THE SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Company often cited in business studies about disruptive innovation 6 Barbecue applications 10 Center of an ear 13 Authorized 18 Superman, for one 19 Bit of Q.E.D. 20 Brian who created the Windows 95 start-up sound 21 Time-machine option 22 Binary, as some questions 23 Settled on 25 “Here’s the thing ...” 26 Make heads or tails of a situation ... or an alternative title for this puzzle

29 Like a pigsty 31 What an aglet is for a shoelace 32 Some pain relievers 35 Sharer’s word 36 ____ parm

39 Give a talking-to

41 Bit of letter-shaped hardware

42 Food catcher

43 Got misty-eyed, with “up” 45 Tricksy maneuver 48 Bearded beast 49 Satellite signal receiver 51 Orange County’s ____ Beach 54 Whistle-blower in 2013 news 57 Donkey Kong and others 59 Dresses’ upper sections 61 Cherry, for one 63 College town in Iowa 65 Units in linguistics 67 Selfish sort 68 Home to the Alhambra 70 Confused

72 The invaders in Space Invaders, in brief

73 Things held up to the ear 77 Nobel and Pulitzer winner Morrison

78 Part of a mission 80 Unfavorable

82 Some coolers 84 Surgeon’s tool 86 Slowpokes

88 “30 for 30” network 90 Lab noise?

91 Lazy ____

93 Relied on no one else 95 [That knocked the wind

out of me!]

97 Free offering from a cafe 99 Certain colors in printing 102 Beyoncé’s role in 2019’s

“The Lion King” 103 Having as a hobby 104 No-goodnik

107 ____-Tiki

108 One fighting against

Thanos

110 Kind of visual puzzle ... or what to do with each line in this puzzle’s two shaded areas 115 Location in the Beach Boys’“kokomo” 117 Dog days of winter? 118 House-elf in the Harry Potter books

121 Any one of the Magi, to Jesus

122 Cousin of Inc.

123 Mount ____, much-hiked

peak in Yosemite 124 Not hide one’s feelings 125 Applesauce brand 126 Drano component 127 Site for handmade goods 128 Introduction

DOWN

1 Kick start? 2 World Cup cry 3 2007 Shia Labeouf thriller or a 2008 No. 1 hit by Rihanna

4 Hero of a Virgil epic 5 Bit of raised land 6 Someone with all the desired qualities 7 Craving 8 “Eww, gross” 9 “Leave it be” 10 ____ the Entertainer (actor and comedian) 11 In addition to 12 [Out of nowhere!] 13 Nintendo character with a green cap 14 Summer complaint 15 State-of-the-art 16 Fuming state

17 X

21 Word before phone or book

24 Little salamanders 27 Word in the corner of a TV news broadcast 28 Paris’s Musée ____ (art museum) 29 No-goodnik 30 Pounds 33 Brooks & ____ (country duo)

34 Man’s nickname found in consecutive letters of the alphabet

37 Like about half of the OPEC countries 38 Danish tourist attraction since 1968 40 Tone down 43 Society at large 44 ____ ranch 46 Promoter of gender equality, for short 47 Like some tennis shots and most push-ups 50 No-frills 52 Strike out 53 Expert 55 Humdingers

56 The circled letters in the first shaded area

58 Title for many a W.H. aspirant 60 Substance discharged 62 The circled letters in the second shaded area 64 Ink container 66 Went unused 68 Manage to heave the ball before time expires 69 Dispense (with) 71 Hopeless from the start, slangily

74 Job seekers’ needs, in brief 75 Egg maker

76 Long stretches 79 The Golden Flashes of the Mid-american Conf.

81 Jazz’s Fitzgerald 83 Cartoon character who works at the Krusty Krab 84 Vim and vigor 85 Article of apparel that’s an anagram of other articles of apparel 87 Length of time between noons

89 Point out 90 Cries of disappointment

92 With full disclosure 94 Roof part

96 Supporting 98 Somewhat

100 “That didn’t work!” 101 Foul mood

103 Earnings

105 Sights in the Jerusalem

skyline

106 One of six in Subaru’s

logo

109 Over

111 Bit of raised land 112 Direction in a film script 113 ____ bro

114 Long stretches 115 Comic book

onomatopoeia 116 Big whoop

119 A/C spec

120 Even so

Answers will appear next week