NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Jeff Chen is a writer and professional crossword constructor in Seattle. He has written a daily online review of the New York Times puzzle at XWord Info since 2013 — and helped many other constructors get published for the first time. His wife, Jill Denny, is an avid puzzle person, too. To date they have co-constructed five crosswords for the paper. — W.S.

ACROSS

1 Conveniently forgets to

mention, maybe

6 Big name in investing 12 How many writers

work

18 Ran out of patience 19 Meghan ____, Grammy’s 2015 Best New Artist

21 Get warmed up

22 Word with water or

Electric

23 Meaningful work? 25 Rock bottom

26 Special ____

27 Like TV’s Niles Crane

and Monica Geller 28 Their existence is debatable

30 Conflict in 2017’s ‘‘Wonder Woman,’’ in brief

32 Source of Supergirl’s

powers

33 Clothing line

36 Ballet supporter, e.g. 41 N.A.A.C.P. ____ Awards

43 REI competitor

44 Shout of support 45 Gamelan instruments 46 Unflappable

51 Basic point

52 Main squeeze, in

modern lingo

53 Texas hold ’em pair

nicknamed ‘‘ducks’’ 54 ‘‘____ and Fugue in D Minor’’ (piece used in ‘‘Fantasia’’) 56 Lucifer 58 The ‘‘vice of narrow

souls,’’ per Balzac 59 Goddess who sprang from her father’s head

60 Bibliophile : books :: oenophile : ____

61 ‘‘Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism’’ author 62 Muck

63 Present without being present

66 Ship for 28-Across 69 Like a space cadet 70 Part of the body named after Dr. Ernst Gräfenberg 71 Accustomed (to) 73 On edibles, say

75 A shore thing

76 Posted one’s thoughts 77 Makes a comeback? 78 Souvenir for a Final Four team 79 Ingredient in many balms

81 Hones

82 Lock

83 Company with an iconic yellow Running Man logo 84 ‘‘The Lion King’’ trio 86 Receiver of private

instruction

87 Ritzy transports 94 Japanese prime

minister before Suga 95 Hosp. diagnostic 96 Where Gal Gadot was born: Abbr.

97 Instigate

98 Once

102 Not worth a ____

105 Pal of Buzz

Lightyear

106 You wouldn’t want them to have a crush on you

110 Director DeMille 111 Chuck E. Cheeses, in part

112 One way to go

113 Better than

114 Off course

115 One of the Magi, along with Melchior and Balthazar 116 Designated things for bikes and buses

DOWN

1 ‘‘Sick burn!’’

2 Peace Nobelist

Yousafzai

3 Cry of success

4 More orderly

5 Fuel for a camp stove 6 Houston A.L.er

7 Field’s yield

8 Macbeth trio

9 Golfer Michelle

10 Sight on an M. C.

Escher Möbius strip 11 Balkan region 12 Director Welles 13 Fastidious

14 Feng ____

15 As things might

happen

16 Something bottled in

Cannes 17 Price abbr.

20 GPS recommendation: Abbr.

21 Look over

24 Get a move on

29 Kenan Thompson is its longest-tenured member, for short 30 Reminiscence about an epic party 31 Ming-Na who starred as Mulan in 1998’s ‘‘Mulan’’

34 Played a Halloween

prank on

35 Pickle

37 Olympic gold-medal gymnast Korbut 38 Govt. agency that Jimmy Woo works for on ‘‘WandaVision’’ 39 Santiago of ‘‘Scandal’’ 40 Horse of a different

color

41 ‘‘Aha!’’

42 Sit shiva, e.g.

46 Male deer

47 Completely, after ‘‘in’’ 48 Diez menos dos

49 Most of Greenland 50 Like dim sum

52 One hitting the low

notes

53 Name that means

‘‘God is my judge’’ 55 Some Chevy S.U.V.s 57 Present, e.g.

58 She/____

60 Droll

61 Kid ____

64 Denouement 65 One who asks a lot of

questions

66 The munchies, e.g. 67 Step 2?

68 Nine to five, for example

69 Animal on Ontario’s coat of arms

72 ‘‘Not this again!’’ 73 Take out of the game 74 Law that led to a 1773

revolt

75 Actress Ward

76 Abacus piece 77 James who sang ‘‘At

Last’’

78 Nary a trace (of )

80 & 83 Puzzle solver’s starting point 84 Altitudes: Abbr. 85 It guards against UVB

88 Like the sun at dawn 89 Lite

90 Little blob

91 Critic of the Great

Society

92 Radicchio relative 93 Distinctive flairs 95 Real, in Rio

99 Disney villain voiced by Jeremy Irons 100 Bar mixer

101 The Cardinals, on scoreboards

102 Series that might feature a long-lost father-uncle

103 Only known animal to prey on great white sharks 104 Person calling tech support, say 106 Bleat

107 Some conjunctions 108 Summer worker, in brief ?

109 French possessive

DIAGONALS (in mixed

order) • Breakfast side dish • Compassionate • Nickname for Mars • Starts drinking • Truly magnificent