WEST-SOUTHWEST
Julian Lim, of Singapore, is an assistant professor at the School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. He leads the school’s Awake Lab, which studies the effects of mindfulness practice on sleep, well-being and cognition. He holds a B.S. from Duke and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Julian started solving British crosswords in high school, later getting hooked on American ones. He says he has solved every New York Times crossword since 2004. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Amenity in G.M. vehicles
7 R.N.’s workplace 10 ‘‘Awake in the Dark’’ author
15 Down at the bar?
19 Peace and quiet 20 Tease constantly, with ‘‘on’’
21 Bottom lines?
22 Spanish Steps city
23 What an unsteady tightrope walker may do?
25 Number cruncher, in Wall Street lingo
26 Spelling clarification
27 CPR experts
28 ‘‘____ to My Family’’ (song by the Cranberries)
29 ‘‘It’s just too $%#@ hot!,’’ e.g.?
31 Fasten again, as documents
34 Dish cooked in an underground oven
35 Bolshoi debut of 1877
36 Thesis defenses, e.g.
37 Thereabouts
39 Me-day destination
40 What a beekeeper receives at work?
45 Pettily punishes 50 Dynamite
51 Explode on Twitter, say
52 ‘‘____: Ragnarok’’ (2017 blockbuster)
54 Catty comments 55 Upstanding person
57 Flood protector 59 Bird that carries Sinbad to safety
61 ‘‘Little Fockers’’ actress Polo
62 Little auk, by another name
65 Japanese audio brand
66 Cousin of a clarinet
67 Why the knight went shopping?
73 Letters no longer seen on most phones
74 Ingredient in une quiche
75 Source of the words ‘‘O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;/ It is the green-ey’d monster .?.?. ’’
76 Bohemian
77 ‘‘Hate Me Now’’ rapper, 1999
78 2019 award for ‘‘What the Constitution Means to Me’’
79 ‘‘Magnifico!’’
84 Fully grown fillies
86 Statistician’s calculation
88 Cruz known as the Queen of Salsa 91 Regenerist skincare brand
92 Upfront?
94 Hogs, after being scrubbed clean?
97 Even a little bit 99 Take ____ from (follow)
100 Thrill
101 Resident of the lowest circle of hell, in Dante’s ‘‘Inferno’’ 106 Spring setting in San Antonio: Abbr. 107 Border of a lagoon, say
111 What the ecstatic janitor did? 113 Porcine pad
114 Paul of ‘‘There Will Be Blood’’
115 Actress Taylor 116 ‘‘Stop it, I’m blushing’’
117 ‘‘Michael Jordan’s Top 10 Free Throws’’ and others? 120 Rental units: Abbr.
121 Ballet shoe application
122 Shakespearean prince
123 Cuts off
124 Interlock
125 Choral composition
126 N.F.C. South city: Abbr.
127 Kids’ camp crafts project
DOWN
1 Figure-skating champ Brian
2 Reinvented selfimage
3 Tiffs
4 Spots to shop for tots
5 The Sun Devils’ sch.
6 One squat, for example
7 What soap bubbles do
8 Pet shop purchase
9 ‘‘Yuck!’’
10 Sublime
11 Toto’s creator
12 They’re full of questions
13 Holds on to one’s Essence, say? 14 Fasteners of some heels
15 Go at a glacial pace
16 Book before Joel 17 Boat sometimes built around a whalebone frame
18 Soul, e.g.
24 Give a shout
29 Nothing of the ____
30 Digital sounds? 32 Something up one’s sleeve
33 Original site of the Elgin Marbles
34 Beyoncé, for one 38 ‘‘How neat!’’
40 Uncle ____
41 Heartbreak
42 Martin who wrote the ‘‘BabySitters Club’’ series 43 Conclude (with)
44 Coarsegrained igneous rock
46 Tagging along 47 Martial-artsbased workout
48 Trial’s partner 49 Went crosscountrying, say
53 Spiked wheel on a boot spur
56 Farm-to-table program, in brief 58 Shish ____
60 Scientist who said, ‘‘The cosmos is also within us. We’re made of star-stuff’’
63 First string
64 Puts out
65 How obedient dogs walk
67 Gets a head? 68 Host of an Apple TV+ book club 69 In again
70 More sardonic 71 Paperless airplane reservation
72 Trifling amount 78 Because (of)
80 Sky fall?
81 Whitney of cotton gin fame
82 Headed
83 ‘‘Later!’’
85 Button on an old video game controller
87 Org. that publishes the journal Emotion
89 Prepare for a guided meditation, perhaps
90 Cavity fillers
93 Homogeneous 95 ____ Gobert, 2018 and 2019 N.B.A. Defensive Player of the Year 96 Benchmark: Abbr.
98 ‘‘Over here!’’ 101 Religion symbolized by a moon and star
102 Make a choice on Tinder
103 Isle of Man men, e.g.
104 Gorillalike
105 Suite meet? 108 Made lighter 109 One might begin ‘‘Dear Diary .?.?. ’’
110 ‘‘All That Jazz’’ director
112 Screenwriter Lee, sister of Spike 113 De-bug?
117 ____ cha beef (Chinese entree) 118 V-J Day prez 119 Ni‘ihau necklace