The New York Times Crossword
TODAY: DIG IN (0725)
Jesse Goldberg is a software engineer in San Francisco. Last year, finding himself between jobs, he tackled a big project he’d been thinking about for 30 years — creating an app to assist in designing and filling crossword grids. The result, Crosserville, is available online (free for now). Jesse isn’t the first person to build a crossword-construction app, but his is a highly versatile one. This is Jesse’s second puzzle for The Times. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Certain music royalties collector, for short
6 Viva ____ (aloud) 10 Dirty look
15 Even once
19 Part of R.I.
20 Big exporter of
saffron
21 Sci-fi intro to
‘‘forming’’
22 Foul
23 ‘‘Enjoy the food!’’ 25 Sportscaster who memorably asked, ‘‘Do you believe in miracles?’’ 27 Crush 28 Emmy-winning FX series created by Donald Glover 29 ‘‘Curses!’’ 30 Challenger
astronaut Judith 31 ‘‘With enough
butter, ____’’ 34 Commanded 36 Fuel-economy
authority, for short 37 Main artery
38 ‘‘A party without
cake is ____’’ 48 Retin-A target 49 Healthful property
of a beach town 50 Chicken or veal
dish, in brief 51 Merit 55 Boardroom plot? 57 Hangout rooms 58 Pair of quads 59 The Powerpuff
Girls, e.g. 60 Filmmaker with a
distinctive style 62 Affixes, as a cloth
patch 64 Something that’s gone bad if it floats when placed in a bowl of water 65 ‘‘If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. ____?’’
71 Word mistakenly heard at a Springsteen concert
74 Under way 75 Beethoven’s Third
79 Reverse
81 Tons
82 Seriously hurt 86 Move quickly,
informally
87 ____ o’clock (when happy hour begins)
88 Host’s offer at a
housewarming 89 Spongelike 91 Focal points
92 ‘‘I enjoy cooking with wine. Sometimes I ____’’
96 ‘‘Same here’’ 99 Word with noodle
or nap
100 ____ lepton (elementary particle)
101 ‘‘The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for ____’’ 108 Stamps (out) 113 One of Abraham Lincoln’s is in the Smithsonian 114 ‘‘Welcome to the
Jungle’’ rocker 115 Born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth
117 Cause of a smartphone ding, perhaps
119 Chef quoted in this puzzle’s italicized clues
120 Guitar part 121 Member of la
famiglia
122 Letters on an F-22
Raptor
123 One given
onboarding 124 1975 Wimbledon
champ
125 Like voile and
chiffon
126 What may make
the grade
127 Direct
DOWN
1 Shady spot 2 Less-than-subtle
basketball foul 3 Temporary road
markers
4 ‘‘I don’t give
____!’’ 5 Pharmaceutical
picker-upper 6 Penthouse perk 7 ‘‘Coffee ____?’’ 8 Stone memorial 9 Suffix with exist 10 Actor Jason who was once on Britain’s national diving team 11 Four-stringed
instruments 12 Financial adviser
Suze
13 Dry with a twist 14 Milk: Prefix 15 NASA spacewalk 16 Try to win
17 Page who became the first openly trans man to appear on the cover of Time magazine (2021) 18 L.A. neighborhood referenced in Tom Petty’s ‘‘Free Fallin’’’
24 Coolers 26 Comedian Minhaj 28 How some bonds
are sold 32 Himalayan legends 33 Fetch
35 Provided tunes for
a party, in brief 38 Backbone of Indian
classical music 39 Earth tone
40 Body sci.
41 Toon first introduced in the 1945 short ‘‘Odorable
Kitty’’ 42 Neighbor of Oman:
Abbr.
43 Japanese honorific 44 Florida attraction with 11 themed pavilions
45 ‘‘His wife could
____ lean’’ 46 Family name in Steinbeck’s ‘‘East of Eden’’ 47 ‘‘That’s it for me’’ 52 Exist
53 Outfit
54 Drink garnished
with nutmeg 56 Quizzical
responses
58 Part of NGO: Abbr. 61 Change from portrait to landscape, say 62 Neither red nor
blue: Abbr. 63 Benchmark 66 Locks-up shop? 67 Any set of elements in a column on the periodic table 68 Japanese port
near Sapporo 69 War zone danger,
for short
70 ‘‘A Room of One’s
Own’’ novelist 71 Mac
72 Gastric acid, on
the pH scale 73 Tribute in verse 76 Classic Langston
Hughes poem 77 First name in
fashion 78 Saharan 80 Snacks that sometimes come in sleeves 82 Words to live by 83 The Cardinals, on
scoreboards 84 Large Hadron
Collider bit 85 Many a rescue dog 89 It’s not the whole
thing
90 Mount ____,
California volcano 93 Critical
94 Rank for a rear
admiral
95 What the Unsullied warriors are on ‘‘Game of Thrones’’
96 She turned Arachne into a spider after losing
a weaving contest 97 Wags a finger at 98 Separate
102 Tough period of the
school year 103 Bayt ____ (destination for a Muslim pilgrim) 104 Krispy ____ 105 Crooner Mel 106 Handy
107 Caffeine-rich nuts 109 Still alive, in dodge
ball
110 Laissez-____ 111 N.J. city on the
Hudson
112 Meal at which parsley is dipped in salt water 116 Serious divide 118 Candy-aisle name 119 Protrude