STEP ON IT!
Laura Taylor Kinnel, of Newtown, Pa., teaches math and is the director of studies at a Friends boarding school near Philadelphia. This is her sixth crossword for The Times, most of them Sundays. Laura’s son and his fiancée asked her to construct a crossword for their outdoor wedding reception last June. The result was printed on a large foam board, and guests worked on it with dry erase markers. The completed puzzle now hangs in the newlyweds’ living room. — W.S. ACROSS 1 Letting up
8 35mm. options
12 Rotter
15 What a cafeteria tray
can be used as
19 Creative, as thinking
20 Tug of war or capture
the flag
22 Le Pew of Looney
Tunes
23 Hypotenuse-finding
formula
25 Opposed to, in dialect
26 Frost
27 Prefix with pronoun
28 ‘‘No ifs, ____ or buts’’
29 Asia’s vanishing ____
Sea
30 Ethereal glows
32 Young Henry V, to
Falstaff
33 Eins + zwei
34 A-lister
36 Evening, informally
38 Pharmaceutical
pioneer Lilly
40 Having an impeccable
reputation, say
43 One drinking soft drinks at a party, perhaps
48 ‘‘Le Bonheur de
Vivre’’ painter
49 ‘‘Dust Tracks ____ Road’’ (Zora Neale Hurston memoir)
50 Egg on 51 Implement at a
regatta
52 Doesn’t comply with
53 A Kool-Aid flavor
56 Serve
58 Ham it up
59 Member of the fam
60 Eliot’s ‘‘____ Marner’’
61 Cause of class
struggle?
66 Boor
67 Symbol of Irish
heritage
69 Garnish on a Moscow
mule
70 Some young ladies
abroad: Abbr.
72 Things frequently
stolen
73 Pierre ou Marie
75 Auditioners’ goals
76 Like some lips
78 Common frequency
for college classes
80 Bum
84 Non reversal?
86 Langston Hughes
classic
87 Insta blurb
88 Invertebrate with a
floral eponym
89 ‘‘The Pink Panther’’
character
92 Having successfully
made it, slangily
94 Top-level foreign
policy grp.
95 Avant-garde
96 ____ de leche
97 Internet star Majimbo known for her comedy videos
99 Prince, but not a
princess 101 ‘‘Go jump in a lake!’’
105 Oil alternative, in
baking
106 Durable furniture
material
107 Texter’s transition
108 ____ Antipova (‘‘Doctor Zhivago’’ character)
109 Gallic greeting
110 Composer who studied under Joseph Haydn
115 Bit by a bit
116 Tournament
favorites
117 Group of tonal
languages
118 Day originally marked by a full moon in the early Roman calendar
119 Hunk
120 Like some forecasts
and complexions
121 Wish otherwise
DOWN
1 Leader of the pack
2 Gulf Coast habitat
3 Fragrant oil
4 Resident of the most populous city in western Asia
5 Income source for some older folks, in brief
6 Do more than nudge
7 Day-____
8 ‘‘Mean’’ Joe Greene,
e.g.
9 Simple shelter
10 When doubled, overly
enthusiastic
11 Windshield annoyance 12 Rapper with the 2018 No. 1 album ‘‘Invasion of Privacy’’ 13 Midwest college town 14 Biden or Harris, for
short
15 One on a rack
16 ‘‘In witness whereof,’’ ‘‘as hereinbefore mentioned,’’ etc. 17 Disorder from which Dostoyevsky and many characters in his novels suffered 18 Cozy spot 21 Approach 24 Protein-mimicking
molecule 29 Compound at a nail
salon
31 Ink on a contract 32 Beats around the
bush . . . or bushes 33 Sublime soprano 35 Brings up, as a
subject
37 39+ weeks, for a
pregnancy
39 Mane character in
‘‘The Wizard of Oz’’?
41 Leaves out
42 Prefix with
constriction
43 Wedding-cake
supports
44 Charm
45 Didn’t participate
46 Big cheese’s place?
47 Physicist Schrödinger
52 Like carbon monoxide
54 James who sang
‘‘A Sunday Kind of Love’’ 55 Like sumo wrestlers,
medically speaking
57 Single-handedly
60 Adheres
62 Blackthorn fruit
63 Shiny top
64 Voting rights matriarch ____ Boynton Robinson
65 ‘‘Who, me?’’ response
68 Deceived, in a way
71 Like one who’s seen
a ghost
72 In a few words 74 Hand warmer
75 Post-merger overhauls, informally
77 Digital digest with the motto ‘‘Cure ignorance’’
78 Tastes
79 Something to knock
on
80 Remunerated
81 Made invalid
82 Prevaricate
83 Preceders of pis 85 Pres. Carter’s alma
mater
89 Post-merger
acquisitions?
90 Cloud nine feeling
91 Swirling storm
93 Essential
98 Many a Winter
Olympian
100 ____ goal (soccer
blunder)
102 Cousin of a crow
103 Childish retort 104 Painter Édouard often confused with painter Claude
106 Fancy Feast flavor
107 Some boxers
109 Name found in
‘‘Variety’’
110 Setting for
simmering
111 Onetime auto make with the Metro and Prizm models
112 Stately shade tree
113 Howe’er
114 Ball-and-socket joint