NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CROSSWORD: BECAUSE I SAID SO!

ACROSS

1Fish-tank buildup

6 Bog product

10 P.M. times

14 Suisse peak

18 Disney film with a titular

heroine

19 Pricing word

20 Christmas color for Elvis 21 Pork cut

22 Mechanic's go-to

parenting phrase? 26Painter whose motifs

include ants and eggs 27Give the nod

28 “Check it out for yourself” 29 Mauna ____

31 French liver 33Some remote power

sources

35 Up to 11 meters for a

pterodactyl 37Personal trainer's go-to

parenting phrase? 43Like some restrictions 44Stephen King's first

published novel

45 Your and my relative? 46 Roof overhang 48Horror star Chaney 49In the past 50Affectionate greeting 51 Arid

52Small building block 55 Conductor's go-to

parenting phrase? 63 Liquor in tiramisù

64 TV drama with spinoffs set in Hawaii and New Orleans

65 Cornerstone abbr. 66 Eightfold

69 Animal working in the D.M.V. in “Zootopia”

72 Texas politician Beto 74It's a drag

75 Singer James

77 Share accommodations 79Mathematician's go-to

parenting phrase? 86 Emmy-winning Ward 87 Lemon ____

88 Insult 89Hosp. area

90 Clean Air Act org. 92“Star Wars” order 93 Word seen at the end of many Jean-Luc Godard movies

94 From where 97From the get-go 100Air traffic controller's

go-to parenting phrase? 103Accepts the facts 105Her pronoun partner 106 Farmyard mamas

107 2003 Will Ferrell movie 108 Spooky

110 Lacking the resources 113Not out of the running 117 Librarian's go-to

parenting phrase? 121Google ____ (Zoom

alternative)

122 Chemical suffixes

123 Backless shoe 124Maybe one, maybe both 125 GPS calculations, in brief 126 “I did it!”

127 Jabbers

128Jen ____, 2021-22 White

House press secretary

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1Surrounded by

2 Tragic showgirl of song 3 Chutzpah

4 Like PETA

5 ____ de vie

6Gift for writing

7 Noshes

8 Feel that gym session 9 What something might appear out of or disappear into 10 Epitome of simplicity 11 Guam's features a

sailboat and palm tree 12 “The Burden of Proof”

author

13Like many resorts 14Ingredient in homemade

hand sanitizer

15 Reed of the Velvet

Underground

16 Sellers franchise, with

“The” 17 Charm

23 Poker option

24 Solo

25 Baroque painter Guido 30 ____ port in a storm 32Nail-polish brand with a “Tickle My France-y” shade

34Part of a homemade

Halloween costume 36 Animal that turns white

in the winter

37 Large number

38 “I am not what I am”

speaker

39 Pioneering sci-fi film that was snubbed for the Best Visual Effects Oscar for its use of computers

40 Road-trip determination 41 Decade in which many

in Gen Z were born 42 Main ingredient in poi 47Kind of diagram 50In this matter

51 Arose

53 City on the Irtysh River 54 Parcel (out) 56Elementary particle named for a Greek letter

57 Called a strike, say 58Like some potato chips

and language 59Part of NATO: Abbr. 60Jardins d'enfants, par

exemple 61 Tech-and-culture

magazine since 1993 62Has left the office, e.g. 66 Jay-Z and Kanye West song that samples “Try a Little Tenderness” 67 Pigeon coop

68 What a bad dancer is

said to have

70 Large number 71____ Ledbetter, a.k.a.

Lead Belly

73 Newswire co.

76 A4 automaker

78 “____ it!” (informal

challenge) 80 Rock used to make

ultramarine 81 Pretentious

82 Snack cakes with creamy swirls

83 It might be changed or

made up 84“Look!” in Latin

85 Took to court 91Miscreant's record,

maybe 92Like a clear night 93 Rival you kind of like 94 “That's amazing!” 95 Color classification 96Naval Academy grads 97Basic personal

information

98 “Spill it!”

99 Flow slowly 101“Not gonna happen!” 102 Counts (on)

104 Tropical vine 109“Brown ____ Girl” 111 Pool shade 112Kind of discount 114 Nothin'

115 Words of

reassurance 116 Actress Garr 118 Hot spot

in England? 119 Airport inits. 120 Dance with

a paradiddle step