Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD:

- By Christina Iverson and Samuel A. Donaldson/Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Become hysterical,

with “out”

4 Elided title 8 Restaurant competitor of Pinkberry and Sweet Frog 12 Catchy tunes,

informally

16 Sigh of lament 17 Where dancers have

a ball?

18 McFlurry mix-in 19 Furniture giant 20 Bad flight forecast 21 Reason

22 Hierarchy level 23 Certain U.S. time

zone 24 Economizin­g, as represente­d by the circled squares? 27 “The bad news is ... “29 WhatsApp transmissi­ons, briefly

30 Navy nay

31 Seizes eagerly, as an

opportunit­y

33 Sean of “Stranger

Things”

34 Part of an M.C.’s

intro, often 36 Prohibitio­n target 40 Economizin­g, as represente­d twice in 12-Down?

45 “The Crown” role 46 Colorful kind of shirt 47 Offering from Dr.

Mom, in brief 48 Senior partners? 50 ____ Hill, neighborho­od of San Francisco 51 Bussing on a bus, for

short

54 Memorable mission 56 “You’ve made your

point,” slangily 57 Lead-in to an

opinion

60 Zip

62 From not so long

ago

63 Parts of a gig 64 Scrapbooke­r’s

project

67 Honesty, resilience or a sense of humor, perhaps

69 Shield of ancient

Greece: Var. 73 Manhattan is one:

Abbr.

75 Attempt

77 Work that hasn’t yet

entered publicatio­n 79 Little squealer 83 Fencer’s score 86 Hebrew version of the English pronoun “I”

87 Confidenti­ality contract, for short 88 Welcome event 90 ____ drag (hockey

maneuver) 91 Cellist’s need

93 In concert 94 Economizin­g, as represente­d in 58-Down? 99 Unwelcome, so to

speak

101 Vote in favor

102 Trading places

103 Like some modern

maps 105 Golfer Palmer, to

fans

106 A/C meas.

109 “The Planets”

composer

111 Economizin­g, as represente­d by the shaded squares?

115 Bad-sounding

creatures?

116 Ditto, in legal

footnotes

118 Word that means “ocean” in a religious title

119 Large crowd

120 It’s cried on a slide

121 Check

122 Classical poem

123 Beast with recurved

horns

124 Triumphant shout at a crossword tournament

125 Freshness

126 Like some morning

lawns

127 Smokey spot, for

short

DOWN

1 Sharpens

2 “How ____ Your

Mother”

3 Work out

4 Some garlic prep 5 Regarding

6 Maker of the Nitro 5 gaming laptop 7 “The year’s at the spring/ And day’s at the ____”: Robert Browning

8 Yankees manager before Girardi 9 Zealous activist 10 C-note

11 Tranquil discipline 12 Former name of a Kansas arena that commemorat­ed a 1976 U.S. anniversar­y

13 It helps make a stew a goo

14 Poached fruit 15 Garnish for una margarita

16 Source of many a name on a campus building, informally 17 Starts eating

20 Poli ____

25 Reply to the Little Red Hen

26 Name hidden in “before long”

28 It makes a red velvet cake red

32 Cancún cash 33 Hamburger’s beef? 34 Word with pepper or tower

35 Like some ancient pyramids 37 Accelerati­on, e.g. 38 Quelques-____ (some, in French) 39 Quantity multiplied by accelerati­on in Newton’s second law

40 Pioneer in global

aviation

41 Words of defeat 42 “Don’t sweat it,”

informally

43 Educ. supporter 44 Once-popular devices discontinu­ed in 2022

49 Cousin of a weasel 52 “What’s the ____?”

(“‘Sup with that?”) 53 Suffer

55 Farmyard cry

58 Not in a relationsh­ip 59 “The Last O.G.”

network

61 Vile Nile reptile 65 Out-and-out 66 Foreign leader whom Nixon met in 1972

68 That’s history! 70 Kind of knife of infomercia­l fame

71 Like Urdu or Hindi 72 Was very ripe 74 Round figures 76 Montana city SW of

Helena

78 The main

antagonist? 79 [Ugh, this is

horrible!] 80 ____ facto

81 Like some

highlighte­r colors 82 Relish

84 Plant whose name derives from Quechua

85 Devious snicker 89 Barely gets the

words out

92 Pros with deliveries,

in brief

95 Painter Jan van ____ 96 “Let’s do this!” 97 Civil rights icon ____

Helen Burroughs 98 Power structure? 100 Capers

104 Shakespear­e’s

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” has five of them

105 Beaming, as with joy 106 Liberal arts college in

Kentucky

107 Locally focused

lecture franchise

108 Pac-12 player

109 Santa’s favorite

Hostess dessert?

110 Wilson of film

112 Carded at a bar,

informally

113 Common spot for a

sunburn

114 Gaggles

115 Chain email abbr.

117 Grammy winner ____

Lipa

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