Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

GET OUT OF HERE!

- By Tony Orbach /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Impromptu musical get-together, informally

8 Counting tools

13 Most up to the task

19 Not much

20 Oddball

22 Commotion 23 Archaeolog­ist’s assertion about a finding?

25 Jackson not in the Jackson 5 26 Benchmark: Abbr. 27 Members of the genus Lepus

28 Some overseas seasons

30 Common vinaigrett­e ingredient

31 Russian pancakes 33 Swim-team guru? 36 Geri ____, late jazz pianist

38 Authority

39 Used to be

40 Hire Phil Collins’s longtime band for a gig?

44 Brand that comes out a head? 45 Explosive sound 49 Curtain-call actions 50 One of 32 in the Thai alphabet

51 The Serengeti, e.g.? 54 TV journalist Curry 55 Long

56 Press

57 Covers with goo 58 Speck

59 Quits 62 Shadowduri­ng an eclipse

63 Knowing everything that’s available to view on Netflix?

67 Look forward to 68 Clay-based 69 Unpleasant 70 Clishmacla­ver or bavardage, to use some fancy language

72 Trim

73 A/Cmeasures

74 Hwy. offense 77 Amenity offered at an internet cafe? 79 Nickname for baseball great

Ernie Banks

81 Gets out in dodgeball, say 82 Sticks in

83 Yes, in Brest

84 Bit of reading at a barmitzvah? 86 Director Lee 87 Entertain 89 Deconstruc­t for analysis

90 Stand-up’s bombs?

95 Keys near G’s

98 Actor Rutger of “Blind Fury”

99 Keister

100 Less friendly 101 Assistance 104 Peninsula shared by Italy, Slovenia and Croatia

106 Art-shopworker’s

manual?

110 Urbanize

111 Spit it out!

112 Part of a canopy 113 The plus side

114 Cuisine that specialize­s in beef barbecue 115 No-parking-zone fixture

DOWN

1 Pokes

2 Bushels

3 “Whoa!”

4 Geneviève, for one: Abbr.

5 Imprinting indelibly 6 M.I.T.’s business school 7 Mathematic­ian Poincaré with a famous conjecture 8 Flabbergas­ts

9 ____ E. King, singer and co-composer of “Stand by Me” 10 River islet

11 Ye olde news announcers

12 “Same here!”

13 Knee part, for short 14 Fan group?

15 Like “alter ego” and “alma mater” 16 Prayer hands, for one

17 “... or ____ think!” 18 Part of L.G.B.T.Q. 21 Short race, for short

24 Your: Fr.

29 “When the country was fallin’ apart, Betsy Ross got it all ____ up” (“Maude” theme lyric)

32 Albanian coins 33 Something that’s often rigged

34 TV’s Burrell and baseball’s Cobb 35 Looks longingly 36 Band thatwon the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest 37 Minnesota’s state bird 38 Orlando-to-Miami dir.

41 Role for Patti LuPone and Madonna

42 Brand X

43 Flock member

44 Spotted bean

45 “Well, I’ll be,” to a Brit

46 Offspring of a 43-Down 47 Taiwanese PCs

48 Big butte

51 A dime a dozen, say?

52 It can help you get a grip

53 Drops (down) heavily

55 Beautifull­y worded

56 Joe Jackson’s “____ Really Going Out With Him?” 58 Van Gogh painting that once fetched a record amount at auction ($53.9 million) 59 Hair-pattern protector

60 ____ nous

61 Get in gear? 63 Dubbing need

64 Used a stun gun on

65 ____ pants

66 Take a dive, maybe 67 Digital-imaging company that used to make film

71 Apt rhyme for “baloney”

73 Dating notation: Abbr.

74 Start of a seasonal request

75 “Fluff Yeah” slipper sandals, e.g.

76 “Gotcha”

78 Helical bit

79 Be off themark 80 GPS calculatio­n: Abbr.

81 Exam for H.S. jrs. 84 Original tale of robot rebellion 85 Boxed a bit 86 Untethered 87 Biblicalmo­unt 88 Team spirit 90 Spanish term of affection between youngwomen 91 Spring in northern

Africa

92 Many rescues 93 Goose flesh inducing,

maybe 94 Some coin tossers 95 Servewell? 96 Liquor-store

purchase 97 Suspicious

100 Where Shiraz is

located

102 Pic to click

103 Corp. division

105 Exclamatio­ns of

regret

107 Combine

108 Green of “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”

109 Always, in verse

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12/20/20 ©2020 New York Times

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