THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Perpendicular to the ship’s middle 6 “Let’s do this!” 13 Larger of Mars’s two moons 19 Proof of purchase for some contests 21 Maines of the Dixie Chicks

22 Out of date? 23 Underwater mine? 25 Some end-of-season announcements 26 ____ Plus (grooming brand) 27 “Insecure” star Issa 28 Comparison middle 29 Peaceful protest 30 Get a copy of a 1965 #1 Beatles hit?

37 South America’s ____ Picchu 39 Left-winger 40 U.N. worker protection agcy. 41 “____ Music’s golden tongue / Flatter’d to tears this aged man ...”: Keats 42 Actor Milo 43 Minute Maid Park player, informally 45 Formed for a particular purpose 47 Sultan Qaboos’s land 48 Something to be defended 50 Rather poor ambassador’s skill? 53 School in development? 54 Hat, informally 56 Bomb with the audience 57 Brand with an arrow through its logo 58 Grp. getting a pay cut? 59 “Roll Tide!” school, for short 62 Rolled ____ 65 Prefix with warrior 66 Formerly known as 67 Reason a computer program wouldn’t open? 70 Some touchdown scorers, for short 73 Zippo

74 “Am ____ sensitive?” 75 Existed 76 Thanksgiving serving 77 Things folded in the kitchen 80 “Cinderella” mouse 82 Big-eared animal 84 Past 85 Incredibly hard puzzle? 90 One with a confession to make 92 Consume 93 Responds wistfully 94 First name in fashion 96 Impressive hole 97 “____ reconsidered” 98 Padre’s hermano 99 Prefix with pressure 100“Eww!” 101 Link a quartet of supermarket employees?

109 Aid for a tracking shot 110 Jumpy sort, for short? 111 Vehicle that often rolls over, in brief 112 ____ mater 115 Angry Shakespearean cry 117 Something you’re not allowed to do in math? 121 Mistakes

122 Bit of nonsense in a No. 1 Ella Fitzgerald hit 123 Not ruling out 124 Gadget for lemons 125 Goes back and forth (with) 126 A cylinder has two

Down

1 Band with a symmetrical logo 2 Bath toy 3 Pizzeria order 4 Some lawyers’ cases 5 Kind of biol. 6 Picks up later in life? 7 Red ____ (sushi fish) 8 Irish icon, for short 9 Ankle bones 10 Relating to the pelvis 11 Prefix with communication 12 Hair-raising cry 13 Pigtail, e.g. 14 Many a “... For Dummies” book 15 Transmitting 16 Comic who acted in “Ocean’s Eleven” 17 Smelling of mothballs

18 Part of O.S.: Abbr. 20 Original home of Paddington Bear 24 Moves effortlessly (through) 29 Streetside hangouts 31 Drawbackinfear 32 River that rises in the Cantabrian Mountains 33 Player-coach Jason of the N.B.A. 34 K-12 35 Constellation between Ursa Major and Ursa Minor 36 Kids’ rhyme starter

37 Big name in pain relief

38 Onto land

44 Code on a bag to Chicago 45 Annually

46 Like a space cadet 47 1847 novel of the sea 49 “Finlandia” composer 51 Rollickingly funny 52 “Time was ... “55 Feature of a millpond

60 “You couldn’t possibly mean me!?” 61 Oil field?

63 Kind of job

64 ____ Bird, 10-time W.N.B.A. All-Star 67 Bite-size, say 68 Teaching positions canbepart of their work 69 Chest protector 70 “La La Land” actor 71 Rolls out of bed in the morning? 72 Messy treats 73 Fluorine’s atomic number

77 “Way to go!” 78 Purple flowers 79 Longtime Walter Berndt comic strip

81 Spot for wallowing 83 All-out attack 85 Stylish

86 Cry at a happy hour, maybe

87 Cry of excitement 88 “Well, Did You ____?” 89 Gate

91 Did some documentary work 95 Bolivian capital 102 0%, in the dairy aisle 103 Highest-level 104 Nice forecast 105 Population classification 106 Settle down for the night 107 Sam who sang “Twistin’ the Night Away”

108 Corn syrup brand 113 Tiny bit

114 They always come with mayo 115 Flat-topped hat 116 Heat 117 Keyboard key 118 ____ minimum 119 Anthem contraction

120 One rampaging in 2018’s “Rampage”