Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

- By Matthew Stock and Finn Vigeland /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Partitions between

nostrils

6 Place to park a

boat

10 Malt-drying kiln 14 Gave a look of

“Can you believe that?!”

15 Smaller than small 17 Rub it in

19 What you’ll hear after-hours at a sports car sales lot?

23 Cry from a boxing

coach 24 Swimmer’s

assignment

25 RC, for one 26 Fayettevil­le school,

informally

27 City that neighbors Ann Arbor, for short

28 Rodeo Drive

uprising?

32 Janelle of

“Moonlight” 34 Loire contents 35 Per person 36 Twisted jeans legs? 42 Religion of the

Maldives 46 Mission statement’s inspiratio­n 47 Expected 48 Bounces around a

pool table 51 Antagonist in “Hop-o’-MyThumb”

52 Drink with

crumpets

53 South Asian crepes 55 Thrill

57 Mini manufactur­er 58 Chihuahua, por

ejemplo

61 Staunch dedication to one’s upper leg exercise routine? 65 Country whose name together with its capital city has only eight letters

67 [I’m a cow!]

68 Take for a spin 69 Winter wear for a

stegosauru­s?

75 “I have my ____” 79 Understand 80 Palestinia­n

political party 81 Some feds

83 “Look, fireworks!” 84 Diver’s destinatio­n 86 Labor class? 89 Airport code for a

Delta hub

90 It’s a small world 92 Bracket buster’s

victory 94 Tire-puncturing way across a river?

97 Region

100 Musician whose name sounds like an exclamatio­n

101 Message written on a Wonderland cake

102 Introducti­on to a chiropract­or’s makeshift tool kit? 110 Ankle-length dress 112 First automaker to conduct crash tests (1938)

113 E.R. imperative

7/10/22

114 Pair in an ellipse 115 Capital on the

Atlantic

116 Campaign to persuade British P.M. Tony to change parties? 121 Like sailors’ language, stereotypi­cally

122 Operator of the Valley Flyer and Coast Starlight

123 Urge strongly

124 Wranglers

alternativ­e

125 Make

126 Rulers until 1917 DOWN

1 Top of a range? 2 Enter smoothly 3 Proper partner? 4 Number on a bus.

card

5 First songwriter to win an Oscar for a James Bond theme 6 One in the driver’s

seat

7 Head of Eton? 8 Global finance org. 9 Word before or

after perfect 10 Tribe whose flag features a circle of tepees on a red background 11 French menu word 12 To such an extent

(that) 13 Game with a card that might say, “Lawyer: court judge legal crime case”

14 Swabs, say 15 Target for salicylic

acid 16 Fourth-mostcommon surname in Korea (after

Kim, Lee and Park) 18 Stinky ____ (popular Chinese street food) 19 “Your” of yore 20 ____ system (GPS

device)

21 Vogue rival

22 April fool target 28 ____ Paese cheese 29 Secular 30 One-named singer with the 2016 hit “Crush”

31 High school dept. 33 Follower of smart

or wise

36 Comic Davidson 37 Big whoop

38 Go over 21, say 39 “What she said” 40 Nonkosher

41 Hindu Festival of

Colors 43 Community celebrated in June, in brief

44 Name of BTS’s fan

base

45 Kitten’s sound 49 Anti-D.U.I. org. 50 Mounts

53 Kind of fin

54 One offering intense but unrequited affection, in modern usage 56 Red Muppet

59 4/

60 ____ Studies (Gallaudet University department) 62 Indian state on the

Arabian Sea 63 Mellophone, e.g. 64 Debtor’s note 66 Arthur Ashe

Stadium org. 69 Wrangler maker 70 Great Basin natives 71 “Macbeth,” but not

“Hamlet”

72 Burn a little 73 Vegetable that’s massaged before eating

74 Mythical ship that

sailed to Colchis 76 Odds fellows? 77 Specifical­ly 78 “____ All That”

(1999 rom-com) 79 “Despicable Me”

antihero 82 Half-____

85 Within reach, as a

goal

87 Utah’s ____

National Park

©2022 New York Times 88 “Hairspray” mom 90 Fig. on

a transcript

91 One with a storied education, informally?

93 Race in which one begins in a wet suit, for short 95 Shade that one might find on the links?

96 “What did I tell

you?”

98 Some writing

samples

99 Source of Italian

bubbles

102 Heart on one’s

sleeve, for short? 103 Verbal shrugs

104 Perfect

105 Prefix with legal

106 Exclamatio­n while seeing oneself on the Jumbotron, perhaps

107 Tick follower

108 German lament

109 Lab dropper

111 N.Y.C. subway

inits.

115 Capital of Qatar

117 Inits. on a

cellphone

118 Sports org. founded by Billie Jean King

119 Like the verb “to

be”: Abbr.

120 Scripts

 ?? ??

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