Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD: SIX-PACK

- By Eric Berlin /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Its logo has a blue, red, orange, yellow and green “M”

6 Win every game 11 Blitzed

17 Beethoven’s Third 18 Snoopy sort?

19 You can scratch with it

20 Materials from mollusk shells 21 Tried to respond, as a “Jeopardy!” contestant

22 Gave the latest news 23 Veryshort-lived gemstones 25 Nicolas ____, standout player in soccer’s Premier League

27 Drake’s output 28 Thinly veiled criticism, in modern slang 29 Blowoff steam, say

30 Possible fallout of a controvers­y, informally

31 RR stop

32 Name shouted in “The Chipmunk Song” 34 TVquizprog­ram aboutanepi­c poem

37 Handed a hand 40 Bully’s threat

42 World view you might open up to? 43 Suffix with towel 44 NoDoz, for one 46 Help with the dishes

48 Fragment

50 Look back fondly 52 Disney-owned cable channel

56 Ask to be handed a hand?

57 Vereen whowon a 1973 Tony for “Pippin”

58 Prefix akin to mal59 Haphazardl­y organized

61 Having four sharps, musically 62 ____ Regal, big name in Scotch 65 “And so on and so forth”

67 Expected

68 General Motors division until 2010 70 Resident: Suffix 72 One-named singer with the 2019

Song of the Year nominee “Hard Place”

73 Some “Babe” characters 75 Designer Gucci 76 Beat box?

79 A brother of 32-Across

81 Zing 83 “Concentrat­ion” puzzles 86 Reasonable

87 “The Divine Comedy” poet 89 Brand of cologne with a literary name

91 Jazzed (up) 93 Magnificen­tplan

ofaction

95 Bone in the leg 96 Key to get out 97 Maya Angelou’s

“And Still ____” 98 Nev. neighbor

100 Cloth used in

theater backdrops 104 ____ Defense (classic chess opening)

106 Cozy home

107 Danceceleb­rating

2010legisl­ation 109 Glad ____ (good

news)

111 Turn up

113 One of 17 in

Monopoly

114 Manages, barely 115 Bibliophil­e

116 Tightfiste­d sorts 117 Back up again

118 Hip-hop’s ____,

the Creator

119 First name in

cosmetics

DOWN

1 Plot lines?

2 Coffee variety named for a Mideast city 3 Emergency situationc­aused byaterrier 4 Pre-snowstorm purchase

5 Hit with a beam, maybe 6 Makeswater­tight 7 Mascara applicator­s

8 Dozens of them are sold

9 ActorWalla­ch 10 Friends youmay never have met 11 Salonjobna­med afteracomi­cbook hero

12 Danson of “The Good Place” 13 Building girder 14 Actress Lyonne 15 Compulsive thieves, informally 16 “An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” for one 17 Hydrocarbo­n suffixes

18 The thought is there

19 Serving of tea, to Brits

24 River near Rotterdam

26 Some lawn maintenanc­e tools 30 Who wrote “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”

33 Recipient of special treatment, in brief

34 Very cold

35 Klingons, e.g., for short

36 What Hypnosis the Greek god of 37 ____ Plaines, Ill. 38 Liquor component 39 Over

40 Outdoor

41 Part of a glass ... or glasses

45 Before: Abbr.

47 More dangerous to drive on, in a way

49 Metric prefix 51 Natural bridge 53 Supporting musician in a jazz band

54 Guest’s guest 55 Family treeword 57 Chin-up target, informally

60 Leaders of the pack?

61 Bitter brew, for short 63 Poundingon­apie topping

64 Cloud ____ 66 Followers of bees 69 SpongeBob SquarePant­s and others

71 Opposition 74 Entertainm­ent host Ryan,thatsmart aleck!

77 To wit

78 Belt in judo 80 Mustachioe­d Springfiel­d resident

82 Baseball’s Mel

84 One of the

Schuyler sisters in “Hamilton”

85 One sharing a bunk bed, briefly 87 Animosity

88 Places to play

Skee-Ball

90 Turn off and on

again, say

92 With regard to 93 Getworse through

neglect

94 “Give it ____!” 95 Need in Boggle 98 Withstand 99 Dancer with glow

sticks, often

101 Actress Zellweger 102 Get accustomed

(to)

103 Fannie ____ (some

securities)

105 Charging option 107 Said aloud

108 Showed up

110 Cyber Monday

mo., usually

112 Daisy Ridley’s “StarWars” role

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©2020 New York Times 12/13/20

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