San Antonio Express-News (Sunday)
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
INITIAL IMPRESSIONS by Dan Schoenholz / Edited by Will Shortz
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Advantage
Tony, e.g.
Plunder
Weighed in
Cow : herd :: ____ : troop
One with a discerning palate
C-Span?
Start brawling Drink-name suffix Earth goddess
Going from Point A to Point B
Miss piggy?
Class acts?
Actress Gershon
Put back on the market, as real estate 37 Feel bad
38 Champagne name
40 P-trap?
44 G-force?
47 Union concern
48 Setting for C. S. Lewis’s “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
49 NPR host Shapiro
50 Words said in passing?
Deliberate betrayal Butt
Father figures?
Guam or the U.S. Virgin Islands: Abbr. 59 Surgeons’ professional org.
2012 Best Picture winner
61 Anastasia ____, protagonist of “Fifty Shades of Grey”
Make mention of
Top supporter?
Susan who portrayed the youngest child on “The Brady Bunch”
65 G-flat?
69 Deodorant type
72 Be short
73 Make music
74 Like Crater Lake, compared with any other U.S. lake
LeBron James in his N.B.A. debut, e.g.
79 Anheuser-Busch InBev’s stock ticker symbol
Avocado pit, for one Cause for revolution, perhaps
Escort’s offering
“Yep, that happened!” [And like magic ... it’s gone!]
87 First of ten?
88 Compete in pursuit of 90 Abbr. on a flight board 91 D-Con?
94 E-bond?
96 Conversely, in brief
Worry for a Great Depression bank
98 Ladybug, e.g.
99 Cereal box abbr.
101 Strike-out specialists? 106-Across of 105-Across
Son of Zeus
of legend
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30 31 33 34 51 53 54 57
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78 80 81
82 83 85
97 105See 106Out 108 109Bird
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Fast-food chain with Famous Star burgers 113 C-sharp?
116 Black-and-white dessert
Take care of some personal baggage
118 Word after green or smoke
Things consumed for psychedelic trips 120Men in black, say
121 Deck originally known as “carte da trionfi” (“cards of triumph”)
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119 DOWN
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Kind of news often aired at 6 and 11 p.m. 2 Classical poem form 3 Drives home, say
4 French article
5 Floral archway
6 Pop group with a dedicated museum in Stockholm
“____ is mainly a catalog of blunders”: Churchill
8 Means
9 “The Burghers of
Calais” sculptor
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10 Cruella de Vil, for one 11 Beat oneself up over, say
Mimic
Little beef
____ kicks (ab exercise) Pitch-correcting devices
Tribe of southern Montana
Range of knowledge School administrator French for “born” Appalls
Aesthetically pretentious, informally
____ card
Ruby, e.g.
Carter who portrayed Wonder Woman
36 Noncommittal response to “You coming?”
Load off one’s mine? Homonym of 39-Down
42 Trace of color
43 Wore
44 Gallivants (about) 45 Part of Q.E.D.
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46 Ralph who founded the American Museum of Tort Law Got ready (for) Mosque leader Launched
Product once advertised with the line “The splendor of your skin”
58 Datum for a chauffeur, for short Take in, maybe Supporter of Roosevelt’s agenda 63 Actor whose breakout role came as a shirtless cowboy in “Thelma and Louise” 64 Singles
66 Hardly cheery
67 Hoppy request at happy hour
Enlighten
Wine barrel strip Climate change, e.g. Looked back on Alphabetized, say Wind farm output: Abbr.
77 Stink
79 Split open
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80 Lorelei’s lure
81 May honorees
83 Mad (at)
84 ____ Hill (‘90s R&B group)
Decoration at el Palacio Real de Madrid
89 Where livestock eat 91 Mastered
92 Divide into three parts 93 Pattern that’s hard to break
Nasty looks
Lento or allegro
86 95
100 102Retreats 103Loggers’ 104Track 105Rap
107
competition
lyrics, in slang Post-O.R. destination, often
Doesn’t just assume
110 The Rockies, on scoreboards
Day ____
Sail fixed to a bowsprit
114 “Darn!” in Dortmund 115 Baseball’s dead-ball ____ (around 190020)
108 111 112
Touch of Evil
TCM, 9 a.m.
Orson Welles crafted another masterpiece as he costars as Hank Quinlan, a crooked police chief in a border town who frames a Mexican youth for a bombing as part of an intricate criminal plot.
Bless the Harts
Fox, 6:30 p.m.
Wayne (voice of Ike Barinholtz) gets a new truck but has issues letting go of his old one in the new episode “Haul Force One.”
Biography
A&E, 7 p.m.
This film chronicles the wild life of one of WWE’s greatest performers. After drug addiction nearly cost him his life, Shawn Michaels, aka “The Heartbreak Kid,” made one of the most improbable latecareer comebacks in WWE history.
Shahs of Sunset
Bravo, 7 p.m.
In the hopes of mending their 30-year relationship and healing their fractured friend group, Reza and MJ plan a trip to Palm Springs to celebrate Mike’s birthday. GG, looking to stay out of the drama, embraces being a new mom to her son, Elijah.
The Equalizer
CBS, 7 p.m.
McCall (Queen Latifah) races to help a concerned wife locate her husband before he helps an extremist group carry out a bombing.
Naked and Afraid XL
Discovery Channel, 7 p.m.
Two weeks into the 60-day Louisiana swamp challenge, parasitic infections endanger even more survivalists, reducing one camp to a solo resident.
The Simpsons
Fox, 7 p.m.
A British secret agent (voice of guest star Stephen Fry) comes to Springfield in search of a Russian spy in the new episode “The Man From G.R.A.M.P.A.”
Poisoned in Paradise
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, 7 p.m.
When a waitress seeking Jeff ’s help is poisoned, he must uncover the mysterious plot she’d tried to warn him about.
Sorority Sister Killer
Lifetime, 7 p.m.
After her best friend, Tara, dies mysteriously at a frat party, Lacey is arrested for her murder after she quits pledging the same sorority at Tara because of an initiation hazing event. Lacey’s mom joins her in ferreting out the truth.
The Girlfriend Experience
Starz, 7 p.m.
Iris’ ( Julia Goldani Telles) client relationships seem increasingly uncanny, and advice from Tawny isn’t what Iris was hoping for. Her father’s illness catches up with Iris in undeniable ways.
Fear the Walking Dead
AMC, 8 p.m.
June ( Jenna Elfman) splits off from the group in an effort to gather information to help stop an oncoming threat.