Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

WEST-SOUTHWEST

- By Julian Lim /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Amenity in G.M. vehicles 7 R.N.’sworkplace 10 “Awake in the Dark” author

15 Down at the bar? 19 Peace and quiet 20 Tease constantly, with “on”

21 Bottom lines? 22 Spanish Steps city 23 What an unsteady tightropew­alker may do?

25 Number cruncher, inWall Street lingo 26 Spelling clarificat­ion

27 CPR experts

28 “____ to My Family” (song by the Cranberrie­s) 29 “It’s just too$%#@ hot!,” e.g.?

31 Fasten again, as documents

34 Dish cooked in an undergroun­d oven 35 Bolshoi debut of 1877

36 Thesis defenses, e.g.

37 Thereabout­s 39 Me-day destinatio­n 40 What a beekeeper receives atwork? 45 Pettily punishes 50 Dynamite

51 Explode on Twitter, say

52 “____: Ragnarok” (2017 blockbuste­r) 54 Catty comments 55 Upstanding person 57 Flood protector 59 Bird that carries Sinbad to safety 61 “Little Fockers” actress Polo

62 Little auk, by another name 65 Japanese audio brand

66 Cousin of a clarinet 67 Why the knight went shopping? 73 Letters no longer seen on most phones

74 Ingredient in une quiche

75 Source of the words “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;/It is the green-ey’d monster ... “76 Bohemian

77 “Hate Me Now” rapper, 1999

78 2019 award for “What the Constituti­on Means to Me” 79 “Magnifico!”

84 Fully grown fillies 86 Statistici­an’s calculatio­n

88 Cruz known as the Queen of Salsa 91 Regenerist skincare brand 92 Upfront?

94 Hogs, after being scrubbed clean? 97 Even a little bit 99 Take ____ from (follow)

100 Thrill

11/15/20

101 Resident of the lowest circle of hell, in Dante’s “Inferno”

106 Spring setting in

San Antonio: Abbr. 107 Border of a lagoon,

say

111 What the ecstatic

janitor did?

113 Porcine pad

114 Paul of “There Will

Be Blood”

115 Actress Taylor

116 “Stop it, I’m

blushing”

117 “Michael Jordan’s Top10 Free Throws” and others?

120 Rental units: Abbr. 121 Ballet shoe

applicatio­n

122 Shakespear­ean

prince

123 Cuts off

124 Interlock

125 Choral compositio­n 126 N.F.C. South city:

Abbr.

127 Kids’ camp crafts

project

DOWN

1 Figure-skating champ Brian 2 Reinvented selfimage

3 Tiffs

4 Spots to shop for tots

5 The Sun Devils’ sch.

6 One squat, for example

7 What soap bubbles do

8 Pet shop purchase 9 “Yuck!”

10 Sublime

11 Toto’s creator 12 They’re full of questions

13 Holds on to one’s Essence, say? 14 Fasteners of some heels

15 Go at a glacial pace 16 Book before Joel 17 Boat sometimes built around a whalebone frame 18 Soul, e.g.

24 Give a shout 29 Nothing of the ____

30 Digital sounds? 32 Something up one’s sleeve 33 Original site of the Elgin Marbles 34 Beyoncé, for one 38 “Howneat!”

40 Uncle ____ 41 Heartbreak

42 Martin who wrote the “Baby-Sitters Club” series

43 Conclude

(with) 44 Coarsegrai­ned igneous rock 46 Tagging along 47 Martial-arts-based workout

48 Trial’s partner

49 Went crosscount­rying, say 53 Spiked wheel on a boot spur 56 Farm-to-table program, in brief 58 Shish ____ 60 Scientist who said, “The cosmos is also within us. We’remade of star-stuff”

63 First string

64 Puts out 65 Howobedien­t dogs walk

67 Gets a head?

68 Host of an Apple TV+ book club 69 In again

70 More sardonic 71 Paperless airplane reservatio­n

72 Trifling amount 78 Because (of)

80 Sky fall?

81 Whitney of cotton gin fame

82 Headed

83 “Later!”

85 Button on an old video game controller

87 Org. that publishes the journal Emotion

89 Prepare for a guided meditation, perhaps

90 Cavity fillers 93 Homogeneou­s 95 ____ Gobert, 2018 and 2019 N.B.A. Defensive Player of the Year 96 Benchmark: Abbr. 98 “Over here!” 101 Religion symbolized by a moon and star

102 Make a choice on

Tinder

103 Isle of Man men,

e.g.

104 Gorillalik­e

105 Suite meet?

108 Made lighter

109 One might begin

“Dear Diary ... “110 “All That Jazz”

director

112 Screenwrit­er Lee,

sister of Spike

113 De-bug?

117 ____ cha beef

(Chinese entree) 118 V-J Day prez

119 Ni’ihau necklace

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