DOUBLE-DOUBLES
Will Nediger, of London, Ontario, is a professional crossword constructor. This is his 46th puzzle for The Times. A typical Sunday crossword has 140 answers, but this one has only 136, affording some longer ‘‘fill’’ outside the theme. Occasionally, as here, constructors include things personal to them in their grids. Will writes, ‘‘As a parent of two young kids, 49-Down next to 50-Down really resonates with me.’’ — W. S.
ACROSS
1 British dandy 5 Dennis the Menace
types
10 Really grand
14 The ‘‘A’’ in STEAM,
for educators 18 Maker of the Aspire
laptop
19 Pain-relief brand 20 Recordings for oral
historians
22 Bound 23 Slow-driving holiday parade in December?
26 ‘‘Huh, didn’t expect to run into you here!’’
27 Musical piece like
Smetana’s ‘‘Vltava’’ 28 Club collections 29 Movie genre ... or a
shout on a movie set 31 Onetime Yves Saint
Laurent employer 32 Make
33 Words at a pity
party
34 Arrange by
category
37 Update Wikipedia after the 2012 election?
41 Yiddish for
‘‘pancake’’ 42 Enthralled
43 Like some landscape photography 44 Assert confidently 45 Banned, in a way 47 Brand of ‘‘oldfashioned’’ root beer 48 Delicate bit of hair 52 Subject of study for an insect psychologist? 55 ‘‘Don’t love it, don’t
hate it’’
56 Against 57 Communication method that may be written with Stokoe notation, in brief 58 Investigative
journalist Farrow 59 Heroes that don’t
wear capes 61 Trademarked
refrigerant
62 Kind of gel 64 Condiment drizzled
on a taco
66 Shot followers 68 Drumroll followers 69 Blacken
70 Pale purple
72 Holi powder 73 Some announcements interrupting in-flight movies, for short 74 Intelligence grp. featured on ‘‘Quantico’’ 76 Promise from actor Damon’s friends regarding his movie premiere?
79 ‘‘To Sontag, to Sondheim, to anything taboo’’ musical
80 Ceramic stewpot 82 Philosophy influenced by the ‘‘I Ching’’
83 Eager assistant’s
declaration
84 ‘‘It is what it is,’’
e.g.
86 Corn ____ 87 Art-shop purchase 88 Words accompanying an offering to the ruler of the donkeys? 93 Partner worth holding on to
94 Open
acknowledgment 95 Uncreatively draws
from
96 Busy locale in
December
97 Leah who wrote ‘‘Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology’’ 98 Ivan the Great, for
one
99 Some holiday-tree
decorations
103 Home of the poet
Forugh Farrokhzad 104 Arrive too late to see a hotel being built?
108 Number of worlds
in Norse myth
109 Thought spot
110 Russian pancakes 111 Disney’s Queen of
Arendelle
112 Pontiac muscle
cars
113 ‘‘The Crown ____ Worth Much’’ (Hanif Abdurraqib collection)
114 One who questions people’s motives
115 Collect from the
fields
DOWN
1 Arbitrator’s asset 2 Eight, in Spanish 3 Plant with no flowers or seeds
4 Southern dish often made with buttermilk and cornmeal
5 Tuchus
6 Film composer
Bernstein
7 Ore locale 8 Electronics-aisle
array
9 Jiffy
10 Ancient Italian
region
11 Dealt with minor
issues?
12 Some businessnews topics, for short
13 What’s still in
cartoons?
14 Many
15 Bring back on
board
16 Mount Rainier’s
____ Glacier
17 Small piano
21 Done hurriedly and
carelessly 24 Skyscraper feature 25 First of all 30 Screenwriter/
actress Michaela 32 Moved cautiously 34 Soft white mineral 35 Snapshot of a
gamer’s progress 36 Duo inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 37 Aggravation 38 Grab a midday meal with someone 39 Trolleys
40 Heads or tails 42 Getting rid of 45 Berkshire school
since 1440 46 Western settlement area led by Brigham Young
48 Major conflicts 49 Tired expression? 50 When to read
aloud to kids 51 Bowling-alley
device 53 Swimming/ cycling/running competitions, informally 54 Zero-____ game 60 Grow to a huge
size
61 Part of a clock 63 Booby-prize
winner’s place 65 Unflinchingly
candid
66 Within a point or two, as scores 67 Two-time Olympic gold medalist in soccer
69 Flagella relatives 71 Medium for a
birthday message 74 Body part that a dog uses to shake, e.g.
75 77-Down’s color 77 75-Down
gemstone
78 ‘‘To be continued
. . . ’’
81 Charlotte Corday,
to Jean-Paul Marat 84 Word after better
or worse
85 Simple graphics
editor, informally 87 Guy
88 Getting along 89 No longer
obsessed 90 Italian-style
cheese
91 Strong strings 92 Adjust the spacing between, in typography 93 Like a deserved
comeuppance 96 Soprano Nixon 98 Director Mingliang
99 Pass the
threshold
100 Memphis’s river 101 Pancake served
with sambar 102 Onesie closure 105 Plan for the
future, in brief? 106 ‘‘America’s Got
Talent’’ network 107 Do the Wright
thing?