together. — W.S.