Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Bits of trash often swept up with popcorn 6 Outdoor party rental 10 Creek croaker 14 Like much beer 15 “Dude!” 16 Nashville highlight 17 University offerings 20 Open patio 21 Original angel on “Charlie’s Angels” 22 Driver’s role in “Star Wars” sequels 23 Easiness exemplar 25 Johns in Scotland 26 Bob Dylan title lyrics that follow “in my heart you’ll always stay” 31 Hopeless, as a situation 34 Tears to shreds 35 Cause of some royal insomnia 36 Leave out 37 Ties together 38 Go no further 39 Hill worker 40 Works in Silverstei­n’s “Where the Sidewalk Ends” 41 Provided light 42 “The Wrestler” Oscar nominee 45 Gets moving 46 Luau finger food 47 Lead-in to a texter’s afterthoug­ht 50 Words said in disbelief 53 Canadian metropolis 55 Judge’s words ... and a hint to this puzzle’s circles 57 MM and MMXX, for two 58 Tire (out) 59 Beat, with “out” 60 Enzo’s eight 61 Where Southwest Airlines is LUV 62 Puts in like piles

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1 Words often suggesting unmet goals 2 Fed. security 3 One-eighty 4 Port on Italy’s “heel” 5 Watch surreptiti­ously 6 Sched. uncertaint­y 7 Shows one’s humanity? 8 Zip 9 Hitchcock thriller set in Bodega Bay 10 Piemonte city 11 Confides in 12 Region 13 Start to function? 18 Bahrain bigwig 19 Charcoal pencil shades 24 Like “Halloween,” and then some 26 In good shape 27 Mobile payments app owned by PayPal 28 Finally arrives (at) 29 Second-lightest noble gas 30 Stare slack-jawed 31 Linguist Chomsky 32 Luxury hotel name 33 Prejudiced investigat­ion and harassment 37 Father Flanagan’s orphanage 38 “__ sells seashells ... ” 40 Actress/author Holly Robinson __ 41 Mountain resort aids 43 South Korean subcompact 44 Solar panel spot 47 Reason for spin, briefly 48 Limited message 49 Hospital sections 50 Refuses to 51 Newsman Lewis? 52 LAX postings 54 Rock’s Ben Folds Five, surprising­ly 55 NBA great Ming 56 Minecraft material

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