Houston Chronicle Sunday

ANAGRAMMAR

- By Christophe­r Adams /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Moth attractors 6 Rescue site for a polar bear

10 “Hold it right there!”

14 Word with grand or identity

19 Netflix crime drama set in a small town in Missouri 20 “Hahahahaha­ha!” 21 Blacken on the barbecue

22 Sun: Prefix

23 Change, as a hotel lock

24 Aura

27 Weasley family owl in the Harry Potter books

28 “You wish”

30 It’s SW of the Pyrenees

31 “Give me an example!” 33 Designates for a specific purpose 35 Big things in D.C. and Hollywood 36 Source of the line “A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou”

37 Real nostalgia trip 40 Mobile

42 Mao-____ (Chinese liquor)

43 L.G.B.T. History Mo. 44 Bite-size chocolate candy

47 Home for doves and pigeons

48 Home for herons and egrets

50 “In case you didn’t hear me … ”

52 Group on the dark side of the Force 54 “Alas!” in Austria 55 Generally speaking 59 Not only that but also

60 Pompous pronoun 62 Vicuña product 63 Eye-catching print pattern

65 Creature slain in the Mines of Moria by Gandalf

66 “A Little Night Music” composer 70 Award for technologi­cal developmen­t since 1995

71 Shed, as feathers 73 Individual­ly 75 Sometime collaborat­or with William Shakespear­e, per the Oxford University Press 81 Deepest lake in the U.S. after Crater Lake

83 Place where musical talent may be wasted? 84 Assembly

87 Burns, in a way 89 Comics debut of 1963

90 Important topic in golf instructio­n

91 It’s all downhill from here

92 Easy way that might lead to error 99 Printing measuremen­t

100 Dead letters?

101 “It’s bulls and blood, it’s dust and mud,” per a Garth Brooks hit 102 Enthusiast­ic enjoyment

103 Miss, say

104 Girl’s name that’s also a state abbreviati­on

105 Some laughable language mistakes — as found literally (in consecutiv­e letters) in 24-,

37-, 55-, 75- and 92-Across

109 Small, rectangula­r candy

110 Cocktails with gin, vermouth and Campari

112 Gave the pink slip 113 Organism that grows on another plant nonparasit­ically 115 Bening with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 116 Statistici­an Silver 117 Dog to beware of 118 Angioplast­y inserts 119 Big 12 college town 120 Bounty hunter shot by Han Solo in “Star Wars: A New Hope”

DOWN

1 One-named singer with the 2017 No. 1 album “Melodrama” 2 Longtime Hyundai model 3 God, with “the” 4 First words 5 Business with perpetuall­y high sales?

6 Glassy-eyed look 7 CPR administra­tor 8 Malek who won a Best Actor Oscar for “Bohemian Rhapsody”

9 Dimwit

10 Easily split rock 11 Which train goes to Harlem, in song 12 Something to dip in the water

13 Wedding agreement

14 Title movie role for Jim Carrey

15 “I found what you’re looking for!”

16 Jane Jetson’s son 17 Shrek’s love

18 “For rent” sign 25 Beehive State bloomer

26 Occasion for a high school afterparty

29 “… ____ mouse?” 32 Org. in a 1976 sports merger 34 Be on the court for tipoff, say

36 Précis

38 Bouillabai­sse base 39 Myriad

40 Drink stirred with a spoon 41 Kind of alcohol used as biofuel 45 It borders the Suez Canal

46 Premium movie channel

47 Keto diet no-no 48 “The Jungle Book” boy

49 Chopped down 50 Place reached by boat

51 University in downtown Philadelph­ia

53 ____ Amendment, controvers­ial 1976 Congressio­nal measure

55 Stunned … just stunned

56 Alteration of a video game, in gamer lingo

57 “I like that!” 58 Chesterfie­ld or reefer

61 Sleeve opening 64 What keeps athletic tape from sticking to the skin

66 “Go ____ Watchman” (Harper Lee novel)

67 Target of a spray 68 One of two in “The Grapes of Wrath” 69 Film-rating org.

72 “For shame!”

74 Like the verb “to be”: Abbr. 75 Purchase for a celebratio­n 76 Stable period from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius 77 Man, to Marcus Aurelius

78 Barely scratches (out)

79 Traitors 80 Pulitzer-winning W.W. II journalist 81 Russian rulers of old

82 Discovery of penicillin, e.g. 85 Built up gradually 86 It’s skipped in the Gregorian calendar

88 Some track-andfield training 90 Propping (up) 93 Lead role in “Chicago”

94 Nov. 13, e.g.

95 ____ school

96 Baby shark

97 “Days of Grace” memoirist Arthur 98 Corvette roof options

105 Women’s rights pioneer Lucretia 106 End-of-semester stressor

107 Chapeau site 108 Bicker (with)

111 Kylo of the “Star Wars” films 114 Charlemagn­e’s domain, for short

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8/11/19 ©2019 New York Times

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