Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

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ACROSS

1 Boasts

6 Longtime anthropomo­rphic aardvark on PBS 12 Australia’s national women’s basketball team

17 Sounds “everywhere,” in a children’s song 18 Gloomy

19 Soup server

20 Add insult to injury 22 “Whenever I want you, all I have to do” is this, in an Everly Brothers hit 23 Farming prefix 24 “Gracias a ____” 25 Jam producer

27 Jack Frost’s bite

29 Bits of terre in la mer

30 Churns

32 Author Harper 33 He loved Lucy

34 Dry

35 Tea type

36 “A Life for the

____” (Mikhail Glinka opera)

38 1940s vice president who went on to become president 39 “In Praise of Folly” writer

41 How to take glib promises

44 Dog/dog separator 45 Subject of many a negotiatio­n

46 Days ____

47 Jeanne d’Arc, e.g.: Abbr.

48 Enlivens

52 Big feller?

53 Fails to be

54 City on the Brazos River

55 Propeller blades? 57 ____ Crunch

59 Gobs

64 Item often numbered from 3 to 9

65 Boardwalk buy 68 Gush

69 Time magazine’s Person of the Century runner-up, 1999

71 Strain

72 ____ Westover, author of the

2018 best-selling memoir “Educated” 73 Big name in theaters

74 Till compartmen­t 76 “Silent Spring” subject, for short 78 Nothingbur­ger 80 Descartes’s conclusion

83 Energy

84 Least interestin­g 86 It gets the ball rolling

87 2002 Winter Olympics locale 90 Looks through 94 Abdominal-pain producer

95 Way of securing payment

96 Fizzy drinks

98 Knitting stitch

99 “Holy ____!”

100 Word after bargain or overhead 101 Emulated a kitten 102 ____ expense

(free)

103 Org. with the slogan “Every child. One voice.”

104 Brand with the slogan “The Art of Childhood”

107 What flies usually become

109 Wimp

110 It’s held by a winner 112 You, according to Jesus in Matthew 5:13

115 Follow

116 Reflexive pronoun

117 Fishes

118 Moved like Jagr? 119 Shaded growths

120 Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish, to teenagers

DOWN

1 Orlando ____, twotime Gold Glove Award winner 2 Almost won

3 Martial artist’s belt

4 Appurtenan­ce for a T.S.A. agent

5 Many Dorothy Parker pieces

6 Big 12 college town 7 Column crosser 8 Brings (out)

9 Time of day

10 Sch. with 50+ alums who went on to become astronauts 11 Warning sign

12 Blast from the past 13 Setting for a classic Georges Seurat painting, en français

14 Fruity quaff

15 South American cowboys

16 Like Havarti or Muenster

17 Reveille player

20 Jack up

21 Repeated part of a pop song

26 Kind of wheel

28 Peak

31 Heroine of Bizet’s “The Pearl Fishers” 33 Cozy spot

35 Shows how it’s done

36 Climate change, notably

37 State

38 Refried bean 40 Astronaut Jemison of the space shuttle Endeavour 42 Reduction in what one owes 43 Headaches 45 Nursery-rhyme couple

48 Gulp

49 Prefix with medic or military

50 Princess Diana, for one

51 Negotiator with G.M.

53 Suckling

56 Disco ____

(“The Simpsons” character) 58 Memorized 60 Exasperate

61 Fabric with sheen 62 Actress ____ Rachel Wood 63 Potential source of a political scandal 66 Evasive maneuver

67 Opposite of “to” 70 Behave like a helicopter parent 75 Attendant of Desdemona in “Othello”

77 Lightly roast

79 Continenta­l abbr.

80 Clustered

81 Meted out 82 Best-actress

Oscar winner between Streep and Field

84 Agent of change 85 Attention seekers 88 Critical

89 Fictional exemplar of Christmas spirit 90 Stir-fried noodle dish

91 Sews up

92 Senator Joni and Dadaist Max

93 What water in a bucket might do 97 Source of the line “Man does not live by bread alone”: Abbr.

100 Boxer, for example 101 Handcuffs

104 This, for one

105 “____ be in England”

106 Not so much

108 Post

111 “Tut-tut” 113 Argentina’s leading daily sports newspaper 114 Super ending

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