THAT’S ANOTHER STORY
Sophia Maymudes is a junior at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., studying computer science and math. She has been making crosswords since high school. For this one, her first Sunday puzzle, she teamed up with a fellow Seattle resident, Jeff Chen, who writes a daily crossword blog, XWord Info.They jointly brainstormed theme examples. Jeff laid out the grid. Sophia did most of the fill. They each wrote half the clues. Sophia says, ‘‘The entire puzzle took nearly a hundred emails back and forth to create.’’ — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Most popular baby girl’s name of the 1960s, per the Social Security Administration 5 Squealer
9 Inside info
13 For fear that 17 Juul, e.g., for short 18 Old-time “The Price Is Right” announcer Johnny
19 Bit of greenery 21 Palindromic boy’s name
22 Ward of cinema 23 Biography of
Ebenezer Scrooge? 25 “Castaway” director
Nicolas
26 Bond tightly 28 Colleague of Gorsuch 29 Big name in chicken 31 Biography of
Amelia Earhart? 33 “Decorates” on
Halloween, say 34 Biography of Archimedes? 36 Beep-booping droid,
for short 37 Two-year degrees,
briefly 39 Tricked
40 Took out
41 Some endangered
ecosystems 42 One-fifth of the
Jackson 5 44 Jesus on the diamond 45 Note taker 46 Tip-off for an exam proctor 47 What the “sans” refers to in Comic Sans
48 Diaper : U.S. :: ____
: U.K.
50 Oil magnate Leon who once owned the New York Jets 51 “Girls” home 53 Only mildly sweet 55 Get a Venmo request,
say
57 Go through a window? 60 Obvious answer 61 Recreational sailboats 64 Excelled 66 British miler Sebastian 67 Diner sign 69 Shrewd 70 Winged Greek goddess 72 Highest hand value
in baccarat 74 Capital of France’s
Côte d’Or
75 High points 76 Credit score, for
short?
77 One side of the G.W.
Bridge
78 Clever move
79 ____ monkey 81 Swimsuit material 85 “Step on it!” 86 Have a ____ for 87 Good name, informally 89 Xenophobe’s fear, with “the”
90 Pro
91 Verb that’s a homophone for a letter 92 Biography of the Venus de Milo? 96 One using a heater, say
99 Sound effects after some one-liners 103 Dramatic award 104 Pair of hearts? 107 Loudly project 109 Adidas competitor 110 & 112 Biography of Elvis?
114 With passion 115 Gate expectations, briefly?
116 Big dos 117 Quad/glute exercise 118 Wear away 119 Dramatic rebuttal 120 Poetic conjunction 121 Lets go of
DOWN
1 Picasso’s “____ Demoiselles d’Avignon” 2 Some Antarctic
samples
3 They create soft c’s
and g’s 4 Biography of Thomas
Crapper? 5 Unvarying charge 6 Its national anthem is
“Hatikvah”: Abbr. 7 Home to Bourbon St. 8 Showed allegiance, in
a way
9 Some H.S. exams 10 “Yikes!” 11 Airport code for
O’Hare
12 Elvis Costello hit that starts “I’ve been on tenterhooks / Ending in dirty looks” 13 Biography of Willie
Mays?
14 Cajun dish of shellfish
over rice 15 Increases in price 16 Dress (up) 18 Prefix with present 20 Major Argentine export 24 Chihuahua’s sound 27 Big features of reality TV
30 Model T competitors 31 John Irving title
character 32 Retreats
34 Like the signatures of outgoing people, it’s said
35 Altar exchange 38 Author Larsson 39 Fiery look
43 & 44 Biography of Walt Disney? 47 Star turn
49 Hitch together 52 Doesn’t go
overboard? 54 “You may not have asked me, but …” 56 Certain green-energy
producers
57 Part of a Vandyke,
informally
58 The title characters of 1988’s “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” e.g. 59 Iron ____
61 Kind of sheet 62 Tex-Mex offering 63 Stereotypical High Times reader 64 Lovecraftian 65 Pointers
67 Inky stone 68 Between: Fr. 71 Wham! 73 Nonreactive 80 Alaska Airlines hub 82 Suffix with doctor 83 Montreal is part of it: Abbr.
84 State on the Atl. coast 85 Onetime 88 Like the phase ending
after 12
90 Why parodies can’t be sued for copyright infringement 92 Classic 93 Corrigenda 94 Daniel Webster,
notably
95 Artist with seven posthumous platinum albums 96 ____ distance 97 Detest 98 Grandchild: Sp. 100 Like some flocks 101Blush, e.g. 102 Seven ____ of Ancient Greece 105 Midwest capital, informally 106 Revenue alternative to subscriptions 107 Bosom buddy 108 Anglerfish’s light, e.g.
111 The Science Guy 113 Giant’s opposite