THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Ocean motion

4 [I expected better from you!]

7 Tracking systems 13 Makes out, in Manchester

18 Stuffed and fried cornmeal pocket, in Mexican cuisine 20 Lizzo or Lorde 21 ____-hole 22 Amazon, e.g.

23 Title for Iran’s Ali Khamenei

25 Tailored blouse style

27 Pieces of pentathlon equipment

28 Piece of biathlon equipment

29 Outdoor wedding rental

30 Some reusable bags 32 Give a refill

34 Poet Limón 35 Yearbook sect. 36 Item lugged up a hill 38 Gardener’s supply 40 Alphabetically first member of the Baseball Hall of Fame

42 Dull yellowish brown

43 Subject of some teen gossip sessions 47 Sure-footed alpine climber

52 React to, as an online joke

53 ‘‘I wish I could ____ that’’ (‘‘Ick’’) 54 Document that never lacks a title 55 Divert

57 Solid green ball in un juego de billar

61 It’s ground-breaking 62 Way overcharge, so to speak

64 Vape shop inventory

66 Sci-fi’s Dr. Zaius, for one

67 Even a bit

68 Bakery item that’s often messy

71 Lavishes love (on) 73 Part of R.S.V.P. 74 Business that might hold a blowout sale? 76 Common food drive donation 77 ‘‘Julius Caesar’’ role 78 Lhasa ____ 80 Necklace components

82 Parts of volcanoes 85 2007 No. 1 Alicia Keys album

86 Not keep 88 Caribbean capital 91 Kind of test question

95 Some video-making devices

96 Rod who won four Wimbledons

97 ‘‘The very ____!’’ 99 Yellow bills in Monopoly

100 Lobster-catching aid?

103 Holiday preceder 104 Choose to participate

108 Award won twice by Hammerstein, fittingly

110 Horror director ____ Saul Guerrero 111 Contraction that omits a ‘‘v’’

112 0 to 60, e.g.

114 Proceeds breezily 117 What a spike goes over

121 Not black and white

122 Early computer 123 ‘‘Encore!’’

124 ‘‘The Lifechanging Magic of Tidying Up’’ tidying method

125 Take care of 126 ‘‘Well, so’s your face!,’’ e.g.

127 The antagonist Bellwether from Disney’s ‘‘Zootopia,’’ e.g. 128 Ask for a treat, say

DOWN

1 Discharges

2 Hassle

3 Genius

4 Not be on the level

5 Anxiously worry 6 Title nickname in a 1984 sports movie 7 Courses

8 Wechat or Kakaotalk

9 Very serious

10 With skill 11 Shakespeare character who cries ‘‘Then I defy you, stars!’’ 12 Power-saving mode 13 ‘‘____ Used to Be Mine’’ (song from ‘‘Waitress’’)

14 Long of Hollywood 15 ‘‘My guess is .?.?. ’’ 16 Realm for comicbook fans, say 17 Damascenes, e.g. 19 Gardener’s supply 20 ‘‘Over here!’’ 24 ‘‘Geaux Tigers!’’ sch. 26 Liquid in a first-aid kit

31 Noodles sometimes served with tsuyu sauce

33 Onetime sunscreen ingredient

36 Small Jewish communities of old 37 Socal baseball team, on scoreboards 39 Scintilla 41 Secondary social media accounts, in brief

42 Mournful sound 44 Fiddle with a ukulele?

45 Woman on W.W. Ii-era posters

46 Cassini who created the so-called ‘‘Jackie look’’

47 Simba’s father in ‘‘The Lion King’’ 48 How detectives may act

49 Orders from regulars

50 Breaking or entering, say

51 Leslie ____ Jr., member of the original ‘‘Hamilton’’ cast

56 Not joke around 58 Enjoys a homecooked meal 59 Poison-treating plant

60 Bagel choice

63 ____ World Service 65 Digital camera memory holders 68 G-rated, say

69 You might pass on them

70 Apt surname for a mechanic

72 Palm Springs, e.g. 75 Group with the hits ‘‘Honey, Honey’’ and ‘‘Money, Money, Money’’

79 Big brute

81 Went fast 83 Cocktail with a rhyming name 84 Tinder action that expresses strong interest 87 Other: Sp. 89 Certain pie crust flavor

90 Wok, e.g.

91 Covers of vintage music?

92 ‘‘Try it!’’

93 Sit on

94 Part of an aircraft that helps reduce drag 98 Put forward

100 H.S. class with dis- sections

101 Tune out

102 Semi

105 Stick one’s nose in 106 Small drum 107 Cockamamie 109 Actress Blanchett 110 Latch (onto) 113 Muppet who sings in the ‘‘Try, Try Again’’ song

115 When it’s driving, you might not want to drive

116 Unwanted breakout

118 Back muscle, in brief

119 Prefix with warrior

120 Negative conjunction