East Bay Times

The New York Times Crossword

- CHOICE WORDS By Alex Eaton-Salners / Edited by Will Shortz

Alex Eaton-Salners, an in-house attorney for Western Digital in San Jose, is a frequent contributo­r.

ACROSS

1 Action done while saying,

“Good dog’’

4 Mischief-makers

11 It might click for a writer

14 Fall mo.

17 Kind to Mother Nature

18 Harris in the Country Music

Hall of Fame

19 Living _ _ _ _

20 Member of the superfamil­y

Hominoidea

21 Noted Apple release of

1968, to fans

23 Haphazard

25 Some crumbly blocks

26 Inits. for a theatrical hit

27 Send away, in a way

29 Accomplish­ed the task

30 What wiggly lines in comics

may represent

32 Cause of boom and bust?

34 Convene for another

session

36 Up to it

37 What’s frequently used by

poets?

38 “To quote yours truly ...”

41 ____ dish

42 Heath

43 Desperate

45 Traditiona­l British entree

48 Tries for a role

49 S.F. metro

50 “Hey ... over here!’’

51 Derby lengths

53 Equivalent of the Face With

Tears of Joy emoji

56 Give a buzz

61 Inconvenie­nce

64 Execute, as a royal of old

67 Classic concert chambers

68 Noted U.S. rock group?

70 Approximat­ely

73 See captain?

74 Studio fixtures

76 “I’m game!’’

77 State of equilibriu­m

80 Code-cracking grp.

81 Match-ending rugby call

82 Bygone sovereign

85 Dance-a-_ _ _ _

87 Build on

90 Military dismissal

96 “You game?’’

98 State to be the case

99 ____ Kornfeld, music

promoter for Woodstock

100 Daddy-o

102 Great Basin native

103 Stun

104 Heavy weights in Britain

106 “Murder, ____ Wrote’’

107 Samuel ____, business

partner of Marcus Goldman

109 Gradually wear away

111 Lipton competitor 113 Keypad triplet

115 Critical remark

116 Regardless of the outcome

118 Hectic trip abroad

121 Card in a royal flush

122 Purposes

123 One runs from Me. to Fla.

124 Seminoles’ sch.

125 “You betcha!’’

126 Northern ____ (curiously

named apple variety)

127 Have

128 Boggy expanse

DOWN

1 Fare that’s eaten handsfree

2 Wanted badly

3 Mano a mano

4 Negligent

5 Silicon Valley’s _ _ _ _

Research Center

6 Candy bit that comes in a

plastic roll

7 “Battlestar Galactica’’

robots

8 Clerical vestment

9 F, in music

10 Southern region of

Mesopotami­a

11 Fabric options

12 Sense of self

13 Fluent speaker of Elvish,

say

14 Uttered a sound 15

16 Bugs

19 Relative of a bug

22 Churchill ____ Rooms

(London tourist attraction)

23 Long ball

24 City with a Little Havana

28 Nickname for José

31 Farthest down?

33 Anklebone

35 Least messy

39 Sorority member

40 Yang’s counterpar­t

44 “I Wanna Be Sedated’’ band

46 Horrid

47 Maximum degree

49 The brainy bunch?

52 Profligate sort

54 Measures of electrical

resistance

55 One of the fire signs

57 Alveolar trill, as it’s

commonly known

58 Concept, in Cannes

59 Just in case

60 Glasgow gal

61 Mischief-makers

62 ____ court

63 Stage between larva and

imago

64 Consecrate­s

65 Act investigat­ed by an

insurance company

66 _ _ _ _ ex machina

69 QVC alternativ­e 71 Journalist Fallaci who wrote

“Interview With History’’

72 Bindis, e.g.

75 Running behind

78 Kinda

79 Berate blistering­ly

81 They can be wrinkled or

thumbed

83 Field that deals with fields

84 The newest trend, in slang

86 Inits. at Westminste­r

88 Trigger

89 Head for the hills?

90 Moved aside (for)

91 Cupidity

92 Changes from commercial

to residentia­l, perhaps

93 Words to live by

94 Wash out

95 Popular tick repellent

96 Piercing eye hue

97 Trial

101 _ _ _ _ of Alexandria (wonder of the ancient world)

105 Clinch

108 Puerto Rico clock setting:

Abbr.

110 Ballpark figures, in brief

112 Semiseriou­s “Got it!’’

114 Places hangers hang

117 Guff

119 Distributo­r of CARES Act

funds

120 ____ Moines

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