The Commercial Appeal

The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Over The Moon

- 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 Insurancef­raud ploy

110 Determiner of cannabis legality, e.g.

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 83Archaeol­ogist’s

find

84 Brian once of

glam rock 86 U.S. health org. 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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