FEELING POSSESSIVE
John Kugelman, of Gainesville, Va., is a software engineer and musician. This is his third crossword for The Times — all Sundays. Crossword construction and music “tickle all the same brain cells,” he says, as each is “half-creative and half-technical.” He adds: “Sundays are like the progressive rock of crosswords. I love 20-minute songs and I love 21x21 grids.”
ACROSS
1 “No ____, Bob”
5 Commuting
options
10 Thunderstruck
15 Lead-in to cure
or cab
19 Peace symbol
20 Absolutely
necessary
21 Snack brand with a hyphen in its name
22 Simoleons
23 Oil futures?
26 The Australiashaped “Pride of Australia,” for one
27 Pool side
28 Crest
29 Sack
31 Parent’s
exhortation
32 Real bind
33 People who might answer “What’s up?” with “The sky”
35 Castle moat?
39 ____ ScottHeron, writer of “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
40 Entitled guys?
41 Kind of rating
system in chess 42 Audio option
43 Slangy greeting 45 Sales prospects 48 Smoky tendrils 50 Shoves, to a
poker player
53 Ed of “Up”
54 Daredevil Knievel 55 Sugar and cocoa
content?
57 ____ the Orange (Syracuse mascot)
58 Scoop, so to
speak
60 Braces might fix
them
61 Auto company headquartered in Yokohama
63 Veg-O-Matic
maker
64 Over there
65 Humble home
67 Wavy dos
70 International
date line?
72 Bordeaux
besties
74 They prevent accidental scribbles
76 ____ room
79 ”Lights! Camera!
Action!”?
82 Biblical twin
83 Midas’s downfall 85 Reprimand to a
rubbernecker
86 Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible
87 Pale purple
88 N.B.A. analyst
Burke
89 Police alerts, for
short
91 What goes around the head at Diamond Head
92 Preposterous
94 The “en” in
“enby”
95 ”And ... cut!”?
98 Personal theory that isn’t in the source material 101 Fed. statute that took down the Gambino crime family
102 Mama’s boy
103 Not working, say 104 He literally jumped the shark on “Happy Days”
105 85 to 115,
typically
109 Skier Lindsey 110 Stock prices? 114 Monthly utility
bill: Abbr.
115 Rapper with seven posthumous albums
116 Persona
117 Quantum ____ 118 Utility figure
119 “Killers of the Flower Moon” tribe
120 Wears on
121 River swirl
DOWN
1 Some email
attachments
2 Beat handily
3 “I’m done
talking”
4 Called into
question
5 Binary
6 Homebodies?
7 Go after
8 Actual title of “The Piña Colada Song”
9 Drunken state
10 Comet
alternative
11 Come down
with
12 See 30-Down
13 Pours poorly
14 Pays (up)
15 Noodles and
floaties?
16 Chess move with
a French name 17 Render more youthful, as with C.G.I.
18 Sweden has more than 200,000 of them (of which only 1,000 are inhabited)
24 Sudden
contractions
25 God’s first word
on the first day 30 With 12-Down, world champion boxer who retired an undefeated
24-0
32 Put up with
33 Novelist Cather 34 Not authorized 35 Cut
36 Late-night host
John
37 Finish behind
38 Breed of cattle
39 Swinger’s attire 43 Hinged fastener 44 “The Empire of the ____” (H.G. Wells short story)
46 Lions or Tigers,
on a scoreboard 47 Theater sign
49 Leaf fossils?
51 Brand whose sales spiked after an appearance on “Stranger Things”
52 Portrayer of
Bob Newby on “Stranger Things”
55 Parade sight
56 Carriers of master keys, informally
59 ____ blue
62 Garden variety? 64 At 78, she became the oldest artist to have a No. 1 dance hit
66 Inits. on a
“Choice” label
68 Indian spice
mixture
69 Necessities for
retiring?
71 Org. with the tagline “No More Victims”
73 Something furry
on a fir
74 Practices mise
en place
75 “____ Q” (rockabilly classic)
76 James Bond
studio
77 Memorable time 78 Machine learning model that mimics the human brain
80 Company whose misconduct helped spawn the SarbanesOxley Act
(2002)
81 Muse with a lyre 84 Record label that famously turned down the Beatles
86 Supercell, e.g.,
for short
90 Europeans who speak a nonIndo-European language
No. 0331
93 Can’t not
95 Encouragement
at karaoke night 96 Skin condition
97 Turn on
98 What drones and anxious parents do
99 ____ Gay
100 Hub
101 Bacardi, por
ejemplo
104 Part of a clock 105 Playwright
William
106 Call for
107 Mortarboard
tosser
108 Catch a glimpse
of
111 Many an I.R.S.
employee
112 Witch
113 Coltrane’s
instrument