Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Gets misty, with “up”

5 Salon treatment, briefly

9 Benjamins

15 Curly coif 16 Popular river name from the Welsh for “river” 17 They’re exchanged

in Hawaii 18 Nonstick cookware

product 19 Religious season 20 “Don’t take the

blame”

21 Risked it big-time 24 Cooler filler 25 Chinese zodiac

critter 26 Approximat­e nos. 27 MN and NM

30 Puts (in) tentativel­y 32 Bad-mouth 33 Word before bug or ant

34 Prov. bordering four Great Lakes 35 Hairpiece 36 Hazardous gas 37 Risked it big-time 42 Parrots geese 43 Fill up on 44 Nero’s 91 45 Exclusive

46 Part of UNLV

47 Wore 51 BB-shaped veggie 52 Coll. Board exams 53 “I’m sorry, Dave” film computer 54 “__ you serious?” 55 Risked it big-time 59 Compensate for 61 Short hoppers? 62 Hall of Fame pitcher Randy “The Big __” Johnson 63 Hairpiece 64 Pennsylvan­ia county 65 5forBor6fo­rC 66 Coffee and wine 67 Lairs

68 One logging on

DOWN

1 Fistfight souvenir 2 __ hours 3 Second Commandmen­t adjective 4 Footprint maker 5 Silicon Valley city 6 Pentathlon’s five 7 “That’s a no-no!” 8 Where losers of a race may be left 9 West Point students 10 Gravity-powered vehicles

11 Classic video game 12 Reaffirmin­g rebuttal

13 __ chi 14 Boomer that no longer booms 22 Screwdrive­rs, e.g. 23 Give approval online, in a way 28 Slacks, briefly 29 Email status 31 Far from selfeffaci­ng 33 Mystic on a bed of nails 35 Comforted 36 Soda since 1905 37 Explore OfferUp 38 Hue 39 Prohibited 40 “Awesome!” 41 Wide-open spaces 46 Coffeehous­e orders

47 Sure winner 48 Contaminat­es 49 White-coated weasel

50 One with bills to pay

52 Look of disdain 56 Hockey’s Phil, to fans

57 Sped 58 Waikiki bash 59 Needing no Rx 60 Egg __ yung

 ??  ?? By Morton J. Mendelson ©2019 Tribune Content Agency 10/30/19
By Morton J. Mendelson ©2019 Tribune Content Agency 10/30/19

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