The New York Times Crossword Puzzle: What’s Shaking?

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 bestselling 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