Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD: THIS AND THAT

- By David Tuffs /Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Turn off

6 Make a trade 10 Emulate Rockin’

Robin, in a 1958 hit 13 Poke

18 “Go me!” 19 Somewhat,

musically 20 Hemingway’s home

for over 20 years 21 Skatepark trick 22 One in charge of Brownies and cookies?/Easy to understand

25 Put away for now 26 Drink with a domed

lid

27 More than just

compact 28 “Consequent­ly ... ” 29 Feature of an

ungulate

30 Dance move used to teach children how to limit spreading germs while sneezing 31 Post-dryer chore/

Splendid

35 Game stoppers 37 Shawkat of “Arrested Developmen­t” 38 It’s a stretch 39 Steamed Chinese

bun

40 Apt name for a

horticultu­rist? 41 Wispy, as hair 43 Buzzer

44 Ring or belt,

essentiall­y

45 One whom the bride and groom didn’t invite/Steal a meal

50 Now

52 Traveled on

horseback 53 Predators whose genus name translates to “of the kingdom of the dead”

54 Moonfish 56 Speaker of the catchphras­e “Did I do that?” on 1990s TV

57 Inoffensiv­e

59 Deep cut?

61 Brit’s clothespin 62 Utopia/ Occasional­ly, poetically

66 With 72-Across, post-sledding mugful

69 Settles the score 70 Potential result of a

strike

72 See 66-Across 75 Green isle

76 Plus

79 Akbar’s tomb

locale

80 Despises 82 German deli meat/

Discussion

85 One might be raised

on a farm 86 “Washboard”

features

88 M.L.B. player with over 600 career home runs, to fans 89 Mushy ____ (British

side dish)

11/20/22

90 Poehler of “Inside

Out”

91 Palm product 92 Mexican capital 94 Some steel beams 96 They might result in booby prizes/Physical discomfort­s

101 Sportsman of the Century, per Sports Illustrate­d

104 Stop running, in a

way

105 Words with motion

or stone

106 ____-do-well

107 “Don’t Matter”

singer, 2007

108 Arduous journeys 109 Issue featuring celebrity issues/ Repeatedly

112 “Bloody” English

monarch

113 “Gotcha”

114 John known as the “Father of the National Parks”

115 More adorable

116 Fightin’ words

117 2012 Seth MacFarlane film with a 2015 sequel 118 Vocal nudge

119 Notificati­on

DOWN

1 Unyielding 2 Feminist writer Jong 3 Westminste­r competitor 4 Popular French periodical

5 Article in a French periodical

6 Stolen goods

7 Like yarn and old film

8 Intermissi­on follower, often 9 Party person, informally 10 Siddhartha Gautama by another name 11 Like Nero Wolfe 12 One getting out early

13 California’s ____ Tree National Park 14 Brown of the Food Network 15 Donation center 16 Paris-based carrier 17 Tiny prop 20 “Pleeease?” 23 Impatient contractio­n 24 National birds of Germany, Egypt and Mexico 31 Stereotypi­cal name for a female poodle 32 Grannies 33 Calculus calculatio­n 34 It might end on a high note 36 Lent a hand 40 Sierra ____

41 TV monitor, in

brief?

42 Glass of “This

American Life” 43 Praise for a diva 44 Tedious sort 45 Lettuce, in many a

low-carb recipe 46 Big jazz combo

47 It smooths the way 48 Part of a goat or

Africa

49 Weapon with a

spring

51 Behind, in slang 55 Lee who wrote “Go

Set a Watchman” 58 “Am I understood?” 59 Grift

60 Assert

63 What gerunds are

formed from

64 Not just bad

65 “99 Luftballon­s”

singer

66 Three sheets to the

wind

67 Gumbo vegetables 68 “Go, ____!” 69 Continue

71 Modern lead-in to

-ade

72 Coup group

73 Many a 21st-century

liberal

74 PT Cruisers,

e.g. 76 Ohio site of the first Quaker Oats factory

77 NorCal hub

78 Grassy surface 81 Go with the wind, in a way

83 Where you hope to get a good deal 84 Spots to relax 87 “Fiddlestic­ks!” 91 Clicks “I agree,” maybe

92 Where to let a sleeping dog lie 93 Do some taxing work online?

94 Start of many a T-shirt slogan

95 Most of it is found underwater

97 Home of the world’s busiest train station

(3.5 million daily commuters) 98 Come to an end 99 River through

Pakistan

100 Many interstate

vehicles

102 No party person

103 Like noble gases

107 Blue: Sp.

108 “Am I oversharin­g?” 110 Childish nuisance

111 Major health legislatio­n of 2010, in brief

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