SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Peter Koetters is a pediatrician in Pasadena, Calif. This is his fifth crossword for The Times since 2012 and first Sunday. His interest in constructing was piqued by the 2006 documentary “Wordplay,” in which he saw Merl Reagle go through the steps of creating a puzzle. He thought, I wonder if I can do that? Peter says his puzzlemaking is intermittent. “My wife hates it when I wall myself off for days working on these things.” — W. S.
ACROSS
1 ____ Pérignon
4 Result of a sand save, in golf
7 Letter-shaped groove used in framing 12 Subway stop: Abbr. 15 Chicago Booth offering, in brief
18 Computer text standard
20 “If all goes well … ” 21 Shook a leg 23 Traditional Indonesian percussion orchestra 24 Baseball manager who once instructed his team to “pair up in threes” 25 It may be a lot outside the city
26 180s
27 It helps you get the picture
30 Sportscaster Hershiser
31 Annual Pebble Beach event
33 “That is hilarious!” 34 Cite
35 Food-pyramid group 37 Orange-juice specification
39 Place for poissons 41 IV placers
42 Support staff: Abbr. 47 Hostile party
48 Blue ____ (symbol of Delaware)
51 “The Terrible” czar 53 Mirror 55 Sad response to “How was the game?”
57 Feel discontented 58 Having knobby bumps 59 Heretofore, poetically 60 Metal receptacle by a fireplace
61 College student’s earnings
62 Student’s do-over 63 Table scraps 65 Absinthe flavoring 66 1974 CIA spoof 67 Brand name on a Go-Gurt box
70 Hovers menacingly 71 Like a tuxedo bib 75 Athlete Arthur
76 Alley ____
78 Leaves on the shelf? 79 Sportage automaker 80 Language with 44 consonant symbols 81 “____ knows?”
82 Back in the day 83 Suffix with east or west
84 Rubik with a cube 86 Fertility-clinic donations
87 Ohio home to Cedar Point, the “Roller Coaster Capital of the World” 89 Airline to Oslo
90 Guys in commercials 92 Steering implement 93 Burdensome amount 95 Giant Mel
96 Shelley’s “____ Skylark”
97 Leave one’s mark, in a way
99 Spot
100 One with two years to go, informally
102 270° from sur
105 Hide ____ hair
106 Prepare to skate 108 Soldier’s helmet, in old slang
110 Place to find a crook 111 Downhearted
113 After-school helper 115 Blanket
117 Lab dropper
118 Character with character
119 Welcome policy at a bar
120 Bagel topper
121 Anthony of “In the Heights” and “Hamilton” 122 Seventh heaven
DOWN
1 Unearthed
2 ____ personality 3 Duplicating machine 4 Primary person, informally
5 Primary person? 6 Acclaims
7 Bone attached to the patellar tendon
8 Unit of stamps
9 Poet Federico García ____
10 Talk show host nominated for an Academy Award 11 Whisper from Don Juan
12 Lacking
13 Sashimi choice
14 Verb in some tautologies
15 The “thing” in “Is this thing on?”
16 Che Guevara wore one 17 “Easy on Me” singer 19 Activist Chavez 22 Director Walsh of old Hollywood
28 Bygone tape type 29 Seeming eternity 32 Italian dipping sauce 34 Netflix series starring the Fab Five
36 Legacy of 72-Down, seven of which appear among this puzzle’s answers and one more suggested by the black squares in the middle of the grid
38 Something that’s big with the current generation?
39 Actress Sorvino 40 Some nights of celebration
42 Ethically indifferent 43 Tangential remarks 44 When the original Big Five ruled Hollywood 45 Magical objects 46 Union members 49 Those, in Spanish 50 Cereal-box abbr. 52 Designer Miller 53 Relative of Ltd. 54 Hosp. areas 56 Unleashes upon 64 Bygone tape dispenser
66 Failed device meant to communicate with the dead
67 Swerves at sea
68 Org. that sets worker exposure limits
69 Object in the classic painting “His Master’s Voice”
72 With [circled letters reading clockwise], American icon born 2/11/1847
73 Common spot for a wasp nest 74 Primatologist Fossey 77 You can trip on it in the desert
79 Didn’t stop
82 Sharer’s possessive 85 Late harvest mo. 88 Novelist Brown 91 Tilling tool
94 Without gender, in Latin
95 Egyptian god of death and rebirth
97 Barbershop sounds 98 Kind of bond 99 Seasonal inflatable 101 Chaos
103 Tastes
104 Board of a cosmetics company?
106 Bard’s instrument 107 Cougar
108 Hideki ____, WWII prime minister 109 P.I.s, e.g.
112 Gender abbr. 114 Cat’s pa
116 Turn bad