NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Ross Trudeau, of Cambridge, Mass., works for a K-12 education nonprofit. Lindsey Hobbs, of Brooklyn, is the head of the Preservation and Conservation department at the New York City Municipal Archives. They met virtually through Facebook’s Crossword Puzzle Collaboration Directory. Ross suggested the theme for this puzzle, which relates to an annual June celebration. It was a joint effort thereafter. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Rackets
6 Spruce or fir
15 Japanese city that shares its name with a dog breed
20 Home to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum
21 Homemade headgear for pretend pirates 22 Conducted, as a
campaign
23 Undo, legally
24 Highly specialized
knowledge
25 Color whose name is derived from ‘‘lapis lazuli’’ 26 Frequent comics collaborator with Jack Kirby 28 Belief
29 Hubbubs
31 ‘‘See? I knew what I was talking about!’’ 32 Gives an edge 33 Indignant denial 34 Bozo
35 ‘‘I 30-Down the
fool!’’ speaker
37 GPS suggestion:
Abbr.
38 What might
follow you
39 1966 Donovan hit 43 Sinatra, to fans 47 Band whose ‘‘Gold: Greatest Hits’’ has sold over 30 million copies
50 Raised a false
alarm
52 Tennis’s Nadal,
informally
56 Fruit crimson-colored with flesh 59 Guest feature? 60 Popular
folk-rock duo 62 Place for a canal
or a kernel 63 1968 self-titled
folk album 65 A.L. West team,
on scoreboards 66 Rubik with a
cube 68 Ice cream
holder 69 Cal’s gamewinning kickoff return against Stanford in 1982, familiarly 71 World’s deepest
river 73 Little tasks that
crop up 75 Wood-shop item 77 Investigate, à la Sherlock Holmes 79 Wunderkinder 82 Implement for
an Amish driver 86 Features of
classic cars 87 It’s covered in paint in the SherwinWilliams logo 89 Oscar-winning song from ‘‘Slumdog Millionaire’’ 90 ‘‘Likewise’’ 91 Media watchdog
agcy. 92 ‘‘Strange Magic’’ band, for short 93 Medium for Kehinde Wiley’s ‘‘President
Barack Obama’’ 94 Took a load off 95 Mars
100 Harmful bits of
sunlight
105 Remove calcium
deposits from 106 Sharp shooter,
for short?
108 Harder to grasp 109 Changes by
degrees
111 Whole bunch 112 You might cry if
you slice it
115 Word rhymed with ‘‘ami’’ by Lafayette in ‘‘Hamilton’’
116 Like MerriamWebster’s inclusion of the word ‘‘irregardless,’’ originally
119 College
admissions fig. 120 Delta hub, on
luggage tags
121 Birth-control
option, briefly 122 In the blink of
____
123 Deli or bar order 124 Stags or bucks 125 Biblical
possessive
126 Alcoholic’s
affliction, briefly 127 Complicated, as
a relationship 128 Retired flier, for
short
129 Explosive stuff
DOWN
1 California-based soft-drink company
2 Divisions of long
poems
3 Historical records 4 Place for a pitcher 5 ‘‘I’m such a
dummy!’’
6 Olympic poker? 7 Military
hospitals, briefly 8 Period of history 9 Back in
10 Fresh, in a sense 11 A one and a two 12 Bursts in on
13 And the rest, for
short
14 Twin in Genesis 15 Prizewinner
16 Instrument often played for comedic effect 17 Tennessee Williams’s ‘‘The Night of the ____’’ 18 Babysitter’s
handful
19 ‘‘____ Fideles’’ 27 ____ Simmons, real name of the late rapper DMX
30 See 35-Across 36 Affectionate
attention, briefly 37 One enforcing
traveling rules 39 Kind of jacket 40 ‘‘Ish’’
41 Xbox 360
competitor
42 Chicken
43 Total domination,
in gamer-speak 44 Whole bunch
45 Racy
46 Polite form of address similar to ‘‘Mr.’’ or ‘‘Ms.’’ 47 Criminally aid 48 Yawn-inducing 49 Make yawn 51 Campus leader 53 With the bow,
musically
54 Bungle
55 Vipers with
upturned snouts 57 Part of a religious title that means
‘‘ocean’’
58 Southern
California county 60 ‘‘Mood ____’’ (Duke Ellington classic)
61 Quit drinking
64 Golf ’s ____ Ko, youngest golfer to be ranked No. 1 67 In draft form
70 High degrees,
for short 71 Setting for many a Super Mario Bros. level
72 Temporarily out 74 Pesach observers 76 Most peaceful 78 Groups of bees? 79 ‘‘You can’t expect me to believe that!’’
80 Laughable
81 Typical way to take a multivitamin
83 Is legally entitled 84 ‘‘It’s a possibility
for me’’
85 Family members that get talked down to?
88 Kind of massage 89 Travels
96 ____ River, part of the Texas/ Oklahoma border
97 Even-tempered 98 Skedaddled
99 They might be made after a fight
101 Runs again
102 Without fail 103 State flower of Illinois or New Jersey
104 ____ Faire (event with jousting, for short)
107 Is mad about 109 Source of the milk for chèvre cheese
110 The ‘‘R’’ of
R.B.G.
113 Ready for
business
114 Condé ____
117 What might
make a ewe turn 118 Spanish
monarch