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 crosswo
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 Hypotenusefinding 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 Proteinmimicking 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 Singlehandedly
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
No. 1218
100 ____ goal (soccer
blunder)
102 Cousin of a
vcrow
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
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