NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
TO-DO LIST
BY LAURA TAYLOR KINNEL
Laura Taylor Kinnel, of Newtown, Pa., teaches math and is the director of studies at a Friends boarding school near Philadelphia. Since her last puzzle appeared in March, she has spent lots of time with colleagues developing best methods and new processes for remote learning. Laura remarks that she was sitting and conducting classes from home in the same spot where she normally makes crosswords! — W.S.
ACROSS
1 1/48 of a cup: Abbr.
4 Ad Council offerings,
for short
8 Home of the Kaaba 13 Spartan
17 ‘‘The Problem With ____’’
(2017 documentary) 18 Orator’s platform 19 ‘‘Never meet your
____’’ (maxim) 20 Less wild
21 Done working: Abbr. 22 About which you might always say, ‘‘Bee prepared’’? 23 They take the form of selfflying paper airplanes in the Harry Potter books 24 Topping for a
25-Across
25 Piece of cake, say 27 Improv-class exercises 29 Kids
30 Without aim
31 Mob
33 Fish whose males bear
the young
35 Evening gala 37 Note-taking spot? 38 Sustained period of
luck, as with dice 39 Litter critter 40 Floor-plan unit 42 Restless desire
46 What Franklin
famously asked for 49 Floor-plan spec 50 Blog-feed inits. 52 Debtor’s letters 53 Email holder 54 Something lent to a
friend
55 Set of skills, metaphorically 57 Father of Scout, in ‘‘To
Kill a Mockingbird’’ 59 Declare
61 Best-actor winner Malek 63 Normandy battle site 65 Wads
66 Last dance? 69 Managed an unmanageable group, figuratively 72 Wonder Woman accessory 73 Aware of
75 Playroom chest 76 Downwind
77 They’re worn on heads
with tails
79 Store
81 Was first
83 Ka ____ (southernmost
point on Hawaii) 84 Prefix with -graph 85 Run on
86 Singer Brickell 87 Believed something
without question 89 Commercial lead-in
to land
91 Elizabeth Warren vis-àvis former chief justice Earl Warren, e.g.
95 It’s frequently under fire 96 Prepare to bathe 98 Olivia Benson’s
division on TV: Abbr. 99 Conditional word 102 Expressively creative 104 First of the metalloids 106 Border
107 Flight recorder 108 ____ complex
111 A much greater
quantity
113 Lead-in to fit or active 114 ____ New Guinea 115 Foreword
117 Org. that kicked off again in 2020 after a 19-year hiatus 118 Studio behind ‘‘Platoon’’ and ‘‘Amadeus’’
119 Salary negotiator 120 Adversary
121 Embodiment of
slipperiness
122 Word before or after
short
123 One of the six simple
machines
124 State pair: Abbr. 125 Mrs., in Mexico
DOWN
1 Transportation for the
Doctor on ‘‘Doctor Who’’ 2 Small suit
3 Tries to make the
unappealing attractive 4 Eeyore-ish sentiment 5 Stocking stuffer 6 Donkey Kong, e.g. 7 Imbroglios
8 Play charades
9 Setting for a Sistine
Chapel painting 10 Results from
11 Near
12 ‘‘Methought I was enamour’d of an ____’’ : Titania 13 Brand of rum 14 Improper 15 Best-actress winner
Zellweger
16 Tiny fractions of joules 18 ‘‘____ Would Be King,’’ 2018 novel by Wayétu Moore 20 Attach, in a way 26 Stack topper
28 Iconic Chevy
29 ‘‘You nailed it!’’
32 ____ page
34 Spanish ‘‘now’’ 36 Olympic pentathlete’s
need
38 Well-being
40 Purse part
41 Flying Clouds and Royales 43 Be fully qualified . . . or a hint to this puzzle’s theme 44 Author of ‘‘The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure’’ 45 Czech reformer Jan 46 Coastal inlets
47 It might get a licking 48 Combination meant to
change behavior 51 Starter earring
56 Play piano, informally 58 Machu Picchu builder 60 Something frequently made with the eyes shut
62 X-ray alternative, maybe 64 Spanish treasure 67 Anthem starter 68 Businesses with a
portmanteau name 70 ‘‘It Ain’t Me Babe’’
songwriter 71 Percolate
74 Zip
77 No. in a directory 78 Wimbledon wear, perhaps 80 Chooses not to act 82 Academia figure
88 It follows the Hijri calendar 90 Protruding bit of bedrock 92 Form a new mental
picture of
93 Got away
94 Sharing word
97 Canon competitor 99 Leaves weaponless 100 One participating in a new Summer Olympics sport in 2021 101 Fashion designer
McCartney
102 Heads-up
103 Two to one, say 105 Time and again 107 Warner ____
109 Like the Liberty Bell in
1846, for the last time 110 Big name in British art 112 Hall-of-Fame catcher
Campanella
114 Print maker
116 Tulsa-to-Des Moines
dir.