The New York Times Crossword
Priyanka Sethy is a management consultant who splits her time between the Bay Area and New York City. Matthew Stock works for a math education nonprofit in East St. Louis, Ill. The theme idea here was Priyanka’s. They made the puzzle together via Zoom.
ACROSS
1 Ones with big heads around
the office?
6 With 27-Down, island nation
near Indonesia
10 What OPEC and NATO are
both in?
14 E, in Morse code
17 Inauguration Day activity 19 Five-times-a-day Islamic
prayer
20 Word with earth or muscle 21 Function whose output is
45° when applied to 1
22 German : Freundin ::
Spanish : _ _ _ _
23 Google search info
24 Some whiskeys
25 Piece of work
26 Premium membership
designation
28 End ____
30 Small row
32 Sashimi selection
33 Holds
36 Language of the 18thcentury poet Mir Taqi Mir 38 (0,0), in math
41 Put on an unhappy face
42 It lets you see the sites
46 Rice dish
47 Mess up
48 Hebrew name meaning
“ascent’’
49 Walks (on)
53 Talk, talk, talk
55 “How ____!’’
57 Contents of some banks
59 Hyphenated beverage
brand
60 Holders of multiple
passports
65 Transcript fig.
66 Give a hoot?
67 Values highly
68 Trouble
69 Soothe
71 [Ignore that edit]
72 Honey ____ (Special K
flavor)
74 First openly lesbian anchor to host a major prime-time news program
77 Pond fish
78 Not looking good at all
80 Follow closely
81 Goth relative
82 “What in the ... !’’
85 $$$ for old age
87 _ _ _ _ soap
88 Brutes
92 Ones fighting for change
97 Reindeer in “Frozen’’
99 Start of a rendezvous
request
100 2019 jukebox musical featuring the song “Proud Mary’’
101 Sun-kissed, say
102 Funny business?
104 Zip 106 “____ a Crime’’ (2016
Trevor Noah memoir)
108 Hempseed product
111 Property claim
113 One might be good or evil 117 Michael ___ of “Ugly
Betty’’
118 End of an era?
119 Bringing up the rear
121 Tops
122 Kind of syrup that’s an
alternative to honey
123 Homeland of many Paiute
and Shoshone
124 Grate expectations?
125 “Spy Kids’’ actress Hatcher 126 “So true!’’
127 One of two poles
DOWN
1 “May God bless and keep the ____ ... far away from us!’’ (“Fiddler on the Roof’’ line)
2 Bad way to go
3 Winans with 12 Grammys
4 Panko-breaded chicken
dish
5 Sp. title
6 Fence line?
7 A long time
8 Drops in water
9 Purchase for Wile E. Coyote 10 Sleeveless undergarment,
informally
11 Settled (on)
12 Event with a crowning
moment
13 Store
14 Pull out all the stops 15 Not sharp, perhaps
16 Thompson of “Sorry to
Bother You’’
18 Summer _ _ _ _
19 Soda cracker, by another
name
20 Choice words?
26 Pull in
27 See 6-Across
29 Microsoft’s answer to the
iPad
31 “I’m so sorry for you!’’
33 Trendy
34 Alex and ____ (jewelry
chain)
35 Mo. metropolis
37 Early development sites 39 Extended-wear manicure
options
40 Added bonus,
metaphorically
43 Aerie baby
44 Celia known as the “Queen
of Salsa’’
45 Words of admission
50 Stop _ _ _ _ (sign)
51 Muralist Rivera
52 Goof (around)
54 Kind of data distribution
with two peaks
56 Finish with
58 Tometi who co-founded
Black Lives Matter
60 Newsroom sights
61 “So are we!’’
62 Used Grubhub or
Postmates, say
63 ____ Ing-wen, first female
president of Taiwan 64 Alleged
66 Traditional attire for some
martial artists
70 Ornate tea vessel
73 Overdone
75 “Howdy!’’
76 Put in a seat, perhaps
79 Lakeside city that’s at one
end of I-79
83 Result of pulling the goalie 84 Jane of “9 to 5’’
86 “Don’t misbehave!’’
89 Q followers
90 Letter that rhymes with
three other letters
91 Phishing target, for short 93 Encroach
94 Human rights lawyer
Clooney
95 Like the Dalai Lama
96 Part of the joke
97 Gawps
98 Go away
102 Take a dive, perhaps
103 W.W. II threat
105 Ringing in the new day? 107 Katie of ESPN
109 Brown or blacken
110 “Duh!’’ in modern slang 112 [Nodding]
114 Japanese soup ingredient 115 Children’s author Blyton 116 Bird with a reduplicative
name
119 J.F.K. alternative
120 Dallas and Houston are in
it, in brief