SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Adam Wagner, of Oakland, Calif., is a creative lead at Patreon, a monetization platform for content creators. Michael Lieberman, of Washington, D.C., is a consumer-protection lawyer at Fairmark Partners. They’re also each dads of fast-growing toddlers, which is what inspired this puzzle. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Sweeties
5 Heaven on earth, to the ancient Greeks 12 International pizza chain founded in Brooklyn 18 Pipsqueak
19 “We’re not ready to joke about this yet?” 20 Caps that lack brims 21 Apt name for a Whirlpool salesman? 22 Trying to get a rise out of
23 Gut
24 Deserved
26 “Don’t believe one word of that!”
28 Visibly scornful 29 Reptile with a big bite, informally
31 Surprise and delight 32 Slip up
33 One of the seven in “Se7en”
34 Agcy. that oversees the Secret Service 35 One’s natural habitat 38 Sequin-covered undergarment popularized by Lady Gaga 41 Permitted
42 Place to rest your head 46 Musician Parks or Guthrie
47 ____ cit. (footnote abbr.)
48 They’re just over two feet
50 Lake on the Malawi-Mozambique border
51 Subatomic particle 52 Release, as a trailer 54 Campus military grp. 56 “Your” of yore 57 “Monday Night
Football With Peyton & ____”
58 “The results ____ ...” 59 Japanese “yes” 61 Showy flowers native to Mexico
63 Thrills
65 Political org. with a quadrennial convention 66 Website with info about the stars
68 Well, in both French and Spanish
69 Get by
71 “Top Chef” judge Simmons
73 Bother, with “at” 75 Classic name in wafers 78 One who doesn’t have a prayer?
81 Producer of sketches, in brief
82 Addis ____
84 When doubled, fake laugh
85 “Yellowjackets” network, for short 86 Subscribe again 88 Fox-hunting shout 90 Where the proverbial buck stops
91 Actress Hedren 93 Mississippi city in a Neil Simon title 95 Marathoner’s wear 96 World capital near the 60th parallel
97 How a Broadway star might break out
99 What a stiffed server receives
100 Football rival of the Brigham Young Cougars 102 20-sided shape 104 Question of introspection
105 Upper-left keyboard key
106 Fertility-lab supply 109 Most mountainous Caribbean nation
110 Cry of faux-surprise 112 French brothers 115 Reasons to wear socks post-vacation 118 Resort offering that might include a lift ticket 120 Ones catching waves? 121 “Impossible!”
123 Poet Pound
124 Behind
125 One might improve a pupil’s performance 126 Hurl with gusto, in Gen Z slang
127 One of a record-setting 3,234 for Sue Bird
128 Wraps up in fabric 129 Some old jets, for short
DOWN
1 Pub orders
2 “Autumn Song” poet 3 Barbecue buffet offering?
4 Princess Di or Prince, once
5 In check
6 Sound from a den 7 Invent the sound of a cash register?
8 Fall blooms
9 1982 Stevie Wonder hit 10 It’s never free of charge
11 Home-services website 12 Fully divests one’s stake
13 Yao Ming, before joining the N.B.A.? 14 Actress Taylor-Joy 15 Search (through) 16 Show again
17 Blender brand
20 Doozy
23 Detector of nonsense, informally
25 Toymaker Rubik 27 Language that gave us “mulligatawny” and “patchouli”
30 Peruvian road sign? 34 Spoke monotonously 36 English philosopher William of ____
37 Go by air
38 Shirley Bassey and Agatha Christie, for two 39 Gloater’s words 40 Photo-editing option 41 Midback muscle 43 Reasons that South American furniture stores have super-long lines? 44 Org. concerned with plant-based well-being? 45 Methods
49 Nursery purchase 53 Historic quinoa cultivators
55 Amount owed 58 Things like “What do we want?” “Headache relief!” “When do we want it?” “Now!”? 60 Best-case 62 California congresswoman Barbara 64 Fawn’s mother 67 Affectionate squeeze of an infant’s bottom? 70 Language suffix 72 Altogether
74 Setting for many Gauguin works
76 The ____ Honors (annual picture-book awards) 77 Black-and-white cookies
78 Italian wine region 79 Flimsy
80 Where you might get into hot water
83 Bubble tea
87 Things that kids are encouraged to break 89 Sass
90 Items exchanged when a relationship gets serious
92 Polynesian food 94 Access an account 98 Bit of soccer or hockey equipment
101 Nickname for a muscly Disney protagonist
103 Plucked instrument 104 Start of a famous Kennedy quote
106 Tennis’s Naomi 107 Roof toppers
108 The opposition 111 Yoga pose
112 Destinies
113 Everglades wader 114 What tickets may afford
116 Comedian Lydic of “The Daily Show” 117 Virtual replications, for short
119 North or south end 122 One might be spotted on a farm