MAKING ARRANGEMENTS
Randolph Ross, of New York City, is a retired high school principal and math teacher. He is one of the longest-running active crossword contributors to The Times, having had well over 100 puzzles published during the past 30 years. He writes: “Staying in my apartment so much these days has increased my crossword solving and constructing. I feel fortunate I have an avocation that keeps my brain engaged.’’ — W.S.
ACROSS
1 8 Because ‘‘Pet’’ with of green ‘‘fur’’
grab 12 Illegal in football thing to
British 20 Handkerchief, slang in
21 Disney+ alternative
22 Turkey piece? 23 Sign at a chemical plant: ‘‘This facility is ____ — ____’’ (with 114-Across)
25 Lists of grievances
26 It ends in Nov. 27 ‘‘When pigs fly!’’ 28 Recess retort 30 Moody who wrote ‘‘Coming of Age in Mississippi’’
31 Question to an English teacher: ‘‘Why did Poe write his poem ‘____’?’’ Answer: ‘‘____?’’ (with 98-Across)
36 Ingredients in mulled wine
39 ‘‘Everything’s ready on my end’’ 40 Idiosyncrasy 41 Rodriguez who starred in ‘‘Jane the Virgin’’
42 Scheming sergeant of old TV
45 We can tell the boss’s assistant is a ____ because he always ____ (with 87-Across)
50 My weight increases when traveling because ____ during ____ (with 84-Across) 54
Scrabble threepointers
55 Indescribable religious ideal
56 Status for a library book
57 Ice pads? 60 Nick’s cousin 61 Dandy, on Downing Street 62 Advantage 63 List makers
64 Someone who is ____ years old now will be ____ in six years (with 68-Across)
68 See 64-Across
71 Small-truck maker 72 Agrees (with) 74 Way to go
75 To boot 76 Some cymbals 78 Unlikely candidates for loans
82 What might be broken by doing a flip?
83 Cover some ground
84 See 50-Across 87 See 45-Across
91 Light measurement 92 Scores 93 Prefix with puncture
94 Creator of the identity eiπ +1=0 96 ‘‘Dallas’’ family 98 See 31-Across 105 Music played on a sitar 106 Ollie’s foil, in old films 107 ____ Marbles (classical Greek sculptures) 108 Opposite of nord
111 Dictatorial leadership
114 See 23-Across
118 Hit (with) 119 One of Zoe’s best friends on ‘‘Sesame Street’’
120 Thistlelike plants
121 Some trolleys
122 Words said in passing
123 ‘‘But wait, there’s more!’’ e.g.
DOWN
1 Like some music collections 2 Courts 3 ‘‘____ it true ...?’’ 4 The puck stops here
5 Oddly, it’s not the biggest size at Starbucks
6 Broncobusters, e.g.
7 Pointed arch 8 Winning quality 9 QB’s cry 10 Suffix with percent
11 Open-book examinations? 12 Untruth
13 Bit of negativity? 14 Attendee of the Jellicle Ball, on Broadway
15 In-flight info, for short
16 Jackie Robinson, in his only year in the Negro Leagues 17 Dress with a flare 18 City south of Florence
19 Casey with a countdown
24 Read Across America org.
29 ‘‘____ So Unusual,’’ debut album by Cyndi Lauper 31 Opposite of après 32 Collaboratively written page
33 Popular videomaking software
34 Things proposed by the Greek philosopher Democritus 35 Business slumps 36 Sci-fi film f/x 37 Mythomaniac 38 ‘‘You can count ____’’
42 National park with Lake Louise
43 Sit out on a frozen lake, say
44 Old Ford 46 Board hire 47 Troubled
48 One tending to 49-Down
49 See 48-Down 51 ‘‘Get ____ here!’’ 52 Home to Paris 53 Breakfast fare from Kellogg’s
58 Valentine-candy word
59 Work 60 Absolutely, slangily
62 Best Buy buy 63 Dispatched 64 Kind of acid found in asparagus 65 Get-go 66 Howard Hughes property, once 67 Routing word 69 ‘‘The Gates of Hell’’ sculptor 70 Gambling game 71 ‘‘Toodles!’’ 73 Big Sur home to the human-potential movement
76 Blah 77 Promising words 78 Kapow!
79 Part of an escalator
80 Hot spot for a pot
81 Reason for a bad air day?
83 Org. with a pet cause?
85 Product of coagulation
86 Some toy dolls of the 1980s 88 Like the Devil 89 Puts in order 90 Arizona county or its seat
95 Laura of ‘‘Love Actually’’
96 Put in a good word?
97 Dressed like for Halloween
98 Spot to sample perfume
99 Poker Flat chronicler
100 Lead-in to phobia
101 Key
102 Second takes
103 Major street through Yale’s campus 104 Anxiety 108 Snick and ____
109 Sch. with the most N.C.A.A. men’s basketball championships (11)
110 Piece of dorm-room furniture
112 Elvis’s longtime label
113 Europe’s second-largest country in area, after Russia: Abbr. 115
Encouraging word 116 Doc bloc 117 Reptile seeninhieroglyphics