The New York Times Crossword
WHAT’S SHAKING? By Laura Taylor Kinnel / Edited by Will Shortz
Laura Taylor Kinnel of Newtown, Pa., teaches math and is the director of studies at a Friends boarding school near Philadelphia. She has been solving crosswords since childhood but just started constructing recently. This is her second Times crossword.
ACROSS
1 Boasts
6 Longtime anthropomorphic aardvark on PBS 12 Australia’s national women’s basketball team 17 Sounds “everywhere,” in a children’s song 18 Gloomy
19 Soup server
20 Add insult to injury 22 “Whenever I want you, all I have to do” is this, in an Everly Brothers hit 23 Farming prefix 24 “Gracias a ____”
25 Jam producer
27 Jack Frost’s bite
29 Bits of terre in la mer 30 Churns
32 Author Harper
33 He loved Lucy
34 Dry
35 Tea type
36 “A Life for the ____” (Mikhail Glinka opera) 38 1940s vice president who went on to become president
39 “In Praise of Folly” writer 41 How to take glib promises 44 Dog/dog separator 45 Subject of many a negotiation
46 Days ____
47 Jeanne d’arc, e.g.: Abbr. 48 Enlivens
52 Big feller?
53 Fails to be
54 City on the Brazos River 55 Propeller blades? 57 ____ Crunch
59 Gobs
64 Item often numbered from 3to9
65 Boardwalk buy
68 Gush
69 Time magazine’s Person of the Century runner-up, 1999
71 Strain
72 ____ Westover, author of the 2018 best-selling memoir “Educated”
73 Big name in theaters
74 Till compartment 76 “Silent Spring” subject, for short 78 Nothingburger 80 Descartes’s conclusion 83 Energy
84 Least interesting
86 It gets the ball rolling 87 2002 Winter Olympics locale
90 Looks through 94 Abdominal-pain producer 95 Way of securing payment 96 Fizzy drinks 98 Knitting stitch
99 “Holy ____!”
100 Word after bargain or overhead 101 Emulated a kitten 102 ____ expense (free) 103 Org. with the slogan “Every child. One voice.” 104 Brand with the slogan “The Art of Childhood” 107 What flies usually become 109 Wimp
110 It’s held by a winner 112 You, according to Jesus in Matthew 5:13
115 Follow
116 Reflexive pronoun 117 Fishes
118 Moved like Jagr? 119 Shaded growwths
120 Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish, to teenagers
DOWN
1 Orlando ____, two-time Gold Glove Award winner 2 Almost won 3 Martial artist’s belt 4 Appurtenance for a T.S.A. agent
5 Many Dorothy Parker pieces
6 Big 12 college town 7 Column crosser 8 Brings (out)
9 Time of day
10 Sch. with 50+ alums who went on to become astronauts 11 Warning sign
12 Blast from the past 13 Setting for a classic Georges Seurat painting, en fran ais
14 Fruity quaff
15 South American cowboys 16 Like Havarti or Muenster 17 Reveille player
20 Jack up
21 Repeated part of a pop song
26 Kind of wheel
28 Peak
31 Heroine of Bizet’s “The Pearl Fishers”
33 Cozy spot
35 Shows how it’s done 36 Climate change, notably 37 State
38 Refried bean 40 Astronaut Jemison of the space shuttle Endeavour 42 Reduction in what one owes 43 Headaches 45 Nursery-rhyme couple 48 Gulp
49 Prefix with medic or military
50 Princess Diana, for one 51 Negotiator with G.M. 53 Suckling
56 Disco ____ (“The Simpsons” character) 58 Memorized 60 Exasperate
61 Fabric with sheen 62 Actress ____ Rachel Wood
63 Potential source of a political scandal 66 Evasive maneuver 67 Opposite of “to” 70 Behave like a helicopter parent 75 Attendant of Desdemona in “Othello”
77 Lightly roast 79 Continental abbr. 80 Clustered
81 Meted out 82 Best-actress Oscar winner between Streep and Field 84 Agent of change 85 Attention seekers 88 Critical
89 Fictional exemplar of Christmas spirit 90 Stir-fried noodle dish 91 Sews up
92 Senator Joni and Dadaist Max
93 What water in a bucket might do
97 Source of the line “Man does not live by bread alone”: Abbr.
100 Boxer, for example 101 Handcuffs
104 This, for one
105 “____ be in England” 106 Not so much
108 Post
111 “Tut-tut” 113 Argentina’s leading daily sports newspaper 114 Super ending