The New York Times Crossword

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Ruth Bloomfield Margolin, of Westfield, N.J., serves on the boards of several community nonprofit groups. For the past three years she has given talks at area libraries on crossword construction — lately adding Zoom presentations to her repertoire. Ruth created a crossword for her son’s July wedding (now postponed), which included the couple’s favorite board game, Pandemic. Whoops! She’s revising that puzzle now to feature only “fun” things. --— W.S.

ACROSS

1 Front 7 Spanish rice 12 Little sucker? 15 Smallish batteries 18 Like a seacoast after a storm, maybe

19 Ferris Bueller’s girlfriend

20 ____ B. Wells, civil rights pioneer 21 ____-mo

22 S as in soup? 23 Kind of drawing 25 Icarus’s downfall 26 Skip work for health reasons 28 Words after ‘‘Ooh, ooh!’’

29 Beau, to Brigitte 30 Verbal stumbles 31 Baseball catcher 32 Ire

34 Boy band with two members who previously starred on ‘‘The Mickey Mouse Club’’

36 Little suckers 37 Headgear for a tailgater

39 One of the Arnazes

40 ‘‘… but it’s up to you’’ 43 Famously green shampoo 45 Rap’s Shakur 47 Pope after Benedict IV 48 Winter vacation destination 51 Parades 54 Barely beat 55 Goals 56 Silverback gorilla, e.g. 58 Moreno with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony 60 Drag-racing vehicles 62 ‘‘____ trap!’’ 63 Meager

65 Tired

66 In perfect order … or, as two words,

what’s formed by applying the answers for the five italicized clues to the circled letters

70 Dined at home 71 More skeptical 73 ‘‘Hamilton’’ actor Leslie ____ Jr. 74 Break down, to a Brit

76 Theory

77 Sea ____ 79 Prefix with -plasm 80 Piece paid by Pisans for a piece of pizza, previously 82 Safe places 84 Multi-episode narrative

87 Crucifix inscription 88 Relentlessly question

90 En ____ (as a whole) 91 Having tattoos 92 Event that’s a bit off?

94 The butler, stereotypically 97 It gives Ford an ‘‘F’’: Abbr.

99 Buff

100 First Alaskan on a major U.S. party ticket

101 E-4, E-5 and E-6, in the U.S. Navy, in brief

102 Successors to LPs 105 Part of Canada above Alta. and Sask.

106 One of the Gandhis 109 Where to get a mullet trimmed 112 ‘‘____ get it now!’’ 113 Civic center

115 Colored ring

116 Washington’s

Sea-____ Airport 117 Non’s opposite 118 Ban … or bandit 119 By and large 120 College entrance exam org. 121 Hosp. V.I.P.s 122 Author Zora ____ Hurston

123 Son of Aphrodite

DOWN

1 Compete in one leg of a modern pentathlon 2 Loud, as the surf 3 Chills

4 Not incl.

5 Set the boundaries of

6 Perfect 7 Smart ____ 8 Painter of the ‘‘Four Freedoms’’ series, 1943 9 Sound from a cheering crowd 10 Even 11 Pinnacle

12 ____ Chemical Company, onetime maker of VapoRub 13 Writer Serwer of The Atlantic 14 Event planner’s need 15 Attempts 16 They’re listed by degrees

17 ____ boom 19 Struck, old-style 24 Bygone Apple messaging app 27 Members of a blended family 33 Move, in Realtor jargon

35 Airport logjam 36 Rick, Ilsa and Victor had one in ‘‘Casablanca’’

37 First lady between Eleanor and Mamie 38 Fanny 40 Accented cheer 41 Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, for two 42 Restricted zone 44 ‘‘Ba-dum-tss’’ 46 Education support grps.

48 ____ Paulo, Brazil 49 Sea route, e.g. 50 ‘‘Frozen’’ queen 52 Endless YouTube viewing, e.g. 53 French island off the coast of Newfoundland 57 Tropical yellow fruits

59 Writer Rand 61 New York city with a marina 62 Suffix with tour or Tory

64 ____-El (Superman’s birth name) 65 Conflict during which the Lusitania was sunk: Abbr. 67 Fateful date 68 What’s left at sea 69 Dig in

72 Flat, round bread cooked on a griddle 75 Noted congresswoman from the Bronx, familiarly

78 After-bath application 79 Anatomical sac 81 Hoped-for response to an SOS

83 Lien holder, e.g. 85 Ahab’s father in the Bible 86 Desert’s lack 89 Hogwarts professor who was secretly a werewolf 91 ‘‘Awkward Black Girl’’ creator and star

92 ‘‘Who cares?’’ 93 Slapstick silliness 95 Gary who created ‘‘The Far Side’’ 96 Award to be hung

98 Start of a playground joke 99 U.S. govt. bond 101 Compass letters 102 Unisex fragrance 103 ____ Street, Perry Mason’s secretary 104 Strong ropes used to support masts 107 Verb preceder 108 Bad things on motorists’ records, for short 110 ‘‘Dies ____’’ (hymn)

111 Curb, with ‘‘in’’ 114 The Jazz, on scoreboards