Crossword:
Exercise your brain
Byron Walden is a math and computer science professor at Santa Clara University. Harrison is his 8-year-old son, who, with occasional assistance, has been doing crosswords for more than a year. The jokes in this puzzle’s theme are a collaboration between the two. Byron spearheaded the fill — although the top right and lower left corners are completely Harrison’s. The two wrote the clues together. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Fancy water pitcher
7 Cranks (out) 13 Iranian president Rouhani
19 National park near Bar Harbor 20 Shouldersupported launcher 22 Go against
23 Put in another light
24 What do you get when you cross 26-Across with a 5-Down?
26 A group of them may be called a memory
28 Bestow
29 Not down so much?
30 Item that can be blown or thrown 31 Coastalenvironment simulator at an aquarium
34 Onesie protector 36 Some Instagramfeed posts
37 Pool unit 38 Tokyo-to-Iwo Jima dir.
39 Iraqi currency 41 Symbols of watchfulness 46 Krispy ____ 49 Musical tone below A
53 Rock climber’s tool
54 Neighbors of Saudis
56 ‘‘Cheese’’ products?
57 What do you get when you cross 63-Across with a 45-Down?
61 Jungian feminine side
62 Not natural, say 63 Coop group 64 Dazed and confused
66 Went (against) 68 Caper
69 London theater district 72 Flatbread often garnished with rosemary 77 Creatures that can have two sets of jaws and teeth 81 Kind of squash 82 What do you get when you cross 77-Across with a 40-Down?
85 Begin dozing 87 Dandelion lookalike
88 Congregate to rest
89 Fill with love 90 ____ Malfoy, Harry Potter antagonist
91 Logs on to, say 94 Criticizes harshly 96 Tirana’s country: Abbr.
98 Cabinet inits. since 1980
99 Abe Lincoln’s youngest son
102 ____ de los Muertos
103 Napoleonic symbol
106 ‘‘If all ____ fails .?.?. ’’
110 Confess
112 Got to work 114 ‘‘____ in the Garden’’ (Robert Frost poem)
116 What do you get when you cross 114-Across with a 93-Down?
120 ____ 101, world’s tallest building before the Burj Khalifa
121 Sporty Chevy 122 Picked (up) 123 Shaping wood using a curved blade 124 Get short with 125 Coldly determined
126 Direct
DOWN
1 Wasn’t indifferent 2 D.C.-to-Boston transport 3 Nonvenomous, fast-moving snake 4 Get accustomed (to)
5 School group 6 Erode
7 ‘‘CSI’’ broadcaster
8 Spots on ships for anchor cables 9 Weapon used by the Terminator 10 CD-____ 11 Aurelius, for Lucius Aurelius Commodus 12 Burrowing lizard 13 Spicy appetizer 14 When National Beer Day is celebrated: Abbr. 15 Tater
16 Gandhi of contemporary Indian politics
17 Queried
18 They might take a few swallows 21 Along with 25 Geographical locale whose name means ‘‘waterless place’’
27 Back of the neck 32 ‘‘For shame!’’ 33 Make bubbly 35 Rice variety 37 Lex Luthor’s sister
39 Classroom assignment
40 What’s known for its poker face? 41 Take in the newspaper
42 ____ Stix 43 Suffix with launder 44 Department stores since 1901 45 Ika, at a sushi bar
47 Ireland, poetically
48 Some lapel attachments
50 First letter of the Arabic alphabet 51 Do, ____, fa .?.?. 52 Exam for collegebound H.S. students
55 ‘‘Mad Men’’ channel 58 Pest-control brand founded by Lee Ratner (!) in the 1950s
59 ____ Island 60 Sega mascot 65 Home to Natural Bridges National Monument 67 1,000% 68 Ghana’s capital 69 Lessen in power
70 Business class, for short
71 Pop
72 ‘‘Never ____!’’ 73 Prefix with -gon
74 M.R.I. alternative 75 Cactus bump 76 Org. with a classified budget 78 Many stars have big ones 79 ____-majesté 80 Concordes et al.
83 Some HDTVs 84 Father of the Amazons, in Greek myth
86 ‘‘Sorry, Charlie’’ 92 ‘‘Moonstruck’’ Oscar winner 93 Smallest of the big cats
95 Home to the Hana Highway 97 Touchingly? 99 Soothing powders
100 Flighty?
101 Strongly held beliefs
103 Weatherforecast figures 104 Inception 105 Hen
106 ‘‘My Fair Lady’’ protagonist
107 Fatty acid, e.g. 108 ‘‘____ evil’’ 109 Endorse online 111 Striking sound 113 Big name in vitamins
115 Lessen in power
117 Singing syllable
118 16th letter 119 Palindromic preposition