NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE

David W. Tuffs, of Pacific Grove, Calif., is a fourth-year linguistics student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In his spare time he writes for his school’s satirical newspaper, Fishrap Live! This is his third crossword for The Times and his first Sunday. Planning the theme involved “manually sifting through endless lists” of words — which sounds tedious, but he enjoyed doing it. — W.S.

ACROSS

1 Sexy one 10 Treat that’s dangerous to fillings 15 It has cameras set up around the House 20 Home of the Hittite Empire 21 Novelist Zola 22 Word with box or gloves 23 Unwavering 24 Bit of cinema décor 26 Latin verb that’s a letter off from 9-Down 27 Sagelike 28 Get ready for dinner 29 Man-eaters 30 Demeanor 32 Puts the pedal to the metal 34 Outbursts of megalomania 39 Boglike 40 Educator Khan who founded Khan Academy 43 -esque 44 ‘‘Ugh, we have so much to sort out’’ 47 You might come to one suddenly 50 Winston Churchill gesture 52 They’re out on their own 54 ‘‘Word on the street is . . . ’’ 55 Antiquated source of light 58 Toy brand with colorful rods and gears 59 Partner of dark 60 Starts a course, with ‘‘off ’’ 61 Where you might see scrolling credits? 64 Heidi of TV’s ‘‘Making the Cut’’ 66 The Arthur Ashe Courage Award and others 67 Spectators taking potshots, collectively 70 Will Smith’s actor/rapper son 73 Quickly join hands? 74 GorK 75 ‘‘Roll Tide!’’ school 79 Relishes 80 Eats 82 Feature of a healthy dog 84 Fjord, e.g. 85 Like Hathor, goddess of motherhood 89 Film character who shouts, ‘‘You are a toy!’’ 90 Fish with a prehensile tail 92 Primitive time 95 German article 96 Instagram hashtag accompanying a nostalgic photo 97 Two-fifths of a quarter 99 Birthplace of three major world religions 101 Whatan agoraphobe avoids 105 Uber offering 106 Group email greeting 108 Class 109 ‘‘That so?’’ 111 It’s not light reading 115 Advances in a baby’s cognitive development 117 Demonology and such 119 Show vanity, in a way 120 Face-planted 121 Cocktail often made with Tennessee whiskey, ironically 122 Looks long and hard 123 Class 124 Not get tense

DOWN

1 March madness figure? 2 Animals in hibernación 3 Twitches 4 ‘‘Please, I’ll go with you’’ 5 Friend abroad 6 Home of many schools in the Big Ten Conference 7 Uses chrism on 8 Chuckles online 9 Language that’s a letter off from 26-Across 10 Tantalize 11 ‘‘… that’s ____’’ 12 When many commutes begin 13 Converse 14 ‘‘____-haw!’’ 15 Favorite dog breed of Queen Elizabeth II 16 Where bats and birdies are found 17 ____ the Frog (internet meme) 18 God with a helmet 19 Rapper with the platinum albums ‘‘Street’s Disciple’’ and ‘‘God’s Son’’ 25 Skater Harding 31 The third of Chekhov’s ‘‘Three Sisters’’ 32 Iota 33 Valuable deposits 34 Turning point 35 Actor/activist Davis 36 Stretch 37 Woman’s name that’s part of the body backward 38 Contacts quickly, in a way 41 Imitation 42 Fertile mixtures 45 Finished the golf hole 46 One might be cold or dry 48 Scatterbrained 49 Shot, so to speak 51 Plot device, in brief ? 53 Rejoice (in) 56 Debt holdings 57 Bouts with payper-view events, for short 59 Transition 62 Left-leaning organizing grp. 63 Like pronounced muscles 65 Feeling described by this: :| 67 Australia’s ‘‘City of Light’’ 68 Covers for campers 69 Spat 70 Former Fed chair Yellen 71 Classroom with cameras, for short 72 Executes perfectly 75 ‘‘That’s just awful!’’ 76 One end of a cell 77 ____ circus 78 To now 79 Beyoncé, to Solange, informally 81 Tundra or savanna 83 Fabric in a flat cap 85 Leprechaun’s home 86 Idaho, with ‘‘the’’ 87 Nickname in ‘‘Star Wars’’ 88 Country code for Holland in the Olympics 91 N.F.L. star ____ Beckham Jr. 93 Supermodel Lima 94 Like many a beta release 98 Reaction reducer 100 Tackles 102 ‘‘I have other ____, sorry’’ 103 Norse pantheon 104 Birthplace of Zeus 106 Female figure in the ‘‘Iliad’’ 107 Name akin to Agnes 109 Many mainframes 110 Blind sight 112 Number between sette and nove 113 Some pettingzoo noises 114 Seaside bird 115 Dash fig. 116 Twitch user’s bane 118 Comic Penn