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David W. Tuffs, of Pacific Grove, Calif., is a fourth-year linguistics student at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

In his spare time he writes for his school’s satirical newspaper, Fishrap Live! This is his third crossword for The Times and his first Sunday. Planning the theme involved “manually sifting through endless lists” of words — which sounds tedious, but he enjoyed doing it. — W.S.

ACROSS

1 Sexy one

10 Treat that’s

dangerous to fillings 15 It has cameras set up around the House 20 Home of the Hittite Empire

21 Novelist Zola

22 Word with box or

gloves

23 Unwavering

24 Bit of cinema décor 26 Latin verb that’s a letter off from 9-Down

27 Sagelike

28 Get ready for dinner 29 Man-eaters 30 Demeanor

32 Puts the pedal to the

metal

34 Outbursts of megalomania 39 Boglike

40 Educator Khan who founded Khan Academy

43 -esque

44 ‘‘Ugh, we have so

much to sort out’’ 47 You might come to one suddenly 50 Winston Churchill gesture

52 They’re out on their own 54 ‘‘Word on the street

is . . . ’’

55 Antiquated source of

light

58 Toy brand with colorful rods and gears

59 Partner of dark

60 Starts a course, with

‘‘off’’

61 Where you might see

scrolling credits? 64 Heidi of TV’s ‘‘Making

the Cut’’

66 The Arthur Ashe Courage Award and others

67 Spectators taking

potshots, collectively 70 Will Smith’s actor/

rapper son

73 Quickly join hands? 74 G or K

75 ‘‘Roll Tide!’’ school 79 Relishes

80 Eats

82 Feature of a healthy dog

84 Fjord, e.g.

85 Like Hathor, goddess of motherhood

89 Film character who shouts, ‘‘You are a toy!’’

90 Fish with a prehensile

tail

92 Primitive time 95 German article 96 Instagram hashtag accompanying a nostalgic photo 97 Two-fifths of a quarter 99 Birthplace of three major world religions

101 What an agoraphobe avoids

105 Uber offering

106 Group email greeting

108 Class

109 ‘‘That so?’’

111 It’s not light reading 115 Advances in a baby’s cognitive development 117 Demonology and such

119 Show vanity, in a way

120 Face-planted 121 Cocktail often made with Tennessee whiskey, ironically 122 Looks long and hard 123 Class

124 Not get tense

DOWN

1 March madness figure? 2 Animals in hibernación 3 Twitches

4 ‘‘Please, I’ll go with

you’’

5 Friend abroad

6 Home of many schools in the Big Ten Conference

7 Uses chrism on 8 Chuckles online 9 Language that’s a letter off from 26-Across

10 Tantalize

11 ‘‘… that’s ____’’ 12 When many

commutes begin 13 Converse

14 ‘‘____-haw!’’

15 Favorite dog breed of

Queen Elizabeth II 16 Where bats and

birdies are found 17 ____ the Frog

(internet meme)

18 God with a helmet 19 Rapper with the platinum albums ‘‘Street’s Disciple’’ and ‘‘God’s Son’’ 25 Skater Harding

31 The third of Chekhov’s

‘‘Three Sisters’’

32 Iota

33 Valuable deposits 34 Turning point 35 Actor/activist Davis 36 Stretch

37 Woman’s name that’s part of the body backward

38 Contacts quickly, in a way

41 Imitation

42 Fertile mixtures 45 Finished the golf hole 46 One might be cold

or dry

48 Scatterbrained

49 Shot, so to speak

51 Plot device, in brief ? 53 Rejoice (in)

56 Debt holdings

57 Bouts with pay-perview events, for short

59 Transition 62 Left-leaning

organizing grp.

63 Like pronounced muscles

65 Feeling described by

this: :|

67 Australia’s ‘‘City of

Light’’

68 Covers for campers 69 Spat

70 Former Fed chair

Yellen

71 Classroom with

cameras, for short 72 Executes perfectly 75 ‘‘That’s just awful!’’ 76 One end of a cell 77 ____ circus

78 To now

79 Beyoncé, to Solange,

informally

81 Tundra or savanna 83 Fabric in a flat cap 85 Leprechaun’s home 86 Idaho, with ‘‘the’’ 87 Nickname in ‘‘Star

Wars’’ 88 Country code for Holland in the Olympics

91 N.F.L. star ____ Beckham Jr. 93 Supermodel Lima 94 Like many a beta

release

98 Reaction reducer 100 Tackles

102 ‘‘I have other ____, sorry’’

103 Norse pantheon 104 Birthplace of Zeus 106 Female figure in the ‘‘Iliad’’

107 Name akin to Agnes 109 Many mainframes 110 Blind sight 112 Number between sette and nove 113 Some petting-zoo noises

114 Seaside bird

115 Dash fig.

116 Twitch user’s bane 118 Comic Penn