Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

- By Sophia and David Maymudes /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Feeling of hopelessne­ss 8 Julius Erving, to fans

11 Calendar abbr. that’s also a

French number 15 “Your choice - him ____”

19 Early online encycloped­ia 20 “____-hoo!”

21 The Powerpuff Girls, e.g.

22 Fantasy author Gaiman

23 Going my way? 24 What’s up?

25 Wagner opus

27 “Stop rolling sevens!”? 30 Southeast Asian ethnic group 31 Princess in a galaxy far, far away

32 Lady bird

33 Org. in charge of Tokyo 2020

34 Suffix with expert 36 “Oy ____!”

37 Bay window

39 Home of Mount Rushmore: Abbr. 40 Bobby of the Black Panthers

42 Spew out

45 Build rapport like a presidenti­al candidate?

50 “Livin’ la ____ Loca”

51 Celery unit

52 “Hmm, that’s odd!” 53 Dance craze of the early 2010s

54 Right on

56 Spot for a laundromat?

58 Color akin to cyan 60 Anger

61 Word with pop or crop

63 Subject of gossip 65 Dance-class garments

67 Matter of survival 70 Hate getting ready to move? 74 ____-di-dah 75 Children’s book made into a 2012 3-D animated film 77 Singer Bareilles 78 Grunts

80 Tempo

81 Ran

83 Fancy rides 86 Cy Young Award winner Hernandez 90 Requite

92 Board pick

94 Kind of scholarshi­p 96 Dunce cap, basically

97 Makes friends while working retail?

100 Accepts responsibi­lity for 101 “More or less” 102 Model and TV host Banks 103 Billionair­e Carl 105 Trickster 107 Understood

108 Today, to José 109 Train-schedule abbr.

110 Dutch cheese town 113 This may be at the end of one’s rope 115 Event planner’s post-banquet task?

120 Winter athlete, not a summer one 122 Turnabout

123 Where first tracks are found

124 Wrinkled fruit

125 “To Live and Die ____” 126 Wichita-to-Omaha dir.

127 Christie’s event 128 Start of a Guinness record

129 Rough talk?

130 Our sun

131 Cheer on

DOWN

1 Pullers of Artemis’s chariot

2 Georgia of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”

3 Extent 4 Antiterror­ism law 5 Unpaid debt 6 “Indeed”

7 Bad records to have

8 Company that makes products that suck 9 Streaming-media device 10 Thrill-seeker’s action

11 Utterly failed 12 Prince in “The

Little Mermaid” 13 Like medium-rare steak

14 Dress (up)

15 Ending with pseudor syn16 Young woman to call when your data gets deleted? 17 Pooh creator 18 Formal lament 26 Miser, colloquial­ly 28 Berate

29 Reluctant (to)

35 Baby plant

38 Letters before “.gov”

39 Island neighbor of Guadeloupe

41 ____ Ingalls Wilder, author of “Little House on the Prairie” 42 Second person? 43 Be sociable

44 State in both the Mountain and Pacific time zones: abbr.

46 Locke who was called “the Father of the Harlem Renaissanc­e” 47 Brexit exiter 48 Actress Swinton 49 “Ooh, that’s bad!” 55 Runner in Pamplona

57 One side of Mount Everest

59 What many Latin plurals end in 62 “Bull’s-eye!” 64 Relative of a xylophone 66 End-of-the-week expression

67 For face value 68 Whitney Houston hit “____ Nothing” 69 Places to swim during school? 71 ____ soda

72 Suits

73 Brief glimpse of a star

76 Slow, musically 79 Runner-up 82 Car with faulty brakes, e.g.

84 Study of birds: Abbr.

85 Star of “Your Show of Shows” of 1950s TV

87 Way down

88 Travel stop

89 Deletes, with “out”

91 Canyons

93 “The joke’s ____!” 95 Screening org. 98 Subject of the

2006 documentar­y “When the Levees Broke”

99 Rehearsals

104 Move in the direction of 105 “Overall ...”

106 Home planet of Ming the Merciless 109 Gird (oneself)

111 “Half ____ is better ...”

112 ____ Park, home of Facebook 114 “M*A*S*H” actress Loretta

116 Wrigglers

117 Spanish youngster 118 Neophyte: Var. 119 Visionary

121 Cassis cocktail

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3/8/20 ©2020 New York Times

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