The New York Times Crossword

Tracy Gray is a retiree living in Hunt Valley, Md.

ACROSS

1 “We’re doing this!’’

6 Rear ends

14 Mensa prereq

20 Lightweight curtain fabric

21 Folded brunch fare

22 Tito who wrote “Oye Como

Va’’

23 Song performed three

times in “The Wiz’’

25 Give a kick, say

26 What “American Airlines’’

means in poker lingo

27 Marty Feldman’s role in

“Young Frankenstein’’

28 Cioppino ingredient

30 Crumbly coffeehouse

confection

31 Container for movie

popcorn

32 ____ Nation (annual music

festival)

33 One place to find a pair of

parrots

35 Backless stool

37 DFW stat

38 Riddle-me-_ _ _ _

39 Group with the 2009 hit “I

Gotta Feeling’’

41 Boldness

43 Apple variety whose name

sounds like part of a flower

45 Steph Curry and Lebron

James, e.g.

49 “Yes, cap’n!’’

51 Move quickly (through)

53 Pinnacle

54 Mérida mister

56 Layering garment

59 Number of Gospels in the

New Testament

61 Author Koontz

62 Big ____

63 Fitness enthusiast’s

mantra

66 Old Italian currency

67 The one who got away?

69 Japanese vegetable

70 Suffering memory loss

73 Nicholas II was the last one

74 Start of some cautionary

advice

79 Precheck org.

80 POTUS’S military title

81 Bird whose first letter is

silent

82 Baby ____

83 Low-lying wetland

85 Real looker

87 List-ending abbr.

89 Mean

91 Rubs the rite way?

93 Surfboard/kayak hybrid

96 Casey of classic radio

100 Take advantage of an

opportunity

102 Where the buck might

stop?

104 Alex and ____ (jewelry

brand) 105 2022 No. 1 hit for Taylor

Swift

108 Snoopy, to Charlie Brown

109 Actress Campbell of the

“Scream’’ films

110 N.Y.C. subway inits.

111 Former African country,

and its currency

112 Jewish rite for an 8-day-old

114 Weather the storm

115 Sow and hoe for dough, say

116 F-14 fighter jet

118 You love to see it

122 Fashion designer Pucci

123 Broke a national-park rule

124 Emoticon’s mouth, for

short

125 Apple-processing plant

126 Church parts vulnerable to

lightning

127 Hip spot for a drink?

DOWN

1 “No food for me, thanks’’

2 “Adorbs!’’

3 Angle-measuring

instrument

4 Ransom Eli ____

(pioneering automaker)

5 Opposite of paleo

6 What “the Hill’’ is a

metonym for

7 Recess retort

8 Paint brand

9 Fútbol cheer

10 “Come ____ the Sea’’

(Thomas Moore poem)

11 Daytona vehicle

12 List-ending abbr.

13 Calm

14 Computer addresses, for

short

15 Cheesy appetizer with

chips

16 Variety of tiny dog

17 Belgian Surrealist painter

James

18 Peach pit

19 Doctrinal belief

24 “The Good ____’’ (Emmywinning series)

29 Bread spread

32 “Still awake?’’

33 Olympian Raisman

34 Zodiac animal

36 “The View’’ co-host Joy

39 Emptier

40 Butter cutter

42 Amazon Prime vehicle

44 Early name in digital

recording

46 Unlikely donors to the

AARP

47 Kinda close

48 Largest of New York’s

Finger Lakes

50 Pennsylvania city that’s

home to Gannon University

52 Luau finger food

54 Word with jam or joint

55 Best animated feature

winner of 2021 57 Curved line between

musical notes

58 Hot cocktail

60 It owns the trademark for “The Greatest Snow on Earth’’

62 “You ____!’’

64 Streak on a cheek

65 ____ speak

68 Where to see the midnight

sun

71 Barbenheimer in the

summer of 2023, e.g.

72 Aaron Judge, e.g., in brief

75 Teeny-tiny

76 When a football may be

snapped

77 Walt Whitman, notably

78 Fail miserably

81 Preamble start

84 Nutritional fig.

86 Like love on Valentine’s

Day, it’s said

88 Bad spot to leave food

unattended

90 Laundry purchase in an

orange container

92 Belgrade resident 94 Service center?

95 Tympanostomy performer,

for short

97 Iraqi city on the Tigris

98 “Mains’’

99 Former TLC reality show set in a Florida tattoo parlor

101 Standards of behavior

103 O.T.C. part

105 Like the emblem on

Mexico’s flag

106 Two-time Australian Open

winner Osaka

107 Unlikely to make the first

move

109 Like some credit cards

113 “Really, though?’’

114 PC shortcut key

115 A little horse

117 Nursery item

119 It merged with Bell Atlantic

to become Verizon

120 With it, in old slang

121 Letters on some skin-care

products

Answers to last Sunday’s puzzle