Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

- By Tracy Gray /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Exfoliants 7 Foofaraw 10 Cookout chuckouts 14 Thickener used in

desserts

18 Like favorite radio

stations, perhaps 19 Calico calls 21 Memo starter 22 N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer

Yale ____ 23 Backpacker’s

snack

24 Big huff?

25 Have an outsize

presence

27 “I didn’t need to

know that!” 28 What a net might

attach to

30 Flying Cloud of old

autodom

31 Jazz clarinetis­t

Shaw

32 Soaring shot 33 Some Six Nations

members 35 *Mount Everest

scaler

37 Hogs

39 *Went out of

control

40 A.M.A. members:

Abbr.

42 Marketing experiment comparing two variants

44 Some red marks 45 Big lugs

48 Say “Whomever

did this ...,” say 49 Alice who wrote

“The Color Purple” 51 Org. with a sizable

registry

54 Yellow jacket, for

one

55 Syrup brand since

1902

57 Word before Roger

or Rancher

58 To a profound

degree 60 *”Cinderella”

meanie

62 Field trip

conveyance­s 63 Middle van Pelt

child in “Peanuts” 64 Use Tinder, say 65 Airs

69 Big exporter of

pistachios 70 Features of some bygone muscle cars

71 Give an elbow

bump to, say 72 Free of fizz 73 *Lateral-breaking

pitches

75 Skulk

76 Maker of the world’s first quartz watch

77 Javanese dyeing

technique

78 Potala Palace city 79 One of seven represente­d in the Pleiades

80 *Glide down from

above

81 Sleigh driver’s

need

82 Sound of an

ungraceful landing 84 ____ card

9/18/22

85 Fashion house whose logo is two interlocki­ng C’s 87 Like the Carolina

Reaper pepper 88 Visionary

91 Title

for Baltimore 92 Crow language

family

95 Sounds of

hesitation 96 da-DUM

99 On pins and

needles

101 Homebrewer’s

sugar

103 Cartoonish villains 106 “Little ol’ me?”

107 Woodard of

“Clemency”

109 Article in Aachen 110 “Where ignorance is bliss, ____ folly to be wise”: Thomas Gray

111 “Eh ... I’ll pass”

112 It’s a banger in

Germany

114 *Portrayer of Scrooge in 1951’s “A Christmas Carol”

116 Surgical seam

118 Unagi and anago,

for two

119 What parallel lines

never do

120 It beats scissors 121 Passionate

122 Secretary, e.g.

123 ____ Noël

124 Place to wallow 125 Butterfly garden

bloomers

DOWN

1 Places

2 “Mad Money” host

Jim

3 Eye part with rods

and cones

4 Kind of port 5 Boot-camp exercises performed on all fours

6 Narrow groove 7 One for the roadie 8 Most beloved 9 Dominated,

informally

10 Pico de gallo herb 11 Not yet in stock 12 Soup bases 13 Highway

heavyweigh­t 14 ____ mode

15 Like toum or

agliata sauce 16 Forest between Champagne and Lorraine

17 Cousin of kvass 20 Plant pore 26 “____ Miz” 29 Early computer

acronym 34 O.E.D. part: Abbr. 36 Some rideshares 38 They may be hidden behind paintings 41 Knot-tying and

lashing, to a sailor 43 Like some short

tennis matches 46 Install, as sod 47 Record-player

annoyances 50 Actor Guinness 51 Improvised

comment 52 “Colette” actress

Knightley 53 Comedian Wyatt of

“Problem Areas” 56 Porter, for one 57 Derby cocktail 59 Bad Brains and

Bikini Kill, for two 61 Muckety-mucks 62 Colorful bird

named for its diet 64 Not easily moved 65 Ocho menos cinco 66 Buttonhole­s,

basically 67 Actor/activist

George

68 Seattle’s W.N.B.A.

team

70 Absolutely wrecks 71 K

74 Reason to do a “stupid human trick”

75 X

76 Tangential topics 78 Allow to access 79 “I am,” in Latin 80 Incomplete

dentures

81 Ball game that all

players might lose 83 Lacks

85 Place to wear

muck boots

86 One roasted or

toasted

87 More raspy 89 Dramatize, as a

historical event 90 Teller, maybe 93 “That time is fine

for me”

94 Lack of musicality 97 Teeny-tiny

98 Word after ring or

water

100 Side-to-side

movement

102 Pastoral skyline

features

104 Tyler of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”

105 Places for hoses and hoes

108 Oatmeal glob

113 Judgy

sound

115 Jupiter’s realm, in

myth

117 Pic on a pec, say

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