Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 1 Vote to accept 6 Sincerely asks for 10 Vicki Lawrence

sitcom role 14 Harley owner 15 “This is __ a test” 16 Flower painted by

van Gogh 17 Roadblocks 19 Friendly

20 Win the affections

of

21 “__ lost!”

22 Mental flash

23 Be rude to 24 Doc’s org.

26 Good name for many a tree-lined street

28 Energy

29 Barely sufficient 33 “Unbreakabl­e Kimmy Schmidt” co-creator Fey 37 Crossed (out) 39 Prepare, as Romano 40 Womb-related 42 Crowd control weapon

44 Part of TNT 45 Trace amount 47 Not tacit 48 Ledger column 50 Charlotte-toRaleigh dir. 51 Did nothing 52 Calypso-influenced genre

53 __ of March 57 Minor argument 60 Baseball bat wood 62 In the center 64 Airport idler 65 Gambles in a church basement, maybe 67 Golfer’s selection 68 Easy gait 69 Winemaker with 1900 acres of vineyards in California

70 __ a bell: sounded

familiar 71 Short-horned

bighorns

72 Lid inflammati­ons DOWN 1 Clerics in un monastère 2 “Outlander” novelist Gabaldon 3 Gumbo pods 4 Salon jobs 5 Crosby, Stills & Nash, e.g. 6 Fancy neckwear 7 Final stage of a chess match 8 TV series with choreograp­hed numbers 9 Word with metric or merit 10 Wawa and 7-Eleven 11 Bone-dry

12 Attic pests 13 Topside, perhaps 18 Cowardly 25 With 38-Down, bar offering found in each set of circles 27 Big name in small constructi­on 30 “Poker Face” Lady 31 Needle case 32 Tear to bits 33 Sushi option 34 “For real?” 35 Brooklyn NBA team 36 Captivatin­g

38 See 25-Down 41 Greek letter 43 Support group? 46 Mold into a new form

49 Paper clip alternativ­e 53 Senseless sort 54 Shabby 55 Sharp-eyed hunter 56 Astringent plumlike fruits 57 Prepare, as a 25/38-Down 58 Prefix with graph 59 Neural transmitte­r 61 Hoping for more customers 63 Drops off 66 “Amen!”

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