Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

IT ALL ADDS UP

- By Alex Eaton-Salners /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 List of courses 5 ____ alla Bolognese (meatbased pasta sauce)

9 Don’s partner in the underworld 13 Melting point? 19 Condo, e.g. 20 Crowning

21 Crew’s control? 22 Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy 23 Bygone office group

25 Final remark in an argument

27 Scratch (out)

28 Like the luck of the draw

30 ), when it follows :31 H

32 “Seems thatway” 34 Pieces of gangs 36 Pain reliever containing aspirin and caffeine

38 Golfer Ernie

39 Gave birth 41 Sheltered balcony with abundant natural light 45 Wished

47 Archer’s pride

48 “The Dark Knight ____,“2012 superherom­ovie 50 Bring back on board

51 Actress Jessica 52 No Doubt vocalist Gwen

54 Best-selling self-help book subtitled “TimeTested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right” 56 Hot spots

58 Moved briskly 60 Council of

____ (CounterRef­ormation body) 61 More to the point 62 Part of Q.E.D. 63 Chooses

65 Wanders around the head of a line, briefly? 66 Long-running showwhose iconic hourglass is in the Smithsonia­n collection

70 Rotating engine part

73 Con ____ (with animation, musically)

74 Hot spot

75 It has issues with celebritie­s

80 See 17-Down 82 Ostensible

84 Had a heaping helping of humility 85 Catchy 1950s slogan

87 Send anotherway 89 Let goof

90 Serious

91 Runway profession­al

93 Little louse 94 Purposes 95 Car-stereo choices 97 Zoning, so to speak 99 Something that’s

helpful in a dash? 100 Emotive brass

sound

102 Night call

103 Marketer’s target 105 Bumbling sort

107 They outrank

viscounts

109 Legendary sea

monster

111 Floor cleaner, for

short

113 Union Pacific

vehicle

116 Neither gains nor

loses

118 Chant for the

Dream Team

119 Eldest of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters”

120 Town near Buffalo that sounds like paradise

121 From the start

122 “And nowgood____ to our waking souls”: John Donne

123 Desire

124 Digital IDs

125 ____-X (cut)

DOWN

1 Creative inspiratio­n 2 Miso-soup mushroom

3 Made the rounds? 4 Native of the Beehive State 5 Knock on, as a window

6 Oodles

7 Words said with a post-match handshake

8 Send to the cloud, say

9 Camp sight

10 Sighing sounds

11 Not customtail­ored

12 Country singer K.T. ____

13 HBO show co-starring Issa Rae

14 Dove’s sound 15 Doctor’s reassuranc­e before a shot 16 Tech-news-website 17 With 80-Across, longtime

CBS News correspond­ent 18 Conclusion 24 Smelter’s inputs 26 “C’est la vie”

29 Spot from which a dove once notably flew

33 Makes cloudy

35 1943 Pulitzerwi­nning Thornton Wilder play, with “The”

37 Like the noble gases

39 Singles, e.g.

40 “That so?”

42 Steams up 43 “Garden” or “Center,” often 44 Pain in the neck 45 100 satang, in Thailand

46 On the safe side 47 Spiritual retreat 49 Intervene

53 1960s sitcom set at Fort Courage

55 Set in aman cave 57 Bill’s time-traveling partner in film 59 “Holy ____!”

62 Favor

64 The deadly sins, e.g.

67 House involved in the Wars of the Roses

68 Scenic vista

69 Holy ____

70 Orange or plum 71 Fleet of foot

72 Qualifies to fight in a certain class

76 “We are the

99%” movement, familiarly 77 Journalist­s might

be invited to it 78 Prospector’s find 79 Flock members 80 Misarticul­ate, in a way

81 Home of a mythologic­al lion 83 Language of Pakistan 84 Working away

86 Au naturel 88 Garments for acrobats

92 “Wow, that’s beautiful!”

96 Big bat

98 Ranker of the rich 99 Greasy goo

101 It takes a bow

103 Partner of rice

104 Lesswell done

105 Thereabout­s

106 In the distance

108 + or –

110 Sharp

112 Monk’s hood

113 “Fee, fi, fo, ____” 114 Military support grp.

115 D.C. player

117 Designer Posen

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