Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

- By Brian E. Paquin

ACROSS

1 Many big reds 5 Namely

10 X-ray units 14 Honolulu happening 15 Lacking significan­ce 16 Music halls of old 17 Directive on an env.

18 Play lightly, as a guitar

19 Apt. part 20 Upscale boutique 22 Holden Caulfield’s little sister 24 Constellat­ion near Scorpius 25 Bookstore category 26 Personal records 29 Tire spec 31 Divest (of ) 32 Berkeley Breathed’s cartoon penguin

33 Old money that looks new 37 Bark 38 Handle 39 Purpose 40 Small craft on the deep sea

43 Big fishhook 44 Way to go: Abbr. 45 He broke Lou’s record for consecutiv­e games played

46 Accolades 47 Valedictor­ian’s time to shine 49 Purpose 50 Liquids

51 Quarrel of yore 56 Work to get

57 In an aloof way 59 Twice tri60 Exec’s helper 61 “Try someone else” 62 Vienna-based oil gp.

63 “Luke Cage” actor Rossi

64 It helps raise dough 65 Bridge position

DOWN

1 Applaud 2 Mercury or Saturn, but not Mars 3 Cricket clubs 4 Summery headwear 5 Campbell-Martin of TV’s “Dr. Ken” 6 Aboard 7 Lumber defect 8 Shiba __: Japanese dog

9 Pace

10 Stiffly awkward 11 Fear of poisonous snakes 12 Churchill Downs event 13 Unchanged

21 Some discount recipients: Abbr. 23 For madam 25 NBA great “__ Pete” Maravich 26 Limerick lad 27 Herculean 28 Outstandin­g prize money

29 Say the Word 30 School near Albany

33 Trig function: Abbr.

34 “The Raven” writer

35 Facts and figures 36 Some emailed files 41 Diminished slowly 42 Shortage 43 Private eye

46 DIY purchase 47 Seriously reduce 48 Forensic drama set in the Big Apple 49 To date 50 Significan­t achievemen­t 51 Pocket bread 52 Donation to the poor

53 Rap’s Salt-N-__ 54 Hacking tools 55 Peacemaker’s asset 58 Olympic runner Sebastian

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