THIS AND THAT
David Tuffs, of Pacific Grove, Calif., is a master’s student in linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He’s writing a thesis on negative verb forms in Mixtec, an Indigenous language in Mexico. To find potential theme answers for this puzzle, he used Java and a database of English phrases, then worked to get the most elegant examples. This is David’s sixth puzzle and second Sunday for The Times. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Turn off
6 Make a trade
10 Emulate Rockin’ Robin, in a 1958 hit
13 Poke
18 “Go me!”
19 Somewhat,
musically
20 Hemingway’s home for over 20 years
21 Skatepark trick 22 One in charge of Brownies and cookies?/Easy to understand
25 Put away for
now
26 Drink with a
domed lid
27 More than just
compact
28 “Consequently
... ”
29 Feature of an
ungulate
30 Dance move used to teach children how to limit spreading germs while sneezing
31 Post-dryer
chore/Splendid 35 Game stoppers 37 Shawkat of “Arrested Development”
38 It’s a stretch
39 Steamed
Chinese bun
40 Apt name for a
horticulturist?
41 Wispy, as hair
43 Buzzer
44 Ring or belt,
essentially
45 One whom the bride and groom didn’t invite/Steal a meal
50 Now
52 Traveled on
horseback
53 Predators whose genus name translates to “of the kingdom of the dead”
54 Moonfish
56 Speaker of the catchphrase
“Did I do that?” on 1990s TV
57 Inoffensive
59 Deep cut?
61 Brit’s clothespin 62 Utopia/ Occasionally, poetically
66 With 72-Across, post-sledding mugful
69 Settles the
score
70 Potential result
of a strike
72 See 66-Across 75 Green isle
76 Plus
79 Akbar’s tomb
locale
80 Despises
82 German deli
meat/Discussion 85 One might be
raised on a farm 86 “Washboard”
features
88 M.L.B. player with over 600 career home runs, to fans
89 Mushy ____ (British side dish)
90 Poehler of
“Inside Out”
91 Palm product
92 Mexican capital 94 Some steel
beams
96 They might result in booby prizes/Physical discomforts
101 Sportsman of the Century, per Sports Illustrated 104 Stop running, in
a way
105 Words with
motion or stone 106 ____-do-well
107 “Don’t Matter”
singer, 2007
108 Arduous
journeys
109 Issue featuring celebrity issues/ Repeatedly
112 “Bloody” English
monarch
113 “Gotcha”
114 John known as the “Father of the National Parks”
115 More adorable 116 Fightin’ words 117 2012 Seth MacFarlane film with a 2015 sequel
118 Vocal nudge
119 Notification
DOWN 1 Unyielding
2 Feminist writer
Jong
3 Westminster
competitor
4 Popular French
periodical
5 Article in a
French periodical 6 Stolen goods
7 Like yarn and old
film
8 Intermission
follower, often
9 Party person,
informally
10 Siddhartha Gautama by another name
11 Like Nero Wolfe 12 One getting out
early
13 California’s ____ Tree National Park
14 Brown of the
Food Network
15 Donation center 16 Paris-based
carrier
17 Tiny prop
20 “Pleeease?”
23 Impatient
contraction
24 National birds of Germany, Egypt and Mexico
31 Stereotypical name for a female poodle
32 Grannies
33 Calculus
calculation
34 It might end on a
high note
36 Lent a hand
40 Sierra ____
41 TV monitor, in
brief?
42 Glass of “This
American Life” 43 Praise for a diva 44 Tedious sort
45 Lettuce, in many a low-carb recipe
46 Big jazz combo 47 It smooths the
way
48 Part of a goat or
Africa
49 Weapon with a
spring
51 Behind, in slang 55 Lee who wrote “Go Set a Watchman”
58 “Am I
understood?”
59 Grift
60 Assert
63 What gerunds
are formed from 64 Not just bad
65 “99 Luftballons”
singer
66 Three sheets to
the wind
67 Gumbo
vegetables
68 “Go, ____!”
69 Continue
71 Modern lead-in
to -ade
72 Coup group
73 Many a 21stcentury liberal
74 PT Cruisers,
e.g.
76 Ohio site of the first Quaker Oats factory
77 NorCal hub
78 Grassy surface 81 Go with the
wind, in a way
83 Where you hope to get a good deal
84 Spots to relax
87 “Fiddlesticks!”
91 Clicks “I agree,”
maybe
92 Where to let a
sleeping dog lie 93 Do some taxing
work online?
No. 0319
94 Start of many a
T-shirt slogan
95 Most of it is found underwater
97 Home of the world’s busiest train station
(3.5 million daily commuters)
98 Come to an end 99 River through
Pakistan
100 Many interstate
vehicles
102 No party person 103 Like noble gases 107 Blue: Sp.
108 “Am I
oversharing?” 110 Childish
nuisance
111 Major health legislation of 2010, in brief
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