Houston Chronicle Sunday

SUNDAY CROSSWORD: DOUBLE TALK

- By Rich Katz/Edited By Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Pulled one’s pants up?

7 Group of mimes, maybe

13 Neither crushed it nor got crushed

18 Revenue source for a website

19 Excitement

20 Really bad

21 But wait!

23 One of the Wayans brothers

24 Output of Michel de Montaigne

25 Asian honorific

26 Bone insert following an accident

27 In the past

28 She shares a home with Homer

31 Small plateau

33 Broad key

35 Pig

36 Potato, in Indian cooking

37 Buffoon

38 To peace!

41 Totally phat

43 Nail—polish brand

44 Queen’s accessory

45 “Star Wars” queen

47 Go ____

50 Classic Greek archetype?

54 Word for word, in Paris?

55 Holy Week

58 Get ready

59 Place to drop off a package

61 With 2—Down, end of the Gettysburg address?

62 Wipe clean

63 Lhasa ____

65 Pointer

66 “E pluribus unum” appears on one

69 Crushed (it)

70 “The Glass Bead Game” author

72 Lipa who sang “Levitating”

74 Martini ingredient

76 Text tweaks

77 Air rights

79 “Cool” that’s no longer cool

82 Mind—numbing detail

84 Skip a party, in a way

85 French cosmetics chain

87 Coming ‘round again

89 Padre’s hermana

90 Psychedeli­c dose

91 Bare feet

96 Snoop

98 Ones who get setters better?

99 Surface alternativ­e

100 One praised at the Kaaba

101 Actress Rowlands

103 One winging it?

104 “And so on”

105 Profession­al connection­s

106 Guacamole or tahini

108 Air—____ (extra— secure, as a computer)

110 “How considerat­e!”

112 We won!

117 Goes “bottoms up”?

118 Brainstorm­s

119 Beethoven work once called the “Bonaparte” Symphony

120 Impatientl­y agitated

121 Volkswagen model

122 One of eight in a V8

DOWN

1 Visit to the Kaaba

2 See 61—Across

3 Certain web portal

4 Deliver (on), as a promise

5 Beethoven wrote a piece “für” her

6 Relaxation spots

7 Lock

8 Spoil

9 Yours and mine

10 Loan shark

11 Grilled sandwich on Italian bread

12 Part of a Western herd

13 You might get it for a lot

14 “____ been thinking ... “

15 Peak once known as Mount McKinley

16 First state to legalize psychedeli­c mushrooms

17 “Star Wars” Jedi

19 “Mmm, I see what you’re saying”

20 Hershey toffee confection

22 Scottish toppers

26 Commit a holiday— etiquette no—no

28 Term of address that becomes less formal when its middle letter is removed

29 Enterprise alternativ­e

30 Flew by

32 Have ambitions

34 One of its uses is boring

35 One doing kickflips and ollies, in slang

37 Red—faced

39 Exhaust ... or something found near the exhaust

40 Wrathful

42 Yoga equipment

43 Memorable part of Rossini’s “William Tell”

46 First of five at the

Globe Theater

48 Toss in

49 Infuser contents

51 See in

52 Trick

53 Column that might lead to a row?

56 Home—organizing guru Marie

57 Focuses of some sonograms

60 Put on airs

63 [purposeful cough]

64 Salon treatment, for short

67 Book before Obadiah

68 Like those at the top, it’s said

71 Ingredient in perfumes

73 Early ISP

74 Using an e—cigarette

75 Delivery org.

77 Sources of winter strains

78 “You’ve got the wrong guy”

80 Muse of love poetry

81 Blue Ribbon beer

83 Connective tissues in the legs, informally

86 Some YouTube content, in short 88 Real head—turner

91 Midday nap

92 “____ Girl” (Billy Joel hit)

93 Ketchup container, maybe

94 “Well, aren’t you

the cat’s meow!”

95 Complains, complains, complains

96 Manages to acquire, as a table at a popular restaurant

97 Bear whose porridge was too hot

102 Everglades bird

103 ____ dish

105 Like a leaky pen

107 Smartphone predecesso­rs, for short

109 Word with school or cook

111 1040 collector

112 Currency unit in Laos

113 Flight spec

114 Small problem

115 Lead—in to sphere or system

116 Sought office

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