SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Katie Hale, of London, is a freelance crossword editor. Her coconstructor, Scott Hogan, is a patent attorney from Midland, Mich. This is their second Sunday collaboration for The Times. This puzzle’s genesis is owed to Scott’s wife, Edith, a podiatrist who came home one day with the joke you see at 120-Across.
ACROSS
1 Favors
5 Slathered in sauce, in restaurant-speak 8 Letters on security camera footage
12 Big flings
18 “Pet” you wouldn’t take to the vet
19 Cosecant’s reciprocal 20 Cookie with its name on it
21 One of four on a diamond
22 I visited the cardiologist, who … 25 Bull-headed?
26 Club assistant
27 Apt letters that complete this word: P__RPO__ __
28 Nailed
30 Partner of Hoda on “Today”
31 I visited the dermatologist, who … 35 “The greatest as well as the most elegant of Roman philosophers,” per Voltaire
38 Rob in Hollywood 39 Fashion something fashionable, maybe 40 Uninspired 41 Revealing word
45 Like a money-back guarantee
47 I visited a dentist and now I …
51 Otis of elevator fame 55 Set forth
56 Prattle
57 Sorry ass? 61 Equivalent of 32,000 ounces
62 Pinches
64 Scenario before a two-run home run, say 65 Lived (in) 67 Alternative to foil or saber
69 I visited the anesthesiologist and now I’ve …
73 Bitter brews
74 Gets in shape? 76 Home of the 123-story Lotte World Tower 77 Natural decorations on some bookshelves 79 Pique
80 Hunt
82 Lovelace of early computer programming 84 California wine valley 87 One with a landlord 89 I visited a sleep specialist, who … 92 Double-wide, as a garage
96 Professional who works a lot
97 Skin
98 Soul seller
100 Change positions, as in volleyball
102 Takes the blame for 105 I visited the radiologist, who …
110 Rude … or, without its first two letters, rude person
111 ____ beer (nonalcoholic beverage) 112 MSNBC competitor 113 Slowly cook, in a way 118 Prenatal tests, in brief
120 I visited the podiatrist and now I … 123 Call
124 Filled, folded food 125 Female French friend 126 O, in hangman 127 Meager
128 Part of most musical notes
129 Cribbage marker 130 Mathematician Noether
DOWN
1 Rock band with a slash (but not Slash)
2 Like much of Iran
3 Sue Monk ____, author of “The Secret Life of Bees”
4 Castle material, maybe 5 GameCube successor 6 Result
7 Actress Thompson of “Creed”
8 It’s totally corny
9 Step in origami 10 Educational forum 11 Gave a thumbs-down 12 “Whaddya mean?” 13 Kind of keyboard 14 Setting for some post-run refreshments? 15 ____ Barbarino, John Travolta’s role on “Welcome Back, Kotter” 16 Heretofore
17 Car that Brits call a “saloon”
19 Mascara mishap 23 Proctor’s pronouncement
24 ____ Lingus
29 The “Do” in “Do-Re-Mi” 32 Went under
33 Asia’s disappearing ____ Sea
34 Old yeller? 35 Bamboozles
36 Having two equal sides 37 Behaved like the lion in Oz
40 Caribbean musical genre
42 Long quest
43 Roth ____
44 It’s involved in kissing and telling
46 Wheelless vehicle 48 Hint to the number of ingredients in Triscuits 49 Web-page code 50 Allowed to be borrowed
52 Puts the pedal to the metal
53 Spanish salutation 54 They might come out of the woodwork
58 U.S. fair-hiring inits. 59 “We doin’ this?” 60 Eleven, in El Salvador 63 It might be a stretch 64 Olive ____ of “Popeye 66 Pack of dogs?
67 Man’s name that becomes a distance if you move the first letter to the end 68 Sponge feature 70 Ridiculously
71 Bean variety
72 Have over 75 Erupt
78 [Forehead palm smack]
81 Corp. shuffle
82 ____ Max, singer of the 2018 hit “Sweet but Psycho”
83 Neighbor of Md. 85 Non-stereo
86 Button on social media 88 Leo, for one
90 Swear
91 Do some engraving 93 “SportsCenter” anchor Linda
94 Swears
95 Knocking onomatopoeia
98 Like a comeuppance, perhaps
99 “Lemme, lemme!” 101 Ancient Greek area north of Thessaly
103 Color-blending technique
104 Title for a French priest
105 Lasting bad memories, so to speak 106 Got tagged 107 Anxiety condition, for short
108 Open, as a toothpaste tube 109 Garden statuette 114 Long 115 Express-lane unit 116 Quilter’s line 117 Current event? 119 ____ vs. ____ (Mad strip)
121 Paul ou Paulette 122 Fix