The New York Times Crossword
Across
1 Fish-tank buildup 6 Bog product
10 P.M. times
14 Suisse peak
18 Disney film with a
titular heroine
19 Pricing word
20 Christmas color for
Elvis
21 Pork cut
22 Mechanic’s go-to
parenting phrase? 26 Painter whose
motifs include ants and eggs
27 Give the nod
28 “Check it out for
yourself”
29 Mauna ____
31 French liver
33 Some remote
power sources
35 Up to 11 meters for
a pterodactyl
37 Personal trainer’s go-to parenting phrase?
43 Like some
restrictions
44 Stephen King’s first published novel
45 Your and my
relative?
46 Roof overhang
48 Horror star Chaney
49 In the past
50 Affectionate
greeting
51 Arid
52 Small building
block
55 Conductor’s go-to
parenting phrase? 63 Liquor in tiramisù 64 TV drama with spinoffs set in Hawaii and New Orleans
65 Cornerstone abbr. 66 Eightfold
69 Animal working in the D.M.V. in “Zootopia”
72 Texas politician
Beto
74 It’s a drag
75 Singer James
77 Share
accommodations 79 Mathematician’s go-to parenting phrase?
86 Emmy-winning
Ward
87 Lemon ____
88 Insult
89 Hosp. area
90 Clean Air Act org. 92 “Star Wars” order 93 Word seen at the end of many Jean-Luc Godard movies
94 From where
97 From the get-go 100 Air traffic controller’s go-to parenting phrase? 103 Accepts the facts 105 Her pronoun
partner
106 Farmyard mamas 107 2003 Will Ferrell
movie
108 Spooky
110 Lacking the
resources
113 Not out of the
running
117 Librarian’s go-to
parenting phrase? 121 Google ____ (Zoom
alternative)
122 Chemical suffixes
123 Backless shoe
124 Maybe one, maybe
both
125 GPS calculations,
in brief
126 “I did it!”
127 Jabbers
128 Jen ____, 2021-22 White House press secretary
Down
1 Surrounded by
2 Tragic showgirl of song
3 Chutzpah
4 Like PETA
5 ____ de vie
6 Gift for writing
7 Noshes
8 Feel that gym session
9 What something might appear out of or disappear into 10 Epitome of
simplicity
11 Guam’s features a sailboat and palm tree
12 “The Burden of
Proof ” author
13 Like many resorts 14 Ingredient in homemade hand sanitizer
15 Reed of the Velvet
Underground
16 Sellers franchise,
with “The”
17 Charm
23 Poker option
24 Solo
25 Baroque painter
Guido
30 ____ port in a storm 32 Nail-polish brand with a “Tickle My France-y” shade 34 Part of a homemade Halloween costume
36 Animal that turns
white in the winter 37 Large number
38 “I am not what I
am” speaker
39 Pioneering sci-fi film that was snubbed for the Best Visual Effects Oscar for its use of computers
40 Road-trip
determination
41 Decade in which many in Gen Z were born
42 Main ingredient in
poi
47 Kind of diagram 50 In this matter
51 Arose
53 City on the Irtysh
River
54 Parcel (out)
56 Elementary particle named for a Greek letter
57 Called a strike, say 58 Like some potato chips and language
59 Part of NATO:
Abbr. 60 Jardins d’enfants,
par exemple
61 Tech-and-culture
magazine since 1993
62 Has left the office,
e.g.
66 Jay-Z and Kanye West song that samples “Try a Little Tenderness” 67 Pigeon coop
68 What a bad dancer
is said to have
70 Large number
71 ____ Ledbetter,
a.k.a. Lead Belly
73 Newswire co.
76 A4 automaker
78 “____ it!” (informal
challenge)
80 Rock used to make
ultramarine
81 Pretentious
82 Snack cakes with
creamy swirls
83 It might be changed or made up
84 “Look!” in Latin
85 Took to court
91 Miscreant’s record,
maybe
92 Like a clear night 93 Rival you kind of
like
94 “That’s amazing!” 95 Color
classification
96 Naval Academy
grads
97 Basic personal
information
98 “Spill it!”
99 Flow slowly
101 “Not gonna
happen!”
102 Counts (on)
104 Tropical vine
109 “Brown ____ Girl”
111 Pool shade
112 Kind of discount 114 Nothin’
115 Words of
reassurance
116 Actress Garr
118 Hot spot in
England?
119 Airport inits.
120 Dance with a
paradiddle step