NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Jack Reuter, 25, is a freelance app developer for Android devices in Montrose, N.Y. He says he likes crosswords that have an extra layer to them — which this unusual puzzle definitely does. It is Jack’s debut for The Times. — W.S.

Instructions: The center of this puzzle represents a 70-Down/55-Down, in which you can achieve a 122-Across by moving the 25-Across.

ACROSS 1 Cleaning product in a dangerous 2010s viral internet challenge 8 “Home” in a classic song

16 Jack of children’s rhyme 21 “Agreed” 22 Escapes, as molasses 23 Irregularly notched, as a leaf 24 Protein found in hair and hooves 25 See instructions 27 Watson’s creator 28 Pain for a tiler, maybe 30 Yearbook

31 Side represented by 34 Adams and Elgort 35 Doctor’s order 37 Dorothy’s caretaker in “The Wizard of Oz”

40 Irritate 41 Irritable

42 Verify the addition of 43 Nabisco product with an exclamation point in its name 49 That guy’s

50 Ill repute, to a Brit 52 Santa ____ winds 55 Some ovations 60 Become attentive 61 Succeeds 65 Cowboy flick 66 Eve’s counterpart 67 What a plant may

exude

69 Freak out 71 Treasure

72 When doubled, a Thor Heyerdahl book

73 Mother ____ 74 [Grumble, grumble] 75 Pith holders

76 Set aside for now 78 Score elements: Abbr. 79 Digital message 80 Old gold coin 81 Map of Hawaii

or Alaska, often 82 1974 Gould/ Sutherland C.I.A. spoof

83 Lushes 84 Deteriorate with age 86 Cut into bits 88 Prevents, legally 89 Letters near

an X-ray machine 90 People native to Tennessee and the Carolinas 92 “While I have you

…,” in a text 95 Classic 1922 film subtitled “A Symphony of Horror” 98 Brown-headed nest appropriator 104 “Fighting” college team

107 Maker of pens and lighters

108 Sheer fabric 109 First commercial film shown in stereophonic sound 111 Key of Bizet’s

first symphony 116 Side represented by O 117 87 is a common one 118 Conspicuous 121 Yuletide contraction 122 See instructions 125 Arrests 128 Outpost for an osprey 129 No longer needed for questioning 130 Senator Tammy Duckworth or former Senator Max Cleland 131 Symbol of directness 132 Arrived at, as an answer 133 Swollen area DOWN 1 Hangout often near a pool 2 Glacial hue 3 Like Mount Kilimanjaro 4 Doe in ‘‘Bambi’’ 5 Polling fig. 6 French acceptances 7 Title 1962 film villain 8 Valentine heart, e.g. 9 Urban cacophony 10 Slate, e.g. 11 Touch up, as styled hair 12 Some airborne particulates 13 What dashes may represent in internet searches 14 Kind of reaction 15 Ike’s W.W. II command 16 Veto on movie night 17 Figure in many a fairy

tale 18 Mischievous 19 One-named singer with the 2002 No. 1 hit “Foolish” 20 Some cuppas 26 No longer edible 29 Computing acronym 32 Silicon Valley startup V.I.P.

33 Baby fox 35 Unexceptional 36 Prefix with planet 38 St. Louis’s ____ Bridge, the oldest span over the Mississippi 39 Biblical high priest 40 The “u” spelling of

50-Across, e.g.: Abbr. 43 Figures in

the Sistine Chapel 44 Part of Africa

or an orchestra 45 Your signature

might be in this 46 Came down hard 47 Terrific

48 Chatter

51 City that hosted

the 1974 World’s Fair 53 Rare beneficiaries

of royal succession 54 Together 55 See instructions 56 Dating-app distance

metric

57 Stat

58 Lush

59 Son of Clytemnestra

and Agamemnon 61 Enter incorrectly 62 Jawbone of ____

(biblical weapon) 63 How early Beatles

songs were recorded 64 Best

66 Suffix on many an infomercial product’s name 68 Self-inflicted ritual death of a samurai 70 See instructions 73 Leash 77 Dulce de ____ (confection) 82 Notice

85 ____ Luis Obispo 87 88 One Those: of 24 Sp. in un giorno 90 Banned aerosol propellant, for short 91 Green: Prefix 92 Like some lenses 93 Wrong pipe, so to speak 94 Spends December through March (in) 96 Bit of judo attire 97 One-named singer with the 2014 hit “Chandelier” 99 Indianapolis-to-St. Louis dir. 100 “Phooey!”

101 Ape

102 Calls it quits 103 Boutique stock 105 Barbie’s younger sister

106 Long (for)

108 Part of an M.A. program application 110 Religious sch. 111 Called out

112 Any of the Apennines 113 In ____ (grumpy) 114 War hawk 115 Situation after a leadoff single 118 Ball ____

119 Big org. in Saturdayafternoon TV 120 “Indiana Jones” setting

123 Half of a

1955 union merger 124 Singer’s syllable 126 They’ll sound sped up at 45 r.p.m. 127 French director Besson