Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD: PLAYING WITH FOOD

- By Alex Eaton-Salners /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Partly open

5 Drug also known as angel dust 8 “Maybe,” informally 14 Windowdres­sing 19 Tyr, in Norse mythology

21 Org. with both leftand right-wingers 22 ____ arteries (what carry blood to the kidneys) 23 “Hmm… hard to say”

24 South American financial institutio­n since 1965 26 Reversed

27 Warm up

29 King of Troy in the “Iliad”

30 Currency of Laos 31 1985 thriller with the tagline “A federal agent is dead. A killer is loose. And the City of Angels is about to explode.”

35 Firmly establishe­s: Var.

37 Part of a return address? 38 Experience­d network congestion

39 Used to be

41 “I Love You, ____” (book by Nancy Reagan)

42 Twilled fabrics 43 Subject of two squares on a Monopoly board 44 Hip-centric dance 45 It keeps a top up 48 “Good ____!” (shout to a batter) 49 Collectibl­e item with stats 54 Bacchanali­as

56 Huge financial loss, so to speak

57 First lady

58 Memo opener 59 Elements of neighborho­od watch programs 62 Brewed beverage 63 Single historical record

64 QB stat: Abbr. 65 Fool’s gold

66 Lose stiffness 68 Fueled up, in away 69 California’s Point ____ Peninsula 71 Helpful contacts 72 Food depicted crypticall­y at 24-Across

74 From

75 Notes after sols 76 Consuming Tide Pods, once, inexplicab­ly 77 At peace

78 Food depicted crypticall­y at 31-Across

81 On, in away

83 Brain tests, in brief 84 Significan­t periods 85 ____ ShermanPal­ladino, creator of “Gilmore

Girls” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”

86 Overhauls

88 Item creating separation

91 Nail polish brand

10/11/20

92 Viagra competitor 93 Bit of swearing in

church?

96 “Pay attention!” 98 Food depicted crypticall­y at 49-Across

101 Refuge from a flood 102 YoungestMa­rx

brother

104 Skin-care brand

105 Love, in Lucca

106 Food depicted crypticall­y at 59-Across

109 Romps

112 Riverbank romper 113 Book after

Nehemiah

114 Places to collect

prints

115 Garish signs

116 Adds more

lubricant to

117 Good name,

informally

118 Jedi who trained

Luke

DOWN

1 Central American rodent that resembles a guinea pig

2 TV host with two Peabodys

3 Sports brand with a three-stripe logo 4 Sculptor who said, “I invent nothing, I rediscover”

5 Completely defeat, as a noob 6 Deep-six

7 Kirsten Gillibrand, to Hillary Clinton, once

8 Connective tissue that runs along the outer thigh, familiarly

9 Prayer garment

10 Farm enclosure

11 Doing some menial duty, in old army lingo

12 Reinforces, with “up”

13 Puckish

14 Dramatic intro

15 Jedi trained by Luke

16 Jedi related to Luke

17 Grilled sandwich 18 Go by

20 State of drunken confusion

25 Media restrictio­n 28 Goes quickly 32 Venture to state 33 Azalea with the 2014 No. 1 hit “Fancy”

34 Up to one’s ears 36 Caffeinate­d aspirin brand

40 A tool or a spray

42 Fit of pique

43 Parlor pics

44 Invite to one’s home

45 To the extent that

46 Black Lives Matter gathering, e.g.

47 “Let me pay for that”

49 Bundle of hay 50 “Twilight” protagonis­t 51 Silver-screen actress known as the British Bombshell

52 TV-MA’s film equivalent

53 Has away with words?

55 Stand-up comedian Mike

56 Spam spewers 60 Manymusica­l chords

61 Classic laundry brand

62 First-class

63 Church recess 66 Feeling amenable (found hidden in this clue!)

67 Bony projection found just behind the ear

70 Cause’s partner 72 Gaggle

73 V.I.P. above veep 75 Knowledgea­ble 76 Parody, say

79 Cold storage facilities

80 Where crumbs might accumulate during ameal 81 Summer Olympics usually take place in one 82 Thumb-twiddling 86 Kelly on the HollywoodW­alk of Fame

87 Op-eds, e.g.

88 Hit hard, as brakes 89 Hook, for one 90 Sends an invitation for

91 Be against

92 Sorted laundry load

93 Philippine port with a reduplicat­ive name

94 Euphemisti­c “extremely”

95 The so-called

“Pearl of the Black Sea”

97 Word before hand

or jaw

99 Quarters costing

dollars?

100 ____ Center, home of the Orlando Magic

103 Father of Anne

Frank

107 Layer of farmland? 108 What yellowfin is

marketed as

110 “People ____

talking”

111 Indy inits.

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