NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Robert Ryan of London is an economist for Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority. He grew up in Ireland, where he used to sit on his father’s knee and ‘‘help’’ him solve the cryptic crossword in the back of a television guide. He subscribed to The New York Times in 2020 for its election coverage and soon got hooked on the crossword, which he now does every day. This is Robert’s first puzzle for the paper. — W. S.

ACROSS

1 Texas terminus of I-35

7 Place for a plug

14 Sport coached by Ted

Lasso

20 Relative of a June bug 21 Animal farm facility

22 Shining intensely

23 Zone out?

25 Milton who designed

the ‘‘I NY’’ logo

26 Off

27 A handful

29 Channel for watching

N.C.A.A. games

30 Aid for a novice

guitarist

33 Fool, from the Yiddish 34 Beginner’s edition?

37 Home of Bahla Fort, a World Heritage Site

39 German article

40 Certain vaccine target 41 Big mouths

42 Fairy look-alike

44 God who lent his

name to a weekday 45 Bruce Wayne in the

Batman comics, e.g. 47 Seat at the dining

table?

50 Meds often come in

them, for short

51 Identifying statement 54 Real name that becomes a fake one by changing its first letter

Tranquil state of mind

56 Character at the

center of ‘‘Dunkirk’’? 57 Without holding back 58 Kicked out of school,

say

60 Atop

62 Beverage that can be served hinata-kan (‘‘sun-bathed’’)

63 Beauty that runs in

the family?

66 Family member

71 Brazilian currency

72 Price of ignorance, so

to speak

78 Like much baby food 79 U.S. agcy. originally set up to fund war expenses

80 Words of praise

81 ‘‘Psycho’’ mother

82 Search blindly (for)

83 Some significant

others, for short

84 Boys’ club?

87 Shape of a certain

bean

89 Expose

90 Bounded

91 Result of some

bargaining

93 Words to a pet at the

door

95 Dollop

97 Greasy garage job

98 Swindle by instant

messaging?

100 Reproductive cell

102 Something to aim for

on a golf course

103 Irish name meaning

‘‘lover of hounds’’ 104 Toronado or Cutlass,

informally

105 Pointed at, say

107 Tone deafness,

medically

109 Use a family crypt? 115 Like Halley’s comet

every 75 or so years 116 Not tell a soul

117 House floor

manager?

118 Formal

119 Adventure-seeking travelers, in old usage

120 Polynesian language

DOWN

1 Supposed influence on Pink Floyd’s ‘‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’’

2 One in the hand?

3 Knock

4 The ____ Tour (2023 Taylor Swift concert series that broke Ticketmaster)

5 ‘‘Pride and Prejudice’’

surname

6 Becomes unduly

prominent

7 Forty winks

8 When said three times, mantra for some accused

9 Completed collection 10 Conspicuous kissing,

e.g., for short

11 Like some casts

12 Orange and peach, for

example

13 Word has it!

14 Droop

15 One giving creepy

looks

16 Yearbook signers

17 World’s largest inland

body of water

18 Thus far, poetically

19 You might see them

now and again

24 Fortune 500 company whose logo is a blue infinity symbol

28 Wisconsin politico

Tony

30 Cornhole attempts

31 Lab vial

32 Long, narrow piece of

jewelry

34 ‘‘If u ask me . . . ’’

35 He can be found

above it

36 Particularly: Abbr.

38 Pester with little bites 43 ‘‘Rubbish!’’

44 Food container

46 Jazz great Al

48 Third-largest city of

Turkey

49 It comes after nine

but not after 10

50 Flowing tresses

52 Subject of D.C.’s Stone

of Hope memorial

53 Word before tooth or

candy

56 Chancellor who oversaw Germany’s reunification

57 Centers of attention

59 Gave a thumbs-up

60 Exploits

61 Organizer of a school

field day, for short

62 Extra-crisp,

informally

64 Goofs up

65 Sea change?

66 Dealership stat

67 The ‘‘Noster’’ in

‘‘Pater Noster’’ 68 Rhinoplasty target,

maybe

69 Some vintage photo

tints

70 Got started, with ‘‘off’’ 73 At some point

74 Come to

75 Cause to stumble

76 It divides and

multiplies

77 Friend of Buffy on ‘‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’’

79 ‘‘So to speak’’ 80 Shout heard in the

Plaza México

83 ____ box (lunch

option)

84 Long-handled

hammer

85 Affectedly creative

86 Pink Floyd’s lightrefracting prism, for one iconic example 88 Cancel

89 Reinforce

91 Predecessor of a USB

drive 92 Like a screw after being turned counterclockwise

94 Gilda of the original

‘‘S.N.L.’’ cast

95 Clay figures in Jewish

lore

96 Like the Toyota logo 99 People of western

New York

101 ‘‘Same’’

105 More than just a

sec? 106 One-named singer with the 1961 No. 1 hit ‘‘Runaround Sue’’ 108 Word with where and how, but not usually why

110 Org. established by

111-Down

111 Prez who established

the 110-Down

112 Initial shock?

113 Suns setting, for

short

114 Japanese honorific