NAME DROPPING

No. 0507

Lewis Rothlein is a yoga instructor and jazz-piano enthusiast in Asheville, N.C. Jeff Chen is a writer and professional crossword constructor in Seattle. This is their third collaboration for The Times. The theme idea was Lewis’s. To find the best examples, Jeff wrote code and sifted the results from the database at Xwordinfo.com, which has about 240,000 answer words from past Times crosswords. — W. S.

ACROSS

1 Cuts back

7 ID that’s never reused

10 Colorful seafood

16 Removals of impurities, informally

18 2020 film starring a

cartoon dog

20 Put on a pedestal

21 Tony-winning musical

with puppets

22 ‘‘Anybody home?!’’

23 Burst of sonic ecstasy

24 Southern California

sch.

25 Bestow

26 Old Testament

prophet

27 One of cinq in

‘‘Tartuffe’’

29 One of 100 in Pooh’s

woods

31 H.S. safety org.

33 Repeated musical

phrase

36 Eldest of a literary

trio

37 Pair of glasses?

38 Little monster

39 Barrier to entry

41 Big fat mouth

42 ____ blockers (heart

rate meds)

43 Can you dig it? Yes,

you can!

45 Angels can be found

in it

46 Long blade, of a sort

47 Curved by intersecting edges formed vaults, in architecture

49 Cutting part of The

Onion? 51 Before, in poetry

52 5, 6 or 7, in golf 54 Baseball slang for a

home run 56 Ones getting hit on at

parties?

58 ‘‘I’m dead serious’’ 59 Cheering loudly

60 Tool that evolved

from the sickle

61 Microwave 62 Attaches with a click

64 Hindu god of pleasure 65 Does away with

67 Climbing Kilimanjaro, e.g.

69 Learned

71 ‘‘Squawk Box’’

network 74 ‘‘True ____’’ 75 Mother ____ 76 Shipping option

79 Word with rolling or

bowling

80 Related (to)

81 Having a

commanding lead

83 Verbal equivalent of a

thumbs-down

84 Singer Marian, the first African American to perform at the Met

86 Bathroom powders

87 One whose boss

laughs a lot

88 Car driven by Thelma and Louise, familiarly

89 Charged toward 91 Lager-head?

93 ‘‘Al-l-lmost done’’

96 Spanish title: Abbr. 97 Grows 99 Events of interest, with ‘‘on’’ 101 Feeling down 103 Bit of vocal fanfare 105 Home project inits. 106 Plays a Halloween prank on, in brief 107 Actress Lillian with a 75-year film career 108 Pain reliever with an oxymoronic name 111 Synonym and rhyme of ‘‘erases’’ 115 Insulating sleeve for

a beverage 117 Beezus’s sister, in

children’s literature

118 String-and-spool toy 119 Refined 120 Approve 121 Dastardly expression 122 Subject of many a political scandal

DOWN

1 Something that may

elicit stares, in brief

2 Amp (up)

3 Pac-12 Conference

athlete

4 Desirable flight option

5 Radiates

6 Goes out with

7 Improv bits

8 What a gavel bang

may mean

9 ‘‘Oh well, it didn’t

matter anyway’’ 10 Give a lecture, with

‘‘out’’

11 Concerns for coders

and copy editors

12 Has a ‘‘ruff’’ night?

13 Org. in ‘‘Argo’’

14 Baking meas.

15 ‘‘____ Bones’’ (classic

spiritual)

17 The get-go

18 Reeked

19 Check out, as a book

20 ‘‘Whoa!’’-inducing

experiences

27 Subway line toward New York’s Kennedy Airport

28 Cautious (of )

30 New York’s ____ Field

32 Two-thirds of

105-Across

34 Informants,

informally

35 Botanists’ specimens

36 Very tiny bit

40 Homophone of vowels not found in this answer

42 Longtime anchor of ‘‘NBC Nightly News’’

44 Guarding, as a goal

47 Understand, as coined in 1961’s ‘‘Stranger in a Strange Land’’

48 Tegan and ____

(indie-pop duo)

49 High ____

50 Popular singer who has recorded in Elvish

53 What ‘‘Nothing for

me’’ might mean

55 Upside?

57 Plastic conveniences 62 Calls (for)

63 Playfully bite

65 Texter’s segue

66 When you get it, you

may say it

68 Oohed and aahed, e.g.

70 Penalty boxes, in

hockey lingo

72 Lead-in to tech

73 Atlanta’s ____ Center

76 Gets a lift (but not a

Lyft)

77 Sport whose players

wear boots 78 The first letter in ‘‘gigantic,’’ but not the third

82 Partner of hems

85 Prohibition and

others

89 Commotion

90 Title woman who has children at her feet, in a 1968 hit

91 Person dealing with

casting and lines

92 2004 Don Cheadle

film set in Africa 94 Like England in the

late 16th century

95 Trig function

96 Commotion

98 Came up with an

invention?

100 ____ facto

102 Theme park cry

104 Call overseas

107 It means ‘‘waterless

place’’ in Mongolian

109 Musical artist who designed Reykjavik’s Imagine Peace Tower 110 Accept defeat, in

modern slang

112 Groupie

113 Only prez to receive

a patent

114 Runner Sebastian with four Olympic medals

115 Director of ‘‘The Shining’’ and ‘‘Dr. Strangelove’’

116 Hockey great Bobby