NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Laura Taylor Kinnel, of Newtown, Pa., teaches math and is the director of studies at a Friends boarding school near Philadelphia. This is her sixth crossword for The Times, most of them Sundays. Laura’s son and his fiancée asked her to construct a crossword for their outdoor wedding reception last June. The result was printed on a large foam board, and guests worked on it with dry erase markers. The completed puzzle now hangs in the newlyweds’ living room. — W.S.

ACROSS

1 Letting up

8 35mm. options

12 Rotter

15 What a cafeteria tray can be used as

19 Creative, as thinking

20 Tug of war or capture the flag

22 Le Pew of Looney Tunes

23 Hypotenuse-finding formula

25 Opposed to, in dialect

26 Frost

27 Prefix with pronoun

28 ‘‘No ifs, ____ or buts’’

29 Asia’s vanishing ____ Sea

30 Ethereal glows

32 Young Henry V, to Falstaff

33 Eins + zwei

34 A-lister

36 Evening, informally

38 Pharmaceutical pioneer Lilly

40 Having an impeccable reputation, say

43 One drinking soft drinks at a party, perhaps

48 ‘‘Le Bonheur de Vivre’’ painter

49 ‘‘Dust Tracks ____ Road’’ (Zora Neale Hurston memoir)

50 Egg on

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51 Implement at a

regatta 52 Doesn’t comply with 53 A Kool-Aid flavor

56 Serve

58 Ham it up 59 Member of the fam

60 Eliot’s ‘‘____ Marner’’ 61 Cause of class

struggle?

66 Boor

67 Symbol of Irish

heritage 69 Garnish on a Moscow

mule

70 Some young ladies

abroad: Abbr. 72 Things frequently

stolen

73 Pierre ou Marie 75 Auditioners’ goals

76 Like some lips 78 Common frequency

for college classes 80 Bum

84 Non reversal? 86 Langston Hughes

classic

87 Insta blurb 88 Invertebrate with a

floral eponym

89 ‘‘The Pink Panther’’ character

92 Having successfully made it, slangily

94 Top-level foreign policy grp.

95 Avant-garde

96 ____ de leche

97 Internet star Majimbo known for her comedy videos

99 Prince, but not a princess

101 ‘‘Go jump in a lake!’’

105 Oil alternative, in baking

106 Durable furniture material

107 Texter’s transition

108 ____ Antipova (‘‘Doctor Zhivago’’ character)

109 Gallic greeting

110 Composer who studied under Joseph Haydn

115 Bit by a bit

116 Tournament favorites

117 Group of tonal languages

118 Day originally marked by a full moon in the early Roman calendar

119 Hunk

120 Like some forecasts and complexions

121 Wish otherwise

DOWN

1 Leader of the pack

2 Gulf Coast habitat

3 Fragrant oil

4 Resident of the most populous city in western Asia

5 Income source for some older folks, in brief

6 Do more than nudge

7 Day-____

8 ‘‘Mean’’ Joe Greene, e.g.

9 Simple shelter

10 When doubled, overly enthusiastic

11 Windshield annoyance

12 Rapper with the

2018 No. 1 album ‘‘Invasion of Privacy’’

14 13 Midwest Biden or Harris, college for town short

15 One on a rack

16 ‘‘In witness whereof,’’ ‘‘as hereinbefore

mentioned,’’ etc.

17 Disorder from which Dostoyevsky and

many characters in his novels suffered

18 Cozy spot

21 Approach

24 Protein-mimicking molecule

29 Compound at a nail salon

31 Ink on a contract

32 Beats around the bush . . . or bushes

33 Sublime soprano

35 Brings up, as a subject

37 39+ weeks, for a pregnancy

39 Mane character in ‘‘The Wizard of Oz’’? 41 Leaves out 42 Prefix with

constriction 43 Wedding-cake

supports 44 Charm 45 Didn’t participate

46 Big cheese’s place? 47 Physicist Schrödinger 52 Like carbon monoxide 54 James who sang ‘‘A Sunday Kind of

Love’’ 55 57 60 Single-handedly Like Adheres medically sumo wrestlers, speaking 62 63 Blackthorn Shiny top fruit 64 Voting rights matriarch ____ Boynton Robinson 65 ‘‘Who, me?’’ response 68 Deceived, in a way 71 Like one who’s seen a ghost 72 In a few words

74 Hand warmer

75 Post-merger overhauls, informally

77 Digital digest with the motto ‘‘Cure ignorance’’

78 Tastes

79 Something to knock on

80 Remunerated

81 Made invalid

82 Prevaricate

83 Preceders of pis

85 Pres. Carter’s alma mater

89 Post-merger acquisitions?

90 Cloud nine feeling

91 Swirling storm

93 Essential

98 Many a Winter Olympian

100 ____ goal (soccer blunder)

102 Cousin of a crow

103 Childish retort

104 Painter Édouard often confused with painter Claude

106 Fancy Feast flavor

107 Some boxers

109 Name found in ‘‘Variety’’

110 Setting for simmering

111 Onetime auto make with the Metro and Prizm models

112 Stately shade tree

113 Howe’er

114 Ball-and-socket joint