NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD: TRIPLE SPOONERISMS

ACROSS

1 Anesthetic of old 6 Forcefully remove 12 Very good, as a job 18 Purple candy's flavor, often 19 Sea-dwelling 21 Things a spy may have many of 23 Stares slack-jawed 24 What caused the nosebleed on the playground?

26 Sponsor of U.S.

Olympic swimmers 28 Ball hit for fielding

practice

29 Burro's call

30 Tagline in an ad for

Elmer's Glue-Ale? 35 Holiday-song closer 36 Bygone channel that

aired “Veronica Mars” 37 Chill in the cooler 38 Finish filming

40 Gets up

43 Bernadette of

Broadway

45 Succumb to

sleepiness 50 High-flown, as writing 52 Big ox

53 Discreet attention-getter 57 Lash with a bullwhip 58 Deliberative bodies 60 Description of a yeti? 63 Parodied

65 Capacitate

66 Tip jar fillers

67 Novice parasailer's

fear?

73 Ingredient in a

Roy Rogers

74 Coarse

75 What a Möbius

strip lacks

76 Containers for

electric guitars? 80 They're easy to take 85 Unfamiliar

86 Quite a few 87 It hangs around the neck 89 Sandwich with Russian dressing 90 One-room apartment, to Brits

92 Motifs

95 Like the questions in 20 Questions 96 Very worst

99 “Law & Order” actor Jerry 101 Sealer for sailors? 102 Drawbacks

106 Best place to buy a platter of fruit-flavored sodas?

111 Square footage 112 Bishop's headgear 113 Paradisiacal 114 Mend fences after Caesar's civil war? 120 Maker of PowerShot cameras 122 Apathetic response to “What's new?” 123 Leave behind 124 Something to live by 125 Market offerings 126 Trick-taking game 127 “Napoleon Dynamite” star Jon

DOWN

1 Easter ____

2 It's a bunch of garbage 3 Discovers by chance 4 Pentathlon items 5 Complete policy overhaul, in D.C.-speak 6 1987 action film originally given an X rating for violence 7 Winter driving hazard 8 Shell-game object 9 Cooper's wood 10 Game with 108 cards 11 Small scraps 12 Hedgehog predator 13 Second, or worse 14 Quibble 15 Dresses 16 There's enormous interest in it

17 Nut in pralines 20 Caddie's selection

22 ____ terrier 25 From scratch 27 Fizzler

30 Lays down the lawn? 31 Classic seller of compilation albums 32 Seek moolah from 33 Alphabet ender 34 According to

39 Cal ____ 41 Setting for a period piece 42 Instrument whose name means “three strings” 44 What shopaholics do 46 “The Martian” star 47 Long-armed climber, for short 48 Joins

49 Own (up)

51 Kick out

54 Dance akin to the jitterbug 55 Prized Siberian animal 56 Bathroom floor, often

59 Podcast that won a 2014 Peabody Award 61 Detectives run them down

62 More rare, perhaps 64 Resonator guitar 67 John Kennedy ____, author of “A Confederacy of Dunces” 68 Charlton Heston title role

69 Aids in golf course maintenance 70 Irrefutable point 71 Play at maximum volume 72 R.&B.'s ____ Brothers 73 Sideways scuttler 77 Cutlet?

78 “Life Itself” memoirist Roger

79 Swahili for “lion” 81 Actor's last line, maybe 82 Stayed sober 83 Rules for forming sentences 84 Mock sound of disinterest 88 Exhausted 91 Tufted songbirds 93 Sweetie 94 Multiplex count 97 Dark-meat options 98 Jimmy's “Late Night” successor 100 Deceived 102 “High Hopes” lyricist Sammy 103 Snacks in stacks 104 Opposite of o'er 105 “Frida” star Hayek 107 Spanakopita ingredient 108 Ones who grasp elbows in greeting, by tradition 109 “How revolting!” 110 Drum-kit component 115 Lab coat?

116 FISA warrant objective 117 Genetic macromolecule 118 Unmatched

119 One of the

Three Stooges 121 Winner of the most medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics: Abbr.