OH, FOURPEAT’S SAKE!
Alex Bajcz, of Morris Plains, N.J., is an assistant professor of biology and environmental science at Drew University. He studies how and why plants produce fruits — he says he’s one of the few biologists who get to eat his research. The name Bajcz is Hungarian. Since that’s difficult for American tongues, his family pronounces it ‘‘badges.’’ This is Alex’s sixth Times crossword and second Sunday. — W.S.
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ACROSS
What a deadline
increases
9 Dental brand
14 Neaten (up)
19 Jet routes
20 First name in flying
history
‘‘____ the Doughnut,’’ children’s book series
Classic saying originated by John Donne
Like oxfords, but not
slippers
Really put one’s foot
down
26 Shaded
27 ____ O’s (breakfast
cereal)
28 Love, love, love
29 Population grouping,
informally
Aid for making a tikibar cocktail
Isn’t attending solo,
say Bouncer’s requests,
for short
39 Beethoven title woman (whose identity is unknown)
40 Supreme Egyptian
deity
41 Standing on the street
44 Carpenter ____
45 Pin number?
48 ‘‘Glad to have you
back, dear!’’ 21 22 24 25 31 34 38
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52 Actor/TV host Joel
55 To take this, paradoxically, might signify taking a stand
56 Wedding exchange
57 The D-backs, on
scoreboards Quack doctor’s
offering
59 London neighborhood west of Covent Garden
62 Most expensive block
64 Kirghizia or
Byelorussia: Abbr.
67 Quick hit
69 Word in the Declaration of Independence but not the Constitution
70 ____ Rachel Wood of
‘‘Westworld’’
71 ‘‘Can’t you ____?’’
72 Post-interruption
question
Plant used in making
biofuel
____ Schomburg, Harlem Renaissance figure
Haiti’s ____ de la
Tortue
Like some coffee and
sprains
82 Heedless
86 ‘‘Fantabulous!’’
87 First ruler of a united
Hawaii
91 Boot attachment
92 ____ Pre√
94 Loan option, briefly
95 Like a narrow
baseball win 58 75 77 78 79
96 Fixture whose name translates to ‘‘small horse’’
99 Result of the ’64 Clay/ Liston fight Hitting the ground heavily Relatively light foundry product
108 Wash. neighbor
109 Lavishes affection
(on)
110 Super-quality
111 ‘‘This one’s all mine!’’
Like about 97 percent of U.S. land Óscar ____, 1987 Peace Nobelist from Costa Rica Potful in some Italian kitchens
121 Given (to)
122 Stock-exchange worker
Makes Don nod? Things that can be closed with a zip
125 Brains
126 Least spicy 101 103 113 117 118 123 124
DOWN
1 Trashes
2 ____ shield
3 Bombeck who wrote
‘‘At Wit’s End’’ Participates in a mosh
pit
Los Angeles port
district
6 Sea urchin, at a sushi
bar
7 Took another take
8 Isaac’s firstborn 4 5
9 Meditation sounds
10 Click the circular
arrow button, say
11 Aids for sleepyheads
12 Top part of an I.R.S.
form
Red morning sky, to
sailors
Part of an Italian sub Some pricey
handbags Things Wyoming and
Nevada lack
Guy who hosts ‘‘Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives’’
18 Overnighting option
20 It’s been performed more than 1,000 times at the Met
23 Kan. neighbor
30 Title for a lady
32 Be outta sight?
33 Alice in Chains genre
34 Atlanta hoopster
35 Repeated word in Hozier’s 2014 hit ‘‘Take Me to Church’’
36 Base of an arch
37 Video call annoyance
42 Falling-out
43 Mammal’s head and
heart? ‘‘Pokémon’’ cartoon
genre
46 High-ranking
47 Chutzpah
49 Call to mind
50 Like Parmesan and
pecorino
51 ‘‘You do it ____ will’’
53 Stick (to)
54 That guy
60 Cheri of old ‘‘S.N.L.’’ 13
14 15
16 17 44 61 ‘‘With what
frequency?’’ ‘‘The Masque of the
Red Death’’ writer
63 Duck
64 Tries for a fly
65 Film character who says ‘‘That’ll do, Donkey. That’ll do’’
66 Payback
68 Christensen of
‘‘Parenthood’’
69 Grammy winner
Stefani 62 73
Classic work by Karel
Capek Whitney for whom a Connecticut museum is named Certain security
officer
79 Prez No. 34
80 Quick pick-me-up?
81 Send forth
83 Atmospheric prefix
84 Ostracize
85 Be left undecided
88 Watered-down rum 74 76 89 Common lecture
length
90 Giant in fairy tales?
93 Queen Anne’s royal
family
97 ‘‘Let me clarify . . . ’’
98 Trashes
99 Yellow-brick-road
traveler
100 Folds and stretches
102 Backpacker’s lodging
Make lemonade from lemons, so to speak 103 104
Peter of ‘‘Casablanca’’ ‘‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’’ co-star Wood stain has a strong one
107 Tiny ____
112 Hurtful remark
114 Ploy
115 Pocket rockets, in poker
In the event that Symbol on a Junction Ahead sign Future zygotes 105 106 116 119
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