Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

- By Jeffrey Wechsler

ACROSS

1 Item in a ’60s drug bust 7 Marshal Tito, for one 11 Friendly address 14 Make effervesce­nt 15 Queen’s place 16 Move on water 17 Generic City Hall

dog? 19 Caustic chemical 20 __ Toy Barn: “Toy

Story 2” setting 21 Japanese volcano

Mount __ 22 Guzzle 24 Half a prison? 26 Suffix for

profession­als 28 Toon who often wore a Metallica T-shirt 29 Why some seek a

certain cactus? 32 Bacchanal vessel 33 Rested 34 Choler 35 Essay on

meditation? 39 Arboreal critter 41 “__ believer!” 42 Icon with a curved

arrow 45 Eschew medical

attention? 49 Certify 50 LAX stat 51 “Let her not say __ that keep you here”: “Antony and Cleopatra” 53 Language from which “julep” is derived 54 Centrifuge site 56 Rosamund’s “Gone Girl” co-star 57 Green beginning? 58 Fighter whose stock greeting affects 17-, 29-, 35- and 45-Across 63 However, to

texters 64 __ dixit 65 Shape, as dough

for cloverleaf rolls 66 Strong desire 67 Lacking a date 68 Adam, of the “Bonanza” brothers

DOWN

1 Holy men who turn prayer wheels 2 Cousteau’s concern 3 Oxymoronic skiing condition 4 All-encompassi­ng concept 5 Gillette brand 6 “Empress of the Blues” Smith 7 “The Tudors” sta. 8 Actress Tyler 9 GPS datum 10 Frost output 11 Eponymous South

American leader 12 Beamish? 13 Warning words 18 Upbeat 23 “Obviously,

right?” 25 Their colour is affected by melanin 27 Fare on a flat

tortilla 28 __ test 30 Master 31 Roofing

sealer 36 One of a biblical

trio 37 Global financial

org. 38 Tournament eliminatio­n point 39 Diplomatic case 40 Dutch landowner in colonial America 43 Court action 44 Bony 45 __ pin 46 Pluto’s Egyptian

counterpar­t 47 Alternativ­e to de

Gaulle 48 Buster who portrayed Flash Gordon 52 Uncalled for 55 Canaanite deity 59 Decide 60 Lee side: Abbr. 61 Cooper’s creation 62 Honorary legal

deg.

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