The New York Times Crossword

Jon Schneider, of New York City, is a research scientist for Google, working on problems in machine learning and economics. Anderson Wang, of Mountain View, Calif., is a software engineer currently between jobs. They met at M.I.T. in the early 2010s, where they lived in the same hall. They’ve been making and solving puzzles together ever since. This is the first New York Times crossword for each of them. — W.S.

ACROSS

1 Not fine 7 Expedition 12 Savory jelly 17 Tacks on 19 Mollycoddle 20 Sight on an English farm 21 Slacker role for Jeff Bridges in ‘‘The Big Lebowski’’ 22 Superenthusiastic 23 Spelman College graduate, e.g. 24 ‘‘____ is an emotion in motion’’: Mae West

25 See 30-Across 27 Morning weather phenomenon 29 See 33-Across 30 With 25-Across, get as much approval from an audience as possible 32 Dalmatians, e.g. 33 With 29-Across, like a deer in

headlights 35 N.Y.C.’s first subway line 36 Singer Mann 38 Michelangelo masterpiece 40 Sunset Boulevard sight

42 Utah mountain range

45 What people tend to do when a rushhour subway train arrives

47 See 50-Across 48 See 53-Across 50 With 47-Across, not change anyone’s mind, say

52 Forest of Fangorn resident, in fiction 53 With 48-Across, stops wasting time

57 Dawn 59 Eternally damned 61 Promptness 63 Default consequence 65 Have an influence

(on)

69 Iraqi port city 70 Mathematical concepts suggested eight times in this puzzle

74 ‘‘I’m telling the truth!’’

75 One of the Seven Dwarfs 77 Yeats’s ‘‘The Lake ____ of Innisfree’’ 78 Bad place for a fly, in a saying 80 Showy shrub 83 Arch supporter 85 See 90-Across 86 Flat-topped cap 88 See 92-Across 90 With 85-Across, uncomfortably accurate

92 With 88-Across, sacrificed 94 Place that processes ore 96 Eponym of the world’s largest church

101 Some teambonding trips 103 State whose capital is Dispur 105 Drum that can be played with a brush 106 Hypotheticals 107 See 113-Across 109 Cleans, as a deck 112 See 116-Across 113 With 107-Across, bad sort of competition 115 ‘‘Freak on a Leash’’ metal band

116 With 112-Across, ‘‘Your misfortune is nothing special’’ 118 Jocular lead-in to ‘‘macation’’

119 List ender 121 Abstract artist de Kooning known for her portraits 123 Obsessive cleaner, say 125 Important faculty for school 126 Brought home 127 Lively French dance popular in the Baroque era 128 Big name in nail polish

129 Rug rats 130 Brand whose sales skyrocketed after the release of ‘‘E.T.’’

DOWN

1 Person who’s being used 2 Sister of Laertes 3 They’re scored from 1 to 5 4 What’s found at one end of a rainbow 5 Comfy-cozy 6 Sources of Norse mythology 7 More throaty 8 Pale

9 Ukr., e.g., once 10 Spanish ‘‘I love you’’

11 Kind of cuisine that’s often eaten with one’s hands 12 Tied, in scores 13 ____ vide (culinary technique) 14 Do some heavy lifting 15 ‘‘Don’t pay attention to that’’ 16 Idle gossip 18 Convince 19 Cracks

20 Actor Dev of ‘‘Lion’’

26 Lick (up) 28 Stop the flow of 31 House call? 33 Playful growl 34 Run-____ (hip-hop trio) 37 Alternative to an ellipsis 39 Some clickbait articles 41 Potentially risky thing to drop in a relationship 43 ____ Woo-shik, co-star of 2019’s ‘‘Parasite’’ 44 ____ cuisine 46 Sanders who played in a World Series and two Super Bowls 49 Charon’s domain 51 Lead-in to self

53 They might be caught in the rain 54 ____ Bator 55 Stun, in a way 56 Hard-hit line drive 58 One variety of love 60 Broadway’s ____-Fontanne Theater 62 Heckle

64 Part of a hammer 66 Butter alternative 67 ‘‘There warn’t no home like a raft ...’’ speaker 68 Lavish celebration 71 Hard Italian cheese 72 Level, for one 73 Isolated components 76 Deviation in flight 79 Exterminator’s target

81 Was bested by 82 Title horror film locale

84 Wrote poorly 86 They have your life hanging by a thread

87 They might involve impersonating a dealer 89 Kingdom east of Babylonia 91 Mini-albums, in brief

92 Ship with three banks of oars 93 Fly catcher 95 Dead Sea Scrolls sect 97 Envelope abbr. 98 Juggling, singing, magic, etc.

99 Scholarly 100 Tells off

102 Just peachy 104 ____ Pro 108 Dental covering similar to a crown 110 Water pipe 111 Dishonest attack 114 Foe of the Morlocks, in sci-fi 116 Major export of Tuscany 117 Place to hang holiday lights 120 Something drawn by a jerk, maybe 122 Sanctuary 124 What a digitigrade

stands on