The New York Times Crossword
Peter Koetters is a pediatrician in Pasadena. This is his first Sunday crossword for the Times.
ACROSS
1 ____ Párignon
4 Result of a sand save, in golf
7 Letter-shaped groove used in framing
12 Subway stop: Abbr. 15 Chicago Booth offering, in brief
18 Computer text standard
20 “If all goes well …”
21 Shook a leg
23 Traditional Indonesian percussion orchestra 24 Baseball manager who once instructed his team to “pair up in threes’’
25 It may be a lot outside the city
26 180s
27 It helps you get the picture 30 Sportscaster Hershiser 31 Annual Pebble Beach event
33 “That is hilarious!’’
34 Cite
35 Food-pyramid group 37 Orange-juice specification 39 Place for poissons 41 IV placers
42 Support staff: Abbr. 47 Hostile party
48 Blue ____ (symbol of Delaware)
51 “The Terrible’’ czar
53 Mirror
55 Sad response to “How was the game?’’
57 Feel discontented
58 Having knobby bumps 59 Heretofore, poetically 60 Metal receptacle by a fireplace
61 College student’s earnings 62 Student’s do-over
63 Table scraps
65 Absinthe flavoring
66 1974 CIA spoof
67 Brand name on a Go-Gurt box
70 Hovers menacingly
71 Like a tuxedo bib
75 Athlete Arthur
76 Alley ____
78 Leaves on the shelf? 79 Sportage automaker 80 Language with 44 consonant symbols
81 “____ knows?’’
82 Back in the day
83 Suffix with east or west 84 Rubik with a cube 86 Fertility-clinic donations 87 Ohio home to Cedar Point, the “Roller Coaster Capital of the World’’ 89 Airline to Oslo
90 Guys in commercials 92 Steering implement 93 Burdensome amount
95 Giant Mel
96 Shelley’s “____ Skylark’’ 97 Leave one’s mark, in a way 99 Spot
100 One with two years to go,
informally 102 270¡ from sur
105 Hide ____ hair 106 Prepare to skate
108 Soldier’s helmet, in old slang
110 Place to find a crook 111 Downhearted 113 After-school helper 115 Blanket
117 Lab dropper
118 Character with character 119 Welcome policy at a bar 120 Bagel topper
121 Anthony of “In the Heights’’ and “Hamilton’’ 122 Seventh heaven
DOWN
1 Unearthed
2 ____ personality 3 Duplicating machine 4 Primary person, informally 5 Primary person?
6 Acclaims
7 Bone attached to the patellar tendon
8 Unit of stamps
9 Poet Federico García ____ 10 Talk show host nominated for an Academy Award 11 Whisper from Don Juan 12 Lacking
13 Sashimi choice
14 Verb in some tautologies 15 The “thing’’ in “Is this thing on?’’
16 Che Guevara wore one 17 “Easy on Me’’ singer 19 Activist Chavez
22 Director Walsh of old Hollywood
28 Bygone tape type
29 Seeming eternity
32 Italian dipping sauce 34 Netflix series starring the Fab Five
36 Legacy of 72-Down, seven of which appear among this puzzle’s answers and one more suggested by the black squares in the middle of the grid 38 Something that’s big with the current generation? 39 Actress Sorvino
40 Some nights of celebration 42 Ethically indifferent 43 Tangential remarks
44 When the original Big Five ruled Hollywood 45 Magical objects
46 Union members
49 Those, in Spanish 50 Cereal-box abbr. 52 Designer Miller
53 Relative of Ltd.
54 Hosp. areas
56 Unleashes upon
64 Bygone tape dispenser 66 Failed device meant to communicate with the dead
67 Swerves at sea
68 Org. that sets worker exposure limits
69 Object in the classic painting “His Master’s Voice’’
72 With [circled letters reading clockwise], American icon born 2/11/1847
73 Common spot for a wasp nest
74 Primatologist Fossey
77 You can trip on it in the desert 79 Didn’t stop
82 Sharer’s possessive
85 Late harvest mo.
88 Novelist Brown
91 Tilling tool
94 Without gender, in Latin 95 Egyptian god of death and rebirth
97 Barbershop sounds
98 Kind of bond
99 Seasonal inflatable
101 Chaos
103 Tastes
104 Board of a cosmetics company?
106 Bard’s instrument
107 Cougar
108 Hideki ____, W.W. II prime minister
109 P.I.s, e.g.
112 Gender abbr.
114 Cat’s pa
116 Turn bad