Houston Chronicle Sunday

SHELL GAME

- By David Steinberg /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS 1 Browns 7 Four-hit achievemen­t, in baseball lingo 12 Mil. posts 15 System used at Gallaudet Univ. 18 The U.S., in Mexico 20 Milo of “Romeo and Juliet,” 1968 21 Hawaii’s ____ Day 22 Low 23 “Et tu?” and others 25 Lotion ingredient­s 26 Suburb of Chicago 28 Joyful internet cry 29 Bubbly mixer 31 Popeye’s boy 33 Harassed, in a sense 34 Cartoon seller of Squishees 35 Pyrex glass marking 38 Jackson 5 member 39 Philip who wrote “Portnoy’s Complaint” 41 Cain and Abel’s younger brother 42 Word before questions or advice 43 Do sales work, informally 44 A part of 45 Band with the 1989 platinum debut album “Junta” 47 Darryl, in the comic “Baby Blues” 49 Accomplish­ing 51 Poke around 54 The “K” in Kmart 59 Places for plugs 62 Plastic-dispenser producer 65 The clue for 128Down, if this shell game weren’t a scam 68 Hardly guzzle 69 Group of pros 71 “Rights of Man” author, 1791 72 Early Cuzco dweller 73 Series of mistakes? 74 Vacation spot 77 Inside-dope source 80 Prefix with business 81 Chilled 83 With 13-Down, herbal brew 85 Cartoon seller of Duff Beer 86 The clue for 127-Across, if this shell game weren’t a scam 90 Former N.F.L.’ers Detmer and Law 91 All together 93 Shapes of some Halloween cookies 94 Country united in 1990 96 Soft-drink options 98 A peeling place? 100 Westernmos­t of the ABC Islands 103 “Bug” 105 Hosp. worker 107 Prefix with caching 109 2.5, for the set {1, 2, 3, 4} 112 Classic sculpture 114 Novel narrated by a soon-to-be mutineer 115 Material for small buildings? 118 Proctor’s warning 119 Students often take them out 121 When some bars close 122 Edict 124 End in ____ 125 Style influenced by Cubism 127 Like hand motions during a shell game 129 Profession­al group with a van 131 Month of l’année 132 Singer Reed 133 Four-time World Series-winning manager 134 In the near future 135 Superfund org. 136 Something to build on 137 Looks fabulous, in slang 138 Pincher DOWN 1 England and Spain fought one in 1588 2 Smirnoff Ice, e.g. 3 Lacking polish 4 Push 5 Verbal stumbles 6 Walks or runs, for short 7 Work together 8 Fashion inits. 9 Elected 10 Degree of freedom 11 Lightens 12 Like hounds and most bunny rabbits 13 See 83-Across 14 Guru, maybe 15 “Pretty cool, huh?” 16 Johannesbu­rg neighborho­od much in the news during apartheid 17 Undergroun­d locale 19 Give a ring while on the road? 24 Tizzy 27 Typical Vanidades reader 30 How many TV shows are shown 32 Port. is part of it 36 One caring for a bebé 37 Classical poem 40 Email openers 41 Egghead? 46 Deceitful sort 48 Grp. with lots of pointers 50 Like the verbs “eat” and “drink”: Abbr. 52 Bobcat relative 53 Fund-raising org. 55 Fair 56 Warm up for a bout, say 57 Bug 58 Ages and ages 60 With politesse 61 They’re symbolized by slashes 62 Minecraft or StarCraft 63 Fantasy novel hero who rides the dragon Saphira 64 Capital 175 miles east of Venice, Italy 66 Lottery winner’s cry 67 Record again 70 Dernier ____ 72 Philosophy- class suffix 75 Marc of fashion 76 Follows a pattern? 78 Much-covered 1955 Bo Diddley hit 79 Juice 82 Verb often said three times in a row 84 It’s cut and dried 86 All right 87 Immune-system component 88 “Let’s do this thing!” 89 Amt. of seasoning Loch on the border 92 95 of the Highlands Worn-down pencil Say quickly 97 99 One way to run 101 Greyhound offering 102 Most visibly frightened Develop a limp 103 104 Hybrid music genre of the 2010s 106 Houston-to-Dallas dir. 107 Desert, in a way 108 City west of Binghamton 110 Pulitzer-winning novelist Jennifer 111 Total jerks 113 Group with two Top 10 rock operas 116 Runs to 117 They have long necks and round bodies 120 Bear’s advice 123 Bearlike creature in sci-fi 124 Oil crisis? 126 Murmur 128 Cook in oil 130 Only three-letter scale note

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