The New York Times Crossword

TODAY: PUZZLIN’(0809)

David Levinson Wilk, of Brooklyn, works for television game shows. For the past year he was the head writer of ABC’s ‘‘The $100,000 Pyramid’’ and Bravo’s ‘‘Cash Cab.’’ For nine years he was a staff writer for ‘‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.’’ He creates original puzzles for The San Diego Reader and other weekly newspapers across the country. David sold his first crossword to The Times in 1996, when he was a sophomore in college, and he has been making puzzles ever since. — W.S.

ACROSS 770 grams each

1 What can fall off a 38 Winter item you’ll shelf be wearin’ for

8 Host of MSNBC’s years? ‘‘PoliticsNation’’ 42 Statistic tracked at beginning in 2011 census.gov/ 16 Be profane popclock 20 Something never 44 ‘‘Mixed Marriage’’ seen at night playwright St. John 21 Beckoning words Greer ____ 22 For ____ amount of 45 Reduced in rank time 46 Receiver of an allpoints 23 Nobody but the guy bulletin gettin’ married on 48 Longtime Yankees his feet? first baseman

25 Put up with Mark 26 Captures 50 Simile’s center 27 House vote 51 Row 28 Gettysburg general 52 God who becomes George a goddess when

29 Like screwball an ‘‘r’’ is removed comedies 53 Spam sender

33 Pig food 54 James of ‘‘The

34 Gish ____, novelist Godfather’’ of ‘‘The Resisters’’ 58 Danger when and ‘‘Typical walkin’ in a silo? American’’ 61 One who delivers 35 Sickly-looking 62 Mansfield of old 36 Olympic equipment Hollywood weighing less than 63 ‘‘Er, uh, that is …’’

64 Dada pioneer 65 ____ Paulo 66 Rock singers? 67 Hedge fund titan nicknamed ‘‘The Palindrome’’ 68 ‘‘Sorry, am ____ your way?’’ 69 Drivin’ around the lot with pop-pop? 71 Overhead expenses? 72 Private Twitter transmissions, for short 73 ‘‘Absofruitalicious’’ cereal, in ads 74 Sponge alternative 75 Slangy possessive 76 What a pro bono lawyer provides 78 Very observant person 80 Shoulder blade 84 Pickup truck capacity, maybe 86 Detects 87 Sayin’ ‘‘Look, here’s the thing about dry land …’’?

90 To-dos 91 Batting ninth 92 The Children’s Defense Fund, e.g., in brief 93 Medical breakthrough 95 ‘‘Ish’’

96 Boiling mad 97 West Bank grp. 98 Realize

101 Kind

102 What was causin’ the doctor to check for joint pain?

108 Very consequential 109 The North Pole vis-à-vis the South Pole, e.g.

110 Go as low as

111 French/Belgian river

112 Apollo and others 113 ‘‘Understood’’ DOWN

1 Online exchange, in brief 2 Animal feared by an ailurophobe 3 ‘‘What’s your ____?’’ (question to a guest en route) 4 Recycling container 5 Michael who wrote ‘‘The Neverending Story’’ 6 Restricts, with ‘‘in’’ 7 Washing machine setting 8 Windshield clearer 9 Certain earring 10 Singer Tori 11 ‘‘What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?’’ band 12 Call of the wild? 13 One trading dollars for quarters 14 Paris suburb 15 French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars 16 Camila with the 2018 No. 1 hit ‘‘Havana’’ 17 Employ with regularity

18 Bird also known as a little auk 19 Scattered (about) 24 Blue Muppet with a pink nose 28 Obsidian, once 29 Aquarium creature with black-andwhite stripes 30 Capital in the South Pacific 31 Teasing words when someone starts listing the digits of pi, say 32 Mythical creature seen on old Bhutanese stamps 34 Rock’s Joplin 35 Hägar the Horrible’s dog 37 Sure winners 39 Cross-country camping expedition, maybe 40 Treat as a bed 41 Hit the nail on the head, e.g. 43 Meager

47 Pope Francis’ homeland: Abbr. 49 Modern library borrowing 52 Bring in 54 Longtime media columnist David 55 Mate’s reply 56 Basketball Hall-ofFamer who was the first woman to sign an N.B.A. contract 57 Single-serving coffee brand 59 Landlocked Asian country

60 ____ Gorbachev, former first lady of the Soviet Union 61 His tombstone reads ‘‘Workers of all lands unite’’ 62 Moves like Jell-O 65 Told 66 Hiccups 68 Coming-out announcement

69 Buttinsky 70 Certain nest egg, for short 72 Blue-and-white earthenware pottery 73 Dramatic ballroom dance 76 Two-time Best Actress winner Rainer

77 Eva of ‘‘Desperate Housewives’’ 78 Ho-hum feelings 79 Opposite of exo80 Soft and wet 81 ____ oxide (red compound) 82 Egg-carton spec 83 Special dinner order 85 Boo-boos

88 Home past curfew 89 Like the Met Gala 94 Online notice for a party 97 Phnom ____, Cambodia 98 ‘‘____ to tyrants, and my country’s friend’’ (words of Cato in ‘‘Julius Caesar’’) 99 Naval officer: Abbr. 100 Grandson of Eve 102 Budgetary excess 103 Make a decision 104 ‘‘There but for the grace of God ____’’

105 Intel missions 106 Western native 107 About one inch of a foot