Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Persepolis ruins locale

5 Prickly plants 10 Former Supreme

Court firstname 14 iPod model 15 Garden nuisance 16 Protection org.

since 1970

17 Lions in the city? 19 Slangy sweeties 20 Pulitzer-winning

author Lurie 21 Spring

23 Conan’s network 24 Willamette River

capital

25 Fish with

experience? 27 UFOfliers,

presumably

28 __ bath

30 Luke and Leia’s

mother 31 Show-offs

35 Pats gently 36 Bees behind bars? 38 InlandAsia­n sea 40 Fixture in some

no-parking zones 41 Starrman

43 One kept on a

child at the pool 44 Hole goal 47 Whales on the

run?

51 GErival

53 “Alas!” prompter 54 Seafarers

55 USC athlete 56 Novel ending? 58 Wolves with a

clean lair? 60 Miranda __ of

“Homeland” 61 Dutch cheeses 62 Czech track legend

Zátopek

63 Zen riddle 64 “Building a Mystery” singer McLachlan 65 Cook of comedy

DOWN

1 If

2 Scold harshly 3 WileE. Coyote weapons

4 White __

5 Bo’s’n boss

6 Loan fig.

7 Put on ice 8 Helped through a tough time, with “over” 9 Brainstorm­ing session output 10 DirectorRe­iner 11 PaperwithM­oney

and Life sections 12 Awesome, slangily 13 Bothers

18 Public town park 22 Narc’s find 25 “Funny thing is ...

” 26 “I __ thought of

that”

29 Hometo the OgdenRapto­rs of MiLB

31 Hägar the

Horrible’s wife 32 Med. condition with repetitive behavior

33 Hurt in a ring 34 Take out, as a

vampire

36 Italian bacon 37 Like difficult push

ups

38 “Do you and I need to clear the air?”

39 Dish with arborio

rice

42 Withdraw, with

“out”

44 __ party

45 Aleve rival 46 Really get to 48 Wasp nest sites 49 Red-carpet brand 50 NBAgreat Robertson nicknamed “The BigO”

52 Minibike kin 55 Derriere

57 Long time towait,

facetiousl­y 59 Thurman in films

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By Kevin Christian

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