WHAT’S SHAKING?

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 them a little over a year ago. A cousin who solved a 2018 Christmas puzzle of Laura’s encouraged her to make more. She was pleasantly surprised to discover all the help available online to new puzzle makers. This is her second Times crossword, both Sundays. — W.S. 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

Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). 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 3 to 9

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 growths

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 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15

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17 20 21

26 28 31

33 35 36

37 38 40

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