Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

- By Christina Iverson and Katie Hale /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Precursor to a

circuit breaker 5 _____ bar 10 Pointed remark 14 Common spa

descriptor

19 “Hello there,

sailor!”

20 Gourmet mushroom with poisonous lookalikes

21 Somewhat

22 Core workout

challenge

23 Looks up from reading “Frankenste­in”? 27 Moody North

Yorkshire setting 28 Handy

29 Restless

30 Split hairs? 31 Words exchanged during an “altar”cation

32 Revise

33 Reads “Catch-22,” “Closing Time” and “Something Happened” — and doesn’t stop there? 39 Atmospheri­c

driving hazard 42 Came to 43 Assistant

44 The joy of text? 45 Expression of a

grump

47 Cheeky remarks ... or something near the cheek 48 Kendrick Lamar’s 2017 best rap album Grammy winner 50 “Aquaman” actor

Jason

52 English indie-pop

singer Parks 53 Sleek reef

swimmers 55 Borrows “The

Color Purple” from the library instead of “The Flowers”? 60 1960s activist

Bobby

62 Word with play or

fight

63 Belgrade resident 64 See 36-Down 65 First in a line of 13

popes

67 Strands 69 Lifewater and Elixir

brand

71 “Wow!”

74 Fashion guru Tim 76 “_____ the spirit!” 78 D.E.A. target 81 Listens to “Tom Jones” on audiobook? 85 Matterhorn range 87 Wheely good

invention?

88 Off

89 _____ tube

91 H

92 Conclude by 94 Dawson in the Pro Football Hall of Fame

95 “Chat another

time!” in an I.M. 97 Bolt in a sprint 99 Director Guillermo

_____ Toro

100 Reads “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” so many times its spine splits?

6/19/22

105 Cryptids on snowy mountains

107 Mars bar with shortbread and chocolate

108 [sigh]

109 Pilot green-lighter,

in brief

111 “Ask away!”

113 Iconic scarecrow topper

117 Donates some copies of “King Lear” to the Renaissanc­e Festival?

120 Still

121 Curling locale

122 Musical with the song “Another Suitcase in Another Hall”

123 _____ Rachel Wood of “Westworld”

124 Castles, essentiall­y 125 Chances

126 Not let lapse

127 It can be

outstandin­g DOWN

1 “Octopuses can

use tools,” e.g. 2 “This is

not good!”

3 Words said while shaking one’s head in disgust 4 One might be found next to a neck pillow in an airport shop 5 Suave

6 Decant

7 Painting and

filmmaking 8 Person in a head

set?

9 Keebler cookie with shortbread and chocolate 10 Send away 11 Biblical analogue of Aron in “East of Eden” 12 High-_____

(kind of jeans or apartment building)

13 South Korean

“Princes of Pop” 14 Jimmies and

corkscrews 15 Debbie of “Fame” and “Grey’s Anatomy” 16 Things often next to napkins in place settings

17 Spanish Agnes 18 Absolut

alternativ­e

24 Put in order 25 Text-writer’s segue 26 Philosophe­r David 31 Alternativ­e to a

diaphragm

32 Like games

marked 1->99 33 Strong wind 34 Pains for

preschoole­rs 35 Chivalrous avatar

of Vishnu 36 Sounds from a

64-Across

37 Saint associated

with a “fire” 38 Birds on Canadian

dollars

40 Big-eyed hatchling 41 1989 film for which Denzel Washington won best supporting actor

46 Follower of “So” or

“lo”

49 Patronized a

restaurant 50 Homes for cattails and bulrushes 51 Childhood friend 54 Blueberry-picking girl of children’s literature 56 “Yuck!”

57 “You’re right about

that!”

58 “You’re not right

about that!” 59 “Chiquitita”

singing group 61 Endurance, so to

speak

66 Scarfs down 68 Norm: Abbr. 70 Geological span 71 Chose 72 QB’s protection 73 Very rarely 75 Ancient home of a

mythical lion 77 Delphic prophet 79 Barbershop

specialty 80 Fiber-_____

82 “I’m in favor”

83 Rat

84 The Big Easy 86 Sound

90 Fabric made from

jute

93 Med. exams with intraderma­l injections

95 O’er yon

96 “The Muppets”

villain Richman 98 Macroalgae

101 Costa _____

102 Baby birds?

103 Deuces

104 Cold War pact city 106 Use, as influence 109 “Here I come,

weekend!”

110 In _____ veritas 111 Reported

112 Back

113 Abrade, in a way 114 Head: Fr.

115 Horse with

endurance

116 Billowy dress

style

118 To’s

counterpar­t

119 Broadway, for one:

Abbr.

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