Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

INSIDE OUT

- By Jeff Chen /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Per 7 Per ____ 11 Feature on the back of some pajamas 15 Conversati­on interrupte­r in a car, at times 18 Cured salmon 19 Jazzy Anita 20 Top-shelf 21 Go bad 22 Lists about a port on the Black Sea 24 Guaranteed to succeed 26 Auspice 27 Referring to this clue within this clue, e.g. 28 Neighborho­ods surrounded by crime 30 1970s-’90s chess champion 33 Fill-in 35 ____ Store 36 Laura of “ER” 37 Provide cover for, say 39 Fad dance move of 2015 40 Blue-green hue 42 Style of Radio City Music Hall, informally 43 Metal pin stuck in parts of sinks 47 Figure skater Sonja 49 Shout after seeing Godzilla 50 Motorsport­s vehicle 51 ____ ammoniac 52 Good times 54 Capital of the world’s happiest country, per a 2017 U.N. survey 55 QB’s cry 56 Unpleasant 58 The dark side 59 One of the principal deities in Hinduism 61 Sliding item on a car 64 Carne ____ (taco option) 67 ____ Dimas, Calif. 68 Flourishes around monsoon events 71 Sample-collecting org. 73 Lush 75 React to a haymaker 76 Slack-jawed 78 Pot note 79 Heaters 80 Major investors in start-up cos. 82 Its filling contained lard until 1997 83 Dangerous vipers 86 Ka-boom! 87 1972 No. 1 hit with the lyric “No one’s ever gonna keep me down again” 89 Regret 90 Ranger’s wear 92 Fear among undergroun­d workers 95 It goes downhill 97 First name in 1950s comedy 98 Actor John of the “Harold & Kumar” films 99 Nordstrom competitor 100 Shades of tan 102 “Pimp My Ride” network 103 Curry of the N.B.A. 105 Moves, as a plant 109 Coming up in vetoes 112 Got 100 on 114 “I’ll get this done” 115 Licorice-flavored extract 116 Crew found inside again and again 120 Spy novelist Deighton 121 Poet ____ St. Vincent Millay 122 Kook 123 “Fawlty Towers” or “The Vicar of Dibley” 124 Need a lift? 125 Looking up 126 And others, for short 127 Gets fresh with

DOWN

1 Nose of a wine 2 Single-____ (like a certain health care system) 3 Does his name ring a bell? 4 Pipe joint 5 “Cool” sort 6 Reason to pull an all-nighter 7 Partner of a crossed “t” 8 Creative sort 9 Something pressed against a conch 10 Game predecesso­r of Riven 11 Certain spa treatment 12 Baker’s container 13 The “I” of “The King and I” 14 ____ dish 15 Bad puns 16 Song with verses by four or more rappers 17 Mounties’ hats 18 Understand 23 “Go” preceder 25 Give for a while 29 Hindu exercise system 31 “Do as I say!” 32 Climbing plant in the pea family 34 Broadcaste­r of many Ken Burns documentar­ies 38 Something to work through with a therapist 41 Benghazi native 43 Waste 44 Actress Phylicia of “Creed” 45 “Fighting” collegiate team 46 Stella ____ (beer) 48 Another name for Dido 51 Hybrid activewear 53 Santa ____ winds 56 Tailor’s measure 57 See 74-Down 60 Take in 62 Blood type of a “universal donor” 63 Ardent 65 “Oh, heavens!” 66 Take off an invisibili­ty cloak 69 Lit a fire under 70 Annual event viewed live by hundreds of millions of people, with “the” 72 Big stretches 74 With 57-Down, something filling fills 77 Graceful losers, e.g. 81 Besmirch 83 Magazine places 84 Don Quixote’s unseen beloved 85 Sign with an antlered pictogram 86 Award won by “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” 88 Speedboat follower 91 Continues 92 Hosts, for short 93 Words of empathy 94 “You shouldn’t’ve done that” 96 The Blues Brothers and others 101 Emulate Snidely Whiplash 104 Hack down 106 Chilled 107 Costa Ricans, in slang 108 Modern education acronym 110 Brouhaha 111 Lid irritant 113 “I call that!” 117 Very in 118 Second Amendment org. 119 U.S.O. audience

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©2017 New York Times 12/3/17

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