Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

- By Ryan McCarty

ACROSS

1 One may be planted on a cheek

5 One who gets famous just for kicks?

15 Volunteer’s words

16 Use sound to get around

17 Large volume

18 Reaction that can be grateful or sarcastic

19 Call from a brooder

21 Getting better

22 Arrive by car, say

24 Perception

25 Make a typo ... or miss one

26 Surprising sound

28 Setting of van Gogh’s “Café Terrace at Night”

30 Stop shooting

32 Let the air out of

35 Area where skateboard­ing likely originated, briefly

37 Activity cube user

38 One may get rubbed out

40 Failed to uphold

43 Gorilla researcher Fossey

44 Turning part 45 Directed

47 With 42-Down, unlikely racetrack pick

48 Milwaukee draft pick?

50 One obsessed with guns?

52 Utensil in Valencian cooking

56 Isle off the Sorrento Peninsula

57 Captured soundly?

59 Hardly promising

60 Walk-in clinic focus

61 Fashion

62 Espies

63 City on the Skunk

DOWN

1 Retiring groups?

2 Film genre for Shyamalan’s “The Happening”

3 Competitor who’s over the hump?

4 Prepare to talk to a tyke, maybe

5 Prepared 6 Figure eight, in tango parlance

7 Harry Potter love interest Cho __

8 Independen­t __

9 South Bend suburb 10 Larva that attacks Valentine’s Day plants

11 Ran playfully

12 Fabulist’s work

13 Buckets or barrels

14 Out of a job, perhaps?: Abbr.

20 Trivia site

23 __ fly

27 Arena for the stars

29 Annual coronation event

31 Impressive displays

33 Rest for a bit

34 Transport service for the disabled

36 Much less

39 Armageddon­s

41 Lose it

42 See 47-Across

46 Site of the HQ of five major sports

49 Croquetas or caracoles

51 It forms igneous rock

52 Microsoft cofounder Allen

53 Intangible quality

54 Norm-challengin­g

55 Role in the Monteverdi opera “The Coronation of Poppaea”

58 Big-screen TV site

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