NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD WEST-SOUTHWEST BY JULIAN LIM / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ
Julian Lim, of Singapore, is an assistant professor at the School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. He leads the school’s Awake Lab, which studies the effects of mindfulness practice on sleep, well-being and cognition. He started solving British crosswords in high school, later getting hooked on American ones. He says he has solved every New York Times crossword since 2004. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Amenity in G.M.
vehicles
7 R.N.’S workplace
10 ‘‘Awake in the
Dark’’ author
15 Down at the bar?
19 Peace and quiet
20 Tease constantly,
with ‘‘on’’
21 Bottom lines?
22 Spanish Steps city 23 What an unsteady tightrope walker may do?
25 Number cruncher,
in Wall Street lingo 26 Spelling
clarification
27 CPR experts
28 ‘‘____ to My
Family’’ (song by the Cranberries) 29 ‘‘It’s just too $%#@ hot!,’’ e.g.?
31 Fasten again, as documents
34 Dish cooked in an
underground oven 35 Bolshoi debut of
1877
36 Thesis defenses,
e.g.
37 Thereabouts
39 Me-day destination 40 What a beekeeper
receives at work? 45 Pettily punishes
50 Dynamite
51 Explode on Twitter,
say
52 ‘‘____: Ragnarok’’
(2017 blockbuster)
54 Catty comments 55 Upstanding person 57 Flood protector
59 Bird that carries
Sinbad to safety 61 ‘‘Little Fockers’’
actress Polo
62 Little auk, by
another name
65 Japanese audio
brand
66 Cousin of a clarinet 67 Why the knight
went shopping?
73 Letters no longer seen on most phones
74 Ingredient in une
quiche
75 Source of the words ‘‘O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;/ It is the green-ey’d monster . . . ’’
76 Bohemian
77 ‘‘Hate Me Now’’
rapper, 1999
78 2019 award for ‘‘ What the Constitution Means to Me’’
79 ‘‘Magnifico!’’
84 Fully grown fillies 86 Statistician’s
calculation
88 Cruz known as the Queen of Salsa 91 Regenerist skincare brand
92 Upfront?
94 Hogs, after being
scrubbed clean? 97 Even a little bit
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99 Take ____ from
(follow)
100 Thrill
101 Resident of the lowest circle of hell, in Dante’s ‘‘Inferno’’
106 Spring setting in
San Antonio: Abbr. 107 Border of a lagoon, say
111 What the ecstatic janitor did? 113 Porcine pad
114 Paul of ‘‘There Will Be Blood’’
115 Actress Taylor 116 ‘‘Stop it, I’m blushing’’
117 ‘‘Michael Jordan’s Top 10 Free Throws’’ and others?
120 Rental units:
Abbr.
121 Ballet shoe application
122 Shakespearean
prince
123 Cuts off
124 Interlock
125 Choral
composition
126 N.F.C. South city:
Abbr.
127 Kids’ camp crafts
project
DOWN
1 Figure-skating
champ Brian
2 Reinvented self
image
3 Tiffs
4 Spots to shop for tots 5 The Sun Devils’ sch.
6 One squat, for
example
7 What soap bubbles
do
8 Pet shop purchase
9 ‘‘ Yuck!’’
10 Sublime
11 Toto’s creator
12 They’re full of questions
13 Holds on to one’s Essence, say? 14 Fasteners of some heels
15 Go at a glacial pace 16 Book before Joel
17 Boat sometimes built around a whalebone frame 18 Soul, e.g.
24 Give a shout
29 Nothing of the ____ 30 Digital sounds?
32 Something up one’s
sleeve
33 Original site of the
Elgin Marbles
34 Beyoncé, for one 38 ‘‘How neat!’’
40 Uncle ____
41 Heartbreak
42 Martin who wrote the ‘‘Baby- Sitters Club’’ series
43 Conclude (with) 44 Coarsegrained
igneous rock
46 Tagging along
47 Martial-arts-based
workout
48 Trial’s partner
49 Went cross
countrying, say
53 Spiked wheel on a
boot spur 56 Farm-to-table
program, in brief
58 Shish ____
60 Scientist who said, ‘‘The cosmos is also within us. We’re made of star-stuff ’’ 63 First string
64 Puts out
65 How obedient dogs
walk
67 Gets a head?
68 Host of an Apple TV+
book club
69 In again 70 More sardonic
71 Paperless airplane
reservation
72 Trifling amount
78 Because (of )
80 Sky fall?
81 Whitney of cotton gin
fame
82 Headed
83 ‘‘Later!’’
85 Button on an old video game controller
87 Org. that publishes
the journal Emotion 89 Prepare for a guided
meditation, perhaps 90 Cavity fillers
93 Homogeneous
95 ____ Gobert, 2018 and 2019 N.B.A. Defensive Player of the Year
96 Benchmark: Abbr.
98 ‘‘Over here!’’
101 Religion symbolized
by a moon and star 102 Make a choice on
Tinder
103 Isle of Man men, e.g. 104 Gorillalike
105 Suite meet?
108 Made lighter
109 One might begin
‘‘Dear Diary . . . ’’ 110‘ ‘All That Jazz’’ director 112 Screenwriter Lee, sister of Spike
113 De-bug?
117 ____ cha beef (Chinese entree) 118 V-J Day prez 119 Ni‘ihau necklace