The New York Times Crossword

TODAY: TWO-BY-TWO (0515)

Matthew Stock works for a math-education nonprofit in East St. Louis, Ill. Chandi Deitmer, of Cambridge, Mass., is a social worker in the fields of psychiatry and geriatrics. Matthew was making a themeless puzzle a few years ago, and his constructing software suggested 41-Across and 49-Across in adjacent spots. That didn’t work out, but he tucked the thought away. A fan of Chandi’s last Times crossword, he asked if she’d like to collaborate on this one. — W.S.

ACROSS

1 Some old PCs 5 Experience

financial ruin 11 Many files in a

Downloads folder 15 Talk ____ 19 1990s sitcom starring Tia and Tamera Mowry 22 Beethoven’s ‘‘Ah!

perfido,’’ for one 23 Southwest people known for their dry farming 24 Grand Prix city 25 Fulminate 26 Portent

27 Start a web

session

28 Tribute

30 Many zoomers 31 Gush (over) 33 Red lightsaber

wielder 36 Singular praise 37 ____ Xtra (soft

drink)

38 Soul: Sp.

39 Make it so

there’s snow way

out?

41 1963 hit for the

Kingsmen

45 It gets the show

on the road 48 Nothing but a

number, it’s said 49 Call from an oldtime paperboy 50 Essayist Susan 51 Attraction, so to speak, with ‘‘the’’

53 Org. often impersonated by phone scammers 54 Time for a visit from Ong Tao, the ‘‘Kitchen God’’ 55 Slip up 56 Yellowstone sight 58 [Gulp!]

59 House of

Commons reps 61 ____ gratia (in all

kindness: Lat.) 62 Rush order

64 Like some

questions 66 Romanov V.I.P.,

once

68 Charlotte N.B.A.

player

70 ‘‘ . . . you get the

point’’

74 ‘‘Well, lookie

here!’’

75 Quaint exclamation of dismay

78 Fee payer, often 79 Thin pancakes in

Indian cuisine 80 Laborer of old 84 Dan of ‘‘Schitt’s

Creek’’

85 To the ____ power 86 Time for March

madness? 88 Ultimate fighting

inits.

90 Certain summer

baby

91 ‘‘There you

____!’’

92 Big tower, for

short?

94 Years and years 95 Shock

97 Sings, in a way 101 When you should

leave, for short 103 Piece of rollerderby equipment 104 Classic-joke start 105 High five at the

Olympics? 107 Unchanged 108 Yea or nay 109 Power source 111 Barfly’s flier 112 Added to a

thread, say 113 El ____ of the Spanish Renaissance 115 ‘‘Amscray!’’ 117 Egomaniac’s

thought

119 Noted character with objectsubject-verb syntax

120 Dangerous part of a road on which to pass 121 Extroverts 127 Tie down

128 Best-picture

winner of 2012 129 Basketball feat suggested by this puzzle’s pairs of theme answers, informally 130 1040 figs. 131 Love of

languages? 132 In on

133 Add (on)

DOWN

1 Philosophy

2 H.S. class in the same department as chem

3 Yahoo alternative 4 Trusty to the end 5 Pirate’s booze 6 One way to learn 7 Like the Six Million Dollar Man

8 ‘‘Anchors

Aweigh’’ grp. 9 Amtrak stop:

Abbr.

10 Lab worker 11 Logical

conundrum 12 Prolong 13 Numismatic grade 14 Plopped (down) 15 Setting for many

a diorama 16 Shortcut missing from newer smartphones 17 Lead

18 Affixes 20 Subject of

interest, in brief 21 Chess piece whose name is derived from the Persian for ‘‘chariot’’ 29 Cocktails made with ginger beer, informally 30 Pieces in the game Bananagrams 31 Flights connect

them

32 All-encompassing

Egyptian deity 34 Aromatic

beverage 35 Perch for the selfimportant 37 Gemstone cut

named for a fruit 38 Baffled

40 Very bright

42 Eye piece 43 Nobelist Joliot

Curie

44 Really get to 46 Sweetie

47 Weep in an unflattering way, in modern lingo 52 Lugs

57 Hold on to 58 Lunchtime

estimate 59 Computer

shortcuts 60 Slices and dices,

say

61 Scottish hillsides 63 Annoying

65 Walk with

swagger

67 It might get swiped in a college dining hall

68 Football trophy

name

69 Where some replacements take place, in brief

71 Third column on a

calendar: Abbr. 72 Eaglet’s hatching

spot

73 Certain public

transport 75 Sound from a

jalopy

76 Played again 77 Words from an

ex-lover

81 Go by

82 Put down again 83 Origami steps 85 Bread in Indian

cuisine

87 One taking action 89 Certain close

relative

92 Invite out for 93 1990s tennis star

Huber

94 Off-kilter 96 ‘‘Later!’’

98 Green vehicles 99 Fried plantain dish of Puerto Rico

100 Country named for its geographic location

102 It makes you you 103 Lobbyists’ area in

D.C.

106 Radiator cover 110 ‘‘Die Hard’’

squad, in brief 112 Miss ____, famed

dial-a-psychic 113 Businesses that see an uptick after New Year’s 114 Aussie hoppers 115 Kernel of an idea 116 ‘‘Ouch, ouch,

ouch!’’

118 High style 120 Barnyard bleat 122 ‘‘Mais ____!’’ (‘‘But of course!’’) 123 ‘‘Cyberchase’’

channel

124 Org. whose members stay in their lanes 125 Business name

ender

126 ‘‘Yipe!’’