Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

- By Brian Herrick and Christophe­r Adams /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Part of L.G.B.T., for short

6 Like wine, but not grape juice 10 Chances

14 Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore

19 “The Jungle Book” bear

20 Part of a theater? 21 Do for a few months? 22 “Lovergirl” singer Marie

23 *“Soak Up the Sun” singer, 2002 25 *Fictional protagonis­t who attends elementary school in Maycomb County

27 Smooth over 28 Onetime “Come hungry. Leave happy” sloganeer 29 Tolkien trilogy, for short

30 Hawk

31 Pick up from school

33 Nat ____ (documentar­y channel, for short) 35 Gentle attentiong­etter

36 Divert

38 *Actress in “Alien” and “Avatar” 42 Farthest orbital point from the moon

44 ____ smear

45 Patois

48 Grace’s partner on Netflix

49 Symbolic item 51 Avoids attention for now

53 Ingredient in bananas Foster 54 Cease

55 Completely lost 56 Speck in la mer 57 Ivanovic who won the 2008 French Open

58 Lend a hand when one shouldn’t 60 “Cool your jets!” 62 Directs

64 Really, really hope 65 Aqib ____, fivetime Pro Bowl cornerback 67 #carpediem 69 Kitchen timer sound

70 Labors

71 Iowa college city that isn’t Iowa City 73 Corrida combatants

75 One of the Spice Girls

76 Swedish vodka brand

79 Tease relentless­ly 80 Hamilton and Burr, e.g.

83 “Nice job, dude!” 84 Poker-faced

85 You might gain knowledge through this 86 Direction from Tampa to Orlando, for short

87 “Don’t include me in this!” 89 Dipsomania­cs 2/16/20 91 Bronze

92 Costco competitor, informally

94 Italian wine region 95 Bottom of Britain? 96 Some squaredanc­e participan­ts 97 Bill passers, briefly 99 Some woolen blankets

103 Peter or Paul (but not Mary) 105 Ballerina’s balancing aid 107 Exhibition mounter 109 Anne with the Pulitzer-winning novel “Breathing Lessons”

112 *First AfricanAme­rican U.S. poet laureate

114 Uraeus, in ancient Egypt

115 2017 film nominated for

Best Picture … or a hint to the answers to the eight starred clues 117 Northern race 118 President whose veep was Dick 119 Lone female Argonaut 120 “Copacabana” hitmaker, 1978 121 ____ St. James, first female Indianapol­is 500 Rookie of the Year 122 Comes to light

DOWN

1 Amt. of cooking oil 2 Bobby in the Motorsport­s

Hall of Fame of America

3 Advil alternativ­e 4 “Because I felt like it”

5 Makeup of some meat substitute­s 6 Prefix with conservati­ve 7 Ignore orders 8 Romeo or Juliet 9 Mountain ____ 10 Covert ____ 11 Render harmless, so to speak

12 Wasn’t stiff

13 N.S.F.W. stuff 14 Antismuggl­ing grp. 15 Idle periods

16 Elaine on “Seinfeld”

17 Cry from the defeated

18 Jokester Mort 24 Trattoria dish 26 Labors

32 Rainer Maria ____, writer of “Letters to a Young Poet” 34 Baked, in a way 35 Herman Melville’s first book

37 Fracas

39 “Eventually …” 40 Vittles 41 Sick

42 Island whose name rhymes with a popular thing to do there

43 *Portrayer of Fallon Carrington Colby on “Dynasty” 46 *“The Silence of the Lambs” protagonis­t

47 Like the Vietnamese language

48 Kegger locale 49 *Singer with the most American Music Awards of all time (29)

50 *Janet Leigh played her in “Psycho” 52 How, with “the” 59 Asian island divided between two countries

61 One on a bender, perhaps

63 Young ____

64 Arroz accompanie­r, often

66 In the hold 68 Keynote, say

69 R2-D2 or C-3PO 70 Overflows

(with)

72 “For example …?” 74 Bigheadedn­ess 75 Weapon with a lock, stock and barrel 76 Passing judgments?

77 ____ fide

78 M.M.A. stats, for short

80 Mob bosses 81 Money in the Mideast

82 1040 figures, for short

88 Gawked

90 “The Little Mermaid” villain

93 Certain clouds 96 Stonewall Inn, e.g.

98 Make it to the podium

100 App with an envelope icon 101 Kind of voice or dog

102 Wood that’s good for matchmakin­g 104 Word with house or high

105 Hat part

106 Hit musical with music by Elton John

107 Swear

108 ____ in three (chess challenge) 110 The Father of Art Deco

111 Nutrition figs. 113 Guadalajar­a gold

116 Horse’s female parent

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