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