NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Angela Olson Halsted is a legal secretary in Washington, D.C., and the mother of two college students. Doug Peterson is a professional crossword constructor in Pasadena, Calif. The two met at a crossword tournament in 2007 and have been friends ever since. Both are baseball fans (Nationals for Angela, Yankees for Doug), and they have attended at least one M.L.B. game together every year (not counting last year) since 2011. — W.S.
55 Corn core Scientist buried Its capital is
57 Cancels in Westminster Sydney: Abbr.
Abbey
60 Alacrity 15 ‘‘Uh-uh’’
Pop artist who
61 Afternoon socials 16 Go by sings ‘‘Satisfied’’
17 Compete with
63 Where dreams are on ‘‘The Hamilton
made Mixtape’’ 18 Part of EGBDF
65 *Overenthusiastic 116 New ____ (cap brand) 19 Places to play cards, description of a 117 Trouble, often routine base hit? metaphorically 24 The Daily ____
68 Stand-in for Middle 120 Ballgame (online news site)
America extenders . . . and 29 ____ culpa
71 Pair of socks? what can literally 32 It plays a role in
be found in the
72 *Umpire’s aid in arm-twisting
answers to the judging foul balls? 33 ‘‘Venerable’’ saint
asterisked clues
78 GPS approximation 34 Manual readers
124 Beekeeper
79 Sgt. and cpl., e.g. 35 Air France hub
125 ____ to go
83 Airer of ‘‘Nancy 36 It brought Hope to
126 RUN-D.M.C. and
Drew’’ the Jonas Brothers, the world
84 Old salt for example 38 When doubled,
Nabokov protagonist 86 Fury 127 Bands’
40 Pre-bar challenge, 88 State where M.L.K. performance
briefly marched: Abbr. sheets
128 Unruffled 41 ‘‘Je t’____’’
89 Some fins
129 ____ Domingo 42 Org. with Fire and 92 King James on a Sparks court
43 It was first won by 94 Do as Henry VI did N.Y. Mets in 1969 96 Letters on some 44 Snowblower brand foundations
45 Word on some
97 Jumpy sorts, in Oreo packages brief
47 Nothing special
99 *Long hours of
48 Tina Turner, voicewise fielding practice?
49 Goldenrod, e.g.
101 ____ only
53 Append
103 Tilting
56 Instrument with a 104 *Imperceptible flared end fastball movement? 58 Chinese steamed bun
59 Ratio of an angle’s 109 All over the place opposite side to 113 Jimmy ____ the hypotenuse (luxury shoe
62 Blueprint details brand)
64 Runs out of juice 66 Eye cream ingredient 67 Symbol on Captain
America’s shield
ACROSS
1 Chow down on
6 ‘‘Exactly like this’’
12 Word with mild or
well
20 Character often found in children’s books
Emotionally process, in modern lingo
22 Repeated cry in 1931’s ‘‘Frankenstein’’
23 *Perfect curveball? 25 Ivy League city
26 Jam
27 Crucial
28 White coat?
30 Course standards 31 Emergency-room
concern
33 *Batting coach’s instruction to a lackadaisical hitter?
37 Habitual drinkers 39 Opposed (to)
40 *Apprentice
groundskeepers? 46 Singer/songwriter Parks with the 2021 album ‘‘Collapsed in Sunbeams’’
47 It might get pulled
in both directions 50 New York’s Mount
____ Hospital
51 Dark wine grape
52 Part of a heartbeat 54 Diplomatic official:
Abbr. 21
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Bird that can spend up to 10 months in the air without landing 2 Absolute bottom
3 Digital assistant
4 Food packaging
abbr., once
5 What’s heard at many
a coffeehouse
6 Group sometimes
said to be ‘‘out’’
7 French article
8 Pampering place
9 In use
10 Candle choice
11 Gumbo pods
12 Goddess with a sacred owl Designers’ studios 1 13 14 69 Villainous English
king in ‘‘Braveheart’’ 70 Outstanding pitcher 72 Former Ford models 73 Seller of Belgian waffles and French toast (fittingly, considering the ‘‘I’’ in its name)
74 Super Soaker
Soakzooka brand
75 Like some orders
76 Ancient halls
77 Eldest Stark son on
‘‘Game of Thrones’’ 80 G.I.’S garb, at times Speedskater Johann ____ Koss, winner of four Olympic golds 82 One-named Nigerian
Grammy winner
85 Pained sound
87 In the Renaissance, they were known as ‘‘mala insana’’ (‘‘mad apples’’)
90 Baseball’s Gehrig and Piniella
Most reliable 81 91 93 Russian city on Ural
River
95 Butterlike spread
98 French West Indies
resort island, familiarly 101 Profession
102 Camera inits.
104 ‘‘With any luck . . . ’’ 105 Tag line?
106 Fancy pourers
107 Paper route hour,
maybe
108 Headliner’s cue
No. 0411 Land between Togo and Nigeria
111 Insider’s vocabulary 112 Catch with a throw 113 Alternative to Chuck 115 Wistful sound
118 Man’s name that’s 123-Down reversed Stanza contraction Home of the world’s largest carnival
122 Word with red or army 123 Man’s name that’s
118-Down reversed 110 119 121