NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD: TODDLER TALK

ACROSS

1 Unloading point 5Trait for a ballerina

10“Wanna hear a secret?” preceder

14Not much

18The “O” of OWN 20Portrayer of Captain Davies in “Roots”

21 Bind with rope

22 Abacus column

23 Helpful

24Accept payment from Batman?

27Eponymous Irish city

29 ____ pickle

30Counterparts of faunas

31 Cause for celebration at a pachyderm sanctuary?

36____ lecithin (chocolate

additive)

37 What most pens can't do

38Jane portrayer in 1981's

“Tarzan, the Ape Man”

41 Worry about, informally

45Flip (out)

46 Rock band that you might think would always be an opening act, with “the”?

48Ex-Giants QB Manning

49Finish scooping out a big stir-fry?

54 Signal approval

55Inexplicably missing, say

56 Brontë who wrote “Agnes

Grey”

57Target of permethrin cream

58Not very convincing

60 Highly skilled

61Rare race outcome

63Unimaginative birthday gift

64Is stertorous

65Puritan's goal in 17thcentury Salem?

69 Changes topics in a debate, perhaps

73 Scrapes (out)

74 The Rose Bowl, e.g.

79 Czar who co-ruled with Peter I

80Goes head to head

81 Indiana athlete

83 Sunburn soother

84Specialist publication, for short

85 Monopolize

86Something a Parmesan vendor might offer?

89Unflappable state of mind

90Baron Cohen of film

92One of all fours?

93 Container words

942019 film whose title means “to the stars”

96A dance and a dip

98Cartoondom's Olive ____

100What a stoner actor smoked during rehearsal?

107Beginning and end of “America”

109 “Ha-ha!”

110Noise heard during the

London Blitz

111Domain for Jameson and

Maker's Mark?

116Curl target, informally

117Manual alternative

118Soul singer Bridges

119Bank investment?

120Spanish dagger or Adam's needle is a variety of it

121New York football team, informally

122Apt rhyme for “crude” and “rude”

123It may need to be broken to move

124Lucretia ____, abolitionist and women's rights advocate

DOWN

1 Childbirth assistant

2Choose to participate

3Concern for Superman

4 Superman's birth name

5Like many a teenage boy's facial hair

6First Asian tennis player to be ranked No. 1 in singles

7 Press

8Bishop's jurisdiction

9Long period

10Like some evidence and bulbs

11Doctor's order

12 I.R.S. ID

13Live broadcast no-no

14 In

15One creating draft after draft?

16Andean empire member

17Some clicks of the tongue

19Slice of toast?

25Comes out ahead

26 Dolts

28Market launch, for short

32Amphibians that may have toxic skin

33 Clichéd

34Shakespeare villain with more lines than the title character

35Kindle download

39Skip the big ceremony, say

40They're found around

Scots 41Bony fish with prized eggs

42“Bottled poetry,” according to Robert Louis Stevenson

43Active Sicilian volcano

44Filled with wonder

47Without concrete evidence

50“Ad Parnassum” and

“Fish Magic,” for two

51Metaphor for a shared experience

52Be more important than

53Exaggerated kiss sound

55 Fuss

59Legal title: Abbr.

60He wrote lyrics to “My Way” for Sinatra

62Channel with a lot of house renovation shows

63Keeps in the loop, in a way

64Give a start

66Prez with a rhyming campaign slogan

67 Lab work

68Cause of some brain freeze

69It comes in California and New York styles

70Covered in vines

71Celebrity who holds the Guinness world record for “Most Frequent Clapper”

72Half and half?

75 Gallivants

76On the safe side

77Ancient kingdom in modern-day Jordan

78Elusive, in a way

80Words to learn, briefly

81In itself: Lat.

82“Oh, come on!”

85 Aggressive pitch

87 Physically fit

88Rock song?

90Big cut of tuna

91Fill with wonder

95Attaches, as a button

97Some shop tools

98“Now it makes sense!”

99“____ So Bad” (Tom Petty song)

101Flying ____ drop (pro wrestling move)

102Shocks, in a way

103 Hip bone

104Classic brand of wafers

105 Upright

106The Apostle of Ireland, familiarly

107It might come in a branded tote bag

108 Buddy

112 “____-haw!”

113Laid up

114Formerly called

115Perón of politics