Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

- By Jeffrey Wechsler ©2021 Tribune Content Agency

ACROSS

1 Honshu drama 4 Words before a recap

11 Audi rival 14 Boise-to-Billings dir. 15 “Raging Bull” boxer 16 Infamous Vietnam War site, My __ 17 “Take my advice: no use crying over spilled milk ... ” 20 Compact part 21 Greet warmly 22 Spumante source 23 PC core

26 Spot to get a bite on the street 27 Rockets’ org. 28 Low cloud 32 Two-__: half-price opportunit­y 33 Pouch

34 With 36-Across, “There’s no going back ... ”

35 Ship letters

36 See 34-Across 39 Brewery vessel 40 Celestial feline 41 Snoots put them on

45 Other, in Oaxaca 48 “Put everything behind you ... ”

53 Sigma follower 54 Shorebirds related to stilts

55 Crux

57 Cards

59 Up on the latest 60 Sax type 61 “And look ahead.” 64 Force featured on “Bosch,” for short 65 “So close!” 66 Oodles

67 They often take

turns

DOWN

1 __ Own Organics 2 Where “The Man With the Hoe” carried the world, in an Edwin Markham poem 3 Great sadness 4 Plus

5 Iraq’s __ City 6 Brief “I think” 7 Oceanus, to Gaia 8 Snacked 9 “How sweet __!” 10 Sprint

11 Lose it 12 Public policy declaratio­n 13 Cookout fare 18 One less than tetra19 OB or ENT 23 Rock’s Mötley __

24 Formal agreement 25 Four Corners state 28 Roget entry: Abbr. 29 Dress, with “up” 30 Le Monde article 31 Auto additive with a red oval logo 37 Seaweed product 38 Quite often 42 Supermarke­t chain with a red oval logo 43 Overhauls

44 Put away 45 Titania’s Husband 46 Serving as a symbol

47 Fin. neighbor 48 Loyalty

49 Start 50 “Human beings ... may hide their feelings, but __ does not”: Hemingway 51 Fjords, e.g. 52 Teach privately 53 Foolish sort 56 Superskinn­y 58 Battle of Normandy town 60 Claim

62 Actor McKellen 63 Andean root vegetable

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