Houston Chronicle Sunday

AS HEARD AROUND THE DINNER TABLE

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

- By John-Clark Levin /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Commuter’s ticket 8 They take bows 15 G-rated, say

19 “It’s not coming to

me”

20 Floral brew 21 Quintessen­tial ingredient to borrow from a neighbor

22 Dine out 24 Competitiv­e setting

in Fortnite

25 Like many phone

cards

26 Oftenmispu­nctuated word

27 Lets it all out, say 28 Aurora, to the

Greeks

31 Powerful weapon,

for short

32 Pop option 34 Firefly, e.g.

35 Aid in some

makeshift repairs 38 Blackhead remover 40 Company that

created Pong 41 They can make a

huge impact 42 Spongy mushroom 43 Movie character who said “I love you” to 110-Across 45 Network supported by “Viewers Like You”

46 Literary character who cries, “I am madness maddened!” 50 Bog

51 Ill humored 52 “Cool!”

55 Act theatrical­ly 56 “Meet the Press”

host Chuck 57 Attraction­s for

antique hunters 60 Donnybrook­s 61 Ironically funny 62 Part of many a

weight-loss ad 64 Buck chaser? 65 Something checked at a T.S.A. checkpoint

67 One vs. 52?

68 Go on and on 69 “Cool!”

70 Crib

71 Bad impression? 72 Tiny bit of work 73 Famed Deco

designer 74 Whitman of

“Parenthood” 77 Aftermath of a

toddler’s meal 78 Train that stops in New Haven and New York

80 They often don’t mature until they turn 30

84 Yucatán native 85 Lie out on a

scorching day 89 Landmark at the

entrance to Narnia 92 “Yeah, but still ... “93 Online handicraft­s

marketplac­e 94 Bareilles who sang

“Love Song” 95 Tribe native to the

Great Basin

96 Suit fabric 11/20/22

97 Agcy. impersonat­ed in some scam calls

98 Crouched in terror 101 Private

102 Vegetarian options ... or what the shaded letters in this puzzle are, phonetical­ly

108 “The Three Musketeers” action scenes

109 Flatten

110 Movie character who replied “I know” to 43-Across 111 They may be long

and shocking

112 Clink

113 Gray matter?

DOWN

1 Tom Hanks movie featuring a giant piano

2 It might turn out to

be a drone

3 Barfly

4 Blue diamond in

“Titanic,” e.g. 5 Lab-culture

medium

6 Star close to

Venus?

7 Take responsibi­lity 8 Bandleader Shaw 9 Share the ____

(sign)

10 Fort Collins sch. 11 “____ Loss” (2022 No. 1 album by Drake and 21 Savage)

12 Cyber Monday merchant

13 Mall security guard, pejorative­ly 14 Exams with a 4001,600 range 15 Soup-serving dish 16 Interfacer­s with publishers

17 Layer between the crust and the core

18 Need for a tough crossword, perhaps 21 Command for creating a revised draft

23 Sushi-bar drink 28 Wax-coated cheese 29 Like words this clue the in?

30 Easily frightened sort

32 Where you might go down in the ranks? 33 Bauxite or galena 34 Things usually made in the morning

36 What’s in

37 ‘Fore

38 MADD ad, e.g. 39 Lefty

41 Apple wireless file transfer

43 Do nothing 44 Paris bar tender? 46 Reddit Q. and A. 47 “The nerve!” 48 Finally

49 Under siege 51 Turned red, say 52 Like an allegro

tempo

53 Landed

54 Subjects of VH1’s “I Love the ... “series

55 ‘Fore

56 Packaging string 58 Actress Ward 59 Many teens’ rooms,

to parents 60 Pulitzer-winning columnist Stephens 62 “Du-u-u-ude!” 63 Large coffee

vessels

66 Made a fast stop? 68 “Previously on ...”

segment

74 “The kissing

disease” 75 “Coming face to face with yourself,” per Jackson Pollock 76 Otherworld­ly 77 Minority in

New Zealand’s parliament 78 What goes “up to

11,” in “Spinal Tap” 79 Pot grower? 80 Skinflints 81 Does well on a test, say

82 Wild donkey

83 Fellow

85 Along

86 Many a Monopoly property

87 Ear piece?

88 Marx’s co-author for “The

Communist Manifesto”

89 They can be passed but not failed

90 Franklin who sang “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” 91 Robin Hood’s love 94 On the wagon

97 Little mischiefma­kers

98 Veggie that’s often pickled

99 Virgil described its “cloud of pitchblack whirling smoke”

100 Sign of neglect

103 Channel that airs old MGM and RKO films

104 ____ BankmanFri­ed, fallen crypto mogul

105 Excessivel­y

106 Boston’s Liberty Tree, for one

107 Kind of sauce for dim sum

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