Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

- By Erik Agard /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS 1 Up in the air 6 Memo abbr. 10 How many network sitcoms are rated 14 Floats 19 World capital spelled in the Cyrillic alphabet 20 Bubble-tea flavor 21 One who might get a parade 22 Singer Goulding 23 Stoner movies? 25 Fired 26 Pioneer who lent his name to six U.S. counties 27 Île de la ____ 28 At some point 30 Components of stoner movies? 32 Flooring wood 33 Furniture wood 34 Rubberneck 35 Certain Franciscan 36 Salsa variety 38 Chief Ouray and others 39 Came down to earth 40 Farrow with a Golden Globe 43 Tension in a stoner movie? 46 Stoner movie that flops at the box office? 48 Youngest Jetson 49 Wheat ____ 51 “____ a dream ...” 52 Rock’s Brickell 53 Ancient Greek land that hosted the Olympics 54 ____ Calrissian, “Star Wars” role 55 Game’s end 56 Blood flow aid 57 Set a good example, perhaps 58 Half of doce 59 Having two beats per measure, in music 61 Gives what for 62 Ending of a stoner movie? 65 Honeydew relative 68 Smooths 69 Peewee 70 The Horned Frogs of the Big 12 Conf. 73 Animal wearing red pajamas in a children’s book 74 Make a jumper, say 75 Broadcasts 77 Piece on a1 78 Inter ____ 79 Singer Chesney 80 Two tablets, maybe 81 Dog, for some 82 & 84 Like an audience during a stoner movie? 86 After-hours convenienc­e 87 ____ track (attack song) 88 Style to pick? 91 Splits lickety-split 92 Top-tier 94 Bottom-heavy fruit 95 Part of V.S.O.P. 96 Initials hidden in “jetway,” appropriat­ely 98 Bad actor in a stoner movie? 101 Certain Mexican-American 103 Lit ____ 104 Like ornitholog­ists’ studies 105 TV host with the autobiogra­phy “Born a Crime” 107 Be behind the camera for a blockbuste­r stoner movie? 109 Very, in slang 110 Hella cool 111 James in both the Blues and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame 112 Certain godchild 113 Midlife-crisis feeling 114 Big acronym in education 115 No longer gray, say 116 Woman’s nickname that elides “Na”

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1 Adoption org. 2 Site of an annual May race 3 Unfindable, so to speak 4 Piccolo relative 5 Dance specialty 6 Squad bringing more than their B game? 7 Careful word choice, maybe 8 Fencing along a sidewalk 9 Samin ____, bestsellin­g cookbook author 10 Terse email reply 11 Give a hard time 12 Kitchen work before cooking 13 Cupid, e.g. 14 Line on many a business card 15 HI goodbye 16 Item taken out of its packaging before it’s sold 17 Window option 18 Notices 24 In worse health 29 Be short 31 Kiddie ride 33 Swirl 37 Density symbols 39 Bush 41 “That bothers me” 42 Lends a hand with contraband? 43 Command to a dog 44 “Encore!” 45 Davis Cup competitio­n 46 “____ we?” 47 Back 50 Quality feigned by a humblebrag 51 Overstayed, e.g. 54 Film heroine who says: “Somebody has to save our skins. Into the garbage chute, flyboy” 56 Orkney resident 58 Buckwheat noodles 60 Deploy 61 Repentance subjects 62 Dissident/writer Khashoggi 63 Big nonprofit that operates the Department of Defense Safe Helpline 64 One being taught a lesson 65 Maryland’s ____ Barton Parkway 66 Set apart 67 The cutting of one’s jib? 70 Travel kit contents 71 Shift from one dialect to another, depending on the social context 72 Strummed instrument­s, for short 74 Fratty feats 76 Center of the U.S. auto industry 77 Underhande­d plan 79 Jewish snack 81 ____ the lily 83 Indignant denial 85 Big name in insurance 88 Tough H.S. science class 89 Scornful syllable 90 Subjected to a hostile takeover 93 Tips for journalist­s 95 First post-B.C. year 97 Befuddled 98 Rival of Ole Miss 99 Bard of ____ 100 Not worth hashing out 102 Museo contents 103 Kind of seeds in health foods 106 Siamang or orangutan 108 Cause of a blowup, in brief

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©2019 New York Times 6/16/19
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