Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

New York Times Crossword Puzzle

- By Erik Agard / Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Up in the air

6 Memo abbr.

10 How many network

sitcoms are rated 14 Floats

19 World capital spelled “Cофия”

in the Cyrillic alphabet

20 Bubble-tea flavor

21 One who might

get a parade

22 Singer Goulding 23 Stoner movies?

25 Fired

26 Pioneer who lent his name to six U.S. counties

27 Île de la ____

28 At some point 30 Components

of stoner movies? 32 Flooring wood 33 Furniture wood 34 Rubberneck

35 Certain Franciscan 36 Salsa variety

38 Chief Ouray and others 39 Came down to earth 40 Farrow with

a Golden Globe 43 Tension in a stoner

movie?

46 Stoner movie that flops

at the box office? 48 Youngest Jetson 49 Wheat ____

51 “____ a dream …” 52 Rock’s Brickell 53 Ancient Greek land that hosted the Olympics

54 ____ Calrissian,

“Star Wars” role 55 Game’s end

56 Blood flow aid

57 Set a good

example, perhaps 58 Half of doce

59 Having two beats

per measure, in music 61 Gives what for 62 Ending of a stoner

movie?

65 Honeydew relative 68 Smooths

69 Peewee

70 The Horned Frogs

of the Big 12 Conf. 73 Animal wearing red pajamas in a children’s book 74 Make a jumper, say 75 Broadcasts

77 Piece on a1

78 Inter ____

79 Singer Chesney

80 Two tablets, maybe 81 Dog, for some

82 & 84 Like an audience during a stoner movie? 86 After-hours

convenienc­e

87 ____ track (attack

song)

88 Style to pick?

91 Splits lickety-split 92 Top-tier 94 Bottom-heavy fruit 95 Part of V.S.O.P.

96 Initials hidden in

“jetway,” appropriat­ely 98 Bad actor in

a stoner movie?

101 Certain MexicanAme­rican

103 Lit ____

104 Like ornitholog­ists’

studies

105 TV host with the autobiogra­phy “Born a Crime”

107 Be behind the camera for a blockbuste­r stoner movie?

109 Very, in slang

110 Hella cool

111 James in both the Blues and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame 112 Certain godchild

113 Midlife-crisis feeling 114 Big acronym in

education

115 No longer gray, say 116 Woman’s nickname

that elides “Na”

DOWN

1 Adoption org.

2 Site of an annual May

race

3 Unfindable, so to speak 4 Piccolo relative

5 Dance specialty 6 Squad bringing more than their B game?

7 Careful word

choice, maybe 8 Fencing along a sidewalk 9 Samin ____, best-selling

cookbook author 10 Terse email reply

11 Give a hard time 12 Kitchen work

before cooking 13 Cupid, e.g.

14 Line on many

a business card

15 HI goodbye

16 Item taken out of its packaging before it’s sold

17 Window option 18 Notices

24 In worse health

29 Be short

31 Kiddie ride

33 Swirl

37 Density symbols

39 Bush

41 “That bothers me” 42 Lends a hand

with contraband? 43 Command to a dog 44 “Encore!”

45 Davis Cup competitio­n 46 “____ we?”

47 Back

50 Quality feigned

by a humblebrag 51 Overstayed, e.g.

54 Film heroine who says: “Somebody has to save our skins. Into the garbage chute, flyboy”

56 Orkney resident 58 Buckwheat noodles 60 Deploy

61 Repentance subjects 62 Dissident/

writer Khashoggi 63 Big nonprofit that operates the Department of Defense Safe Helpline 64 One being taught a

lesson

65 Maryland’s ____

Barton Parkway

66 Set apart

67 The cutting of one’s jib? 70 Travel kit contents 71 Shift from one dialect to another, depending on the social context 72 Strummed

instrument­s, for short 74 Fratty feats

76 Center of the

U.S. auto industry 77 Underhande­d plan 79 Jewish snack

81 ____ the lily 83 Indignant denial

85 Big name in insurance 88 Tough H.S. science

class

89 Scornful syllable 90 Subjected to

a hostile takeover 93 Tips for journalist­s 95 First post-B.C. year 97 Befuddled

98 Rival of Ole Miss 99 Bard of ____

100 Not worth hashing out 102 Museo contents

103 Kind of seeds in

health foods

106 Siamang or orangutan 108 Cause of a blowup, in

brief

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