NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Alex Eaton-Salners is an in-house attorney for Western Digital, a technology company headquartered in San Jose, Calif. He has been a frequent crossword contributor to The Times since 2017. Alex also enjoys making different sorts of word puzzles. He has a book of diagramless crosswords scheduled for publication next spring from Puzzlewright Press. — W.S.

ACROSS

1 Action done while

saying, ‘‘Good dog’’ 4 Mischief-makers 11 It might click for a

writer

14 Fall mo.

17 Kind to Mother

Nature

18 Harris in the Country

Music Hall of Fame 19 Living ____

20 Member of the superfamily Hominoidea

21 Noted Apple release

of 1968, to fans 23 Haphazard

25 Some crumbly blocks 26 Inits. for a theatrical

hit

27 Send away, in a way 29 Accomplished the

task

30 What wiggly lines in comics may represent

32 Cause of boom and

bust?

34 Convene for another

session

36 Up to it

37 What’s frequently

used by poets?

38 ‘‘To quote yours truly

. . . ’’ 41 ____ dish

42 Heath

43 Desperate 45 Traditional British

entree

48 Tries for a role

49 S.F. metro

50 ‘‘Hey . . . over here!’’ 51 Derby lengths 53 Equivalent of the Face With Tears of Joy emoji

56 Give a buzz 61 Inconvenience 64 Execute, as a royal

of old

67 Classic concert chambers

68 Noted U.S. rock group? 70 Approximately

73 See captain?

74 Studio fixtures

76 ‘‘I’m game!’’

77 State of equilibrium 80 Code-cracking grp. 81 Match-ending rugby

call

82 Bygone sovereign 85 Dance-a-____

87 Build on

90 Military dismissal 96 ‘‘You game?’’

98 State to be the case 99 ____ Kornfeld, music promoter for Woodstock 100 Daddy-o

102 Great Basin native 103 Stun

104 Heavy weights in Britain

106 ‘‘Murder, ____ Wrote’’

107 Samuel ____, business partner of Marcus Goldman 109 Gradually wear away

111 Lipton competitor 113 Keypad triplet 115 Critical remark 116 Regardless of the outcome

118 Hectic trip abroad 121 Card in a royal flush 122 Purposes

123 One runs from Me. to Fla.

124 Seminoles’ sch. 125 ‘‘You betcha!’’ 126 Northern ____ (curiously named apple variety)

127 Have

128 Boggy expanse

DOWN

1 Fare that’s eaten

hands-free

2 Wanted badly

3 Mano a mano 4 Negligent

5 Silicon Valley’s ____

Research Center 6 Candy bit that comes

in a plastic roll 7 ‘‘Battlestar Galactica’’

robots 8 Clerical vestment 9 F, in music 10 Southern region of

Mesopotamia 11 Fabric options 12 Sense of self 13 Fluent speaker of

Elvish, say 14 Uttered a sound 15 16 Bugs

19 Relative of a bug 22 Churchill ____ Rooms (London tourist attraction)

23 Long ball

24 City with a Little Havana

28 Nickname for José 31 Farthest down? 33 Anklebone

35 Least messy

39 Sorority member 40 Yang’s counterpart

44 ‘‘I Wanna Be

Sedated’’ band 46 Horrid

47 Maximum degree

49 The brainy bunch? 52 Profligate sort 54 Measures of electrical

resistance

55 One of the fire signs 57 Alveolar trill, as it’s commonly known 58 Concept, in Cannes 59 Just in case

60 Glasgow gal 61 Mischief-makers

62 ____ court

63 Stage between larva and imago 64 Consecrates

65 Act investigated by an insurance company

66 ____ ex machina

69 QVC alternative 71 Journalist Fallaci who wrote ‘‘Interview With History’’ 72 Bindis, e.g.

75 Running behind 78 Kinda

79 Berate blisteringly 81 They can be wrinkled or thumbed

83 Field that deals with

fields

84 The newest trend, in

slang

86 Inits. at Westminster 88 Trigger

89 Head for the hills? 90 Moved aside (for) 91 Cupidity

92 Changes from commercial to residential, perhaps 93 Words to live by 94 Wash out

95 Popular tick repellent 96 Piercing eye hue

97 Trial

101 ____ of Alexandria (wonder of the ancient world) 105 Clinch 108 Puerto Rico clock setting: Abbr.

110 Ballpark figures, in brief

112 Semiserious ‘‘Got it!’’

114 Places hangers hang

117 Guff

119 Distributor of CARES Act funds

120 ____ Moines