Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

SNOOZEFEST

- By Trenton Charlson /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Goes wherever the

wind blows? 6 Person who likes all your FB posts, perhaps

9 Key with five

sharps: Abbr. 13 Western film, in old

slang

18 Harriet’s partner on

1950s-’60s TV 19 China’s Chou

En-____

20 Paul Simon’s “____

Rock”

21 Tree that Athena

gifted to Athens 22 Inaptly named bear

of a tongue twister 25 Spanish rice 26 Letter-shaped

constructi­on piece 27 Endeavor

28 Winter weather

hazard

31 Little black ____ 32 Art of verse 33 Jurisdicti­on of a Catholic church official

37 Get closer and

closer 40 Mapmaker’s subj. 41 Literary traveler to Lilliput and Brobdingna­g 42 Transfixed 43 Former telecom giant that merged into Verizon 45 Ostentatio­us

display

48 Kicked back 49 Singer Lisa 51 Pre-euro currency 52 National tree of the

U.S.

53 Paradise lost 54 Scatterbra­ins 56 Grandma, to Brits 57 Frenzy 59 Rattlesnak­e’s

warning 60 Ambrose Bierce defined it as “A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue” 62 Totally over it all 63 Final creature encountere­d in “Dr. Seuss’s ABC” 68 Far-right state 70 Buckskin, e.g. 71 Something stretched out in a yoga class

74 Has over

75 Go after

78 Like varnished

wood

79 “Pretty please?” 80 Sci-fi travelers 81 Pan-fries

84 Violated a code of silence 85 Sportscast­er Jim with the classic opening “Hello, friends” 86 Opportunit­ies to win a vacation on “Wheel of Fortune” 90 Stocking stuffer 91 Actress Ana of

“Love, Victor” 92 “Alas ... ”

93 Bistro sign word 95 Francis’ tenure,

e.g.

96 Lively, on a score 97 Collect little by little 99 Makes

10/17/21

101 “Which Disney Princess Are You?” and the like

104 Big Ten powerhouse, for short

107 Eye shade

110 Basic skateboard

trick

111 Quick nap ... or a playful descriptio­n of the 64-Down here

113 Conflagrat­ion

114 Diamond who went

platinum

115 Scottish denial

116 Popeye creator

Segar

117 Footnote abbr.

118 Icelandic work that influenced Tolkien 119 Key for getting out,

not in

120 Like May through August, unlike the other months of the year

DOWN

1 What “piano” can

mean

2 Côte d’____ 3 Nickname for

Isabelle or Isidore 4 Fashion designer

Lange

5 Actress Amanda of 2012’s “Les Misérables” 6 What B. B. King was

king of

7 Rattles

8 Opposite of

flatness

9 Members of bevies

and broods

10 Tie the knot 11 Mine: Fr.

12 Many a collaborat­ion between Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald

13 “C’est magnifique!” 14 Spanish composer

Isaac

15 “How to ____ a

____”

(popular Google search) 16 One of the Gabor

sisters

17 Radiation unit 23 Member in the genus Troglodyte­s, so named for its tendency to enter dark crevices 24 “Jeepers!” 25 Generation­al divide 29 Former queen of

Jordan

30 Nintendo princess 31 Order of roses 34 Kilt-wearing Greek

infantryma­n 35 Fixed, as tiling 36 Northern California town once home to the palindromi­c ____ Bakery 37 Chain that sells

chains

38 “Jeepers!”

39 Levels

40 Old fogy

41 Quiet valley 43 Partner of glamour 44 Comedian Fields 46 ____ garden 47 When repeated, one of the Gabor sisters 50 Mercedes-____ 54 Stupor

55 Multitude 57 Pac-Man navigates through one 58 Wood-shaping tool 60 They’re taken out in

alleys

61 Six-Day War leader

Weizman 62 No-nonsense TV

judge

63 Unsightly spot 64 Sleep indicators 65 Counterfei­t

66 Spike the Beanie

Baby, e.g.

67 Having some pep 68 Alternativ­e to Advil

or Aleve 69 Birthplace of the

Franciscan order 71 Kind of ray

72 Bit of tomfoolery 73 Nervous state 74 Seven: Prefix 75 Football sideline

reporter Kolber

©2021 New York Times 76 Brand of pretzels

and chips

77 Electric ____ 79 Kvetches 81 Pointy-eared dog 82 Big name in car

parts

83 Break away 85 Reason to

hang up

87 Victoria Falls river 88 Uniform

adornment 89 Center

of L.A., once 94 Sufficient,

informally 95 Aphids,

to ladybugs 97 Beyond cold 98 Woman’s name meaning “night” in Hebrew and Arabic

99 Pound and others 100 Worshiper of the

rain god Tlaloc

102 Took off

103 One of the Nereids

of Greek myth

104 Eleven, en français 105 Parts of

snowmobile­s

106 Exploits

107 “The White Lotus”

airer

108 View from Lake

Como

109 Country music’s

____ Brown Band 112 In a bad way

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