The Saratogian (Saratoga, NY)

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Peter Koetters is a pediatrici­an in Pasadena, Calif. This is his fifth crossword for The Times since 2012 and first Sunday. His interest in constructi­ng was piqued by the 2006 documentar­y ‘‘Wordplay,’’ in which he saw Merl Reagle go through the steps of c

- BY PETER KOETTERS / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

ACROSS

1 ____ Pérignon

4 Result of a sand save, in golf

7 Letter-shaped groove used in framing

12 Subway stop: Abbr.

15 Chicago Booth offering, in brief

18 Computer text standard

20 ‘‘If all goes well . . . ’’

21 Shook a leg

23 Traditiona­l Indonesian percussion orchestra

24 Baseball manager who once instructed his team to ‘‘pair up in threes’’

25 It may be a lot outside the city

26 180s

27 It helps you get the picture

30 Sportscast­er Hershiser

31 Annual Pebble Beach event

33 ‘‘That is hilarious!’’

34 Cite 35 Food-pyramid group

37 Orange-juice specificat­ion

39 Place for poissons

41 IV placers

42 Support staff: Abbr.

47 Hostile party

48 Blue ____ (symbol of Delaware)

51 ‘‘The Terrible’’ czar

53 Mirror 55 Sad response to ‘‘How was the game?’’

57 Feel discontent­ed

58 Having knobby bumps

59 Heretofore, poetically

60 Metal receptacle by a fireplace

61 College student’s earnings

62 Student’s do-over

63 Table scraps

65 Absinthe flavoring

66 1974 C.I.A. spoof

67 Brand name on a Go-Gurt box

70 Hovers menacingly

71 Like a tuxedo bib

75 Athlete Arthur

76 Alley ____

78 Leaves on the shelf ?

79 Sportage automaker 80 Language with

44 consonant symbols

81 ‘‘____ knows?’’

82 Back in the day

83 Suffix with east or west

84 Rubik with a cube

86 Fertility-clinic donations

87 Ohio home to Cedar Point, the ‘‘Roller Coaster Capital of the World’’

89 Airline to Oslo

90 Guys in commercial­s

92 Steering implement 93 Burdensome amount

95 Giant Mel 96 Shelley’s ‘‘____ Skylark’’

97 Leave one’s mark, in a way

99 Spot

100 One with two years to go, informally

102 270° from sur

105 Hide ____ hair

106 Prepare to skate 108 Soldier’s helmet, in old slang

110 Place to find a crook

111 Downhearte­d

113 After-school helper

115 Blanket

117 Lab dropper

118 Character with

character 119 Welcome policy at a bar

120 Bagel topper

121 Anthony of ‘‘In the Heights’’ and ‘‘Hamilton’’

122 Seventh heaven

DOWN

1 Unearthed

2 ____ personalit­y

3 Duplicatin­g machine

4 Primary person, informally

5 Primary person?

6 Acclaims

7 Bone attached to the patellar tendon

8 Unit of stamps 9 Poet Federico García ____

10 Talk show host nominated for an Academy Award

11 Whisper from Don Juan

12 Lacking

13 Sashimi choice

14 Verb in some tautologie­s

15 The ‘‘thing’’ in ‘‘Is this thing on?’’

16 Che Guevara wore one

17 ‘‘Easy on Me’’ singer

19 Activist Chavez

22 Director Walsh of old Hollywood

28 Bygone tape type

29 Seeming eternity

32 Italian dipping sauce

34 Netflix series starring the Fab Five

36 Legacy of 72-Down, seven of which appear among this puzzle’s answers and one more suggested by the black squares in the middle of the grid

38 Something that’s big with the current generation?

39 Actress Sorvino

40 Some nights of celebratio­n

42 Ethically indifferen­t

43 Tangential remarks

44 When the original Big Five ruled Hollywood

45 Magical objects

46 Union members

49 Those, in Spanish

50 Cereal-box abbr.

52 Designer Miller

53 Relative of Ltd.

54 Hosp. areas

56 Unleashes upon

64 Bygone tape dispenser

66 Failed device meant to communicat­e with the dead

67 Swerves at sea

68 Org. that sets worker exposure limits

69 Object in the classic painting ‘‘His Master’s Voice’’

72 With [circled letters reading clockwise], American icon born 2/11/1847

73 Common spot for a wasp nest

74 Primatolog­ist Fossey

77 You can trip on it in the desert

79 Didn’t stop

82 Sharer’s possessive

85 Late harvest mo.

88 Novelist Brown

91 Tilling tool

94 Without gender, in Latin

95 Egyptian god of death and rebirth

97 Barbershop sounds

98 Kind of bond

99 Seasonal inflatable

101 Chaos

103 Tastes

104 Board of a cosmetics company?

106 Bard’s instrument

107 Cougar 108 Hideki ____, W.W. II prime minister

109 P.I.s, e.g.

112 Gender abbr.

114 Cat’s pa

116 Turn bad

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