Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

- By Kurt Mengel and Jan-Michele Gianette

ACROSS

1 Gelatin garnish 6 Bio course components 10 Blue-roofed

eatery

14 Fabric

15 At rest

16 Gramma 17 Donald’s second

ex

18 Highlands native 19 Tiny fraction of a

min.

20 Toasted breakfast

breads

23 Pig’s home 24 Small songbirds 25 Apply more

lubricatio­n to 27 One-thousandth

of a gig

28 Letters indicating

a sellout 30 Kissing on a busy

ave., say

31 Eggy breakfast dish

35 Lago contents 37 Dutch Golden Age artist 38 Rogues 39 Ham-like breakfast meat 42 Bowling initials 43 USN rank 44 Chaney of old chillers 45 American rival 47 Lord’s partner 49 School support org.

52 Rural cuisine ... and what 20-, 31and 39-Across are examples of? 56 Duck or goose 57 “It __ over till it’s over”: Berra 58 Eagle claw 59 Non-returnable serves

60 __ Reader 61 Overact 62 Cajun veggie 63 Propped (up), as a golf ball

64 Fills completely

DOWN

1 Pinnacles 2 Journalist’s angle 3 Lover of Bess, in Gershwin 4 “__ never work!” 5 Indian spiced drink 6 Illuminati­on 7 President between Washington and Jefferson 8 Cheese couleur 9 Word before portrait or pity 10 Type of navel 11 Is unprepared 12 Like a landslide win

13 __-12 Conference 21 Records one’s arrival on a register 22 Starting at 26 Back muscles, briefly 27 Film-rating org. 28 “The Purple People Eater” singer Wooley 29 Brazilian soccer immortal 31 Bloom with edible seeds

32 “Take __ a challenge” 33 One of a D.C. 100 34 Business maj. 35 USNA part: Abbr. 36 South Carolina athlete 40 Jimmy on sausage labels 41 Howling canines 46 Oklahoma city 47 Jeff of ELO 48 Played a part 49 Plane flier 50 Fed. security 51 Dancer de Mille 53 Pulled tight 54 Bar mitzvah, for one

55 __ Sutra

56 Toy store __ Schwarz

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