THE NYT CROSSWORD PUZZLE DOWN

ACROSS

1 ‘‘We’re doing this!’’ 6 Rear ends

14 Mensa prereq 20 Lightweight curtain fabric 21 Folded brunch fare

22 Tito who wrote ‘‘Oye Como Va’’ 23 Song performed three times in ‘‘The Wiz’’

25 Give a kick, say 26 What ‘‘American Airlines’’ means in poker lingo

27 Marty Feldman’s role in ‘‘Young Frankenstein’’ 28 Cioppino ingredient

30 Crumbly coffeehouse confection 31 Container for movie popcorn

32 ____ Nation (annual music festival) 33 One place to find a pair of parrots 35 Backless stool 37 DFW stat 38 Riddle-me-____ 39 Group with the 2009 hit ‘‘I Gotta Feeling’’

41 Boldness

43 Apple variety whose name sounds like part of a flower 45 Steph Curry and Lebron James, e.g. 49 ‘‘Yes, cap’n!’’ 51 Move quickly (through)

53 Pinnacle

54 Mérida mister 56 Layering garment 59 Number of Gospels in the New Testament 61 Author Koontz 62 Big ____

63 Fitness enthusiast’s mantra 66 Old Italian currency

67 The one who got away?

69 Japanese vegetable 70 Suffering memory loss

73 Nicholas II was the last one

74 Start of some cautionary advice 79 Precheck org. 80 POTUS’S military title

81 Bird whose first letter is silent

82 Baby ____ 83 Low-lying wetland

85 Real looker 87 List-ending abbr. 89 Mean

91 Rubs the rite way? 93 Surfboard/kayak hybrid

96 Casey of classic radio

100 Take advantage of an opportunity 102 Where the buck might stop?

104 Alex and ____ (jewelry brand) 105 2022 No. 1 hit for

Taylor Swift

108 Snoopy, to Charlie Brown

109 Actress Campbell of the ‘‘Scream’’ films 110 N.Y.C. subway inits.

111 Former African country, and its currency

112 Jewish rite for an 8-day-old

114 Weather the storm

115 Sow and hoe for dough, say

116 F-14 fighter jet 118 You love to see it 122 Fashion designer Pucci

123 Broke a nationalpark rule

124 Emoticon’s mouth, for short 125 Apple-processing plant

126 Church parts vulnerable to lightning

127 Hip spot for a drink?

1 ‘‘No food for me, thanks’’

2 ‘‘Adorbs!’’ 3 Angle-measuring instrument

4 Ransom Eli ____ (pioneering automaker)

5 Opposite of paleo6 What ‘‘the Hill’’ is a metonym for 7 Recess retort

8 Paint brand

9 Fútbol cheer 10 ‘‘Come ____ the Sea’’ (Thomas Moore poem)

11 Daytona vehicle 12 List-ending abbr. 13 Calm

14 Computer addresses, for short 15 Cheesy appetizer with chips

16 Variety of tiny dog 17 Belgian Surrealist painter James

18 Peach pit 19 Doctrinal belief 24 ‘‘The Good ____’’ (Emmy-winning series)

29 Bread spread 32 ‘‘Still awake?’’ 33 Olympian Raisman

34 Zodiac animal 36 ‘‘The View’’ cohost Joy

39 Emptier

40 Butter cutter 42 Amazon Prime vehicle

44 Early name in digital recording 46 Unlikely donors to the AARP

47 Kinda close 48 Largest of New York’s Finger Lakes 50 Pennsylvania city that’s home to Gannon University 52 Luau finger food 54 Word with jam or joint

55 Best animated feature winner of 2021 57 Curved line between musical notes 58 Hot cocktail

60 It owns the trademark for ‘‘The Greatest Snow on Earth’’

62 ‘‘You ____!’’ 64 Streak on a cheek 65 ____ speak 68 Where to see the midnight sun 71 Barbenheimer in the summer of 2023, e.g.

72 Aaron Judge, e.g., in brief

75 Teeny-tiny 76 When a football may be snapped 77 Walt Whitman, notably

78 Fail miserably 81 Preamble start 84 Nutritional fig. 86 Like love on

Valentine’s Day, it’s said

88 Bad spot to leave food unattended 90 Laundry purchase in an orange container

92 Belgrade resident 94 Service center? 95 Tympanostomy performer, for short 97 Iraqi city on the Tigris

98 ‘‘Mains’’

99 Former TLC reality show set in a Florida tattoo parlor 101 Standards of behavior

103 O.T.C. part 105 Like the emblem on Mexico’s flag 106 Two-time Australian Open winner Osaka

107 Unlikely to make the first move

109 Like some credit cards

113 ‘‘Really, though?’’ 114 PC shortcut key 115 A little horse 117 Nursery item 119 It merged with Bell Atlantic to become Verizon 120 With it, in old slang

121 Letters on some skin-care products