New York Times Crossword No. 1231
Jeremy Newton, of Austin, Texas, is an engineering manager for a mobile games company. This is his 26th crossword for The Times — mostly Sundays, and most of those having visual elements, a bent he attributes to his artistic background. Jeremy attended a magnet high school for visual arts, the Art Institute of Dallas and then an N.Y.U. Tisch graduate program in code-driven art installations. He likes the large ‘‘canvas’’ that Sunday puzzles afford him. — W. S.
ACROSS
1 Delights
5 Seesaw-powered vehicle on railroad tracks
12 They may be wireless
16 Mass approvals
18 Bay Area start-up mecca
19 Powered (by)
21 Where Lords Byron and Tennyson studied
23 Site of a claw machine
24 Private meeting
25 Add, as cilantro to guacamole
27 ‘‘____ of course!’’
28 Alternative to Google
29 Failed web venture, in slang
33 Previously, in poetry
34 Biggest club in Vegas?
35 Flabbergast
36 Real dump
38 Features of Russian Orthodox churches
40 Trekker to Mecca
43 Org. that employed W.W. II-era Donald Duck as a spokesperson
44 Murals or graffiti, e.g.
46 How one might sing
an R.&B. ballad
50 It might make your hair stand on end
51 Whales swim in them
52 Declaration upon arrival
55 Mormon Church inits.
56 Sensational reading material
60 ____-repeated
61 Longstanding rivalries
62 Stir up
64 Expansive
65 Recreational ____
66 1937 Steinbeck novella
70 Pedicure target
71 Count on one hand?
73 Airer of the morning show ‘‘Get Up’’
74 Do the bare minimum
75 Olive in old comics
76 ‘‘You!?’’ whimsically
77 Former M.L.B. lefthanded pitchers Jackson and Leiter
79 Like the moon in a solar eclipse
81 Malicious Mr. of fiction
82 A regular in Italian clubs?
85 2002 hit song for No Doubt
87 Cry for a spell?
90 Angsty and brooding
91 Significant piece
92 In the heart of, poetically
93 Due ÷ due
94 Fast-food chain with a sunrise in its logo
98 Call in a ring, for short
99 Dweller in a tree hollow
101 Obnoxiously fratty sort
102 ‘‘Allow me to demonstrate?’’
106 Be an ambassador for, in brief
107 ‘‘It all makes sense now’’
110 Like some economies and moisturizers
112 Left-wing protest group
114 Past disagreements that are no longer of concern . . . or each block of shaded squares in this puzzle?
118 Don’t give up on
119 How ancient mariners relied on the stars
120 Actress Witherspoon
121 Sport
122 Apt word spelled from this puzzle’s ‘‘covered’’ letters, top to bottom
123 Office monitor, in brief
DOWN
1 Son of Isaac
2 Citizen neighboring
3-Down
3 Nation across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait from Djibouti
4 Make out, in London
5 Must
6 Drink from the tap?
7 Negative connector
8 They often need new suits for work, for short
9 Move up
10 ‘‘____ girl!’’
11 ‘‘Succession’’ TV family
12 Left jobs on bad terms, say
13 Remote button
14 Home of the Rosa Parks Museum
15 Siren, for one
17 Space heater?
18 Alternative to a cab
19 ‘‘Sounds reasonable’’
20 Abominate
22 Go-aheads
26 ‘‘Hi there, friend’’
30 Practices diplomacy
31 How Reubens are made
32 O.R. V.I.P.s
35 Suffer
36 Put together
37 Fad figurine with colorful unkempt hair
39 What takes a toll?
40 Chooses sidewalk over subway, say
41 Long story short?
42 Au ____ (menu phrase)
45 Dum-dum
46 Life partner
47 It’s a lot for a lord to manage
48 ‘‘I mean . . . uh . . . it’s just . . . ’’
49 Don Juan
53 Adler who outwitted Sherlock Holmes
54 Worn ____ frazzle
57 ‘‘Go ahead and decide’’
58 Co-star of ‘‘Airplane!’’ and ‘‘Hot Shots!’’
59 Left quickly, with ‘‘out’’
61 ‘‘The Crown’’
actress Claire
63 How some Cajuns converse
64 Crumb lugger
67 Required E.M.T. skill
68 Much of it is junk
69 ‘‘Cómo ____ usted?’’
72 Mastodons’ defenses
77 Taking after
78 Lapis ____, blue gem pulverized for paint during the Renaissance
80 ‘‘Arabian Nights’’ prince
81 1950s school dance
83 Over the line, so to speak
84 Texter’s ‘‘To me . . . ’’
86 Sludge
87 Operator of the Texas Eagle and Southwest Chief
88 Perfectly refurbished
89 Rescue dog, e.g.
90 School-email ender
95 Some low-risk government issues, informally
96 Take for ____ (bamboozle)
97 Natalie with 12 Top 40 hits
100 ‘‘Are you serious?!’’
101 Unlink from a social media post, say
102 California’s San ____ County
103 Barbecue leftovers
104 ‘‘Hoo-boy!’’
105 Brainstorm
108 Lowly deckhand
109 What one star may mean
111 [shiver]
113 Bitter brew, in brief
115 Cause of a swollen head
116 Air . . . or chair
117 Illegal car maneuver, often