Houston Chronicle Sunday

OVER THE MOON

- SUNDAY CROSSWORD: By Olivia Mitra Framke /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Pest-control

product

5 Luggage label 10 Color effect in

graphic design 18 Video-game princess of the Kingdom of Hyrule 19 Writer Zora ____ Hurston

20 Take part in a D.&D. campaign, e.g. 21 Brand of fruity hard candy

23 Personae non gratae

24 Uranus 25 “Arrivederc­i!”

26 Jerks

27 “____ to differ!” 28 One taking the long view?

31 Tarot-deck character

35 Some surgical tools 38 “Unit” of fun

39 All-star duo? 40 Comfort in not knowing, say 47 Request

50 Jupiter

51 Ships passing in the night?

52 Sch. on the Rio Grande

54 Hollers

55 Like some parties and flowers

56 “Back to the

Future” antagonist 60 Hit movie released as “Vaselina” in Mexico 62 Husk-wrapped dish 65 Colorful tropical fish

66 Song standard on “Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits” 71 Saturn

72 With 11-Down, hit 2001 film with an “!” in its title

73 Stirred up

74 Cold shower? 75 Muralist ____ Clemente Orozco 76 2021 Super Bowl champs

80 Boy, in Barcelona 81 Animated character who wears a red shirt and no pants

82 Time before computers, facetiousl­y

85 Fleet runner: Abbr. 86 One feature of a perfect nanny, in a “Mary Poppins” song

91 Mars

92 Hesitate in speaking

93 More inquisitiv­e 98 Jaded sort

99 Solo flier?

105 Prefix meaning “both”

106 Welled (up)

108 Like people who are much looked up to 109 Insurance-fraud ploy

110 Determiner of cannabis legality, e.g.

4/11/21

113 Classic carnival

ride

116 Cherished family

member

117 Neptune

118 Golding of “Crazy

Rich Asians”

119 Sporty car

120 Deliver a speech 121 World of Warcraft

spellcaste­r

DOWN

1 Leans (on)

2 Claim

3 Pastoral poem 4 ____ es Salaam 5 Navel type

6 Sticker on the back

of a laptop, say 7 Home to the Sugar Bowl and Heavenly ski resorts

8 Draft pick? 9 Neighbor of Belg. 10 Word after focus or Facebook

11 See 72-Across 12 Mountain map figs. 13 Ones getting the message

14 Rio beach of song

15 Hollow center? 16 Turner who led an 1831 slave rebellion 17 Grateful sentiments, in online shorthand

18 “The Greek” of film 21 Corner space in Monopoly

22 Juggling or magic, in a talent show 26 Nobel laureate Morrison

29 Poker variety

30 “This Will Be” singer Natalie 32 Sommelier’s métier 33 “Monsters, ____” 34 Be on the level? 36 “Notorious” Supreme Court initials

37 Knocked ‘em dead 39 Not spoiled

41 Suffix with serpent 42 One of five in “pronunciat­ion”: Abbr.

43 Choice of sizes, briefly

44 Celebrator­y, quaintly

45 Deception

46 Cowboy or Patriot, for short

47 Zeros

48 Distinct melodic segment

49 Not waver from 53 Fruit also called a custard apple or prairie banana 55 Baby’s cry

56 Cue at an audition

57 Land jutting into il Mediterran­eo 58 Quaker

59 Community of followers 61 Thesaurus listing: Abbr.

63 Melber of MSNBC 64 Candy featured in a classic “MythBuster­s” episode 65 Confucian’s spiritual path 67 In ____ (peeved) 68 Nintendo dinosaur who eats fruit and throws eggs

69 Bring to court

70 2003 best seller whose title is one letter different from a fantasy creature

75 Pleasures

77 Grammy winner DiFranco 78 Rendezvous­ed 79 ____ gow (Chinese domino game) 81 Money earned from an event, say

82 Gush 83 Archaeolog­ist’s find

84 Brian once of glam rock

86 U.S. health org.

©2021 New York Times 87 “Hands off, that’s mine!”

88 Austrian article

89 Sent off

90 Lose a layer

94 Bit of luau wear

95 “No question!” 96 Magazine whose 60th anniversar­y issue had the cover line “Denzel, Halle & Jamie”

97 What’s hard about a melon?

99 Origami shape called “orizuru” 100 Tree surgeon, at times

101 Interior chambers

102 Gem weight 103 Bonnie’s partner in crime

104 Quadratic formula subj.

107 Oodles 109 Measuremen­t in plane geometry 110 Camera type, briefly

111 As well

112 DuVernay who directed “Selma”

113 Queue before P 114 Canal locale

115 Piece de resistance?

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