NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ANIMAL CROSSINGS BY BYRON AND HARRISON WALDEN
Byron Walden is a math and computer science professor at Santa Clara University. Harrison is his 8-year-old son, who, with occasional assistance, has been doing crosswords for more than a year. The jokes in this puzzle’s theme are a collaboration between the two. Byron spearheaded the fill — although the top right and lower left corners are completely Harrison’s. The two wrote the clues together. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Fancy water pitcher 7 Cranks (out)
13 Iranian president Rouhani 19 National park near Bar
Harbor 20 Shoulder-supported
launcher
22 Go against
23 Put in another light 24 What do you get when you cross 26-Across with a 5-Down?
26 A group of them may
be called a memory 28 Bestow
29 Not down so much? 30 Item that can be blown
or thrown 31 Coastal-environment simulator at an aquarium
34 Onesie protector 36 Some Instagram-feed
posts
37 Pool unit 38 Tokyo-to-Iwo Jima dir. 39 Iraqi currency 41 Symbols of watchfulness 46 Krispy ____
49 Musical tone below A 53 Rock climber’s tool 54 Neighbors of Saudis 56 ‘‘Cheese’’ products? 57 What do you get when you cross 63-Across with a 45-Down? 61 Jungian feminine side 62 Not natural, say 63 Coop group
64 Dazed and confused 66 Went (against) 68 Caper
69 London theater district 72 Flatbread often garnished with rosemary 77 Creatures that can have two sets of jaws and teeth 81 Kind of squash
82 What do you get when you cross 77-Across with a 40-Down? 85 Begin dozing 87 Dandelion look-alike 88 Congregate to rest 89 Fill with love
90 ____ Malfoy, Harry
Potter antagonist 91 Logs on to, say 94 Criticizes harshly 96 Tirana’s country: Abbr. 98 Cabinet inits. since 1980 99 Abe Lincoln’s youngest
son
102 ____ de los Muertos 103 Napoleonic symbol 106 ‘‘If all ____ fails . . . ’’ 110 Confess
112 Got to work
114 ‘‘____ in the Garden’’
(Robert Frost poem) 116 What do you get when you cross 114-Across with a 93-Down?
120 ____ 101, world’s tallest building before the Burj Khalifa
121 Sporty Chevy
122 Picked (up)
123 Shaping wood using
a curved blade 124 Get short with 125 Coldly determined 126 Direct
DOWN
1 Wasn’t indifferent 2 D.C.-to-Boston
transport 3 Nonvenomous, fastmoving snake
4 Get accustomed (to) 5 School group
6 Erode
7 ‘‘CSI’’ broadcaster 8 Spots on ships for
anchor cables 9 Weapon used by the
Terminator 10 CD-____
11 Aurelius, for Lucius
Aurelius Commodus 12 Burrowing lizard 13 Spicy appetizer 14 When National Beer Day
is celebrated: Abbr. 15 Tater
16 Gandhi of contemporary
Indian politics 17 Queried
18 They might take a few
swallows 21Along with 25 Geographical locale whose name means ‘‘waterless place’’ 27 Back of the neck 32 ‘‘For shame!’’
33 Make bubbly
35 Rice variety
37 Lex Luthor’s sister 39 Classroom assignment 40 What’s known for its
poker face?
41 Take in the newspaper 42 ____ Stix
43 Suffix with launder 44 Department stores
since 1901
45 Ika, at a sushi bar 47 Ireland, poetically 48 Some lapel
attachments
50 First letter of the
Arabic alphabet 51 Do, ____, fa . . .
52 Exam for collegebound
H.S. students 55 ‘‘Mad Men’’ channel 58 Pest-control brand founded by Lee Ratner (!) in the 1950 59 ____ Island
60 Sega mascot
65 Home to Natural Bridges National Monument 67 1,000%
68 Ghana’s capital 69 Lessen in power 70 Business class, for
short
71 Pop
72 ‘‘Never ____!’’
73 Prefix with -gon 74 M.R.I. alternative 75 Cactus bump
76 Org. with a classified
budget
78 Many stars have big
ones 79 ____-majesté 80 Concordes et al. 83 Some HDTVs
84 Father of the Amazons
in Greek myth 86 ‘‘Sorry, Charlie’’ 92 ‘‘Moonstruck’’ Oscar
winner
93 Smallest of the big
cats
95 Home to the Hana
Highway 97 Touchingly? 99 Soothing powders 100 Flighty?
101 Strongly held beliefs 103 Weather-forecast
figures
104 Inception
105 Hen
106 ‘‘My Fair Lady’’
protagonist
107 Fatty acid, e.g. 108 ‘‘____ evil’’
109 Endorse online 111 Striking sound 113 Big name in vitamins 115 Lessen in power 117 Singing syllable 118 16th letter
119 Palindromic
preposition