Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

- By Michael Schlossber­g /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Deets, say

5 Like pangolins and

armadillos 10 Pacific weather

phenomenon 16 000-00-0002, for Mr. Burns on “The Simpsons”: Abbr. 19 Apt name for a

protester?

20 Shire of “The

Godfather” 21 “What’s the ____?” 22 Job-listing letters 23 Play about love and heartbreak in ancient Greece [1605, 431 B.C.] 27 Danger

28 Cater (to)

29 Where people might come to a happy medium? 30 Is worth it

32 “The Taming of the

Shrew” sister 36 Wheels

37 Timeless children’s classic about country dwellers’ friendship­s [1908, 1881]

41 Farm cry

43 Vented appliance 44 Comedy talk show from 2003 to 2022, familiarly 45 Superlativ­e score 48 “Great Caesar’s

ghost!”

50 Eat, baby-style 56 Timid

58 It’s symbolized by a crescent moon and star

63 Jewish folklore

creature 64 Magnum opus about a young man, family and the concept of free will [1866, 1965] 70 Not according to

plan

73 Celebrity chef

DiSpirito

74 “Go ahead, shoot!” 75 Major and Commander, to Biden 76 Coming-of-age novel about a teenage boy and his isolation [1951, 1986]

80 Like an old apple 81 Chicken ____ (South

Asian dish) 82 Phenomenon also known as data decay

86 Placid

88 Rapper ____ Thee

Stallion

93 Drudges 94 Celebrator­y smoke 99 Veered, as an

airplane

101 Just peachy

102 Tale about soldiers and treachery in southern Europe [1940, 1603]

110 Polynesian

greeting

111 Kleenex : tissue ::

____ : sticky note

112 Yellow-brown

shade

115 Mercury and Mars,

for two

117 Grp. promoting

world peace

120 College athletics

channel

11/20/22

121 “In a nutshell” ... or an alternativ­e title for this puzzle?

126 Wallach of “Baby

Doll”

127 Stoat in its white

winter coat

128 Lawyer’s favorite

dessert?

129 Asteroid discovered

in 1898

130 Name that means

“king”

131 City that lends its name to a variety of ice cream

132 Warren in the Baseball Hall of Fame

133 Fashion letters DOWN

1 Modern kind of

purchase

2 Locale for many

Panhelleni­c Games 3 “Rapunzel” or

“Rumpelstil­tskin” 4 Kinda getting up

there

5 Poker great Ungar 6 Burner on a range? 7 Michigan liberalart­s college 8 Certain collateral 9 Convict, in old slang 10 Persian Gulf

territory

11 Gamer’s

headache

12 Degree in

mathematic­s? 13 Voice role for Snoop Dogg in 2019’s “The Addams Family” 14 Federal agent who was the inspiratio­n for Dick Tracy 15 Nightmare 16 Addressed 17 Manatee 18 Adspeak claim of

convenienc­e

24 Gin add-in 25 German refusal 26 One of Cuba’s

Castros

31 Subject line

abbreviati­on 33 Wild group, for

short

34 One of many in the

“Disney Morgue” 35 Leave gobsmacked 38 Scoreboard letters

at MetLife Stadium 39 D.O.J. branch 40 Helpful

connection­s 41 Halloween symbol 42 Busy month for a

C.P.A.

46 Turn from an old pallet into a bookcase, for example

47 Title for Charlie

Chaplin

49 “Toy Story” toy

torturer

51 “I can’t believe this!” 52 Go head to head

(with) 53 Paul who painted

“Cat and Bird” 54 Advanced

55 Some F.D.N.Y. pros 57 Juicy gossip 59 Time

measuremen­t 60 One of a classic

septet

61 “Key of the Nile” 62 Act out? 65 Imitation 66 Amazon

device

67 Laptop brand

68 It’s just what you’d

expect 69 Bosnian’s neighbor 70 After-hours

convenienc­es

71 Cry at an

amusement park 72 Parent 77 Philosophe­r Rand who rejected altruism

78 “____ What ____” (song from “La Cage Aux Folles”) 79 Doggy’s sound 83 Carving station

option

84 Hawaiian fish also

called a wahoo 85 “Shame!”

87 Prefix with hotel 89 Exams that are essentiall­y impossible to study for

90 ____ Gadot of

“Wonder Woman” 91 Piercing tool 92 Basis for an annual

Forbes list 95 Hobgoblin

96 V8 debut

of 1964

97 Music to a

masseur’s ears 98 Optimizes, as an

engine

100 Play-____

102 More loaded, as a

wallet

103 Stadium

chant

104 A.F.L. All-Time

Team member with a law degree

105 “No. Way!” 106 Old-timey “listen” 107 Default search engine for

Microsoft Edge 108 Some classic jeans

109 Tethered

113 “____: The Smartest Guys in the

Room” (2005 documentar­y) 114 Wackadoo 116 Protein-rich blood components 118 “Uncle!”

119 “Downton Abbey” role

122 Zhuzh (up)

123 Small word for small

124 Hydrogen’s atomic number

125 Itch

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