SUNDAY’S CROSSWORD:

Howard Barkin is a software qualityassurance specialist — and an ace crossword solver — from Hillsborough, N.J. He won the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in 2016 and is a perennial top-10 finisher. Victor Barocas, who also competes, is a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Minnesota. The men became acquainted through the tournament when their last names appeared alphabetically adjacent in the results. The idea for this puzzle was Howard’s. They worked back and forth by email to make it. — W.S. ACROSS

1 What helicopter rotors do 5 “____ to Psyche” 8 Bartók and Lugosi 13 Seven Sisters school that went coed in 1969 19 Famous feature of the Florence Cathedral 20 Romulus, exempli gratia 21 It goes up with alcohol consumption 23 Cereal mascot since 1933 24 N.Y.C.-based dance troupe 25 ↑ Memoirist 26 Psalm 63 opening 28 Unable to choose 30 Blood drive worker 31 On the way 32 Many 34 Tactless 36 Marsh flora 38 Rapper Lil ____ X 39 ↓Journalist and author 42 Maui setting: Abbr. 44 Downwind 45 Mimic 46 Quarry, e.g. 47 Raise one’s spirits 49 Weighed on 51 Gangster’s gun 52 Large print source 54 Org. for the Demon Deacons and Blue Devils 55 ↑ Sci-fi author 58 Observance on Yom Kippur or during Ramadan 61 H.S. class for future engineers, say 62 Spoke with a forked tongue 63 Guides of a sort 64 “From where I sit,” briefly 65 Increases 66 Word appearing on only one current U.S. coin (the nickel) 67 Bit 68 Yonder 72 Medium on display at Brickworld 73 ↓ Famed rights advocate 75 Agcy. that supports entrepreneurs 77 Many a middle schooler 78 Sounds during a strep test 79 1976 hit whose title is sung just before the line “Take it easy” 84 Buenos ____ 85 Sis’s sib 86 Isn’t in the black 87 Information on a game box 88 The so-called “winter blues,” for short 89 ↑Noted politician and orator 93 “Honor”-able org. 95 Gush 97 Largest cell in the human body 98 Got by 99 Yeats’s homeland 101 Brings up 103 Award for Best Moment, e.g. 105 The “1” of 10-1, say 106 ↓American composer and lyricist 109 Canyon maker 111 Kissers 113 “I can’t understand this at all” 114 Half of a blackjack 115 Hideout 116 Star of the “Taken” film series 117 Wind ____ 118 “Erie Canal” mule 119 Certain IDs

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1 MS. units 2 Site of the first Ironman race (1978) 3 Words accompanying “Uh-oh!” 4 Moved, as in a greenhouse 5 ____ pro nobis 6 Factor affecting a bond’s rating 7 Took by threat 8 Actor on Time’s list of the 100 most important people of the 20th century 9 California’s ____ River 10 Reclined 11 Hex’d 12 Playing on both sides 13 “I ____” (sticker message) 14 “I’ll take that as ____” 15 Parts of a portfolio: Abbr. 16 Iconic environmental book 17 Maker of the classic Radarange 18 Concludes one’s case 22 “Ghosts” playwright 27 Forest mother 29 River through Dortmund 32 Model of vengeful obsession 33 Part of a Swiss bank account 35 One good at reading emotions 37 Boating hazard 40 Something a house might be built on 41 Epigrammatic 43 Brand in the dessert aisle 47 Clue collectors, for short 48 Grow a fondness for 50 Grub 51 Assoc. 52 Includes surreptitiously 53 Melds 55 Left on board 56 High percentage of criminals? 57 No longer green, say 58 Popular sans-serif typeface 59 Truism based on a line by Gertrude Stein 60 Major source of coffee beans 61 Mass-produced response? 63 Inspiration for a horror movie? 64 Nobelist Pavlov 66 Hammer feature 68 U.K. honours 69 Choreographer Twyla 70 Trio often heard in December 71 Northern borders? 74 Can’t do without 75 Runners support it 76 Place of security 79 What causes a will-o’the-wisp 80 Ann and Andy, notably 81 The King of Latin Pop 82 Popular sports news website 83 ExxonMobil abroad 85 Promise 86 Heavy responsibility 89 Comment following an unrepentant admission 90 Symbolic socioeconomic divider 91 Less bumpy 92 Suffix with sex or text 93 Get the show on the road 94 Número de Maravillas del Mundo Antiguo 96 Get one’s hair just right 100 Bits of work 102 Something a cobbler may hold 104 “It’s fun to stay at the ____” (1978 hit lyric) 107 Miracle-____ 108 Org. for docs 110 Bit of animation 112 About one-quarter of a high school: Abbr.