The New York Times Crossword
Across
1 Ocean motion
4 [I expected better from you!] 7 Tracking systems 13 Makes out, in Manchester 18 Stuffed and fried cornmeal pocket, in Mexican cuisine 20 Lizzo or Lorde 21 ____-hole 22 Amazon, e.g. 23 Title for Iran’s Ali Khamenei 25 Tailored blouse style
27 Pieces of pentathlon equipment 28 Piece of biathlon equipment 29 Outdoor wedding rental
30 Some reusable bags
32 Give a refill 34 Poet Limón 35 Yearbook sect. 36 Item lugged up a hill 38 Gardener’s supply 40 Alphabetically first member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
42 Dull yellowish brown 43 Subject of some teen gossip sessions 47 Sure-footed alpine climber
52 React to, as an online joke
53 “I wish I could ____ that” (“Ick”) 54 Document that never lacks a title 55 Divert
57 Solid green ball in un juego de billar 61 It’s ground-breaking 62 Way overcharge, so to speak
64 Vape shop inventory 66 Sci-fi’s Dr. Zaius, for one
67 Even a bit 68 Bakery item that’s often messy 71 Lavishes love (on)
73 Part of R.S.V.P. 74 Business that might hold a blowout sale? 76 Common food drive donation 77 “Julius Caesar” role 78 Lhasa ____ 80 Necklace components 82 Parts of volcanoes 85 2007 No. 1 Alicia Keys album
86 Not keep 88 Caribbean capital 91 Kind of test question 95 Some video-making devices
96 Rod who won four Wimbledons 97 “The very ____!” 99 Yellow bills in Monopoly 100 Lobster-catching aid?
103 Holiday preceder 104 Choose to participate 108 Award won twice by Hammerstein, fittingly 110 Horror director ____ Saul Guerrero 111 Contraction that omits a “v”
112 0 to 60, e.g. 114 Proceeds breezily 117 What a spike goes over
121 Not black and white 122 Early computer 123 “Encore!”
124 “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” tidying method 125 Take care of 126 “Well, so’s your face!,” e.g.
127 The antagonist Bellwether from Disney’s “Zootopia,” e.g.
128 Ask for a treat, say
Down
1 Discharges
2 Hassle
3 Genius
4 Not be on the level 5 Anxiously worry
6 Title nickname in a 1984 sports movie 7 Courses 8 WeChat or KakaoTalk
9 Very serious 10 With skill 11 Shakespeare character who cries “Then I defy you, stars!” 12 Power-saving mode 13 “____ Used to Be Mine” (song from “Waitress”) 14 Long of Hollywood 15 “My guess is ... “16 Realm for comicbook fans, say 17 Damascenes, e.g. 19 Gardener’s supply 20 “Over here!” 24 “Geaux Tigers!” sch.
26 Liquid in a first-aid kit
31 Noodles sometimes served with tsuyu sauce 33 Onetime sunscreen ingredient 36 Small Jewish communities of old 37 SoCal baseball team, on scoreboards 39 Scintilla 41 Secondary social media accounts, in brief 42 Mournful sound 44 Fiddle with a ukulele? 45 Woman on W.W. II-era posters 46 Cassini who created the so-called “Jackie look” 47 Simba’s father in “The Lion King” 48 How detectives may act 49 Orders from regulars 50 Breaking or entering, say 51 Leslie ____ Jr., member of the original “Hamilton” cast
56 Not joke around 58 Enjoys a homecooked meal 59 Poison-treating plant
60 Bagel choice
63 ____ World Service 65 Digital camera memory holders 68 G-rated, say
69 You might pass on them
70 Apt surname for a mechanic 72 Palm Springs, e.g. 75 Group with the hits “Honey, Honey” and “Money, Money, Money” 79 Big brute
81 Went fast 83 Cocktail with a rhyming name 84 Tinder action that expresses strong interest 87 Other: Sp. 89 Certain pie crust flavor
90 Wok, e.g. 91 Covers of vintage music?
92 “Try it!”
93 Sit on
94 Part of an aircraft that helps reduce drag
98 Put forward
100 H.S. class with dissections 101 Tune out
102 Semi
105 Stick one’s nose in 106 Small drum 107 Cockamamie 109 Actress Blanchett 110 Latch (onto) 113 Muppet who sings in the “Try, Try Again” song 115 When it’s driving, you might not want to drive 116 Unwanted breakout
118 Back muscle, in brief
119 Prefix with warrior 120 Negative conjunction