Houston Chronicle Sunday

BORDER CROSSINGS

- By Adam Fromm /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 “For more ____ …” 5 Some unwanted

mail

9 Terse bit of advice 13 Half of an ice cream brand with a fake Danish name

19 Work up a sweat 20 Rent

21 Like tap water in a restaurant

22 Iris part

23 Wing it [Africa] 25 Blue

26 Chew out

27 Après-ski drink 28 Complete rip-off [Asia] 30 Barrel-flavored, as wine

31 Washington, D.C., legalized it in 2014 32 Wealthy king of legend

33 Recess

36 Charge for admission

37 See 101-Down 38 Quaint contractio­n 41 Record company [Central America] 45 Two-time thirdparty presidenti­al candidate

47 “The Walking Dead” channel 48 Beyond great 49 Baking measure 50 Cerebral

51 Take in

53 ____ shoots (salad ingredient)

54 One of five for a dolphin

55 Supple leather 56 Proboscis, informally

58 What subjects and verbs must do [Europe]

62 Ancho pepper, before drying 65 Puzzled

66 Sort by urgency of need [Europe] 70 Misgiving

74 Where meditators look

75 ____ candy

76 Planet where the cry “Shazbot!” is said to have originated 79 Food-chain link 80 Treats prepared on an open fire

81 Part of O.E.D.: Abbr. 82 Organic fertilizer 84 Hold up

85 Male 91-Acrosses 86 T-shirt size [South America]

90 Not to mention 91 Forest ranger 92 Shapes made by thumbs and index fingers

93 Glossed over

94 Like some toy cars

97 Sportage maker 98 ____ Cochran, Mississipp­i senator from 1978 to 2018 99 First month of the year without a U.S. federal holiday [Asia]

102 Dismissed out of hand

106 Want badly

107 Sit at a red light, say 108 Biblical outcast [South America] 109 Exclamatio­n from a cheek pincher

110 Org. behind the New Horizons project

111 One whose job prospects go up in smoke? 112 Responsibi­lity 113 Biggest U.S. union, familiarly

114 Set of two

115 City north of Des Moines

116 Resident of the Palazzo Ducale DOWN

1 Hankering 2 Manhattan neighborho­od west of the East Village

3 Order

4 Cranky codger 5 “Reach for the sky!”

6 Sandwich often served with rémoulade sauce

7 Killer of the Night King on “Game of Thrones”

8 “Throw ____ bone”

9 Key of Debussy’s “Clair de Lune”

10 Black pie-crust component

11 Lead-in to many a joke on “The Daily Show”

12 Senator who once served as an editor of The Harvard

Law Review

13 Hurt

14 Many Omanis 15 Group seen in gathering clouds? 16 Discovery that might cause a rush 17 Wellsian race of the future

18 Gram

24 Objects in one of Jesus’ miracles 28 Singer Lisa

29 Top of the line

31 Fruit with an obovate shape 33 Media for scientists 34 Unit of brightness 35 Raw material for Cadbury

36 Popular Amazon Prime dramedy from Britain

39 Kind of column seen on the Jefferson Memorial 40 “Funny Girl” composer Jule 42 Copy

43 Vaper’s device, informally 44 Nutritiona­l snack from Clif

45 Trig, for calc, e.g. 46 Relaxed

50 Some wetlands 52 Snack with a recommende­d microwave time of just three seconds

54 Theater impresario Ziegfeld

55 Abbr. in a genealogic­al tree 57 ____ Strait, separator of Australia and Papua New Guinea 59 What one is in Paris?

60 Kylo ____, “Star Wars” antagonist 61 Candy-heart phrase

63 Raises one’s paddle, say

64 Each verse of “Deck the Halls” has 32 of them 66 Host Tyler of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” 67 Dishearten

68 Scottish tradition before battle

69 “We Three Kings” subjects 71 Deodorant brand 72 Sierra ____ 73 “Whoops, sorry about that!” 77 Sensationa­list newspaper

78 Openings under desks

81 Observance first celebrated in 1970 82 Big to-do

83 Like “Saturday Night Live”

86 Put up with

87 Pull back

88 Mother of 60-Down

89 Item in a toxic internet “challenge” 91 Region around the Beltway, informally

95 Just for laughs

96 Put on a show 97 Work with one’s hands

98 Poppycock

99 Classic computer game set on an abandoned island 100 Michelle of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” 101 With 37-Across, Ingrid Bergman’s role in “Casablanca” 102 Tricky pronoun to use

103 Wine opener?

104 ’60s dance craze that evolved from the Chicken

105 Join

108 Helper during taxing times?

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©2020 New York Times 5/24/20

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