FEELING POSSESSIVE

John Kugelman, of Gainesville, Va., is a software engineer and musician. This is his third crossword for The Times — all Sundays. Crossword construction and music ‘‘tickle all the same brain cells,’’ he says, as each is ‘‘half-creative and half-technical.’’ He adds: ‘‘Sundays are like the progressive rock of crosswords. I love 20-minute songs and I love 21x21 grids.’’

ACROSS

1 ‘‘No ____, Bob’’

5 Commuting options

10 Thunderstruck

15 Lead-in to cure or cab 19 Peace symbol

20 Absolutely necessary 21 Snack brand with a

hyphen in its name 22 Simoleons

23 Oil futures?

26 The Australia-shaped ‘‘Pride of Australia,’’ for one

27 Pool side

28 Crest

29 Sack

31 Parent’s exhortation 32 Real bind

33 People who might answer ‘‘What’s up?’’ with

‘‘The sky’’

35 Castle moat?

39 ____ Scott-heron, writer of ‘‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’’

40 Entitled guys?

41 Kind of rating system

in chess

42 Audio option

43 Slangy greeting

45 Sales prospects

48 Smoky tendrils

50 Shoves, to a poker

player

53 Ed of ‘‘Up’’

54 Daredevil Knievel

55 Sugar and cocoa

content?

57 ____ the Orange

(Syracuse mascot) 58 Scoop, so to speak

60 Braces might fix

them

61 Auto company headquartered in Yokohama

63 Veg-o-matic maker

64 Over there

65 Humble home

67 Wavy dos

70 International date

line?

72 Bordeaux besties

74 They prevent

accidental scribbles 76 ____ room

79 ‘‘Lights! Camera!

Action!’’?

82 Biblical twin

83 Midas’s downfall

85 Reprimand to a

rubbernecker

86 Peter the Great and

Ivan the Terrible

87 Pale purple

88 N.B.A. analyst Burke 89 Police alerts, for short 91 What goes around the head at Diamond Head

92 Preposterous

94 The ‘‘en’’ in ‘‘enby’’

95 ‘‘And . . . cut!’’?

98 Personal theory that isn’t in the source material

101 Fed. statute that took down the Gambino crime family

102 Mama’s boy

103 Not working, say

104 He literally jumped the shark on ‘‘Happy Days’’

105 85 to 115, typically 109 Skier Lindsey

110 Stock prices?

114 Monthly utility bill:

Abbr.

115 Rapper with seven

posthumous albums 116 Persona

117 Quantum ____

118 Utility figure

119 ‘‘Killers of the

Flower Moon’’ tribe 120 Wears on

121 River swirl

DOWN

1 Some email

attachments

2 Beat handily

3 ‘‘I’m done talking’’

4 Called into question

5 Binary

6 Homebodies?

7 Go after

8 Actual title of ‘‘The

Piña Colada Song’’ 9 Drunken state

10 Comet alternative

11 Come down with

12 See 30-Down

13 Pours poorly

14 Pays (up)

15 Noodles and floaties? 16 Chess move with a

French name

17 Render more youthful,

as with C.G.I.

18 Sweden has more than 200,000 of them (of which only 1,000 are inhabited)

24 Sudden contractions 25 God’s first word on

the first day

30 With 12-Down, world champion boxer who retired an undefeated 24-0

32 Put up with

33 Novelist Cather

34 Not authorized

35 Cut

36 Late-night host John 37 Finish behind

38 Breed of cattle

39 Swinger’s attire

43 Hinged fastener

44 ‘‘The Empire of the ____’’ (H.G. Wells short story)

46 Lions or Tigers, on a

scoreboard

47 Theater sign

49 Leaf fossils?

51 Brand whose sales spiked after an appearance on ‘‘Stranger Things’’

52 Portrayer of Bob Newby on ‘‘Stranger Things’’

55 Parade sight

56 Carriers of master

keys, informally

59 ____ blue

62 Garden variety?

64 At 78, she became the oldest artist to have a No. 1 dance hit

66 Inits. on a ‘‘Choice’’

label

68 Indian spice mixture 69 Necessities for

retiring?

71 Org. with the tagline

‘‘No More Victims’’ 73 Something furry on

a fir

74 Practices mise en

place

75 ‘‘____ Q’’ (rockabilly

classic)

76 James Bond studio

77 Memorable time

78 Machine learning model that mimics the human brain

80 Company whose misconduct helped spawn the Sarbanesoxley Act (2002)

81 Muse with a lyre

84 Record label that famously turned down the Beatles

86 Supercell, e.g., for

short

90 Europeans who speak a non-indoeuropean language 93 Can’t not

95 Encouragement at

karaoke night

96 Skin condition

97 Turn on

98 What drones and

anxious parents do 99 ____ Gay

100 Hub

101 Bacardi, por ejemplo 104 Part of a clock

105 Playwright William 106 Call for

107 Mortarboard tosser 108 Catch a glimpse of 111 Many an I.R.S.

employee 112 Witch 113 Coltrane’s instrument