SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Dylan Schiff is a middle-school science teacher in Delaware whose extracurricular activities include cooking, bowling, watching game shows and editing Sporcle quizzes. This is his third crossword for The Times (and first Sunday). Dylan writes, “My students and fellow faculty members still can’t get over the fact that real-life people — let alone someone they know — design crosswords!” — W. S.

ACROSS

1 C.E.O.’s deg.

4 Perch for a mountain goat

8 Airplane seating area 13 45s and LPs 18 Middle-earth creature 19 First class

20 Singer whose second album, in 2011, topped the Billboard chart for a record 24 weeks

21 Hindu scripture on meditation

22 Derby, for one 24 Writer Zora ____ Hurston

25 Biblical name that means “one who struggles with God” 26 Last-minute bidder on eBay

27 Fish-and-chips fish 29 Wander around online 31 “Quit stalling!” 32 Clumsy sorts

34 Paris is found in it 35 Chicago neighborhood with a namesake zoo

37 It’s a lot, for some 39 Wild guess

42 Org. with a Click-N-Ship option 43 “Gently, now”

44 “____ for Tinhorns” (“Guys and Dolls” number)

46 Trattoria dessert 47 Comedian Margaret 48 AAA service

49 What you get as you grow older, it’s said 50 It ain’t just a river in Egypt!

51 Impatient agreement 53 Fork over 55 Membership category 57 Cask contents

58 Pip or pit

59 Ancient manuscripts discovered in the Qumran Caves

62 Give up, in wrestling 64 Like medium vis-à-vis well done, say

65 What a paper clip may indicate online as represented in 22-Across 71 Jonathan Van ____ of “Queer Eye”

74 Ways of doing things, in brief

75 Tilt

76 ____ of the world 77 Drink whose name derives from its country of origin

79 Medical attendants at boxing matches

81 Roger who wrote “Life Itself: A Memoir” 83 Darling

84 Hopper car contents 85 Subject of the 2003 book “Power Failure” 86 Italian fashion house 87 “____ the Roof” (1962 hit for the Drifters) 89 Staff symbol

90 Henry VI founded it in 1440

91 “Achoo!” inducer 92 Excel offering as represented in 29-Across 95 Entree often served with onions

97 Pitches in

99 Big name in magic 100 It may lead to a 404 error page as represented in 35-Across 103 Class speakers, for short

104 World’s largest peninsula

106 Ginger of old Hollywood

107 Relative of cream 109 Browser annoyances

as represented in 59-Across

111 Not inclined

112 Shiny balloon material 113 Tours with?

114 Broadway actress Phillipa

115 Like one-word commands

116 Hawks

117 House of ____-Coburg and Gotha 118 A little help around the holidays?

DOWN

1 Eponymous mineralogist Friedrich 2 Waves aggressively 3 Martial artist’s stance 4 Snapped out of it 5 Sound heard at the start of every MGM movie 6 Grammy winner DiFranco

7 Alternatives to tablets 8 Honesty

9 Beverage suffix 10 Antichrist figure, in Revelation

11 Bad treatment

12 When Romeo says he “saw true beauty” before seeing Juliet

13 Soup stock in Japanese cuisine

14 With good sense 15 Have one’s day in court 16 First Nations people 17 Preserve, in a way 21 Line on a spine 23 Hesiod’s “Theogony” and “Works and Days” 28 Neutrogena competitor

30 Match making? 32 Bother, with “at”

33 “All right, you win” 35 Titular love object on old TV

36 Czech composer Janácě k

38 Game over, so to speak 40 Even a little

41 Bucolic bundles 45 Food-safety agcy. 46 Tony-nominated actor Mann

48 Longtime host of Food Network’s “Chopped” 49 Unionized? 50 Something that’s hand-cut?

52 Object of a dubious sighting

53 Closes 54 Org. opposed to fur farming

56 “Winning ____ everything” 59 Preschoolers 60 Fencing option 61 Frozen-yogurt mix-in 63 French bread

65 Run the show 66 Organize, as a campaign

67 Ptolemy was one, famously

68 Listed below a recipient, maybe 69 Torment

70 TV personality often referring to himself in the third person

72 Diamond theft

73 Film megastar

77 Word with dollar or bank

78 Weight

80 Handles

82 React, but just barely 83 Amazon wrappers? 86 Basic knitting stitch 87 Major in astronomy? 88 Establishments for shampooing pooches 89 Like a low blow 91 Slow to catch on 93 Group on “the 11th day of Christmas” 94 Zhuzh (up) 96 Writer’s block? 98 Developed ability 100 Oktoberfest order, casually

101 Wander about 102 “Big Blue” machines 104 ____ predator 105 Since

108 “Wonder Woman” star Gadot

110 Fraternal twins come from different ones