BRIGHT IDEAS
No. 0218
Peter Koetters is a pediatrician in Pasadena, Calif. This is his fifth crossword for The Times since 2012 and first Sunday. His interest in constructing was piqued by the 2006 documentary ‘‘Wordplay,’’ in which he saw Merl Reagle go through the steps of creating a puzzle. He thought, I wonder if I can do that? Peter says his puzzlemaking is intermittent. ‘‘My wife hates it when I wall myself off for days working on these things.’’ — W. S.
ACROSS
1 ____ Pérignon
4 Result of a sand save,
in golf
7 Letter-shaped groove
used in framing 12 Subway stop: Abbr. 15 Chicago Booth offering, in brief
18 Computer text
standard
20 ‘‘If all goes well . . . ’’ 21 Shook a leg
23 Traditional
Indonesian percussion orchestra 24 Baseball manager who once instructed his team to ‘‘pair up in threes’’
25 It may be a lot outside
the city
26 180s
27 It helps you get the
picture
30 Sportscaster
Hershiser
31 Annual Pebble Beach
event
33 ‘‘That is hilarious!’’
34 Cite
35 Food-pyramid group 37 Orange-juice
specification
39 Place for poissons
41 IV placers
42 Support staff: Abbr.
47 Hostile party
48 Blue ____ (symbol
of Delaware)
51 ‘‘The Terrible’’ czar
53 Mirror
55 Sad response to ‘‘How
was the game?’’
57 Feel discontented
58 Having knobby
bumps
59 Heretofore, poetically 60 Metal receptacle by
a fireplace
61 College student’s
earnings
62 Student’s do-over
63 Table scraps
65 Absinthe flavoring
66 1974 C.I.A. spoof
67 Brand name on a
Go-gurt box
70 Hovers menacingly
71 Like a tuxedo bib
75 Athlete Arthur
76 Alley ____
78 Leaves on the shelf ? 79 Sportage automaker 80 Language with 44
consonant symbols 81 ‘‘____ knows?’’
82 Back in the day
83 Suffix with east or
west
84 Rubik with a cube
86 Fertility-clinic
donations
87 Ohio home to Cedar Point, the ‘‘Roller Coaster Capital of the World’’
89 Airline to Oslo
90 Guys in commercials
92 Steering implement 93 Burdensome amount 95 Giant Mel
96 Shelley’s ‘‘____
Skylark’’
97 Leave one’s mark, in
a way
99 Spot
100 One with two years
to go, informally
102 270° from sur
105 Hide ____ hair
106 Prepare to skate
108 Soldier’s helmet, in
old slang
110 Place to find a crook 111 Downhearted
113 After-school helper 115 Blanket
117 Lab dropper
118 Character with
character
119 Welcome policy at
a bar
120 Bagel topper
121 Anthony of ‘‘In the Heights’’ and ‘‘Hamilton’’
122 Seventh heaven
DOWN
1 Unearthed
2 ____ personality
3 Duplicating machine 4 Primary person,
informally
5 Primary person?
6 Acclaims
7 Bone attached to the
patellar tendon
8 Unit of stamps
9 Poet Federico García
____
10 Talk show host nominated for an Academy Award
11 Whisper from Don
Juan
12 Lacking
13 Sashimi choice
14 Verb in some
tautologies
15 The ‘‘thing’’ in ‘‘Is this
thing on?’’
16 Che Guevara wore
one
17 ‘‘Easy on Me’’ singer 19 Activist Chavez
22 Director Walsh of
old Hollywood
28 Bygone tape type
29 Seeming eternity
32 Italian dipping sauce 34 Netflix series starring
the Fab Five
36 Legacy of 72-Down, seven of which appear among this puzzle’s answers and one more suggested by the black squares in the middle of the grid
38 Something that’s big with the current generation?
39 Actress Sorvino
40 Some nights of
celebration
42 Ethically indifferent
43 Tangential remarks
44 When the original
Big Five ruled Hollywood
45 Magical objects
46 Union members
49 Those, in Spanish
50 Cereal-box abbr.
52 Designer Miller
53 Relative of Ltd.
54 Hosp. areas
56 Unleashes upon
64 Bygone tape dispenser 66 Failed device meant to communicate with the dead
67 Swerves at sea
68 Org. that sets worker
exposure limits
69 Object in the classic painting ‘‘His Master’s Voice’’
72 With [circled letters reading clockwise], American icon born 2/11/1847
73 Common spot for a
wasp nest
74 Primatologist Fossey 77 You can trip on it
in the desert
79 Didn’t stop
82 Sharer’s possessive
85 Late harvest mo.
88 Novelist Brown
91 Tilling tool
94 Without gender, in
Latin
95 Egyptian god of death
and rebirth
97 Barbershop sounds
98 Kind of bond
99 Seasonal inflatable
101 Chaos
103 Tastes
104 Board of a cosmetics
company?
106 Bard’s instrument 107 Cougar
108 Hideki ____, W.W. II
prime minister
109 P.I.S, e.g.
112 Gender abbr.
114 Cat’s pa
116 Turn bad