STEP ON IT!
Laura Taylor Kinnel, of Newtown, Pa., teaches math and is the director of studies at a Friends boarding school near Philadelphia. This is her sixth crossword for The Times, most of them Sundays. Laura’s son and his fiancée asked her to construct a crossword for their outdoor wedding reception last June. The result was printed on a large foam board, and guests worked on it with dry erase markers. The completed puzzle now hangs in the newlyweds’ living room. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Letting up
8 35mm. options 12 Rotter
15 What a cafeteria
tray can be used as 19 Creative, as
thinking
20 Tug of war or
capture the flag
22 Le Pew of Looney
Tunes 23 Hypotenuse-finding
formula
25 Opposed to, in
dialect
26 Frost
27 Prefix with pronoun 28 ‘‘No ifs, ____ or
buts’’
29 Asia’s vanishing
____ Sea
30 Ethereal glows 32 Young Henry V, to
Falstaff
33 Eins + zwei 34 A-lister
36 Evening, informally 38 Pharmaceutical
pioneer Lilly 40 Having an impeccable reputation, say 43 One drinking soft drinks at a party, perhaps
48 ‘‘Le Bonheur de
Vivre’’ painter 49 ‘‘Dust Tracks ____ Road’’ (Zora Neale Hurston memoir) 50 Egg on 51 Implement at a
regatta
52 Doesn’t comply
with
53 A Kool-Aid flavor 56 Serve
58 Ham it up 59 Member of the fam 60 Eliot’s ‘‘____
Marner’’
61 Cause of class
struggle?
66 Boor
67 Symbol of Irish
heritage
69 Garnish on a
Moscow mule
70 Some young ladies
abroad: Abbr. 72 Things frequently
stolen
73 Pierre ou Marie 75 Auditioners’ goals 76 Like some lips 78 Common frequency
for college classes 80 Bum
84 Non reversal? 86 Langston Hughes
classic
87 Insta blurb 88 Invertebrate with a
floral eponym
89 ‘‘The Pink Panther’’
character
92 Having successfully made it, slangily
94 Top-level foreign
policy grp. 95 Avant-garde
96 ____ de leche 97 Internet star Majimbo known for her comedy videos 99 Prince, but not a
princess
101 ‘‘Go jump in a
lake!’’
105 Oil alternative, in
baking
106 Durable furniture
material
107 Texter’s transition 108 ____ Antipova (‘‘Doctor Zhivago’’ character)
109 Gallic greeting 110 Composer who studied under Joseph Haydn
115 Bit by a bit
116 Tournament
favorites
117 Group of tonal
languages
118 Day originally marked by a full moon in the early Roman calendar 119 Hunk
120 Like some forecasts and complexions
121 Wish otherwise
DOWN
1 Leader of the pack
2 Gulf Coast habitat 3 Fragrant oil 4 Resident of the most populous city in western Asia 5 Income source for some older folks, in brief
6 Do more than nudge 7 Day-____
8 ‘‘Mean’’ Joe Greene,
e.g.
9 Simple shelter 10 When doubled,
overly enthusiastic 11 Windshield
annoyance
12 Rapper with the 2018 No. 1 album ‘‘Invasion of Privacy’’ 13 Midwest college
town
14 Biden or Harris, for
short
15 One on a rack
16 ‘‘In witness whereof,’’ ‘‘as hereinbefore mentioned,’’ etc. 17 Disorder from which Dostoyevsky and many characters in his novels suffered
18 Cozy spot 21 Approach 24 Protein-mimicking
molecule 29 Compound at a nail
salon
31 Ink on a contract 32 Beats around the
bush . . . or bushes 33 Sublime soprano 35 Brings up, as a
subject
37 39+ weeks, for a
pregnancy
39 Mane character in
‘‘The Wizard of Oz’’? 41 Leaves out
42 Prefix with
constriction 43 Wedding-cake
supports
44 Charm
45 Didn’t participate 46 Big cheese’s place? 47 Physicist
Schrödinger 52 Like carbon
monoxide
54 James who sang ‘‘A Sunday Kind of Love’’
55 Like sumo wrestlers, medically speaking 57 Single-handedly 60 Adheres 62 Blackthorn fruit 63 Shiny top 64 Voting rights matriarch ____ Boynton Robinson 65 ‘‘Who, me?’’
response 68 Deceived, in a
way
71 Like one who’s
seen a ghost
72 In a few words 74 Hand warmer 75 Post-merger overhauls, informally
77 Digital digest with the motto ‘‘Cure ignorance’’ 78 Tastes 79 Something to
knock on 80 Remunerated 81 Made invalid 82 Prevaricate 83 Preceders of pis 85 Pres. Carter’s
alma mater 89 Post-merger
acquisitions? 90 Cloud nine feeling 91 Swirling storm 93 Essential
98 Many a Winter
Olympian
100 ____ goal
(soccer blunder) 102 Cousin of a crow 103 Childish retort 104 Painter Édouard often confused with painter Claude
106 Fancy Feast
flavor
107 Some boxers 109 Name found in
‘‘Variety’’
110 Setting for
simmering
111 Onetime auto make with the Metro and Prizm models
112 Stately shade
tree
113 Howe’er
114 Ball-and-socket
joint
Answers will be printed in next week’s crossword puzzle page.