NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Lisa Bunker, of Exeter, N.H., is the author of two novels for young readers — “Zenobia July,” about a trans girl with a troubled past starting over with a new family and school, while tackling a cybermystery; and “Felix Yz,” about a boy fused with an alien facing a risky procedure to separate them. Both were published by Viking. She also represents Exeter in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. This is Lisa’s sixth puzzle for The Times and her first Sunday. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Percussion instrument in a marching band
7 Prefix with sexual
10 Prefix with sexual 14 Animals in a pod
19 Start of a
playground taunt 20 Kitchen brand with a palindromic name
21 What an article may come with?
22 Drain, as from soil 23 Fatsis who wrote
‘‘Word Freak’’
24 Most feathery, as
clouds
26 ‘‘Thong Song ’’
singer, 2000
27 Sharp, in a way
28 Early tie
30 The ones over here 32 In the capacity of 33 Some Ivy Leaguers 34 Born yesterday, so
to speak
36 Calm
38 Comfy slip-on, in
brief
39 What an outstretched arm with an open palm can mean
41 Fleet org.
42 It means business 43 Stakes
44 Narrow
46 Group tour vehicle
49 Playground
comeback
52 Build up
53 Sci-fi publisher of ‘‘Ender’s Game’’ and ‘‘The Wheel of Time’’
54 Popular beer
brand, briefly
57 With 3-Down, one
of the Avengers
59 ____ smear
61 Reduced
63 Opposite of a
standing order? 64 ‘‘Do me this one
favor . . . ’’
67 French vineyards 68 Prats
69 Contrariwise
71 North African
capital
72 Nongendered, as
language: Abbr.
73 Sui ____
74 Kind of dash
76 Best Supporting Actor winner for ‘‘Dallas Buyer’s Club’’
78 Prefix with friendly 79 Rules out?
80 West Coast beer
brand, in brief 81 ‘‘____ ruled the
world . . . ’’
83 :
86 Capital of Yemen 87 Kind of modern
office plan
89 Smell of a rose
92 Smell of a rosé
95 ____ Fridays
96 Barrister’s deg.
97 Bench tool
99 Quibble
101 Student’s bonus
points
103 Drawn-out
campaigns
105 When doubled, another name for dorado
106 Call ____ night
107 Eighth letter
109 British tennis champ who invented the sweatband
111 ____ impasse
112 Guardian spirits 114 Especially
116 Soubise sauce is made from them 118 Greenish-brown 119 ____ cake (dim sum dish)
120 Suffix with social 121 ‘‘Wheel of
Fortune’’ freebies 122 Sharp
123 Label for Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes
124 Latin king
125 Sea lion, for one
DOWN
1 Word with sound or solar
2 Few
3 See 57-Across
4 Subsequent versions
5 Thurman of ‘‘Kill
Bill’’
6 Word before and
after ‘‘a’’
7 Turned on
8 Kind of symmetry
9 A pretty capable sort 10 Singer Difranco
11 Big name in bubbly 12 Small woodland songbird
13 ‘‘Town square for the global village of tomorrow,’’ per Bill Gates
14 Jimmy of the Daily Planet
15 L. L. Bean competitor
16 Medieval helmet
17 Exonerate
18 Prime snorkeling
spots
25 Like many stuffed
animals
29 PX shopper
31 The Quran, for one 35 Mango Madness and Go Bananas, for two
37 Ones initiating
handoffs, for short 39 Some mattresses 40 Indulgence
45 Capital of French
Polynesia
47 Show again
48 Caterer’s container 50 A fine mesh this is! 51 Debussy prelude inspired by a water sprite
54 Outcast
55 Out of focus 56 Surface anew, say
57 Post production
58 Without a doubt
60 Turkish officers
62 Timid sort
63 Instrument in
‘‘O! Susannah’’
64 They’ll be mist
65 Super Bowl of
2022
66 Place with robes and
sweaters 70 Seasick sea serpent of
old cartoons
71 Bank posting
73 Words after throwing
a ball
75 Grams
77 Unbalance
82 Packaging list
84 ‘‘L’chaim!’’
85 (a, b), e.g.
87 Anthem
contraction 88 Suit perfectly
90 France from
France
91 Singer who founded Fenty Beauty
92 What ponies express? 93 Field-plowing duo
94 Poem piece
97 Notable point in
geometry
98 U.N. member since
1949: Abbr. 100 Glittery
decoration
102 Listing
104 Beau ____
105 Ones with plenty of
reservations
108 Blade brand
110 Days of old
113 Suffix with court or
cash
115 Deli supply
117 Surveillance org.