Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Declare 7 Domestic power connection, briefly

13 Large envelope 14 One working on arrangemen­ts 15 Feature of communicat­ion with space probes 17 Relevant 18 Escargot gatherer’s bounty? 20 Quebec neighbor 21 Harvest worker needing a bath? 30 Chewbacca trait 31 Club usually numbered 33 Frisée is its curly variety 34 Digestive aid 36 Your alternativ­e 37 Flavored thirst quencher 40 Much ado about nothing? 43 Study aids 44 Successful gem seeker’s cry? 52 Butcher’s staple 54 Horn of Africa country 55 Little Debbie

competitor 56 Blinker, e.g. 57 Many a Sunday

magazine 58 Kindly

DOWN

1 Tsp. and tbsp. 2 Sloop feature 3 __ Valley, Calif. 4 Pre-K follower 5 Be dependent 6 Kisser

7 Type of skiing 8 Natural light refractor 9 Sophistica­ted rock genre, briefly 10 Kissers

11 It offered soldiers Hope: Abbr. 12 Some hot rods 14 Muslim ascetics 16 Easy putt, in casual golf 19 Low isles 21 Religious prefix 22 Big name in animation 23 Down for a pillow 24 Mill fill 25 Snake or Gila: Abbr. 26 Analogue for -like 27 Rice dish 28 Verdi baritone aria 29 Relative of Fido 32 “You ain’t gwyne to drink a drop—__ single drop”: Twain

34 Word with lion or horse 35 Leather punch 37 Gallon’s 3.785 38 Summer treats 39 They may drift over valleys 41 “You have some crust!”

42 It may have many ashes 44 Nickname for Esther 45 __-watch: continue viewing a show you no longer like 46 ICU or ER site 47 Expression­ist painter Nolde 48 All the __: popular 49 Radius neighbor 50 Slant 51 School since 1701 52 X as in Xerxes 53 Chaney of film

 ?? By Jeffrey Wechsler ??
By Jeffrey Wechsler

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