The New York Times Crossword

Sid Sivakumar is an M.D./PH.D. student at Washington University in St. Louis, training in biomedical engineering and neuroscience.

ACROSS

1 Mess-hall patrons, in brief

4 Theater backdrop

9 Stressful work?

13 Disorganized stack

17 Home-screen array

19 Port container

20 Clean hands, so to speak

22 Spill (over)

23 Strict sales limit, informally

24 Slow-cooked entrees

25 Boos-y drink?

27 Olympic gymnast Raisman

29 Charge (with)

30 Involves

31 Some kennel personnel

34 Only U.S. coin that does not explicitly indicate how many cents it’s worth

35 Eschewed pork and

shellfish, say

37 Arena seating sections

38 Perfume ingredient

39 Civil wrong

40 Comedy character who once asked the U.N. secretary general if Disneyland was part of the U.N.

42 Org. whose initials are aptly hidden in “foreign satellite interception’’

43 Really hurt

44 Orders more of than

necessary

48 Oktoberfest purchase

49 “Clifford the Big Red Dog’’

airer

52 “Gross!’’

53 Excessively

54 Checkout unit

56 Eyeballs, e.g.

60 “Naw, no way!’’

62 Hindu wedding adornment that’s said to get darker the more the newlyweds love each other

64 Lifesaving mission, for

short

66 Its panhandle abuts British

Columbia

67 Prudent

69 Texas A&M athlete

70 One fast-tracked in an

interview pool

72 Like Loki

73 Absolutely devour

74 Fitting a little tight

75 Home to the Great Ziggurat

of Ur

77 Common jeans feature

78 “Whoop-de-_ _ _ _’’

79 Subject of 1960s-’70s

addiction research

80 Purges

82 Things that perceptive

people might pick up

86 Picture taker?

88 Sound in “Old Macdonald

Had a Farm’’

89 Windy part of a kite? 90 The “A’’ of the ACT UP

organization

94 Thunderous sounds

95 Piece of info

97 Body of water adjoining

Korea Bay

100 _ _ _ _-de-camp

101 Proceeds

103 Putting together

104 Hardly worth mentioning

106 ID whose first five digits are

sometimes ignored

107 Keister

108 Flight segment

111 Demographic group

113 Tiny member of a swarm

114 Big Ten school that plays home football games at Beaver Stadium

115 Much like

116 What hits the ground

running?

117 Seat in the London Stock

Exchange?

118 At the earliest chance

119 They get high by the beach

120 Airport screening inits.

DOWN

1 Winter house-warming

option

2 “That’s my goal’’

3 Powerlifter’s helper

4 Marine predator often seen

near shorelines

5 First Nations people

6 Best Melodic ____ Performance (Grammy category)

7 “My concern is .…”

8 Variety used to make

Bordeaux wine

9 Dot on a die

10 Musical artist Yoko

11 Joins those on the stage

12 Counterparts of eves

13 With 61-Down, like some gossip … as represented phonetically by each set of shaded squares?

14 Like a bathroom directly

connected to a bedroom

15 Feigns indignation

16 Bug

18 Address

19 Barbecue-grill fill

21 Camp bed

26 Summer Olympics host

between London and Tokyo

28 Comics sound when

something is snatched

31 Clenched, as teeth

32 Recordholder for most games played in the FIFA World Cup (26)

33 Modern _ _ _ _

36 Trains above street level

38 Delivery that can’t be

returned

41 “Well, don’t wait out here!’’

43 Goals

45 Sun shield

46 _ _ _ _-conscious

47 Variety commonly found in

jellies and pies 48 Wax figures?

49 Golf-tournament division

50 President who campaigned on the slogan “Our best days still lie ahead’’

51 Real pickle

55 So … or a word following

“so’’

57 Fit for a king

58 Sees red

59 Word before dating or

skating

61 See 13-Down

62 Dance at a luau

63 More open to the elements

65 Lake-house rental

67 Unnerves

68 Sea hawks

71 Lyft request

73 Lithium-____ battery

76 “Don’t ____ me .…”

78 1994 single by Hole whose cover art depicts a miniature wedding dress and veil

81 Real-time PC exchanges

83 Man, woman and child, e.g.

84 Little lifter 85 Snore loudly

86 One dropping amorous

hints

87 Trigonometry units

88 B-baller in Big D

91 “Am I mistaken?’’

92 Turndowns

93 Hot herbal brew

94 Place to pamper pets that

purr

95 Some rivers have them

96 Variety that shares its name with a Mideast capital

98 Game with big prizes

99 “I’m not working right

now,’’ in email shorthand

101 Believer in Jah

102 Mushroom added to ramen

105 Org. with the phone number

1-800-TAX-FORM

107 Cornmeal cake

109 Info you might send someone when you’re running late

110 Liven (up)

112 Stashed away

Answers to last Sunday’s puzzle