San Antonio Express-News (Sunday)

NEWYORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- THEME SHMEME by Caitlin Reid / Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Round number?

7 Pick a card, any card

11 Hoops

16 Piano keys

18 Quick study

20 Quick studies

22 Line delivered in

costume

23 Source of a trendy

health juice

24 Alternativ­e to tarot

cards

26 Opportunit­y to hit

27 Hearing aid?

29 Hole-making tools

30 Hillworker

31 Split

32 Small birdwith

complex songs

33 Hewas told to “take a sad song and make it better”

34 “SmackDown” org.

37 Upper limit

38 Olympic figure skater

Johnny

39 Make more pleasant 41 First attempt

44 Attire

45 In key

46 “The ____ Locker,” 2009 Best Picture winner

47 Declare

48 “Surely you don’t think it could be me?!”

49 Bank, at times

51 Hayek of Hollywood 52 Some movie extras

55 Acts likemoney grows

on trees

57 Tool for a difficult

crossword, say

58 Addedwater to, as a

sauce

60 Family secret,

perhaps

62 In lock step (with)

64 Seasonal songwith

lyrics in Latin

66 Sacrament of holy matrimony and others

67 Throughway, e.g.

69 Fashion expert Gunn 70 It’s sedimentar­y, my

dear

71 Seemingly forever

72 Filmmaker Gerwig

73 Info on an invitation 75 Command, as

influence

76 “Don’tworry

about it”

78 Brown or blacken

79 Hole in the ground

80 ____ card

81 Shaded

82 Went over the limit, say

83 Where to find the

radius

84 ____ Lipa, Grammy-winning pop artist 87 “Big Little Lies” co-star of Witherspoo­n and Kidman

88 Barely afloat?

91 Buzz in the morning 93 Place youmay go just

for kicks?

94 Mail lady on “Peewee’s Playhouse”

95 Occasion to stay up

late

97 Some surfing

destinatio­ns

99 You are here

100 Pounds

101 He made a pact with

the Devil

102Makes blue, say 103One of three for

“Mississipp­i”

DOWN

1

Brand of breath spray

2 Arthurian isle

3 Decay, aswood

4 “____ wordswere

never spoken”

5 Voice, as grievances 6 Potter of children’s

literature

7 Ambitious

8 Proverbial tortoise or

hare, e.g.

9 Poses

10 Branch of the U.N. in

2020 news

11 Soda factorywor­ker 12 1989 TomHanks black comedy, with “The”

13 Math measuremen­t 14 Aspiring D.A.’s exam 15 Tennis do-over

17 Result of eating the poisoned apple in “SnowWhite”

18 Quickly go from

success to failure

19 Mudbug, by another

name

21 Easy target

22 Many a dare, in

hindsight

25 Bring down

28 Part of a high chair 29 Boring things

33 Hera’s Roman

counterpar­t 34 “Don’t you trustme?” 35 Heat of the moment? 36 First name in jazz

37 Quagmire

38 Mom jeans have a

high one

39 Picturesqu­e time for a

walk

40 Goes out on a limb

41 Tapered hairstyle

42 Act of omission ... or

of a commission

43 Four for a 4x400, say 44 Pluto, e.g.

45 Pint-size and then

some

48 ____ mortal

50 Central

51 Bird-feeder bit

53 They’re on the case, in

slang

54 Garrulous

56 Like a pearl-clutcher 59 Discourage

61 Abbr. on a

cornerston­e

63 What skies do before

a storm

65 Worrisome beach

sighting 66 Pro ____

68 Email status

72 Food connoisseu­r

74 ____ a clue (was lost) 75 Scaredy-cat

77 Frozen dessert

78 Golfer Jordan who won the 2015 U.S. Open

79 Republican politico

Reince

82 Hybrid bottoms

83 Spot seller, in brief

84 Keto adherent, e.g.

85 Prepare to deplane 86 Andrewhowo­n the 1994 and 1999 U.S. Opens

87 Curses

88 Piece of the pie

89 “That smarts!”

90 De-e-eluxe

91 ____ breve (cut time) 92 Beach ball?

93 Do a veterinari­an’s job

on

95 Beach lotion abbr.

96 Rare color?

98 Texter’s “I can’t

believe this”

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