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Wyna Liu is an associate puzzle editor for The Times, which she joined in 2020. She helps select and edit clues for the puzzles that appear in the paper. The thing she loves most about her job is ‘‘talking puzzles with other people who love them!’’ (That would be the rest of us on the Games team.) When Wyna isn’t working, she makes jewelry and magnetic objects, teaches yoga and spoils her dog. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Villains’ antagonists 7 ‘‘Uh, sure’’
13 Power project 16 Real mess
19 2007 Lil Wayne song that opens: ‘‘Young Money! You dig?’’
20 Subject of clip art? 22 ‘‘What do we have
here?!’’
23 Word before the year on U.S. paper currency
24 Small thing to keep
on track
25 Human rights activist Xiaobo, the first Chinese citizen to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (2010)
26 Presses CTRL+P + ______ + Easter egg coloring 28 ______ + Scroungy mutt + Parent’s sister, in some regions 30 Active Sicilian
volcano
31 European river that’s an anagram of REED
34 Promise to pay 35 [I’m frustrated!] 36 Fragrant noodle
soup made with beef 39 Like Captain James
T. Kirk, by birth 41 Número de ‘‘Años de Soledad’’ in a Gabriel García Márquez novel 43 Follows
44 ______ + Golfer’s
cry + ‘‘Ugh!’’ 46 Column crossers +
Sentry + ______ 49 ‘‘Encore!’’
50 Irks
52 Crossed off 53 Gangster-film prop 56 ‘‘Holy’’ city 58 Nongendered
possessive
59 Insult that’s also a
measurement device 61 ‘‘The landlords of
New York,’’ once
63 One cast in a
fantasy movie 65 Digging
66 French festival, familiarly + ______ + Actor Michael 70 Punching tool + Chopping tool + ______
72 Cherubic archer 73 Foil lookalikes 75 Seoul-based carrier 76 Influential sorts 78 Rod with seven A.L.
batting titles 80 Athlete’s cup 85 Flattering verse 86 In the manner of 87 Demonstrate extreme flexibility, as an acrobat 89 Opposite of neo90 Tandoor bread + Harlem music venue + ______
93 Word of obligation + ______ + Punxsutawney name 95 Some origin stories 97 Response to ‘‘Shall
we?’’
98 H.S. science class for some collegebound students 99 Rocky Mountain
bugler
100 Move, in real
estate lingo
101 Pioneered
103 Immediately 105 Couple of llamas? 107 Rug rat + Magic
stick + ______ 110 Soccer score + ______ + Scottish inlets
115 Resistor unit 116 Iconic 1984 movie vehicle that was a combination ambulance/hearse 119 ‘‘Anything for
you!’’
120 Actress de Armas 121 Annoyances when trying to make change
122 Challenging,
informally
123 Corleone, for one
124 Toilet-paper spec 125 Most likely to
offer solace, say 126 Calm
DOWN
1 Fastener used with
a padlock
2 The ‘‘E’’ in FEMA:
Abbr.
3 ‘‘Diamonds’’ singer,
to fans
4 QB protectors,
collectively
5 Time to decide who’s in or out
6 Polite Spanish
assent
7 ThinkPads, e.g.,
once
8 ‘‘Doc’’ in the Mets
Hall of Fame 9 Removed, as a knot 10 Language suffix 11 Spanish seasoning 12 Hindu goddess in
the ‘‘Ramayana’’ 13 Serpentine
constellation 14 Ambidextrous
features?
15 It may have just
desserts
16 Converter of
natural heat energy 17 Doohickey 18 Tweens, e.g. 21 Making level 27 Welcomed at the
door
29 Broccoli follower 32 Intestinal
bacterium
33 Choir platforms 36 Boggy stuff 37 Literary award
shaped like a rocket 38 Milky gemstone 40 Common solvents 42 Some R.P.I. grads 43 Chances
45 Hurry
46 Waze suggestions:
Abbr.
47 Armpit,
anatomically
48 Move to a larger
pot, say
51 More than a couple 54 Doesn’t just sit
there
55 Boxing stats 57 Influential leader of the Seminole people 59 Burrito-shaped
lunch counter item 60 Part of X-X-X
62 [Is this thing on?] 64 Scenic stroll,
from the Spanish 66 Baja Peninsula
resort, for short 67 In the thick of 68 Hardly Mr. Nice
Guy
69 Hippocratic oath
takers: Abbr. 71 Path covered with
diamonds 74 Vamooses 75 Pretentiously
affected 77 ‘‘Frozen’’ villain 79 Existential
emotion
81 Goofus
82 Dance squat 83 Where 95-Down’s Wild Ride ends, at Disneyland
84 Key ingredient in Key lime pie
87 Rock & Roll Hall
of Fame city: Abbr. 88 Floated down a
river, say
91 ‘‘Hmm, gotcha’’ 92 Unteachable sort, in a saying 94 Tessellations 95 ‘‘The Wind in the
Willows’’ squire 96 ‘‘Nice try, but I don’t think so’’ 98 Islands that form atop underwater volcanoes
101 Making all the
stops
102 Portion of a log 10 Quick to think
or act
106 [Grrr!]
108 ‘‘Eh, what can
you do?!’’
109 Black cat,
classically
111 For fear that 112 Michael of
‘‘Superbad’’
113 Wraparound
garment
114 Eye affliction 117 Belt worn with a
yukata
118 Company that owns Wite-Out