DIDN’T WE JUST HAVE THIS?
Will Nediger is a professional crossword constructor from London, Ontario. He contributes regularly to The New Yorker, The Times and other outlets. He says, “I enjoy architecturally challenging constructions — like this puzzle, which was tricky to create,
ACROSS
1 Poses
5 ____ palm
(tropical tree)
9 Drive (around)
13 Composer Bernstein who was unrelated to Leonard
18 Doohickey
20 Home to the Dole
Plantation
21 Industry show
22 Late singer Judd 23 Contest with lots
of “tied” scores 24 In a fight
25 Body part that humans have that other primates don’t
26 Term to drop
in a serious relationship, informally
27 Argument extender [ref. 18-Across]
30 Tiny amounts
31 Terse denial
32 What seat selection on an airplane often comes with
33 Eerily familiar
feeling
35 Scottish refusal 36 Focused on the
bull’s-eye
39 State fiction as
fact
41 Supervise
45 Slowly makes its
way through
47 Fun functions
48 With 87-Across, “I’ve been around the block a few times” [ref. 23-Across]
53 Yoga pose
55 Covering
56 Rock’s C.J. or
Dee Dee
57 Currency of
Qatar
59 Package in
Santa’s sleigh
61 18+, say
62 Danger
65 Sun block
67 Molecular
messenger 70 Classic Yogi Berra quote [ref.
33-Across]
74 Whole bunch
75 Fiber made from
cellulose
76 Chemical ingredient in flubber
77 Did some
secretarial work 78 The last thing a Mississippi cheerleader wants?
79 Land divided at
the 38th parallel 81 Former name for the N.B.A.’s Thunder, informally
82 Crib-sheet user 85 Team building
87 See 48-Across
91 Consolidated for easier reading, as a Twitter thread 93 Composer Luigi who pioneered noise music
95 Like some arts
96 Be an agent for 97 Broadway
composer Jule
99 Crop that might be insectresistant, in brief 102 Sleep inducer
104 ____ particle
106 Came next
108 Algonquian
people
111 Debut album by Britney Spears [ref. 82-Across] 115 Beginning
116 French pronoun 117 Word implied in “I haven’t the foggiest”
118 Crenshaw or
casaba
119 “That makes two
of us”
120 One with a nose
for gnus?
121 A pan might come with just one
122 Elusive giants
123 Tread + riser
124 Becomes less
taut 125 Seemingly
forever
126 Instrument for
Orpheus
DOWN 1 Transport in a Billy Strayhorn standard
2 Showrunner
Rhimes
3 ____ pool
4 Sam with 82
P.G.A. Tour wins 5 Lay it on thick
6 Pledge
7 Political unit of
ancient Hawaii
8 Highly
unconventional
9 Sector for many
start-ups
10 Durable leather 11 Give a take
12 Doughnut similar to an éclair
13 Spice up
14 Canadian observance also called Fête du
Travail
15 Not worth
arguing about
16 Goldman who crusaded for birth control access
17 Barbecue order 19 “Never ____ Give You Up” (Rick Astley song)
28 Useless
29 Prefix with
medicine
34 One whose work goes over your
head
37 Web portal with
a Bing search bar
38 Ambulance pro 40 Monocledropping exclamation
42 Be on the
bottom?
43 “____-Tripping” (Nikki Giovanni poem)
44 Sixth of five?
46 Home country of
the poet Adonis 47 Mouth-watering? 48 Park way
49 Was given no
other option
50 “There’s no other
option”
51 Persuaded
52 Starting position,
maybe
54 Relish
58 “Goodness me!” 60 Sojourner Truth or Frances Harper
62 It’s illegal for
employers to prohibit workers from discussing this
63 Called to mind
64 Talk at length
66 “On the Basis of ____” (2018 legal drama)
67 Swift
68 Goddaughter,
often
69 “It therefore
follows that ... “71 Sport played on
a fronton
72 Lazes around
73 Doc who performs Pap smears
78 Black Lives Matter cofounder
80 Valuable to
collectors, say
81 High-minded
sort?
82 Depress, with
“out”
83 Santa ____
winds
84 Comment with a
shiver
86 Marks down,
maybe
88 Gave officially
89 Deteriorate
90 Guileful
92 Cholesterollowering drug
94 ____ and
including
96 Share on Tumblr,
say
98 “You can learn from anyone — even your ____”: Ovid
No. 0619
99 “Yep, you got
me”
100 Story of one’s life 101 Danish city where Hans Christian Andersen was
born
103 ____ al Ghul (onand-off lover of
Batman)
105 Fennel-like
flavoring
107 Material for some
drums
108 Online forum
V.I.P.s
109 Still having a shot
at winning
110 “The Thin Man”
dog
112 Itches
113 Far from friendly 114 Rest on
one’s ____