New York Times Crossword Puzzle

No. 1225

WHAT’S SHAKING?

By Laura Taylor Kinnel Edited by Will Shortz

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 to 9 65 Boardwalk buy

68 Gush

69 Time magazine’s Person of the Century runner-up, 1999 71 Strain

72 ____ Westover, author of the 2018 best-selling 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 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