Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

- By Daniel Bodily and Jeff Chen /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Shops

5 Peddling

10 Collectibl­es

14 A kitchen might have a good one

19 Instrument for Arachne, in mythology

20 Natural instincts

21 Word on the street, perhaps?

22 Like Superman, but not Spider-Man

23 Symbol of bravery

24 Nephew of Abel

25 One-eyed war god

26 African animal that may be spotted or striped

27 Armed force at sea?

29 “Person of the Year” magazine

31 Big froyo franchiser

33 When said three times, “Get off my case!”

34 White terrier, informally

35 Historic

36 Hockey

37 Upset

38 ____ Toy Barn (where Emperor Zurg chases Buzz Lightyear)

39 “I,” in the “Iliad”

40 You’ll have to pull some strings to play this

41 Low-scoring Yahtzee category

42 Lower back bones

45 Downsides

46 How many U.N. members have names starting with “W”

47 Lionel Messi’s homeland: Abbr.

48 Standoffis­h

49 Whiz

50 Promotiona­l overkill

51 Capital on the Arabian Peninsula

54 Waste

55 Disposal

56 Locations

57 Things believers believe

58 The “A” in A.D.

59 Racket

60 Children’s book series akin to “Where’s Waldo?”

61 Word with nursing or training

62 N.I.H. standard 63 Read

64 Here

65 To

66 Understand

67 23 answers in today’s puzzle that don’t seem to match their clues

68 The “P” of E.P.S. ratio, on Wall Street

69 Adverb repeated in the “Star Wars” prologue

70 Calvin and Hobbes, e.g.

71 Head, in slang

72 Onetime radio host Don

74 “Mad” figure of fiction

76 Dazzling

77 Pattern

78 Generator

79 Like some care services

80 Purplish blue

81 1998 film “Waking ____ Devine”

82 Al ____ (pasta specificat­ion)

83 Initialism aptly found in “timetable”

84 Thief ’s haul

85 Xmas, for Justin Trudeau

86 Synthetic fiber

87 Tiptop

89 City east of Phoenix

90 D-worthy

91 Sweetie pie

92 Classes

93 For

94 Actors

95 Get off berth control?

99 Tarnish, e.g.

100 Crossed out

101 Apt rhyme for “pyre”

102 Revitalize

103 Finalized, as a contract

105 Safe harbor

107 “Let me repeat ...”

109 Put cargo on

110 She might cry “Uncle!”

111 Last “O” in YOLO

112 Rough rug fiber

113 Unwritten, say

114 Didn’t make public for a while

115 Home

116 Decorating

117 Guru

DOWN

1 “I’ll ____ it”

2 “Hold the rocks,” at a bar

3 Blows one’s horn

4 Captcha confirmati­on

5 Adds to a playlist, e.g.

6 Sights in a funeral home

7 “I,” in the “Aeneid”

8 Partitione­d

9 Product launches made during sporting events?

10 Chiwere-speaking tribe

11 “Stellar!”

12 They can help you get out of jams

13 Real

14 Having overexerci­sed, maybe

15 ____ gun (alien zapper)

16 When the lighting of the Olympic caldron happens

17 Wolf, to a shepherd

18 “A penny saved is a penny earned” and others

28 Rice dish

30 Sound of shear terror?

32 Go lightly, with “along”

35 Epoch when the Mediterran­ean Sea nearly dried up

36 Like difficult water for boating

37 Like Thor

42 It’s a long story

43 Fourth man to walk on the moon

44 Gain exclusive control, businesswi­se

45 More wary

46 Female nature deities

47 A charismati­c person has one

50 Gets a move on

51 Some BBQ-flavored fast-food sandwiches

52 Totals

53 Letters near a conveyor belt

55 Online pop-up generator

60 How perjurers might be caught

61 ____ Mary

66 Makes beloved

67 How Usher wants to take it in a 1998 No. 1 hit

68 The 76ers, on scoreboard­s

69 Disaster-response org.

70 Arctic coats

73 In the public eye

75 Headset?

76 Popular Korean minivan

77 Country with more than 100 active volcanoes

82 Device providing oversight?

84 Verizon, for one

85 Hardly genteel

87 Website overseers

88 Brain cases

89 1600 for the SAT, informally

90 No. listed on the inside of car doors, often

91 Get over it!

96 Actress Catherine who starred as Kevin’s mom in “Home Alone”

97 “Red” or “white” wood

98 Prepared to pray, say

100 Idyllic spot

101 Stocking stuffers

102 Italian automaker

104 ____ mode (fuel-saving feature in newer cars)

106 Tape player of a sort, in brief

108 Dunderhead

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