The New York Times Crossword

Jim Peredo of Lakewood, Wash., is a stay-at-home dad and former communications engineer in the Air Force. He got into crosswords by way of geocaching — posting puzzles online whose answers are geographic coordinates. (Search for “Team Peredox” for examples.) Jim counts himself as a Chamorro: Both his parents are Guamanian, although he himself has lived in Guam for only a year. This is his ninth puzzle for The Times and his second Sunday. — W.S.

ACROSS

1 Orchestra

heavyweights 6 Mushroom in ramen 11 When tripled, a comment of annoyance 14 ‘‘Oh, my!’’

18 It has a very big bed 19 One of a pair of explorers on the Missouri state quarter 20 Spring feature 21 Golden-rule word 22 Run-on sentence? 25 ____-by date 26 Common female middle name 27 Wax theatrical 28 Sharply dressed, shoewise? 30 Boring events

32 Bit of conniving 34 Five-letter world capital that locals spell as two words 35 Tempe neighbor 36 Passing comment? 38 Riding the waves 41 Something a bib

catches

43 Busy Bee, for short 44 Single quote? 50 Doesn’t touch 55 Head to bed 56 Surreal finale?

57 Big name in student

grants

59 Order to attack 60 ____ Paradise, ‘‘On the Road’’ protagonist 61 Weapon associated with the film quote ‘‘Here’s Johnny!’’ 63 Sack cloth

65 Hats, slangily

66 Just saying?

72 ____ Roddenberry, first TV writer on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 73 Ancient Greek poet sometimes called the Tenth Muse 74 Smear 75 Preschooler 77 Nickname for Baseball Hall-ofFamer Ernie Banks 79 When tripled, ‘‘etc.’’ 80 Educational TV spot,

for short 83 Square dance move 85 Fireplace item 87 Stock phrase?

90 Not commercial: Abbr.

92 Briskly

93 Bring in

94 Self expression? 101 Trade jabs 104 Sports venue 105 “Outta luck!” 106 Magical powder 110 Prepped for surgery 112 Children’s-song refrain

113 Uma Thurman’s role in ‘‘Pulp Fiction’’

114 Yonder, in dialect 115 Old saw? 119 Anger

120 Spew anger 121 ____ Mitchell, creator of the Tonywinning musical ‘‘Hadestown’’ 122 Handle 123 ‘‘What are the ____?’’

124 Deli sandwich, hold the vowels

125 Like stereotypical Seattle weather 126 Symbol of the National Audubon Society

DOWN

1 Coverings on ancient

Roman statuary 2 Women’s-basketball powerhouse, for short 3 Gas-relieving brand 4 ‘‘What a relief!’’ 5 ‘‘4-Down-choo!’’ 6 Poe poem about a

mythical quest 7 Scurriers near streams 8 Minor cut, say 9 Makeup holder 10 Suffix with Black or

brack

11 ‘‘Can’t deal with that

right now!’’ 12 Lacking focus 13 Unbridled joy 14 Composer Mahler 15 Low tie 16 Canonized fifthcentury pope called ‘‘the Great’’ 17 ‘‘Stop right there!’’ 20 Adorable one

23 ____ Research Center 24 Org. tracking

workplace accidents 29 English setting for a series of Impressionist paintings by Monet 31 Neighbor of an

Emirati

32 Young weaned pig 33 Monk’s digs 36 Word with tippy or

twinkle

37 ‘‘2001: A Space

Odyssey’’ computer 38 Puts on . . . or things put on

39 Ugly ones sometimes come out in December

40 Nosh at noon, say 42 Diamond stat 45 Second-most-common Vietnamese surname 46 Home of Wichita Falls 47 Magnum ____ 48 Game-ball material 49 The scat got her tongue, you might say

51 Where bills pile up 52 Lower-extremity

affliction 53 Secret target 54 Capt.’s assistant, maybe

58 Milk: Fr.

62 Where the meaning of life was sold in 2000 for $3.26

63 Part of a job

application

64 European museum whose name means ‘‘meadow’’

67 Sign on again 68 Another name for the moonfish

69 Common wedding hairstyle

70 Undergo rapprochement 71 Stern’s opposite 72 ‘‘Today’’ rival, for short

76 ‘‘Old ____ Road,’’ longest-running No. 1 single in Billboard history (19 weeks)

78 You might open one at a pub

80 Kind of book or ad 81 Didn’t just float 82 Home of 72-Down 84 Mortimer ____, dummy of old radio and TV 86 Newcomer, informally 88 Org. in charge of the 23-Down

89 Not worry 91 Country whose most widely spoken language is Wolof

94 Democratic politician Julián

95 Flower for a corsage 96 First name in the 1970s White House 97 Gets used (to) 98 Gopher, e.g. 99 Fighter pilot’s wear 100 [head slap] 102 Masochist’s pleasure

103 Generate, as suspicion 106 Peaceful protest 107 Brown shade 108 Evening hour in Spain 109 Cartomancer’s deck 111 Pointed remark 112 Actor Morales 116 Rattle

117 ‘‘____ voce poco fa’’ (Rossini aria) 118 One of the March sisters