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Laura Taylor Kinnel of Newtown, Pa., teaches math and is the director of studies at a Friends boarding school near Philadelphia. She has been solving crosswords since childhood but just started constructing them a little over a year ago. A cousin who solved a 2018 Christmas puzzle of Laura’s encouraged her to make more. She was pleasantly surprised to discover all the help available online to new puzzle makers. This is her second Times crossword, both Sundays. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Boasts 6 Longtime anthropomorphic aardvark on PBS 12 Australia’s national women’s basketball team
17 Sounds “everywhere,”
in a children’s song 18 Gloomy
19 Soup server
20 Add insult to injury 22 “Whenever I want you, all I have to do” is this, in an Everly Brothers hit 23 Farming prefix 24 “Gracias a ____” 25 Jam producer 27 Jack Frost’s bite 29 Bits of terre in la mer 30 Churns
32 Author Harper 33 He loved Lucy 34 Dry
35 Tea type
36 “A Life for the ____” (Mikhail Glinka opera)
38 1940s vice president who went on to become president 39 “In Praise of Folly”
writer
41 How to take glib
promises 44 Dog/dog separator
45 Subject of many a
negotiation 46 Days ____ 47 Jeanne d’Arc, e.g.:
Abbr. 48 Enlivens
52 Big feller?
53 Fails to be
54 City on the Brazos
River 55 Propeller blades? 57 ____ Crunch 59 Gobs
64 Item often numbered from 3 to 9 65 Boardwalk buy 68 Gush
69 Time magazine’s Person of the Century runner-up, 1999
71 Strain
72 ____ Westover, author of the 2018 best-selling memoir “Educated”
73 Big name in theaters 74 Till compartment 76 “Silent Spring”
subject, for short 78 Nothingburger 80 Descartes’s conclusion 83 Energy
84 Least interesting 86 It gets the ball rolling 87 2002 Winter Olympics
locale
90 Looks through 94 Abdominal-pain producer
95 Way of securing payment
96 Fizzy drinks 98 Knitting stitch 99 “Holy ____!” 100 Word after bargain or overhead 101 Emulated a kitten 102 ____ expense (free) 103 Org. with the slogan “Every child. One voice.”
104 Brand with the slogan “The Art of Childhood” 107 What flies usually become
109 Wimp
110 It’s held by a winner 112 You, according to Jesus in Matthew 5:13
115 Follow 116 Reflexive pronoun 117 Fishes
118 Moved like Jagr? 119 Shaded growths 120 Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish, to teenagers DOWN
1 Orlando ____, two-time Gold Glove Award winner 2 Almost won 3 Martial artist’s belt 4 Appurtenance for a
T.S.A. agent 5 Many Dorothy Parker
pieces
6 Big 12 college town
7 Column crosser 8 Brings (out)
9 Time of day
10 Sch. with 50+ alums who went on to become astronauts 11 Warning sign 12 Blast from the past 13 Setting for a classic Georges Seurat painting, en français
14 Fruity quaff 15 South American
cowboys
16 Like Havarti or
Muenster 17 Reveille player 20 Jack up 21 Repeated part of a pop song
26 Kind of wheel 28 Peak
31 Heroine of Bizet’s
“The Pearl Fishers” 33 Cozy spot 35 Shows how it’s done 36 Climate change,
notably
37 State
38 Refried bean 40 Astronaut Jemison of the space shuttle Endeavour 42 Reduction in what one owes 43 Headaches 45 Nursery-rhyme
couple
48 Gulp
49 Prefix with medic or
military
50 51 53 Negotiator Suckling Princess one Diana, with G.M. for
56 Disco Simpsons” ____ (“The character) 58 Memorized 60 Exasperate 61 Fabric with sheen 62 Actress ____ Rachel Wood 63 Potential source of a political scandal
66 Evasive maneuver 67 Opposite of “to” 70 Behave like a helicopter parent 75 Attendant of Desdemona in “Othello” 77 Lightly roast 79 Continental abbr. 80 Clustered 81 Meted out 82 Best-actress Oscar winner between Streep and Field
84 Agent of change 85 Attention seekers 88 Critical 89 Fictional exemplar of Christmas spirit 90 Stir-fried noodle dish 91 Sews up 92 Senator Joni and Dadaist Max 93 What water in a bucket might do 97 Source of the line “Man does not live by bread alone”: Abbr.
100 Boxer, for example 101 Handcuffs 104 This, for one 105 “____ be in England” 106 Not so much 108 Post 111 “Tut-tut”
113 Argentina’s leading daily sports newspaper 114 Super ending