GROWTH SPURTS
Adam Wagner, of Oakland, Calif., is a creative lead at Patreon, a monetization platform for content creators. Michael Lieberman, of Washington, D.C., is a consumer-protection lawyer at Fairmark Partners. They’re also each dads of fastgrowing toddlers, which is what inspired this puzzle. Adam sent the title to Mike, who sent back what became 3- and 13Down . . . and they were off and running. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Sweeties
5 Heaven on earth, to the
ancient Greeks
12 International pizza chain founded in Brooklyn
18 Pipsqueak
19 ‘‘We’re not ready to
joke about this yet?’’
20 Caps that lack brims
21 Apt name for a
Whirlpool salesman?
22 Trying to get a rise
out of
23 Gut
24 Deserved
26 ‘‘Don’t believe one word of that!’’
28 Visibly scornful
29 Reptile with a big
bite, informally
31 Surprise and delight
32 Slip up
33 One of the seven
in ‘‘Se7en’’
34 Agcy. that oversees
the Secret Service
35 One’s natural habitat
38 Sequin-covered undergarment popularized by Lady Gaga
41 Permitted
42 Place to rest your
head
46 Musician Parks or
Guthrie
47 ____ cit. (footnote
abbr.)
48 They’re just over two
feet
50 Lake on the MalawiMozambique border
51 Subatomic particle
52 Release, as a trailer
54 Campus military grp.
56 ‘‘Your’’ of yore
57 ‘‘Monday Night Football With Peyton & ____’’
58 ‘‘The results ____ ...’’
59 Japanese ‘‘yes’’
61 Showy flowers native
to Mexico
63 Thrills
65 Political org. with a quadrennial convention
66 Website with info
about the stars
68 Well, in both French
and Spanish
69 Get by
71 ‘‘Top Chef’’ judge
Simmons
73 Bother, with ‘‘at’’
75 Classic name in
wafers
78 One who doesn’t have
a prayer?
81 Producer of sketches,
in brief
82 Addis ____
84 When doubled, fake
laugh
85 ‘‘Yellowjackets’’
network, for short
86 Subscribe again
88 Fox-hunting shout
90 Where the proverbial
buck stops
91 Actress Hedren
93 Mississippi city in a
Neil Simon title
95 Marathoner’s wear
96 World capital near the
60th parallel
97 How a Broadway star
might break out
99 What a stiffed server
receives
100 Football rival of the Brigham Young Cougars
102 20-sided shape
104 Question of
introspection
105 Upper-left keyboard
key
106 Fertility-lab supply
109 Most mountainous
Caribbean nation
110 Cry of faux-surprise
112 French brothers
115 Reasons to wear
socks post-vacation
118 Resort offering that might include a lift ticket
120 Ones catching
waves?
121 ‘‘Impossible!’’
123 Poet Pound
124 Behind
125 One might improve a
pupil’s performance
126 Hurl with gusto, in
Gen Z slang
127 One of a recordsetting 3,234 for Sue Bird
128 Wraps up in fabric
129 Some old jets, for
short
DOWN
1 Pub orders
2 ‘‘Autumn Song’’ poet
3 Barbecue buffet
offering?
4 Princess Di or Prince,
once
5 In check
6 Sound from a den
7 Invent the sound of
a cash register?
8 Fall blooms
9 1982 Stevie Wonder hit
10 It’s never free of
charge 11 Home-services
website
12 Fully divests one’s
stake
13 Yao Ming, before
joining the N.B.A.?
14 Actress Taylor-Joy
15 Search (through)
16 Show again
17 Blender brand
20 Doozy
23 Detector of nonsense,
informally
25 Toymaker Rubik
27 Language that gave us ‘‘mulligatawny’’ and ‘‘patchouli’’
30 Peruvian road sign?
34 Spoke monotonously
36 English philosopher
William of ____
37 Go by air
38 Shirley Bassey and Agatha Christie, for two
39 Gloater’s words
40 Photo-editing option
41 Midback muscle
43 Reasons that South American furniture stores have superlong lines?
44 Org. concerned with plant-based wellbeing?
45 Methods
49 Nursery purchase
53 Historic quinoa
cultivators
55 Amount owed
58 Things like ‘‘What do we want?’’ ‘‘Headache relief!’’ ‘‘When do we want it?’’ ‘‘Now!’’?
60 Best-case
62 California congresswoman Barbara
64 Fawn’s mother
67 Affectionate squeeze of an infant’s bottom?
70 Language suffix 72 Altogether 74 Setting for many
Gauguin works
76 The ____ Honors (annual picture-book awards)
77 Black-and-white cookies 78 Italian wine region 79 Flimsy 80 Where you might get into hot water 83 Bubble tea 87 Things that kids are encouraged to break 89 Sass 90 Items exchanged when a relationship gets serious
92 Polynesian food
94 Access an account
98 Bit of soccer or
hockey equipment
101 Nickname for a muscly Disney protagonist
103 Plucked instrument
104 Start of a famous
Kennedy quote
106 Tennis’s Naomi
107 Roof toppers
108 The opposition
111 Yoga pose
112 Destinies
113 Everglades wader
114 What tickets may
afford
116 Comedian Lydic of
‘‘The Daily Show’’
117 Virtual replications,
for short
119 North or south end
122 One might be spotted
on a farm