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Aimee Lucido, of Berkeley, Calif., is a crossword constructor and children’s-book author. Her second book, ‘‘Recipe for Disaster,’’ came out in September. Her friend Ella Dershowitz, of New York City, is an actor who has appeared in films like ‘‘Knife Fig
ACROSS
1 Miss
5 Fairy-tale monster
9 Meat in ragù al
cinghiale
13 ‘‘Everyone knows
the secret now’’
19 Lincoln or Ford
20 Purchase in the board game Catan worth one wood and one brick
21 Singer Guthrie
22 Genre for Nirvana
and Soundgarden
23 Forgetfulness experienced by soon-to-be moms, informally
26 Final innings,
usually
27 Heinie
28 What a baby might start eating at around 6 months
30 Universal donor’s blood type, informally
31 A, in Aachen
32 ‘‘Dancing With ____ Hands Tied’’ (Taylor Swift song)
33 What wellconnected people may have
37 Scented plug-in
brand
40 ‘‘Afternoon,
pardner!’’
44 ‘‘Oh yeah? Give me
an example!’’
46 Response to a
texted joke
47 Worldly wisdom
49 Deg. for a creative
type
50 Booting
53 Juice cleanse,
essentially 55 Cocktail made from gin, vermouth and Campari
56 Big letters in home
security
59 In Latin, it’s
‘‘stannum’’
60 Pound part
61 Church council
62 Succeed in life
64 Portfolio listings
65 Common sense
68 The ‘‘gone girl’’ in
‘‘Gone Girl’’
70 A negative one
might be positive
71 Used colored
pencils, say
74 ‘‘____ be a real
shame . . . ’’
75 Jovian planets, by
another name
78 Changes back to factory defaults, say
80 Way too loud
81 Figure in the iconic ‘‘We Can Do It!’’ poster
85 Quite enough
86 Bit of fiction
89 Suffix with quack
and mock
90 National law enforcement, informally
92 Simple flotation
device
95 Arranges in
random order
96 URL ending
97 TV display option
101 ____ tai
102 Picked up
104 Above
105 Like the bread ideal for bread pudding 107 Theoretical primordial substance
108 Word on Irish plane
110 Oscar-winning
director Lee
111 Obama’s birthplace
113 Playing to crowd
117 Japanese condiment sprinkled on rice
121 Go back
124 Slogan about willpower . . . or a hint to four pairs of answers in this puzzle
126 Courtroom cry
127 ‘‘Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap’’ director
128 Aptly named bus driver on ‘‘The
Simpsons’’
129 Catering vessels
130 ‘‘Whatever you
say, sweetheart’’
131 Unilever tea brand
132 Bert who played
the Cowardly Lion
133 Children’s author DiCamillo with two Newbery Medals
DOWN
1 Nordic native
2 Invisible energy field
3 Proofreader’s
directive
4 Words moaned while eating a cheeseburger, maybe
5 Give one’s address
6 Get ready to sleep,
cutesily
7 Candidate’s focus
8 Ice cream surname 9 British nobleman
10 Like some traditions
11 Et ____ (and others)
12 Sonata movement
13 The uninformed masses, colloquially
14 The Jonas Brothers,
e.g.
15 Dish named for a
day of the week
16 Toronto’s prov.
17 ‘‘What a mess!’’
18 Your: Fr.
24 Bar ____
25 Queen’s ‘‘We Will
Rock You,’’ e.g.
29 2K, for one
31 Sheep
34 Award hopeful
35 Passes along to, in
away
Like winner of
handwriting contest Narrow valleys Very affectionate Get on the same page, in corporate- speak
URL ending Alternative to fiber
or satellite
43 Leave off
45 Early PC software
47 Planting more than one kind of seed in a field, per Deuteronomy
48 Pollution stat
51 Historical subject of Hilary Mantel’s 2009 novel ‘‘Wolf Hall’’
52 Action item
54 Brings back to use
56 Home of Guinea and GuineaBissau: Abbr.
36
37 38 39
41 42 57 ‘‘Yo ____’’ (internet meme with rapper Xzibit)
58 Prioritization process
63 It added ‘‘essential worker’’ in March 2021: Abbr.
64 Author Rand
66 Quaint contraction
67 Title that comes from
‘‘Caesar’’
68 Assist
69 Day celebrated by
‘‘Star Wars’’ fans
71 Curtains
72 Interior design job 73 Support, as a belief
76 Fellow
77 Like bacon and
lobster, in Jewish law
79 Prime-time slot
82 Home of National
Voting Rights Museum
83 Perfect
84 Nail-polish brand
86 Like some nachos
and questions
87 ‘‘Real’’ ones were first
issued in the 2010s
88 Muppet who hosts the
‘‘Not-Too-Late Show’’
No. 1121
91 Fifth-century invader 112 Mail, e.g.
93 Poisonous shrub 114 Actress Taylor-Joy of
94 Suffix with Euclid ‘‘The Queen’s Gambit’’ 95 Metric for online 115 Costa ____
traffic, in brief 116 Mother of Don Juan 98 Get ready for action 117 Cheese on a meze
99 The ‘‘C’’ of D.R.C. platter
100 World of Warcraft, 118 Gillette razor e.g., for short
119 Daily Planet reporter
103 One who’s at home
120 Gaelic tongue on the job?
121 Sorority letter
105 Branch of Islam
122 ‘‘Yikes!’’
106 Thai taxi with a
repetitive name 123 Pile of cash
109 Send, as payment 125 TV button: Abbr.