NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Christina Iverson, of Ames, Iowa, is the assistant crossword editor for The Los Angeles Times. Katie Hale is a stay-athome mom in London, England. The idea for this puzzle started with Katie. She had a few minutes to kill while waiting for an online course to start. As she stared at a copy of ‘‘The Great Gatsby,’’ the phrase THROW A FITZGERALD popped into her head. She laughed . . . and started adding syllables to other authors’ names. Some of the results appear here. This is Christina’s and Katie’s third Sunday collaboration for The Times. — W.S.

ACROSS

1 Precursor to a circuit breaker 5 _____ bar 10 Pointed remark 14 Common spa descriptor 19 ‘‘Hello there, sailor!’’ 20 Gourmet mushroom with poisonous look-alikes 21 Somewhat 22 Core workout challenge 23 Looks up from reading ‘‘Frankenstein’’? 27 Moody North Yorkshire setting 28 Handy 29 Restless 30 Split hairs? 31 Words exchanged during an ‘‘altar’’-cation 32 Revise 33 Reads ‘‘Catch-22,’’ ‘‘Closing Time’’ and ‘‘Something Happened’’ — and doesn’t stop there? 39 Atmospheric driving hazard 42 Came to 43 Assistant 44 The joy of text? 45 Expression of a grump 47 Cheeky remarks . . . or something near the cheek 48 Kendrick Lamar’s 2017 best rap album Grammy winner 50 ‘‘Aquaman’’ actor Jason 52 English indiepop singer Parks 53 Sleek reef swimmers 55 Borrows ‘‘The Color Purple’’ from the library instead of ‘‘The Flowers’’? 60 1960s activist Bobby 62 Word with play or fight 63 Belgrade resident 64 See 36-Down 65 First in a line of 13 popes 67 Strands 69 Lifewater and Elixir brand 71 ‘‘Wow!’’ 74 Fashion guru Tim 76 ‘‘_____ the spirit!’’ 78 D.E.A. target 81 Listens to ‘‘Tom Jones’’ on audiobook? 85 Matterhorn range 87 Wheely good invention? 88 Off 89 _____ tube 91 H 92 Conclude by 94 Dawson in the Pro Football Hall of Fame 95 ‘‘Chat another time!’’ in an I.M. 97 Bolt in a sprint 99 Director Guillermo _____ Toro 100 Chatterley’s Reads ‘‘Lady Lover’’ so many times its spine splits? 105 Cryptids on snowy mountains 107 Mars bar with shortbread and chocolate 108 [sigh] 109 Pilot greenlighter, in brief 111 ‘‘Ask away!’’ 113 Iconic scarecrow topper 117 Donates some copies of ‘‘King Lear’’ to the Renaissance Festival? 120 Still 121 Curling locale 122 Musical with the song ‘‘Another Suitcase in Another Hall’’ 123 _____ Rachel Wood of ‘‘Westworld’’ 124 Castles, essentially 125 Chances 126 Not let lapse 127 It can be outstanding

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1 ‘‘Octopuses can use tools,’’ e.g. 2 ‘‘This is not good!’’ 3 Words said while shaking one’s head in disgust 4 One might be found next to a neck pillow in an airport shop 5 Suave 6 Decant 7 Painting and filmmaking 8 Person in a head set? 9 Keebler cookie with shortbread and chocolate 10 Send away 11 Biblical analogue of Aron in ‘‘East of Eden’’ 12 High-_____ (kind of jeans or apartment building) 13 South Korean ‘‘Princes of Pop’’ 14 Jimmies and corkscrews 15 Debbie of ‘‘Fame’’ and ‘‘Grey’s Anatomy’’ 16 Things often next to napkins in place settings 17 Spanish Agnes 18 Absolut alternative 24 Put in order 25 Text-writer’s segue 26 Philosopher David 31 Alternative to a diaphragm 32 Like games marked 1->99 33 Strong wind 34 Pains for preschoolers 35 Chivalrous avatar of Vishnu 36 Sounds from a 64-Across 37 Saint associated with a ‘‘fire’’ 38 Birds on Canadian dollars 40 Big-eyed hatchling 41 1989 film for which Denzel Washington won best supporting actor 46 Follower of ‘‘So’’ or ‘‘lo’’ 49 Patronized a restaurant 50 Homes for cattails and bulrushes 51 Childhood friend 54 Blueberrypicking girl of children’s literature 56 ‘‘Yuck!’’ 57 ‘‘You’re right about that!’’ 58 ‘‘You’re not right about that!’’ 59 ‘‘Chiquitita’’ singing group 61 Endurance, so to speak 66 Scarfs down 68 Norm: Abbr. 70 Geological span 71 Chose 72 QB’s protection 73 Very rarely 75 Ancient home of a mythical lion 77 Delphic prophet 79 Barbershop specialty 80 Fiber-_____ 82 ‘‘I’m in favor’’ 83 Rat 84 The Big Easy 86 Sound 90 Fabric made from jute 93 Med. exams with intradermal injections 95 O’eryon 96 ‘‘The Muppets’’ villain Richman 98 Macroalgae 101 Costa _____ 102 Baby birds? 103 Deuces 104 Cold War pact city 106 Use, as influence 109 ‘‘Here I come, weekend!’’ 110 In _____ veritas 111 Reported 112 Back 113 Abrade, in a way 114 Head: Fr. 115 Horse with endurance 116 Billowy dress style 118 To’s counterpart 119 Broadway, for one: Abbr.