Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

- By Will Nediger /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Stuffs with bacon, say

6 Convention handouts

10 Second of the 10 biblical plagues 15 Mission-driven org. 19 Underway 20 Congress person 21 Ancient neighbor of Lydia

22 Intl. group founded in 1960 with five members

23 “We can’t hear you in the back, Johannes!”? 26 Winter leaf covering

27 “Oops, my bad!” 28 Fixtures at most airport lounges nowadays

29 Boston ____ (Sam Adams offering) 30 Place to fill up in Canada

31 Not just -er

32 Canal trouble 35 Triage sites, briefly 36 Brown in a Food Network kitchen 37 Not leave alone

38 Put on a production of a classic Sondheim musical?

41 Subjects of “birds and bees” talks 44 Knowledgea­ble about

45 Pirate’s chant 46 Scottish cap

47 What composers do when they add the finishing touches?

50 Lets out

52 Put away, as a sword

53 “What’s the

____?”

54 Place to park at the bar

55 Police, informally 56 Comedian Andre with a self-named Adult Swim show 59 Russian assembly 61 Super-duper 65 Western Hemisphere grp. 66 What workers at the sticker factory do?

70 ____ Royal Highness

71 Words before “Remember” and “Forget” in song titles

73 Shooter of arrows 74 Code part

75 Brown in the kitchen

76 Scarfs (down) 79 Do some pogoing 81 French France 83 Jackson nicknamed the “Queen of Gospel” 86 Shorten words like “forecastle” and “boatswain”? 89 Equal

90 Stretching muscle 92 Certain yearling 93 What a private detective might photograph

94 Ignore what you have in reserve while taking inventory?

97 Morn’s counterpar­t 98 Assignment that might have a page limit

99 #MeToo ____ 100 Undergroun­d places with bats 102 Anti-bullying spot, for short

105 Toiling away 106 Computing pioneer Lovelace

107 Side dish with kalua pig

108 Betrays a sibling, say

110 Statistici­an’s worry 111 Encouragem­ent at an N.B.A. mixer? 115 Irish novelist O’Brien

116 Pull

117 Lake near London 118 Country ruled only by kings named Tupou since 1845 119 Obstacle to overcome 120 Loses sleep (over) 121 Hinge (on)

122 Made a choice

DOWN

1 Mental slip-up 2 Hairstyles for Pam Grier and Angela Davis

3 Take a break from flying, say 4 Martial-arts center 5 Audiophile’s purchase

6 Nymph pursuer 7 Drag wear

8 Soccer phenom Freddy 9 Be nominated 10 Some scuba gear 11 Overcharge ridiculous­ly

12 In the world 13 Samoa salesperso­n

14 Worth heeding 15 Utterly useless 16 Nonbelieve­r, now 17 Not always available

18 NASCAR and FIFA, e.g.

24 Ibex’s perch

25 Brinks

33 Google Play buys 34 Big snapper, informally

35 Book of Mormon book

36 Ready for romance 37 Trim, in a way 39 Spectacle

40 “I totally forgot!” 41 End result

42 Take up again, as a case

43 Like foods said to be good for hangovers and bad for skin complexion 44 In ____ (not yet delivered)

48 Singer who was in 2018’s “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again”

49 Has as a mount 51 Right-angled joint 54 “Quién ____?” (Spanish “Who knows?”)

57 Fateful day in 44 B.C.

58 No purebred 60 Cosmo, e.g.

62 What’s the big idea?

63 Dimensions 64 Something you don’t want to be under

66 Noodle, for example

67 Colleague

68 Put on the books 69 Giving up time 72 Carrier until 2001 75 Rudder’s place 77 Place

78 Dispersed, as a search party

80 Retro Chrysler 82 Corroborat­es

83 Did some gambling 84 Former Haitian leader JeanBertra­nd 85 Defenders in the Battle of Trenton 86 ____ Nostra

87 Film director Nicolas

88 Tangent introducer 91 Funny

95 Watched a kitty 96 Target of an air freshener

97 Series finale abbr. 101 Baseball’s Chase 102 Confederat­e in an audience

103 Ridged fabric 104 Syrian strongman 106 Doesn’t just sit 107 Writers might click them

109 Sporty roof feature 112 Solemn statement 113 Poetic “before” 114 Feel bad

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