Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Freebies

6 Charity sale goods 13 Undefeated Ali 14 Cradle-rocking site

of rhyme

15 Good ideas that don’t always pan out

17 Eduardo’s east 18 Only

19 Gives the go-ahead 20 Championsh­ip ice

dancer __ Virtue 23 Depressed areas 26 “Carpe diem!” 28 Fountain output 31 Fuel for a fire 32 Vatican’s higher

authority

33 Puts on TV 34 Children’s song refrain featured in the four longest answers 36 Monsieur across

the border

37 Land in la mer 38 Give a heads-up 39 Rams QB Goff 40 GPS suggestion to

avoid a tie-up 44 Characteri­stic 45 Looks

46 Nor. neighbor 49 ’90s Polish

president Walesa 51 Group of groupies

53 “Both options are practical” 56 Show contempt for 57 Objects of fondness 58 Ones of interest, perhaps 59 Thing of worth

DOWN

1 Register user 2 Spring for a drink? 3 Somewhat, with “a” 4 Architectu­ral column bases 5 South Carolina river to the Atlantic 6 GPS datum 7 Decorative container 8 Team whose mascot’s head is a ball

9 Cell division that produces gametes 10 Common Pacific groupings 11 Failed, as a business 12 Four-song discs, briefly 15 Frightenin­g word 16 Trial 21 Library ambience 22 Madame’s mine

24 Optically active pattern 25 Excalibur, for one 26 Prof ’s helpers 27 A star may have a big one 28 Venerated figure 29 Gulf of Oman vessel

30 Set boundaries 34 Protuberan­t organ 35 Elicits a “Grrr!” from

36 Solo in space 38 First group seen in “Macbeth” 39 Fights (through), as a crowd 41 One with something to lose 42 Polo usually not on horseback 43 Former Filipino first lady Marcos 46 Sleep soundly? 47 Hot dog, to a Hamburger 48 “That scared me!” 50 Often-shared sandwich 52 “Methought __ enamour’d of an ass”: Titania 53 Debatable ability 54 Headed for the hills

55 Lb. and oz.

 ?? By Jeffrey Wechsler ©2020 Tribune Content Agency 8/13/20 ??
By Jeffrey Wechsler ©2020 Tribune Content Agency 8/13/20

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