Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Sunday Crossword Puzzle

- “EYE EXAM” By MIKE PELUSO Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS

1 Bend in pointe

shoes

5 Style

9 Dark film genre 13 __ Sticks: drainclean­ing aid 17 Sweet-talk 18 Barn-raising group 20 Worth a rave review, in show biz

21 University near

Durham, NC 22 Half-off sale

acronym 23 Destinatio­n for

aficionado­s 24 Workplace movie

screen?

26 Small Kia SUV 28 Street show 30 “Dust in the Wind”

rockers 31 Tampico abode 32 Silas with a loom 33 Chicago-toIndianap­olis dir. 34 Good news, in a

metaphor 37 Chill-inducing 38 Prepared for

surgery, in a way 42 Titles for attys. 43 Apple product for

unmarried men? 47 Frites seasoning 48 Generate, with

“up”

49 “I Left Something Turned __ Home”: 1997 Trace Adkins hit 50 Côte d’__

51 Court game word 52 Actress Lupino 53 List of PGA players with pictorial links to their bios?

57 Fist bumps 58 Action movie

staple

60 Worked with a

crew, maybe 61 Utah range 62 Upper class 63 Graceful 64 Checked out in

advance

66 Trojan king 68 Some steaks 69 Contentiou­s filings 72 Swimsuit designer

Gernreich 73 Order to a constructi­on worker?

76 __ polloi

77 Utah Valley

University city 78 Corrida cries 79 Diamond’s opposite, on the Mohs scale 80 Parachute

necessity 81 Ovine cry

82 Apple media player for silly songs?

86 __ facto

87 E.T.’s Earth pal 89 Eat away

90 Day of the PGA 91 Arrest

92 “Which one will it

be?”

94 Cheater’s device 96 Emulate Earhart 99 “Silent Night” et al. 100 The NFL had two

of them in 2018 104 Brew with a hint

of chocolate? 106 Gets a ride, but

not a Lyft 108 Jazz club group 109 Cleveland’s lake 110 Dorm diet staple 111 Puerto Rico’s

third-largest city 112 U. of Maryland

athlete

113 Like Span.

o-ending nouns 114 Nor. neighbor 115 Test for jrs. 116 Summer quaffs

DOWN

1 EPA-banned toxins 2 Chicago district,

with “the” 3 “Othello” villain 4 Event in a classic William Peter Blatty novel 5 Half a ’60s quartet 6 Last of 24

7 Cut into cubes 8 Upper left key 9 Like some ATM

withdrawal­s 10 Proposal

11 “__ had known

... ”

12 Standouts in a

field

13 One with net

income? 14 Charity 15 Weather monitoring

gp. 16 “Devil Inside” band 19 African capital once known as Salisbury 20 Island east of

Sumatra 25 Alleviated

27 It may be an X or

an O

29 Seed pod 32 Conductor Zubin 34 “M*A*S*H” figure 35 Vitamin spec 36 Perfect one of

three meals? 37 Bitcoin, e.g. 38 Twirled

39 Kauai breakfast

restaurant­s? 40 Vaulted 41 Donovan of

“Clueless” 43 Title Kazakh in a

2006 spoof 44 Win by __ 45 Beat anxiously 46 Brand that once sported a crocodile

51 Bye that’s bid 53 Stiffly proper 54 “True dat!” 55 Intimidate 56 Type of whiskey 59 Assert

61 Cold War enemy 63 “All That Jazz”

choreograp­her 64 Suspension

bridge support 65 Surveillan­ce

plane acronym 66 Investigat­ion 67 Like much of

Nebraska 68 Form of security 69 Balaban of “Definitely, Maybe”

70 Trunk

71 Lebanese port 73 Dad’s and Mug 74 Much

75 Chopin work 80 Holey Italian bread 82 Reluctant

83 Loyal servant 84 Press

85 50-50 chance 88 “Hang on ... ” 90 It may be up, with

“the” 92 Opine, with “in” 93 Promoted to

excess 94 Around

95 Trip odometer

function 96 Throaty attentiong­etter

97 Aloe __

98 Flower from the Greek for “rainbow” 100 Second place? 101 “A horse is a

horse” horse 102 Cork’s home 103 Absorbs, with

“up”

105 Deviate from a

course

107 Conk

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