NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
DOING A DOUBLE TAKE BY CHRISTINA IVERSON AND JEFF CHEN
Christina Iverson of Ames, Iowa, is a stay-at-home mom with an almost-2-yearold and a child on the way. She started solving puzzles only in the summer of 2018. She found it was an easily interrupted activity when her baby was constantly waking up in the evenings. Also, ‘‘Crosswords met my need for something more intellectually stimulating than reading ‘Goodnight Moon.’’’ Soon she made it a goal to have a puzzle published in The Times. Her collaborator, Jeff Chen, is a writer and professional crossword constructor in Seattle. They met through Jeff’s daily column on the website XWord Info. — W.S
ACROSS
1 Sandwich with an
apostrophe in its name 6 Last-minute eBay bidders 13 ____ Speaker
18 Family written about
by Margaret Mitchell 20 Laureate
21 California city whose name
translates to “the table” 22 Concise and to the point 23 Improvement
24 Desirous
25 Word with coin or ring 26 Enclosure for a slush
pile, for short
28 Salsa and guacamole 30 Foe of the Jedi
31 Boor
32 This puzzle’s subjects,
by another name 36 Beats by ____ (audio
brand)
37 For now
41 One of 24
42 Group running a celeb’s social media accounts, say
46 “My ____”
47 Fragrant item in a
fireplace
49 Doorway
50 What violence might
lead to
52 Political figure on whom Snowball is based in “Animal Farm” 54 Hitting close to home? 57 Pattern on a barber pole 61 Shade
62 Word before rip or slip 63 F.D.R.’s last veep 66 Boatload
67 Youngest animal in the
Hundred Acre Wood 68 Daily cable show that has covered Hollywood since 1991
71 Part of a parade float
on New Year’s Day 74 Send over the moon 76 Duties imposed
78 Airer of “Arrow”
and “iZombie”
79 Party notifications
sent with a click 81 Members of un monastère 82 “Well, golly!” 84 Maximally mannered 85 “None for me, thanks” 87 Brain, slangily
89 Cry just before the birthday guest arrives at a surprise party 92 Juniors, to their fathers 96 Tingling, in a way
100 Tousles, as hair
103 Muscat native
104 Bog growths
107 Bit of off-road
equipment
108 Where Orange County
is, in brief
109 Something with many
variables to consider 110 Chow down on, biblically 112 Judea and Sheba,
in the Bible
114 Warehouse stacks 118 Relating to theft
on the high seas 122 Some South Africans 127 French schoolteacher 128 Chord known as “the devil in music” on account of its unsettling sound 129 Title role played by Hilary Swank in a 2009 biopic
130 “Alas ...”
131 Good thing to find
on a boat
132 Agreeable response
to a parental order
DOWN
1 Can opener
2 Company that introduced
Etch A Sketch
3 Takes the plate in place of 4 World of Warcraft enemies 5 “Boo-____!”
6 “Quiet, you!” 7 Admonishment before
Christmas morning 8 Dutch banking giant 9 “____ supuesto!” (Spanish
“Of course!”) 10 Presidential time 11 Contributors to “the front
page of the internet” 12 Welcome, as a guest 13 ____ tai
14 Tsps. or tbsps.
15 George W. Bush’s nickname for himself, with “the”
16 Where to set
your butts down 17 Pandemonium
19 ____ admin
21 Retro-cool
music purchases 27 Producer of bills
29 When repeated, “Cheerio!” 33 The Jets, but not the
Giants
34 Lead-in to long
35 Drink with a straw 38 Hatcher of “Lois & Clark” 39 Lawman at the O.K. Corral 40 In the slightest
43 What amber comes from 44 Cleaning up the mess,
for short?
45 Texter’s “ciao”
47 Certain bean or horse 48 “____ run!”
51 Levels
53 Provocative poster 54 Keeper of the books? 55 One who fixes flats? 56 One of Chaucer’s pilgrims 58 Hot under the collar 59 Things students take 60 “Whither thou ____ …” 63 Mischievous titter 64 Erupt
65 Fortune 500 category,
informally
69 Most sinewy 70 Florist’s cutting 72 Weather phenomenon whose double lights were said to represent this puzzle’s subjects 73 Baseball double play, in slang … or a hint to understanding the 12 Across answers that have circles
74 Like a “mwa-ha-ha” laugh 75 Freedom
77 Abbr. on a keyboard key 80 Derrière
82 India’s smallest state 83 Orange Sesame
Street monster
86 It’s a start
88 Founder of the
Ottoman Empire 89 “That’s odd …”
90 Chits inits.
91 Wet firecracker, e.g. 93 Genre akin to goth 94 ____ fly
95 Finish of three U.S.
state names 97 Flash-drive port
98 The big eau
99 Org. that began welcoming girls in 2019
101 California’s ____
National Forest 102 Wiped
105 Seasoning in a
yellow-and-blue tin 106 Disgusting, quaintly 111 Picks, with “for”
113 Near impossibilities
on par-5 holes
114 Fig. watched by
some dieters
115 Bit in a feedbag
116 Some fraternity-row
letters
117 G.R.E. administrator 119 Coastal inlet
120 “The pond”: Abbr. 121 Here’s the kicker! 123 Marks out
124 Its seeds whirl
to the ground
125 Hit 2011 animated
movie
126 Pusher of green eggs
and ham