THIS AND THAT
David Tuffs, of Pacific Grove, Calif., is a master’s student in linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He’s writing a thesis on negative verb forms in Mixtec, an Indigenous language in Mexico. To find potential theme answers for this puzzle, he used Java and a database of English phrases, then worked to get the most elegant examples. This is David’s sixth puzzle and second Sunday for The Times. — W. S.
ACROSS
1 Turn off
6 Make a trade 10 Emulate Rockin’
Robin, in a 1958 hit 13 Poke
18 ‘‘Go me!’’ 19 Somewhat,
musically 20 Hemingway’s home
for over 20 years 21 Skatepark trick 22 One in charge of Brownies and cookies?/Easy to understand
25 Put away for now 26 Drink with a domed
lid
27 More than just
compact 28 ‘‘Consequently ... ’’ 29 Feature of an
ungulate
30 Dance move used to teach children how to limit spreading germs while sneezing 31 Post-dryer chore/
Splendid
35 Game stoppers 37 Shawkat of ‘‘Arrested Development’’
38 It’s a stretch 39 Steamed Chinese
bun
40 Apt name for a
horticulturist? 41 Wispy, as hair 43 Buzzer
44 Ring or belt,
essentially
45 One whom the bride and groom didn’t invite/Steal a meal
50 Now
52 Traveled on
horseback 53 Predators whose genus name translates to ‘‘of the kingdom of the dead’’
54 Moonfish
56 Speaker of the catchphrase ‘‘Did I do that?’’ on 1990s TV
57 Inoffensive
59 Deep cut?
61 Brit’s clothespin 62 Utopia/ Occasionally, poetically
66 With 72-Across, post-sledding mugful
69 Settles the score 70 Potential result of
a strike
72 See 66-Across 75 Green isle
76 Plus
79 Akbar’s tomb
locale
80 Despises
82 German deli meat/
Discussion
85 One might be
raised on a farm 86 ‘‘Washboard’’
features
88 M.L.B. player with over 600 career home runs, to fans 89 Mushy ____
(British side dish) 90 Poehler of ‘‘Inside
Out’’
91 Palm product 92 Mexican capital 94 Some steel beams 96 They might result in booby prizes/ Physical discomforts 101 Sportsman of the Century, per Sports Illustrated
104 Stop running, in
a way
105 Words with
motion or stone 106 ____-do-well 107 ‘‘Don’t Matter’’
singer, 2007
108 Arduous journeys 109 Issue featuring celebrity issues/ Repeatedly
112 ‘‘Bloody’’ English
monarch
113 ‘‘Gotcha’’
114 John known as the ‘‘Father of the National Parks’’ 115 More adorable 116 Fightin’ words
117 2012 Seth MacFarlane film with a 2015 sequel
118 Vocal nudge 119 Notification
DOWN
1 Unyielding
2 Feminist writer Jong 3 Westminster
competitor
4 Popular French
periodical
5 Article in a French
periodical
6 Stolen goods
7 Like yarn and old
film
8 Intermission
follower, often
9 Party person,
informally 10 Siddhartha Gautama by another name
11 Like Nero Wolfe 12 One getting out
early
13 California’s ____
Tree National Park 14 Brown of the Food
Network
15 Donation center 16 Paris-based carrier 17 Tiny prop 20 ‘‘Pleeease?’’ 23 Impatient
contraction 24 National birds of Germany, Egypt and Mexico 31 Stereotypical name
for a female poodle 32 Grannies 33 Calculus
calculation
34 It might end on a
high note
36 Lent a hand 40 Sierra ____
41 TV monitor, in
brief?
42 Glass of ‘‘This
American Life’’ 43 Praise for a diva 44 Tedious sort 45 Lettuce, in many a
low-carb recipe
46 Big jazz combo 47 It smooths the way 48 Part of a goat or
Africa
49 Weapon with a
spring
51 Behind, in slang 55 Lee who wrote ‘‘Go Set a Watchman’’
58 ‘‘Am I
understood?’’ 59 Grift
60 Assert
63 What gerunds are
formed from
64 Not just bad
65 ‘‘99 Luftballons’’
singer
66 Three sheets to
the wind
67 Gumbo
vegetables
68 ‘‘Go, ____!’’ 69 Continue 71 Modern lead-in
to -ade
72 Coup group 73 Many a
21st-century liberal 74 T Cruisers, e.g. 76 Ohio site of the first Quaker Oats factory
77 NorCal hub 78 Grassy surface 81 Go with the wind,
in a way
83 Where you hope
to get a good deal 84 Spots to relax 87 ‘‘Fiddlesticks!’’ 91 Clicks ‘‘I agree,’’
maybe
92 Where to let a
sleeping dog lie 93 Do some taxing
work online? 94 Start of many a
T-shirt slogan 95 Most of it is
found underwater 97 Home of the world’s busiest train station (3.5 million daily commuters) 98 Come to an end 99 River through
Pakistan
100 Many interstate
vehicles
102 No party person 103 Like noble gases 107 Blue: Sp.
108 ‘‘Am I
oversharing?’’ 110 Childish
nuisance
111 Major health legislation of 2010, in brief