FILM ADAPTATIONS

Jeffrey Lease, of Granite Bay, Calif., designs printed circuit boards for cellphones at Google. He writes, ‘‘The process of designing a board and getting all the connections to fit is its own type of puzzle, so perhaps it’s not surprising that my job and hobby overlap.’’ Crosswords are his favorite puzzles to do, but he’s also a fan of Wordle and Connections. This is Jeff’s first crossword for The Times. Another has been accepted and he’s already working on a third. — W.S.

ACROSS

1 Flowers that Tiny Tim ‘‘tiptoed through’’ in a 1968 hit

7 High-altitude grazer 13 Jazz pianist ____

Jamal

18 With 23-Across, second film to win all five major Academy Awards (1975)

20 Disappear

unexpectedly

21 Like ships at

harbor

23 See 18-Across 25 Land united by

Theseus

26 Word before likely

or wanted

27 Labors away at 29 Districts in N.Y.C.

and London 33 Spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission

38 Long of Hollywood 39 Tolkien’s Treebeard, for example 40 ‘‘That’s my cue!’’ 41 Blockbuster sequel with an iconic plot twist (1980) 46 Ultimate medical

breakthrough 48 What an opener

precedes

49 A praying mantis has just one, found on its stomach(!) 50 Animated dinosaur film that spawned 13 sequels (1988) 52 Midwest

metropolis: Abbr. 53 Heavy bass?

56 Oil holder, maybe 57 ‘‘____ nothing’’ 58 Like many Instagram influencers 61 Rocket-shaped

candy

64 Yogi Bear wears one, despite having no shirt

65 Arles article

66 Boozehound 67 Romantic dramedy directed by Sofia Coppola (2003) 72 Certain chess piece 75 Livid state

76 Name that’s also a

state abbreviation 77 Iceberg and others 81 It might leave you

smooth ... or rattled 84 ‘‘OMG, enough

already!’’

86 ____ acid

87 Artfully nimble 88 ‘‘The Simpsons’’

grandpa

89 Coen brothers farce involving the C.I.A. (2008) 92 Verbally hesitate 94 Ones agreeing

silently

96 Started off gently 97 Crime thriller that takes some liberties with its namesake legal concept (1999) 101 Salacious

102 Down’s

counterpart: Abbr. 103 Driving aid

104 Nail-polish brand 105 Precursor to

Windows

106 Practiced

hypergamy

110 German title 113 Gets good and hot at the beach

114 With an unseen portion of 128-Across, Oscarwinning martial-arts film (2000)

123 Moved confidently 124 Caterpillars, e.g. 125 Prix fixe offering 126 ‘‘Dónde ____?’’

(‘‘Where are you?’’) 127 Home visits? 128 Deliberately

procrastinate

DOWN

1 Tyke

2 Granite State campus, in brief

3 Spike of cinema 4 ‘‘Portlandia’’ airer 5 Fruits that are 87%

water

6 Dry, like some Rioja

wine

7 Past

8 Part of 108-Down 9 Opposite of a rave 10 Leave gobsmacked 11 Subject of sticker

shock

12 Lead-in to cumulus 13 Tampa’s ____

Arena

14 Warm offering at a

sushi bar

15 Line of Android

smartphones 16 Semiautobio film set in rural Montana (1992)

17 Dressed, so to

speak

19 Cal. units

22 Pub diversion 24 Plains tribe

28 Put into effect 29 Enjoy a cuppa 30 Native Americans

of Nebraska

31 ‘‘You can believe

it!’’

32 At the ready 34 Send, as payment 35 Certain religious

leaders

36 Mayberry

character

37 Author Anaïs

41 Like many fourth

graders

42 Held

43 Actress Brosnahan of ‘‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’’ 44 Bounce back 45 ‘‘Must be

something ____’’ 47 Dietary measure 51 Much of a waiter’s

income, typically 54 H.S. class

55 Do something 58 Locale for an

orchestra

59 ‘‘Right away, boss!’’ 60 Digital location

markers

62 Some golf scores 63 Like many outstretched catches

64 They deal with a lot of baggage, for short 68 Entertainment at

many a wedding 69 Lucille Clifton’s ‘‘Homage to My Hips,’’ for one 70 ‘‘Put ____ on it!’’ 71 Book after

Leviticus

72 Early alphabet

trio

73 Paris’s ____ de

la Cité

74 Dark comedy about a carnivorous plant (1960, 1986) 78 Madrid or Barcelona, por ejemplo

79 Physicist Fermi 80 Bono and Liston 82 Part of a dance 83 Beyoncé’s ‘‘If I

Were ____’’

84 Univ. of Maryland

athletes

85 Longtime N.B.A.

executive ____ Ujiri 89 Classic cars 90 ‘‘The Hurt Locker’’

danger, for short 91 Horse’s vote? 93 Roald Dahl

heroine 95 ‘‘____-lish!’’ 97 Door parts 98 Cousin of euchre 99 Possessive preceding Pieces and Puffs 100 A.P.R. reducer,

potentially

105 Many shelter

pups

107 Uproar

108 Bruins’ home, in

brief

109 Idiot, in

Britspeak

111 I.C.U. workers 112 Pulitzer Prize winner for ‘‘A Death in the Family’’ 115 Poet’s planet 116 A.C.C. school 117 Garfield or

Sylvester

118 Garfield and

Sylvester

119 Global economic

org.

120 ‘‘Well, fancy

that!’’

121 WSW’s opposite 122 Boring routine

Answers will be printed in next week’s crossword puzzle page.