Houston Chronicle

daily crossword

- By Mary Lou Guizzo

ACROSS

1 ’90s game disc 4 Infield fly 9 Invites home for dinner, say 14 007 creator

Fleming 15 Banish 16 Unable to sit still 17 *Game where one might have an ace in the hole 19 Actor __ Elba of

“The Wire” 20 Liability offset 21 Settle in a new

country 23 Young Simpson 26 “Coulda been

worse!” 27 Biblical beast 30 Least fatty 33 __-12 conference 36 *Financial page

listing 38 “__ creature was

stirring ... ” 39 Team in 40-Across 40 Arch city: Abbr. 41 Ship carrying fuel 42 Iowa State city 43 *Only woman ever elected governor of Alaska 45 Very quietly, in

music 46 Artist’s paint

holder 47 Farm pen 48 Gave the nod to 50 Payroll IDs 52 Became partners 56 To date 60 Ed with seven

Emmys 61 *Stack of unsolicite­d manuscript­s 64 “I’ll do it” 65 Gum treatment,

briefly 66 Former president

of Pakistan 67 Relaxed 68 “500” Wall St. index ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues 69 Reheat quickly

DOWN

1 Leaning Tower of __ 2 Stable diet 3 Bearded antelopes 4 Coaches’ speeches 5 Losing tic-tac-toe string 6 Water__: dental brand 7 Title beekeeper played by Peter Fonda 8 Make waves? 9 San Francisco street that crosses Ashbury 10 Netman Agassi 11 *Informal surveys 12 “__ just me?” 13 Financial page

abbr. 18 Budding socialite 22 __ dixit: assertion

without proof 24 Sales agent 25 Like ankle bones 27 Songwriter­s’ org. 28 “Put __ here”: envelope corner reminder 29 *Touchy topics 31 Saltpeter, to a Brit 32 Flashy displays 34 Took the loss,

financiall­y 35 Sideshow barker 37 Music store buys 38 Actress Peeples 41 Workplace where union membership is optional 43 DWI-fighting org. 44 Growth chart nos. 46 Looked carefully 49 Krispy __

doughnuts 51 Soak (up) 52 Hardly healthyloo­king 53 Out of port 54 Snail-mail

delivery org. 55 Formal petition 57 Antacid jingle word repeated after “plop, plop” 58 Et __: and others 59 Harvest 62 Barista’s vessel 63 Rocker Vicious

 ??  ??

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United States