Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Sunday Crossword Puzzle
“SOUNDS FAMILIAR”
ACROSS
1 Only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs
8 Sushi order 11 Short blue
person?
14 Exile of 1979 18 Small bits of
color
19 Easter lead-in 20 “Xanadu” rock gp. 21 Aqua __: U.K. mineral water brand
22 Place for reading
recipes? 24 Fragrant teaflavoring shrubs 26 Quakers in
forests? 27 Emailed
28 Ink on a
billionaire? 29 Extreme disorder 30 Through 31 Madrid mama
bear
33 “The Bald Soprano” playwright
34 City center street
performer? 38 Flash __ 39 Third-party
accounts 43 Provide with the
latest
44 Green stone 45 Where one trying to score may be out
46 U.S. Army medal 48 Classic Pontiac 49 __ pool
50 Like some
stockings 51 Congers
53 React to a sprint 55 A montage of them was presented at the 2006 Oscars 56 Native Alaskans 58 Fencing moves 61 Nothing special 62 Bit of carelessness at cocktail hour? 64 Long stretches 66 They’re usually
unbeatable 68 Accustoms (to) 69 Storied building
material
70 Fit
71 Feds under Ness 72 Current amount 73 Mail ctrs. 75 Stadium cheer 78 Offbeat
79 Eyed impolitely,
with “at”
80 Bath buggy
81 Not at all light 83 Corn syrup
component 84 Joplin’s “Maple
Leaf __” 85 Postal mishap? 89 Legislative group,
e.g. 91 Backing-up key 92 Bit in a horse’s
mouth 93 Cleaning tools,
for short 97 Starter for a noncompetitive race?
99 Deli stock
101 Formed with the tip of the tongue, like the letter L 103 Property
receivers, at law 104 Reality TV
believer? 106 Axes
107 KC-to-NYC dir. 108 “The Ice Storm”
director Lee 109 Acted like 110 Most massive known dwarf planet
111 Rehab hurdle 112 Screening org. 113 Western movie
threat
DOWN
1 Imagine,
colloquially 2 Horse-and-buggy
ride sounds 3 Cod relatives 4 Library vol. ID 5 Letters after pis 6 1906 Runabout,
e.g.
7 Shows hospitality toward, as a visitor
8 Before long, to
Shakespeare 9 Bird named for
its cry
10 Annoy
11 “This seems
familiar” word 12 Jubilance 13 University of
Idaho city 14 Malice
15 Spider that stalks
its prey 16 Opening
number? 17 Surely is
18 Con job
23 Bar specification 25 “Death in Venice”
author
28 Aspect
30 Bugs with brakes 32 Wrapped in a
blanket, say 34 Mosque toppers 35 Due
36 Block off 37 Award-winning Mark Tatulli comic strip 39 Relaxes
40 Apply, as a brake 41 Lawn chair 42 Hanks sobriquet for films like “You’ve Got Mail”? 44 Fashionista dog? 46 Knish sellers 47 Ooze
49 Oxlike antelope 52 Stretch
53 Letters before chi 54 Duchamp
contemporary 56 “What about
me?!” 57 Layered Italian
dessert 58 General direction 59 Bullfight figure 60 Traps 62 Long-running
forensic series 63 First name in an
1857 case 65 Activist Greta
Thunberg, e.g. 67 Hosp. units 69 Suspect
72 End of a ball
game?
73 Like table salt 74 Composer of solo
violin études 75 “Vive le __!” 76 Karen of
“Starman” 77 Fashion lines 80 Introduction 81 Portraitist John
Singer __ 82 Long-vowel
symbols 83 Tatami, e.g. 85 Leave
speechless 86 “Thanks, it’s
already done” 87 “Stay” singer Lisa seen in GEICO ads
88 “Get a move on!” 90 Salad green 93 Like some
popular videos 94 Perceptive 95 Pole tossed by a
Scot
96 Downhill traveler 98 Applications 100 Discipline with
stretches
101 Lie next to 102 Hide
104 Cricket club 105 Thurman of
“Pulp Fiction”