New York Times Crossword
SPECIAL TREATMENT
Katie Hale, of London, is a freelance crossword editor. Her co-constructor, Scott Hogan, is a patent attorney from Midland, Mich. This is their second Sunday collaboration for The Times. This puzzle’s genesis is owed to Scott’s wife, Edith, a podiatrist who came home one day with the joke you see at 120-Across.
ACROSS
1 Favors
5 Slathered in sauce, in restaurant-speak 8 Letters on security camera footage
12 Big flings
18 “Pet” you wouldn’t take to the vet
19 Cosecant’s
reciprocal
20 Cookie with its
name on it
21 One of four on a
diamond
22 I visited the cardiologist, who ...
25 Bull-headed?
26 Club assistant
27 Apt letters that complete this word: P__RPO__ __
28 Nailed
30 Partner of Hoda
on “Today”
31 I visited the dermatologist, who ...
35 “The greatest as well as the most elegant of Roman philosophers,” per Voltaire
38 Rob in Hollywood 39 Fashion something fashionable, maybe
40 Uninspired
41 Revealing word 45 Like a moneyback guarantee 47 I visited a dentist
and now I ...
51 Otis of elevator
fame
55 Set forth
56 Prattle
57 Sorry ass?
61 Equivalent of
32,000 ounces
62 Pinches
64 Scenario before a two-run home run, say
65 Lived (in)
67 Alternative to foil
or saber
69 I visited the anesthesiologist and now I’ve ... 73 Bitter brews
74 Gets in shape? 76 Home of the 123-story Lotte World Tower
77 Natural decorations on some bookshelves
79 Pique
80 Hunt
82 Lovelace of early computer programming
84 California wine
valley
87 One with a
landlord
89 I visited a sleep specialist, who ...
92 Double-wide, as
a garage
96 Professional who
works a lot
97 Skin
98 Soul seller
100 Change positions, as in volleyball
102 Takes the blame
for
105 I visited the radiologist, who ...
110 Rude ... or, without its first two letters, rude person
111 ____ beer (nonalcoholic beverage)
112 MSNBC
competitor
113 Slowly cook, in a
way
118 Prenatal tests, in
brief
120 I visited the podiatrist and now I ...
123 Call
124 Filled, folded
food
125 Female French
friend
126 O, in hangman 127 Meager
128 Part of most
musical notes
129 Cribbage marker 130 Mathematician
Noether
DOWN
1 Rock band with a slash (but not Slash)
2 Like much of
Iran
3 Sue Monk ____, author of “The Secret Life of Bees”
4 Castle material,
maybe
5 GameCube
successor
6 Result
7 Actress Thompson of “Creed”
8 It’s totally corny
9 Step in origami
10 Educational
forum
11 Gave a thumbsdown
12 “Whaddya
mean?”
13 Kind of
keyboard
14 Setting for some post-run refreshments?
15 ____ Barbarino, John Travolta’s role on “Welcome Back, Kotter”
16 Heretofore
17 Car that Brits call
a “saloon”
19 Mascara
mishap
23 Proctor’s
pronouncement 24 ____ Lingus
29 The “Do” in “DoRe-Mi”
32 Went under
33 Asia’s disappearing
____ Sea
34 Old yeller?
35 Bamboozles
36 Having two equal
sides
37 Behaved like the
lion in Oz
40 Caribbean
musical genre
42 Long quest
43 Roth ____
44 It’s involved in kissing and telling
46 Wheelless
vehicle
48 Hint to the number of ingredients in Triscuits
49 Web-page code 50 Allowed to be
borrowed
52 Puts the pedal to
the metal
53 Spanish
salutation
54 They might come out of the woodwork
58 U.S. fair-hiring
inits.
59 “We doin’ this?” 60 Eleven, in El
Salvador
63 It might be a
stretch
64 Olive ____ of
“Popeye”
66 Pack of dogs?
67 Man’s name that becomes a distance if you move the first letter to the end 68 Sponge feature
70 Ridiculously
71 Bean variety
72 Have over
75 Erupt
78 [Forehead palm
smack]
81 Corp. shuffle
82 ____ Max, singer of the 2018 hit “Sweet but Psycho”
83 Neighbor of Md. 85 Non-stereo
86 Button on social
media
88 Leo, for one
90 Swear
91 Do some
engraving
93 “SportsCenter”
anchor Linda
94 Swears
95 Knocking
onomatopoeia
98 Like a comeuppance, perhaps
99 “Lemme, lemme!”
101 Ancient Greek area north of Thessaly
103 Color-blending
technique
104 Title for a French
priest
105 Lasting bad memories, so to speak
106 Got tagged
107 Anxiety condition,
for short
108 Open, as a
toothpaste tube 109 Garden statuette 114 Long
115 Express-lane
unit
116 Quilter’s line
117 Current event? 119 ____ vs. ____
(Mad strip)
121 Paul ou Paulette 122 Fix Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes. com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).