LENGTH-ENING

ACROSS

1 Opportunities for singles

7 Marbled savory snack from

China

13 A boatload

17 ‘‘Keep Ya Head Up’’ rapper,

informally

20 Home of the W.N.B.A.’S

Wings

21 Talk and talk and talk and talk 22 On the deep

23 Poorly

24 Why the party’s about to get

less hip?

26 Maker of the Switch console 28 Cremation receptacles

29 Service that’s not good?

30 ‘‘The ____ Company’’ (Frans

Hals portrait)

32 Pie-crust ingredient

33 Army award attribute

35 Realtor’s exclamation about a

primary bathroom?

39 Actress Moriarty of ‘‘The

Boys’’

40 ‘‘My package arrived!’’

42 Landing info, in brief

43 Sorrowful sound

44 ‘‘Not gonna ____ .?.?. ’’

45 Other: Sp.

46 Structure on the continental

shelf

48 Take (down)

49 How Shamu acknowledged

the crowd’s appreciation?

52 Go from 60 to 0, say

54 Grp. regulating global

commerce

57 Got by just fine

58 Some N.F.L. linemen, in brief 60 Where someone might fiddle

with your dance moves?

62 Flat-topped military hat

64 Ocean State sch.

66 Takes the stage

69 Man’s name that spells a fruit

backward

70 ‘‘Prepare for a sword fight, Mckellen, Fleming and all other namesakes out there!’’? 75 Uncurbed enthusiasm

76 Injury from a fistfight

77 Byproduct of burning tobacco 78 Bread maker?

79 Casino do-overs

81 Like many lifeguards

83 Crews

86 Neurodegenerative disease,

for short

87 1990s fitness fad

90 Dish cooked to smooth

things over after a fight?

95 Cable channel with the

comedy/drama ‘‘Sistas’’ 96 TV that’s trash, e.g.

98 Pops

99 High point of a trip to

Europe?

100 The old you?

102 It’s full of hot air

103 One small bite

105 Word with bus or whistle 106 What students in a karate

class are often doing?

109 Spiny sea creatures

111 Flatbread made with atta 112 Charge for a tutor

113 Business-card abbr.

115 Hang ominously

116 Place for a lamp

118 Challenge for a court jester? 123 ‘‘That’s ____’’ (‘‘You may

proceed’’)

124 ____ film

125 North African stew, or the dish it’s cooked in

126 Intimidating in a cool way 127 Flavor enhancer, for short

128 Counterpart of -ful 129 Wears down

DOWN

1 Freeware annoyances

2 Where you might order

nopales or esquites

3 Less clear, as a memory

4 Support group with a hyphen

in its name

5 Ankle bones

6 About 5 o’clock, compasswise

7 Daly of ‘‘Cagney & Lacey’’

8 Singer-actress Kitt

9 ‘‘Yo te ____’’

10 The Tasmanian one has been

extinct since the 19th century 11 ‘‘Capisce?’’

12 Like wind power vis-à-vis

natural gas

13 Something a parent might tell

you to watch

14 God who was said to be in love with his sister while still in the womb(!)

15 Core position

16 Took a load off

17 Thing to bash at a bash

18 Buzz about space?

19 Thickheads

25 State symbol of

Massachusetts

27 ‘‘Middlemarch’’ novelist, 1871 31 Showing signs of life

33 Commanding position 34 Located, to a builder

36 Herman Melville’s second

novel

37 ‘‘That’s odd’’

38 Act unprofessionally?

41 Channel

45 How you might walk after

getting great news

47 ‘‘Hey, I had it first!’’

48 Comedian-actor Ken of ‘‘The

Hangover’’ films

50 Skewer

51 Pinkish-red shade

53 It moves one step at a time 54 ‘‘Ain’t I a ____?’’ (Sojourner

Truth speech)

55 Between, poetically

56 Lead-in to a sale price

59 Lacking emotional toughness 61 Remove from Zillow, say

62 Show submission, in a way 63 ‘‘Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat!’’

65 Still competing

67 Tour de France stage 68 Envelops

70 Pound who wrote ‘‘In a

Station of the Metro’’

71 C sharp equivalent

72 Slowly move (in)

73 Sends unwanted texts to,

maybe

74 Utterances of agreement

80 Totally loved

82 Present at birth

84 What’s so flippin’ easy to

cook with?

85 Dinner at which ‘‘Dayenu’’

is sung

88 Fried pastries popular in New

Orleans

89 Baby that rarely sleeps at

night

91 Kind of high-fat, low-carb diet 92 Unlike π

93 Business magnate who is a

Stanford University dropout 94 Actor Omar 95 Electronic toy with a blue

‘‘pull’’ handle

97 ‘‘On Juneteenth’’ author ____

Gordon-reed

100 Some beachwear

101 Show-off

102 Mournful peals

104 Play opener

105 Rhimes with an eponymous

production company

106 Pummel

107 Infuse (with)

108 Joy of TV

110 Sole connector?

114 Potato peeler targets

117 Patella neighbor, in brief

119 One may get in the way of a

collaboration

120 Purge (of)

121 Abbr. in a birth

announcement

122 Site used by NASA, in brief