Houston Chronicle Sunday

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SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

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1 Like a bull in a china shop 7 Blue 11 Band whose songs are featured in a hit 2001 musical and 2018 movie 15 Tube tops 19 Where Hemingway wrote “The Old Man and the Sea” 20 Instrument whose name sounds like a rebuke of Obama’s dog 21 Case load? 22 River that formed an extension of the Mason-Dixon line 23 One who’s just moved from Portland? 26 Bit of baseball gear 27 “Jeez, I heard you already!” 28 Number 29 Game played with a dog 30 Peak 31 Tennis great who wrote the 2009 tell-all “Open” 32 Major science journal 33 Satchel for a guy 35 Convert a morgue worker into a spy? 37 Google ____ 38 Pre-euro currency 39 Smooch 40 Leave gobsmacked 41 Common plural verb 42 Staple of many a “Real Housewives” episode 44 One of the Leewards 48 LeBron basketball sneaker, e.g.? 51 Foe in “Wonder Woman” 55 --56 Ready for the recycling bin 57 Field trip chaperone 59 Surrender 60 Celebrity chef Oliver 61 Hunger for 62 Will of “Arrested Developmen­t” 64 Determined to do 65 Flower said to cover the plains of Hades 68 Brand of 33-Down 69 Intense blowback against a signature Trump policy proposal? 72 Large mobile devices, to use a modern portmantea­u 74 Hair net 75 Amazon threat 76 Muppet eagle 79 Highest draft category 80 Garbage barge 9/23/18 81 Tour de France setting 82 Bad person to get paired with for a class assignment? 87 Bender 89 “Present!” 90 Like more 91 Gulf mogul 92 Rulers during the Time of Troubles 93 Jewish mysticism 94 Harmonized 98 Triple-A requests 99 Nickname for a superserio­us congressma­n? 101 Trainer of Rey in “The Last Jedi” 102 Eager 103 Fixtures in every Vegas casino 104 Ontario city across the river from Buffalo, for short 105 Craftsy online store 106 Cay 107 For takeout 108 Exemplar of cruelty

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1 Follower of “ah-ahah” 2 Fun adventure 3 Colored layer 4 Hungarians, by another name 5 Noses around 6 Northerner 7 One of the Gilmore Girls 8 Old sports org. with the Kentucky Colonels 9 U.S. food giant 10 Suck-up 11 Red with embarrassm­ent 12 Fad toy of the 1990s 13 Tendency 14 What’s better when it’s fine? 15 Awaken 16 Yellowfin 17 Workers who are always retiring? 18 “Take that!” 24 Strain 25 Tweet, e.g. 29 Language of Omar Khayyam’s “Rubáiyát” 31 Glows 32 Caution on an airplane wing 33 Dip for mozzarella sticks 34 Affecting radically 35 x 36 Biceps exercise 37 Attack on a big scale 38 Uncool 42 Gig for an aspiring electronic musician 43 Root word? 44 Citation 45 What “...” may represent 46 What “#” means in chess notation 47 Slim 49 Surrendere­d 50 “Take a hike!” 52 Like an uncorrupte­d file 53 Academy Awards prop 54 Popular Belgian brews, informally 58 Hurt 60 Ballet jump 63 Music genre at a rave 64 Provider of green juice? 65 Bother 66 Put away 67 Vietnamese broth-and-noodles soup 70 “Yeah, right” 71 Academy Awards prop 73 Garden toilers 76 Saliva 77 Words from a T.S.A. agent before a patdown 78 Punk rock hairstyles 80 Guarantee 81 U.S.P.S. package status 83 Purchase at a sports stadium 84 Sophistica­ted 85 How whiskey is often served 86 Financiall­y solvent 87 Blue man group? 88 Something made to be destroyed 91 Where soccer was invented: Abbr. 93 Hitchcock triple feature? 94 Should that be the case 95 “Hey ____” (start of a phone voice command) 96 R&B great Redding 97 A bit of disputin’ from Putin? 99 Chairlift item 100 Clickable tag on BuzzFeed beside “LOL” and “WTF”

By Joel Fagliano /Edited By Will Shortz

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