San Antonio Express-News (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
STRETCHING EXERCISES
ACROSS
1 Muhammad Ali’s “Me!
Whee!,” e.g.
5 “S.N.L.” alum
Hartman
9 Start off on the wrong
foot, maybe?
13 Contaminate
19 What may be in a
star’s orbit
21 Throw with power
22 Alleviate
23 Sheep’s milk product
that’s often grated
25 Classic name for the
land north of England 26 Course taken in
shorts, often
27 “Ya don’t say!”
28 765-foot-long “water coaster” on Disney cruises
30 Countertenor
31 SWAT team or Navy
SEAL group, e.g.
34 Name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet
37 Epitome of
smoothness
39 “Roots” author Haley 40 Shocker, at times
41 & 44 It goes around
every hour
46 Gaming novice,
slangily
48 Secured skates, with
“up”
50 Float component
51 Act as a blueprint for,
as DNA for proteins
53 Brawled, in the
backwoods
55 “Howdy, everybody!” 57 Withstand
58 Fly off the shelves
59 Like bread made from
almond flour
61 “Oh, hell yes!”
64 Turn red, say
65 Certain formal duds 66 Nice round number? 67 Bollywood megastar
Aishwarya ____
68 “My dear man”
71 Grammy category won multiple times by Kendrick Lamar
77 Racy selfie posted for likes on social media, in modern lingo
80 Not a problem
81 Kennel club category 82 Makeup table
83 “Dead serious!”
85 “And, uh, that about
covers it”
86 Supporting role
87 New students at Princeton or Yale in 1969
88 There’s a famous “half” one in Yosemite National Park
90 Vessel protected by
Hera
91 Uninteresting
92 Encouraging cry
94 Bottom
96 Saves, with “away”
98 “Ain’t dead ____!”
99 They often come to professors with excuses 102Hoodwink
104Get snake eyes, say 107 Lacking experience 108 Aligns, in a wood
shop
112 Set straight
113 Oscar winner for his role as a Mexican narc in “Traffic”
117 Price to pay,
informally
118 Major piece
119 Miniature for a World
War II buff
120Were running mates? 121 Quite a jerk
122 Make an appearance 123 Recess for prayer
DOWN
1 Verve
2 It’s 50/50
3 “That kinda stuff”:
Abbr.
4 Buckaroos
5 Mint
6 Fictional pilot with the line “You like me because I’m a scoundrel”
7 “Here ____ again”
8 Milk for un café
9 Onetime MTV reality series filmed near Hollywood
10 Recall regretfully
11 Auditing org. 12 Courtroom
statements
13 Bone to pick
14 Lighter than lite
15 Word after soul or
solid
16 “You, too?!” playfully 17 Smart
18 Wood that’s resistant
to warping
20 Mountain chain that stretches from Kazakhstan to the Arctic
24 Do a waving motion
by the ocean, say
29 “That proves it”
32 Shade similar to
verdigris
33 Distinguish oneself 34 Positioned to win
35 Shared with for quick
feedback
36 Cut into
38 Region with a Unification Flag for sporting events
41 Pen pa?
42 Just hanging out
43 It really blows
45 Knucklehead
47 Flinch (at)
49 Ending for a dean’s
address 50 Cable network with movies like “Sharktopus” and “Mansquito”
52 Least klutzy
54 Made a boo-boo
55 “I won’t ____ it!”
56 Pending
58 Risqué communiqué 60 Ancient home to
Priam’s Treasure
62 Out of practice
63 Quick refresher
68 Visibly scornful
69 Cold that just won’t
go away?
70 Superpopular
71 Gooey spread
72 Where gymnast Simone Biles won four golds
73 One-celled organism 74 Enter unannounced,
in a way
75 Photog’s setting
76 Name of the girl on “Game of Thrones” who said “A girl has no name”
77 Spot between
programs, e.g.
78 Beehive material
79 Annual May race,
informally 84 One of three characters in “M*A*S*H”
85 Ones behind the
scenes
87 Consider, with “on” 89 High-priority item
92 Vocalist’s asset
93 Directly criticized on
Twitter with an “@” 95 Gillette razor name 97 Literature Nobelist
Bellow
99 Bit of faulty logic
100 Sandwich supposedly named after low-income
New Orleans workers
101 Begins a triathlon 103Like the clue
for 103-Down? 104Teased incessantly 105Kind of cavity 106Hard vehicle to park 109Telenovela, e.g.
110 Some drink
dispensers
111 Extend (out)
114 Org. with lots of
money to waste?
115 Order member
116 “Ver-r-ry interesting!”
WHAT TO WATCH
from the publishers of TV Guide 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival Day 4
TCM, all day
The fourth and final day of the 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival features one of its standout highlights bright and early in the morning on Turner Classic Movies: a 70thanniversary screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 suspense masterpiece “Strangers on a Train.” The film will be accompanied by a retrospective piece from Warner Bros. titled “Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic.” Other festival highlights today on TCM: “The China Syndrome” (1979), featuring an introduction that star Michael Douglas recorded for the 2017 festival; a restored version of the pre-Code drama “Her Man” (1930), making its TCM premiere; a restored version of “Princess Tam-Tam” (1935), the French film starring Josephine Baker; and “Fame” (1980), with an intro by co-star Debbie Allen. Other festival films also air throughout the day on TCM, and are available to stream on HBO Max. For more information, visit filmfestival.tcm.com.
NASCAR Cup Series at Darlington Raceway
FS1, 2:30 p.m. Live The Cup Series races on South Carolina’s “Too Tough to Tame” track during NASCAR’s Official
Throwback Weekend, which pays tribute to stock-car racing’s roots and features cars with the sport’s most memorable paint schemes.
American Ninja Warrior
NBC, 6 p.m.
In the inaugural ANW Women’s Championship, 12 elite female competitors battle across two daunting courses. The top four finishers advance to race head-to-head on the Power Tower, with the winner taking home $50,000 and becoming the first ever American Ninja Warrior Women’s Champion.
Bless the Harts
Fox, 6:30 p.m.
When the Harts are stuck inside on Violet’s (voice of Jillian Bell) rainy spring break, Jenny (voice of Kristen Wiig) gets incredibly competitive about board games in the new episode “When You Lose, You Win.”
The Equalizer
CBS, 7 p.m.
In the new episode “Lifeline,” McCall (Queen Latifah) works remotely to aid a journalist who’s being pursued by a hit squad in France.
The Simpsons
Fox, 7 p.m.
Marge (voice of Julie Kavner) is hurt when Lisa (voice of Yeardley Smith) makes a shocking decision about college in the new episode “Mother and Child Reunion.”
Fear the Walking Dead
AMC, 8 p.m.
Grace (Karen David) sees what’s become of her friends after she has been gone for years, and struggles to put the puzzle pieces together on what has transpired.