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Laura Taylor Kinnel of Newtown, Pa., teaches math and is the director of studies at a Friends boarding school near Philadelph­ia. She has been solving crosswords since childhood but just started constructi­ng them a little over a year ago. A cousin who sol

- BY LAURA TAYLOR KINNEL / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Boasts

6 Longtime anthropomo­rphic aardvark on PBS 12 Australia’s national women’s basketball team 17 Sounds “everywhere,” in a children’s song 18 Gloomy

19 Soup server

20 Add insult to

injury

22 “Whenever I

want you, all I have to do” is this, in an Everly Brothers hit

23 Farming prefix

24 “Gracias a ____” 25 Jam producer

27 Jack Frost’s bite 29 Bits of terre in la

mer

30 Churns

32 Author Harper

33 He loved Lucy

34 Dry

35 Tea type

36 “A Life for the ____” (Mikhail Glinka opera)

38 1940s vice president who went on to become president

39 “In Praise of

Folly” writer

41 How to take glib

promises

44 Dog/dog

separator

45 Subject of many

a negotiatio­n

46 Days ____

47 Jeanne d’Arc,

e.g.: Abbr.

48 Enlivens

52 Big feller?

53 Fails to be

54 City on the

Brazos River

55 Propeller

blades? 57 ____ Crunch

59 Gobs

64 Item often numbered from 3 to9

65 Boardwalk buy 68 Gush

69 Time magazine’s

Person of the Century runnerup, 1999

71 Strain

72 ____ Westover,

author of the 2018 bestsellin­g memoir “Educated”

73 Big name in

theaters

74 Till compartmen­t 76 “Silent Spring”

subject, for short 78 Nothingbur­ger

80 Descartes’s

conclusion

83 Energy

84 Least interestin­g 86 It gets the ball

rolling

87 2002 Winter

Olympics locale 90 Looks through

94 Abdominal-pain

producer

95 Way of securing

payment

96 Fizzy drinks

98 Knitting stitch

99 “Holy ____!”

100 Word after

bargain or overhead

101 Emulated a

kitten

102 ____ expense

(free)

103 Org. with the slogan “Every child. One voice.”

104 Brand with the

slogan “The Art of Childhood” 107 What flies

usually become 109 Wimp

110 It’s held by a

winner 112 You, according to Jesus in Matthew 5:13 115 Follow

116 Reflexive

pronoun

117 Fishes

118 Moved like Jagr? 119 Shaded growths 120 Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish, to teenagers

DOWN

1 Orlando ____, two-time Gold Glove Award winner

2 Almost won

3 Martial artist’s

belt

4 Appurtenan­ce

for a T.S.A. agent 5 Many Dorothy

Parker pieces

6 Big 12 college

town

7 Column crosser

8 Brings (out)

9 Time of day

10 Sch. with 50+ alums who went on to become astronauts

11 Warning sign

12 Blast from the

past

13 Setting for a classic Georges Seurat painting, en français

14 Fruity quaff

15 South American

cowboys

16 Like Havarti or

Muenster

17 Reveille player

20 Jack up

21 Repeated part of

a pop song

26 Kind of wheel

28 Peak

31 Heroine of

Bizet’s “The

Pearl Fishers”

33 Cozy spot

35 Shows how it’s

done 36 Climate change,

notably

37 State

38 Refried bean

40 Astronaut Jemison of the space shuttle Endeavour

42 Reduction in

what one owes 43 Headaches

45 Nursery-rhyme

couple

48 Gulp

49 Prefix with medic

or military

50 Princess Diana,

for one

51 Negotiator with

G.M.

53 Suckling

56 Disco ____ (“The Simpsons” character)

58 Memorized

60 Exasperate

61 Fabric with

sheen

62 Actress ____

Rachel Wood

63 Potential source of a political scandal

66 Evasive

maneuver

67 Opposite of “to” 70 Behave like a

helicopter parent 75 Attendant of Desdemona in “Othello”

77 Lightly roast

79 Continenta­l abbr. 80 Clustered

81 Meted out

82 Best-actress Oscar winner between Streep and Field

84 Agent of change 85 Attention

seekers

88 Critical

89 Fictional exemplar of Christmas spirit 90 Stir-fried noodle

dish

No. 1225

91 Sews up

92 Senator Joni and

Dadaist Max

93 What water in a

bucket might do 97 Source of the line “Man does not live by bread alone”: Abbr.

100 Boxer, for

example

101 Handcuffs

104 This, for one

105 “____ be in

England”

106 Not so much

108 Post

111 “Tut-tut”

113 Argentina’s leading daily sports newspaper

114 Super ending

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