NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Priyanka Sethy is a management consultant, originally from India, now splitting her time between the Bay Area and New York City. Matthew Stock works for a math education nonprofit in East St. Louis, Ill. They connected via the Crossword Puzzle Collaboration Directory on Facebook. The theme idea here was Priyanka’s. They made the puzzle together via Zoom — including a marathon three-hour session at the start. This is Matthew’s eighth Times puzzle. It’s Priyanka’s debut. — W.S.

ACROSS

1 Ones with big heads

around the office? 6 With 27-Down, island nation near Indonesia

10 What OPEC and

NATO are both in? 14 E, in Morse code 17 Inauguration Day

activity 19 Five-times-a-day

Islamic prayer

20 Word with earth or muscle

21 Function whose output is 45º when applied to 1

22 German : Freundin ::

Spanish : ____ 23 Google search info 24 Some whiskeys

25 Piece of work 26 Premium membership designation

28 End ____

30 Small row

32 Sashimi selection 33 Holds

36 Language of the 18th-century poet Mir Taqi Mir

38 (0,0), in math

41 Put on an unhappy

face

42 It lets you see the

sites 46 Rice dish

47 Mess up

48 Hebrew name

meaning ‘‘ascent’’ 49 Walks (on)

53 Talk, talk, talk

55 ‘‘How ____!’’

57 Contents of some banks

59 Hyphenated beverage brand

60 Holders of multiple passports

65 Transcript fig.

66 Give a hoot?

67 Values highly

68 Trouble

69 Soothe

71 [Ignore that edit] 72 Honey ____ (Special

K flavor)

74 First openly lesbian anchor to host a major prime-time news program

77 Pond fish

78 Not looking good

at all

80 Follow closely

81 Goth relative

82 ‘‘What in the . . . !’’

85 $$$ for old age

87 ____ soap

88 Brutes

92 Ones fighting for change

97 Reindeer in ‘‘Frozen’’ 99 Start of a rendezvous request

100 2019 jukebox musical featuring the song ‘‘Proud Mary’’ 101 Sun-kissed, say 102 Funny business?

104 Zip

106 ‘‘____ a Crime’’

(2016 Trevor Noah memoir)

108 Hempseed product 111 Property claim

113 One might be good or evil

117 Michael ___ of ‘‘Ugly Betty’’

118 End of an era? 119 Bringing up the rear 121 Tops

122 Kind of syrup that’s an alternative to honey

123 Homeland of many Paiute and Shoshone 124 Grate expectations? 125 ‘‘Spy Kids’’ actress Hatcher

126 ‘‘So true!’’

127 One of two poles

DOWN

1 ‘‘May God bless and keep the ____ . . . far away from us!’’ (‘‘Fiddler on the Roof’’ line)

2 Bad way to go

3 Winans with 12

Grammys 4 Panko-breaded chicken

dish

5 Sp. title

6 Fence line?

7 A long time

8 Drops in water 9 Purchase for Wile E.

Coyote 10 Sleeveless undergarment, informally

11 Settled (on)

12 Event with a crowning

moment

13 Store

14 Pull out all the stops 15 Not sharp, perhaps 16 Thompson of ‘‘Sorry

to Bother You’’ 18 Summer ____

19 Soda cracker, by another name

20 Choice words?

26 Pull in

27 See 6-Across 29 Microsoft’s answer to

the iPad

31 ‘‘I’m so sorry for

you!’’

33 Trendy

34 Alex and ____

( jewelry chain)

35 Mo. metropolis

37 Early development

sites

39 Extended-wear manicure options 40 Added bonus, metaphorically

43 Aerie baby

44 Celia known as the

‘‘Queen of Salsa’’ 45 Words of admission 50 Stop ____ (sign) 51 Muralist Rivera

52 Goof (around)

54 Kind of data distribution with two peaks

56 Finish with 58 Tometi who co-founded Black Lives Matter 60 Newsroom sights

61 ‘‘So are we!’’

62 Used Grubhub or

Postmates, say

63 ____ Ing-wen, first female president of Taiwan

64 Alleged

66 Traditional attire for

some martial artists 70 Ornate tea vessel 73 Overdone

75 ‘‘Howdy!’’

76 Put in a seat, perhaps 79 Lakeside city that’s at

one end of I-79 83 Result of pulling the

goalie

84 Jane of ‘‘9 to 5’’ 86 ‘‘Don’t misbehave!’’ 89 Q followers

90 Letter that rhymes with three other letters 91 Phishing target, for

short

93 Encroach

94 Human rights lawyer Clooney

95 Like the Dalai Lama 96 Part of the joke 97 Gawps

98 Go away

102 Take a dive, perhaps 103 W.W. II threat 105 Ringing in the new day? 107 Katie of ESPN 109 Brown or blacken 110 ‘‘Duh!’’ in modern slang

112 [Nodding]

114 Japanese soup ingredient 115 Children’s author Blyton

116 Bird with a reduplicative name 119 J.F.K. alternative 120 Dallas and Houston are in it, in brief