WIDE-OPEN SPACES
Byron Walden is a math and computer science professor at Santa Clara University, “currently on sabbatical at the exotic location of my dining-room table.” He picked up his love of crosswords from his grandmother and father and is now passing it along to his 8-year-old son. This puzzle is themeless. It features longer, sometimes more challenging vocabulary than usual, with only 122 answers (versus the standard 140). — W.S.
ACROSS
1 How some stock shares are sold 6 Caesar-salad ingredient 13 Big name in swimwear 19 African grazer 20 Yalitza ____, bestactress nominee for 2018’s ‘‘Roma’’ 21 Woodworking machine 22 R. J. Reynolds product that once sponsored ‘‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’’ 24 Had legs, so to speak 25 Flying class? 26 Like some leaves and knives 27 Blast 28 ‘‘The Confessions of ____ Turner’’ (1967 Pulitzer-winning novel) 29 Scrapped 30 One who might say, ‘‘Your money’s no good here’’? 31 Overwhelming favorite 33 Roofing material 34 Dyes that can be used as pH indicators 35 Echo voice 36 Eponym of Aqaba’s airport 38 Editorial reversal 39 Simmering sites 41 On the schedule 45 Chef’s creation 47 Crosses one’s fingers 49 Sophisticated 50 Subjects of four famous violin concertos by Vivaldi 52 Can’t take 54 Body part that’s also a Hebrew letter 55 Christ, to Christians 56 Flavorful 57 Colts, maybe 59 Sch. on Chesapeake Bay 60 Interstellar clouds 62 Fundamental dispositions 63 With 55-Down, inning enders 65 Pourable art material 66 Creature seen basking on the shores of the Galápagos 67 Superman co-creator Jerry 69 Sports icon with the autobiography ‘‘Faster Than Lightning’’ 71 Entertainer Minnelli 75 Bitcoin and the like 77 47th U.S. vice president 78 Comic actor whose wife left him to marry their neighbor Frank Sinatra 81 Airer of the gospel music reality competition ‘‘Sunday Best’’ 82 Classic Chevrolets 84 Eaglelike 85 One with a small but devoted fan base 87 AAA service 88 Restrained from biting 89 Places of intense scrutiny 90 Entertainment on a diner place mat, maybe 91 Alka-Seltzer tablet, for one 92 Early omnivore 94 Returning after curfew, say 95 Substance used to preserve the Declaration of Independence 96 Apt rhyme for ‘‘bore’’ 97 ____ Pieces 98 Has in mind 99 Mary I or Elizabeth I
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1 Major tributary of the Mississippi 2 Gymnastics event for both men and women 3 The ____ State, nickname for Maine 4 Targets of formicide 5 Mythical flier 6 Isolated 7 Account 8 Popular performanceenhancing supplement for athletes 9 Freaking out 10 Good-size wedding band 11 Competed 12 Rockyesque interjections 13 Spends extravagantly 14 Some biodiesel sources 15 Victorian home? 16 Whole 17 Judged 18 Things taken while waiting 20 Representative 23 ‘‘Capeesh’’ 27 Whiffs 29 Org. for lightweights 30 End-of-level challenges in video games 32 Items in 18” x 18” x 1¾” boxes 34 Like the hands in the Allstate logo 36 Keystone ____ 37 ____ & the Blowfish 39 What sneers express 40 Popular dating app 42 Lake drained by the Truckee River 43 Iniquities 44 Places of iniquity 46 Spanish ‘‘that’’ 48 State capital on the Mississippi 50 Word with roll or bar 51 Muppet wearing a horizontally striped shirt 52 Chinese port city on Korea Bay 53 Occupy, as a booth 55 See 63-Across 56 English county that’s home to Brighton 58 Weather-map symbol 61 Butter, in Burgundy 62 Doctors Without Borders and others, in brief 64 Having a low neckline, as a dress 66 ‘‘Gotta split’’ 68 Group of 18th-century thinkers that included Voltaire and Rousseau 70 Numbers of concern to showrunners 72 The ‘‘Last Great Race on Earth’’ 73 Love match? 74 Respondent 76 South African money 77 Slo-____ fuse 78 Pan flute musician in iconic commercials of the 1980s 79 Like a jackass 80 Your current occupation? 82 Some skilled workers in ‘‘Brave New World’’ 83 Lead-in to while 85 Party line? 86 Former North Carolina senator Kay ____ 89 Let fly 90 Clickable list 92 W.W. II general ____ Arnold 93 Clock setting on the Big Island: Abbr.