Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

TAKE TWO

- By Celeste Watts and Jeff Chen /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 After the fact, as a

justificat­ion 8 Co-star of “The

Golden Girls” 17 Knock over, so to

speak

20 Quaker fare

21 Go poof

22 Drop the ball 23 ILLUS__RA__ORS 25 What a third wheel

might see, in brief 26 Setting for most of

“Life of Pi”

27 Tests the weight of 28 One of the Greats? 30 Oscars of the

sporting world 33 Good sign for an

angel

34 Intl. org. headquarte­red in Geneva

37 Some bad sentences 39 ACC__L__RATOR 44 Grapple, in dialect 47 Exercise too much, say

48 A as in Arles 49 LUXUR__ __ACHT 54 “____ Agnus Dei” (Mass phrase) 55 Peak in Turkey mentioned in both the “Iliad” and the “Aeneid”

56 Runner Sebastian who once held the world record for the mile

57 What you might get from a trailer 59 Sport played at British boarding schools

60 Post production? 64 ____ mater, membrane surroundin­g the brain

65 Popular 90-min. show 66 ENDANGER__EN__ 70 Man’s name that coincident­ally is Latin for “honey” 73 Word with small or fish

74 Weak

75 What may result in a handshake

76 Help to one’s destinatio­n

82 The Blue Jays, on scoreboard­s 83 Comeback to a challenge of authority

84 Bitter

85 CONFIG__ __ ATION

90 Actor

Somerhalde­r

91 Most in the style of comedian Steven Wright

92 Unfocused

93 POI__T OF __IEW 100 Go all out

101 French fashion inits.

102 “Kinda sorta” 103 Pan-cook, in a way 107 Supermodel Bündchen 109 Pepé ____

(cartoon skunk) 111 Drop off

112 Admit (to)

113 __OTIC__

120 Hit the weed?

121 Have guests over 122 Guest, e.g.

123 Place full of guests 124 Start of a seasonal

request

125 Some kitchen

utensils

DOWN

1 Entourage

2 Hall’s partner in pop

3 Part of a thong

4 “OK, you can stop the story right there” 5 Old-fashioned “cool”

6 One might speak under it

7 Co-star of Kline in “A Fish Called Wanda”

8 Start of a compilatio­n heading

9 Times for some vigils

10 Letters on many towers

11 Busy mo. for C.P.A.s 12 Go bad 13 Three-sport event, for short

14 A chest often has a large one

15 States

16 Recharge 17 Photocopy, e.g.

18 It’s the law!

19 Item said to have been burned in protest, once 24 Musical prefix with beat

29 Memphis-to-Nashville dir. 31 Emphatic assent 32 Lively dance genre 34 Hone

35 Contract details 36 Beehive State city 38 Aerodynami­c 40 Bishop’s jurisdicti­on 41 Antagonist 42 Hotel-room staples 43 Top-notch

44 Booties

45 Playwright Chekhov

46 Garbage

50 Drink similar to a slushie

51 About 460 inches of rain per year, on Kauai’s Mt. Waialeale

52 HBO satire starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus 53 ____ bar

54 Org. that takes the lead on lead?

58 Baby fox

60 How a flirt may act 61 Football stat: Abbr. 62 NaOH

63 Radio broadcaste­r: Abbr.

66 Legislatio­n that was part of F.D.R.’s New Deal

67 Ethnic group of Rwanda and Burundi

68 Two, for four

69 Coin with 12 stars 70 “Zoom-Zoom” sloganeer 71 Hollywood composer Bernstein with 14 Oscar nomination­s 72 Guarded

73 Like pets and parking meters 75 ____ Slam (tennis feat)

76 Julius Caesar’s first name

77 Words of hopelessne­ss 78 Mature naturally, in a way

79 ____ Writers’ Workshop 80 Electronic Hasbro toy 81 One side of the coin

83 Arias, typically 86 Scottish folk dance 87 Alternativ­e explanatio­n for a lucky guess, in brief

88 Ear: Prefix

89 Letters on some badges

94 “Stillmatic” rapper 95 Seen

96 Kind of skate

97 Brown shade

98 Kids’ observatio­n game

99 Hit musical with an “Emerald City Sequence”

104 Yoke

105 HP product 106 Narrowly beats (out)

108 Singer James

109 Drink for un bébé 110 A full moon will do this

112 Life force, in China 114 ____ Majesty

115 Hosp. areas

116 The Jazz, on scoreboard­s

117 Brown shade

118 Things for happy campers?

119 Picky person’s pick?

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©2021 New York Times 3/21/21

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