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Dan Schoenholz, of Walnut Creek, Calif., is the community development director for the city of Fremont. Like many crossword constructors, he got his start after watching the 2006 documentary “Wordplay.” The idea for this puzzle occurred to him one day when he was running on a trail that crossed a creek, and he thought of the clue and answer at 23-Across. Back home, he searched an online crossword database and found that his theme idea was new. This is Dan’s 26th puzzle for The Times. — W.S.

ACROSS

1 Advantage

6 Tony, e.g.

11 Plunder

18 Weighed in

20 Cow : herd :: ____ : troop

22 One with a discerning palate

23 C-Span?

25 Start brawling 26 Drink-name suffix

27 Earth goddess 28 Going from Point A to Point B

30 Miss piggy?

31 Class acts?

33 Actress Gershon

34 Put back on the market, as real estate

37 Feel bad

38 Champagne name

40 P-trap?

44 G-force?

47 Union concern 48 Setting for C. S. Lewis’s ‘‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’’

49 NPR host Shapiro

50 Words said in passing?

51 Deliberate betrayal

53 Butt

54 Father figures? 57 Guam or the U.S. Virgin Islands: Abbr.

59 Surgeons’ professional org.

60 2012 Best Picture winner

61 Anastasia ____, protagonist of ‘‘Fifty Shades of Grey’’

62 Make mention of

63 Top supporter? 64 Susan who portrayed the youngest child on ‘‘The Brady Bunch’’ 65 G-flat?

69 Deodorant type 72 Be short

73 Make music

74 Like Crater Lake, compared with any other U.S. lake

78 LeBron James in his N.B.A. debut, e.g.

79 AnheuserBusch InBev’s stock ticker symbol

80 Avocado pit, for one

81 Cause for revolution, perhaps 82 Escort’s offering

83 ‘‘Yep, that happened!’’

85 [And like magic .?.?. it’s gone!]

87 First of ten?

88 Compete in pursuit of

90 Abbr. on a flight board

91 D-Con?

94 E-bond?

96 Conversely, in brief

97 Worry for a Great Depression bank

98 Ladybug, e.g.

99 Cereal box abbr.

101 Strike-out specialists?

105 See 106-Across 106 Out of 105-Across

108 Son of Zeus

109 Bird of legend 110 Fast-food chain with Famous Star burgers

113 C-sharp? 116 Black-and-white dessert

117 Take care of some personal baggage

118 Word after green or smoke

119 Things consumed for psychedelic trips 120 Men in black, say

121 Deck originally known as ‘‘carte da trionfi’’ (‘‘cards of triumph’’)

DOWN

1 Kind of news often aired at 6 and 11 p.m.

2 Classical poem form

3 Drives home, say

4 French article

5 Floral archway

6 Pop group with a dedicated museum in Stockholm

7 ‘‘____ is mainly a catalog of blunders’’: Churchill 8 Means

9 ‘‘The Burghers of Calais’’ sculptor 10 Cruella de Vil, for one

11 Beat oneself up over, say

12 Mimic

13 Little beef

14 ____ kicks (ab exercise)

15 Pitch-correcting devices

16 Tribe of southern Montana 17 Range of knowledge

19 School administrator

21 French for ‘‘born’’

24 Appalls

29 Aesthetically pretentious, informally

32 ____ card

33 Ruby, e.g.

35 Carter who portrayed Wonder Woman

36 Noncommittal response to ‘‘You coming?’’

39 Load off one’s mine?

41 Homonym of 39-Down

42 Trace of color 43 Wore

44 Gallivants (about)

45 Part of Q.E.D.

46 Ralph who founded the American Museum of Tort Law 51 Got ready (for)

52 Mosque leader

55 Launched

56 Product once advertised with the line ‘‘The splendor of your skin’’

58 Datum for a chauffeur, for short

60 Take in, maybe

62 Supporter of Roosevelt’s agenda

63 Actor whose breakout role came as a shirtless cowboy in ‘‘Thelma and Louise’’

64 Singles

66 Hardly cheery 67 Hoppy request at happy hour

68 Enlighten

69 Wine barrel strip

70 Climate change, e.g.

71 Looked back on

75 Alphabetized, say

76 Wind farm output: Abbr.

77 Stink

79 Split open

80 Lorelei’s lure 81 May honorees 83 Mad (at)

84 ____ Hill (’90s R&B group) 86 Decoration at el Palacio Real de Madrid

89 Where livestock eat

91 Mastered 92 Divide into three parts

93 Pattern that’s hard to break

95 Nasty looks 100 Lento or allegro

102 Retreats

103 Loggers’ competition

104 Track

105 Rap lyrics, in slang

107 Post-O.R. destination, often 108 Doesn’t just assume

110 The Rockies, on scoreboards 111 Day ____

112 Sail fixed to a bowsprit

114 ‘‘Darn!’’ in Dortmund

115 Baseball’s dead-ball ____ (around 1900-20)

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