Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

- By Byron Walden and Joel Fagliano /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Era of ignorance 9 Elevators in an office building? 14 Houston squad, casually 19 Eaglelike 20 Mississipp­i River bottom feeder 21 “Wouldn’t that be nice!” 22 Satchel for a homicide detective? 24 Joe of “GoodFellas” 25 Something found at the top of many a Google search page 26 Manufactur­ed 27 Baking soda has many of these 29 Tush 30 Danny Ocean’s ex-wife in “Ocean’s Eleven” 31 Unseasonal wear on a winter vacation? 34 Map 36 Parisian waters 37 Jewish mourning period 38 Zoom, e.g. 39 Baseball stats sometimes called 39-Down 42 Jerk 46 Static 48 Swiss canton that was home to William Tell 49 Variety of stud poker, familiarly 50 Berry with two diacritics in its name 51 “Get ____!” 52 Late-morning meal for a TV family? 58 Dorm overseers, for short 59 Sports event with two diacritics in its name 60 Cry after “Company” 61 Who wrote, “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king” 64 One way to buy mustard cheaply? 67 Like the number i, mathematic­ally 68 Burns writing 69 Strong bond 70 A pillar of Islam 71 Emails such as “Click this link to become an Apollo astronaut”? 77 Erie Canal city 80 ____ Spiegel, co-founder of Snapchat 81 “Darling, won’t you ____ my worried mind” (“Layla” lyric) 82 Peter’s chief of staff on “The Good Wife” 83 Down-on-their-luck sorts 84 Hit the hide off the baseball 86 Beauts 87 Background­s in theater 88 Tempur-Pedic rival 90 Seawater compound 92 Neophytes 93 Collection of Yulecentri­c posts? 98 Boxing venue 99 Nagy of Hungarian history 100 Wooded valley 101 Bird on Walden Pond in “Walden” 102 Like services covered by a health insurer 105 Drops 107 Utensil for eating some cured meat? 110 Link with 111 Brainpower 112 See to it 113 When a happy hour might start 114 Haven 115 Seizure cause

DOWN

1 Deaden acoustical­ly 2 Blue shade 3 Kingdom in “The Prisoner of Zenda” 4 Leg-pullers 5 Div. for the Red 106-Down 6 Secures with a band 7 S.A.S.E., e.g.: Abbr. 8 They require stitches 9 What the rotator cuff rotates 10 School extension? 11 Neutral shades 12 Word from the Latin for “noose” 13 One caught by a 12-Down 14 Nurse 15 Can-can dancing? 16 Formula for slope in math 17 Costa Rican president who won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize 18 Stuffed ____ 20 Clay and oil, for artists 23 “For heaven ____” 28 Some ways on Waze: Abbr. 32 Split personalit­y? 33 Branch of Islam 34 Appurtenan­ce for a cartoon Neandertha­l 35 Mannheim mister 39 Delmonico steak cuts 40 Document listing technical specificat­ions 41 TV network with a science-y name 43 Prefix with puncture 44 More sensible 45 One is roughly the mass of a speck of dust 47 Festoons with Charmin, for short 49 Charged up 53 Laura of “Big Little Lies” 54 Confucian philosophe­r ____ Hsi 55 Really trendy 56 Hit just beyond the infield 57 Hightail it, saltily 62 Ocean froth 63 “The Simpsons” bar 64 Asian fruits used in Western alternativ­e medicine 65 Norwegian king near the end of the first millennium 66 Non-____ (food label) 67 Western powwow held every year or so 70 “Come again?” 72 Limit 73 “Fancy that!” 74 People like you 75 Orfeo in Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice,” e.g. 76 Not catch 78 Crescent-shaped Italian pastries 79 Piedmont wine town 85 Alternativ­es to gelcaps 86 Semiliquid stuff 87 Neural junction 89 So-so filler? 91 Lunkheads 92 Holiday glitter 93 Flora and fauna 94 Plaster for painting 95 Animal used to guard sheep and goats 96 Spanish crockery 97 Munchkin 98 “____-Tikki-Tavi” 103 Misreckons 104 “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is ____”: Churchill 106 See 5-Down 108 Numerical prefix 109 Much Top 40 music now

 ?? ©2018 New York Times ?? 11/25/18
©2018 New York Times 11/25/18

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