SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Nathan Hasegawa, of Oakland, Calif., is a junior at Harvey Mudd College majoring in mathematics. This is his second crossword for The Times. His first was in 2021, during his senior year in high school, when every student had to pursue a yearlong project and Nathan’s was to get a crossword published here. This followup, which has a multifaceted theme, was two years in the making (on and off). — W.S.

ACROSS

1 Toy on a racetrack 8 Soccer star who has won a record eight Ballon d’Or awards

13 Like “t,” “k” and “p,” in phonetics

20 What Hemingway claimed he did to the ending of “A Farewell to Arms” 39 times 21 Dartmouth and Penn, e.g.

22 Fled

23 Mnemonic start 24 Actor Leary 25 Flowerlike sea creature

26 Massive victory … or a high score in 113-Across? 29 Really enjoys oneself 31 Doofuses

34 Wetland

35 Objections

36 Be part of an uprising 37 Lowercase letter that resembles an “n”

39 Las Vegas resort with a music-inspired name 41 But

42 Resort amenity 45 Medical procedure, for short 46 Overabundance 47 Vodka drink, informally 49 Tremble 52 Contaminating trace 53 Chemical-solution strength

54 “Yeshiva boy” played by Barbra Streisand 55 Author who penned the line “Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart”

56 Climate issue addressed in the Montreal Protocol 58 Approach something with gusto

60 What’s the matter? 61 Sunder

62 Shapes of many carrot slices

64 Currency worth a little more than dollars 66 Spreadsheet command

67 Spot for a loft 68 Muesli bit

70 Make a pile, perhaps 72 Rentable transportation options 76 Fracas

78 Music’s Little ____ 83 Used TurboTax, say 84 Journalist’s accessory 86 Knuckle-headed act? 87 Biblical man who lost his birthright

88 2017 musical retelling of the stories of Henry VIII’s wives

89 Symbol for torque, in physics

91 Many a viral post 92 Point of no return? 95 Ace

98 Coast

101 Ellipsis element 104 Aviator’s maneuver in a crosswind landing 108 Proportional

109 “The Last Supper,” for one

111 Spot on an afternoon schedule? 112 Doofuses

113 Game represented visually in this puzzle 116 Talks like Tom Waits 117 Justice Kagan

118 Try for a seat in the Capitol

119 Fifth-century pope dubbed “the Great” 120 Constant nuisance 121 Like some postage and parking spaces 122 Fish whose juveniles can climb walls

DOWN

1 Many prom attendees: Abbr. 2 Niihau neckwear 3 Symbol of wisdom 4 Lock

5 Mountebank

6 “Nice work, little fella!” 7 Dreamy state

8 Skirts that go below the knee

9 Giant slalom at the Olympics, e.g.

10 Choir director’s command

11 Tremor

12 Put out

13 Make perfect, maybe 14 Frustrating highway driver

15 Short tennis session 16 Gregor ____, Franz Kafka character

17 ____ Jima

18 Small band transport 19 Image at the top of the pyramid on the back of a dollar bill

27 “____ la vista, baby!” 28 Insertion mark

29 Put on a pedestal, say 30 Jennifer of “The Morning Show”

32 “White Noise” author Don

33 What a shock! 34 11,111 vis-à-vis 123,454,321

38 Swear (to)

40 Tweak, say

42 Ejects forcefully 43 Primitive camera feature

44 Like a winner of a mountain marathon, in two senses

46 First name of Julius Caesar

48 Unrefined mined find 50 Finish line for the first stage of the first Tour de France

51 Giant name in Giants history 52 Cinemax competitor 57 It’s facedown on a poker table

58 Negroni spirit

59 [I’m SO mad!] 60 Cotton fabric often used in bandages 63 Hosp. areas 65 Gondola propeller 67 Honey

69 Verb sometimes abbreviated to its central letter

71 Prefix with tourist or hotel

72 Series finale 73 Counterfactual starters, in logic 74 Karachi-based carrier 75 Certain urban nightlife 76 Military hiding spot 77 Place that’s cramped and squalid

79 Something a presidential candidate often wins

80 Gray, say

81 Part of a hoop

82 It may be repeated after “fiddle” 84 Oregon-based athletic brand

85 Podium

88 Items in a hardware store bin

90 Acting as one 93 Capital in the Himalayas

94 Company originally known as Control Video Corp.

96 Shelley’s “____ to the

West Wind”

97 Converges on 98 Source of a sleeper hit, perhaps

99 ____ Holmes, Netflix character played by Millie Bobby Brown

100 Pitkin County ski town

101 Old Venetian money 102 Give a keynote, say 103 Performer with lions 105 Cotton fabric often used in hosiery

106 Urge

107 Some dinero

109 Part of a lion

110 Ear piece

114 Bottom line?

115 Container component