The Saratogian (Saratoga, NY)

GOING SOMEWHERE?

- BY JESSIE AND ROSS TRUDEAU / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ Online subscripti­ons: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).

Jessie Trudeau, née Bullock, recently received her Ph.D. from the government department at Harvard. Her husband, Ross, is a writer and puzzlemake­r in Cambridge, Mass. They met three years ago. Ross, who has been creating crosswords for The Times since 2017, introduced Jessie to the puzzle world. This is their fourth collaborat­ion for the paper. The couple are scheduled to marry this weekend. — W. S.

ACROSS

1 Yankee Stadium has 24

of these

6 In the thick of

10 Org. with X-rays

13 Shape of a heron’s

neck

16 Bit of publicity

17 Bag for a diamond

18 Yellowfin tuna

19 Cheney and Harris,

informally

22 One prone to idol

thoughts

25 Marsh birds

27 Clubs often require

them, for short

28 Pool locales

29 That: Sp.

30 ‘‘Never you worry’’

31 Moor

33 Call into question

36 Bouquet

38 Break up clods

40 Bolívar who was known as the Liberator

41 Evening, to Yves

42 Reggae-like genre

43 One looking for

missing persons

46 Singer White with

the 1991 No. 1 hit ‘‘Romantic’’

48 Actress de Matteo

50 Inits. on some

handbags

51 Two-colored 53 Model world

55 End-of-semester

form: Abbr.

57 Flick, as a cigarette,

informally

58 Disappeari­ng

sculpture medium

59 Big name in Jet Skis

60 Gumption

62 ____ hall

63 Stylish flair

65 Square type

66 Necessitie­s for drug

approvals

68 English landing spot

71 Seat for the Queen?

73 Egyptian symbol of

life

74 Stick with it!

76 John Cho’s role in

‘‘Star Trek’’ films

77 Level

78 Spill the tea

79 Hits high notes in

high places

82 Suit

85 Setting of two

Shakespear­e plays

87 Some coding

statements

88 Edith Wharton’s ‘‘ruin

of a man’’

91 Nautical agreement

94 Bearer of roses,

maybe

95 Word with American

or amber

96 Whiz

97 Aunt ____ (role on ‘‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’’)

98 Habitual fear of being

exposed as a fraud 105 N.F.L. star Elliott,

to fans

106 Edify

107 Rikishi’s sport

108 ‘‘Don’t be that ____’’

109 Part of a skin-care

routine

110 First pope to be

called ‘‘the Great’’

111 Dillydalli­es

114 ‘‘In Search of Lost

Time’’ novelist

115 Aphorism that’s visually depicted five times in this puzzle’s grid

119 Pros with floors

120 Unit of cauliflowe­r

121 Split, then come

together?

122 Ultimate needs

123 Parched

124 Apply (to)

DOWN

1 Rosebud ravager

2 Latin for ‘‘I believe’’

3 Some black-and-white

pictures

4 Prone to brooding, say

5 Scatters

6 Stacey of Georgia

politics

7 Easternmos­t leg of

I-90, familiarly

8 Suffix with fool or fiend

9 Opus ____

10 Dance shoe

attachment­s

11 Bundles

12 Put on 13 Home of the Simpson and Flanders households

14 Rocker Bob with 10

Top 10 albums

15 Casper competitor

20 One side of D.C.’s

Federal Triangle

21 iPhone app with a

graph in its icon

23 Nail-polish brand

24 Where all the people that come and go stop and say ‘‘hello,’’ in a 1967 hit

26 It’s a huge deal

30 State ____

32 Former N.Y.C. mayor

Ed

34 Actress Thurman

35 Locale for a rock

climber

37 Noted shopping

mecca

39 More like an empty old mansion at night,

say

43 Transport on the

slopes

44 Stop lying

45 Celebrity chef

DiSpirito

47 Point in a network

49 Profess

52 Combines, in a way

54 Fictional documentar­ian from Kazakhstan

56 Provider of a ball of

thread, in myth

59 Like some cars and

kisses

61 ____ Club

64 Neighbor of Curaçao 67 Theater rebuke

69 Scratch (out)

70 Botch

72 You might be advised to do this for yourself

74 Memo opener, often

75 ‘‘That’s rough’’

80 Downwind locales

for ships

81 ‘‘Now!’’

83 Home of Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi 84 Spilled the tea

86 ‘‘Listen!’’ in León

89 Cherry and peach

90 Combined

92 ‘‘Uh-oh!’’

93 Turn inside out

94 Of whom Celine Dion said, ‘‘If God would have a singing voice, he must sound a lot

like . . . ’’

96 ____ Schneider, winningest woman in ‘‘Jeopardy!’’ history 98 ‘‘____ the economy,

stupid!’’

99 Got together in

100 White as a sheet

101 Paul who was People magazine’s 2021 Sexiest Man Alive

102 Tremendous success

103 Squawked in pain

104 Coup result

105 Member of Gen Z,

jocularly 109 Busy

businesswo­man in a rom-com, e.g.

112 Loved

113 Title on Netflix’s

‘‘Bridgerton’’

114 Univ. V.I.P.

116 Any of the Uruk-hai in ‘‘The Lord of the Rings’’

117 Word with half or

hard

118 Fútbol cry

 ?? ??

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