Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 “Fear the Walking Dead,” e.g. 8 Fixed up 14 Legendary name in racing 15 Keeps away from 16 Tight deadlines may make an electricia­n’s job __ 18 Reversal 19 Picked up 20 Leaves for a drink 21 How it looks, with “the” 24 An electricia­n who is testing results may become a __ 30 Schooner pole 33 Where FDR was once governor 34 Face with courage 35 Counting everything 37 Poetic devices 39 Link to another story? 40 “Shameless” network, briefly 41 It may be raised at an outdoor wedding 42 An electricia­n resolves legal matters at __ 46 Glum

47 Old AT&T rival 50 “Let’s begin, okay?” 54 Doesn’t hack it 56 A stressed electricia­n may need an __ 59 They may be going around 60 Saskatchew­an neighbor 61 Patronize, as a motel 62 Person well over 70, probably?

DOWN

1 Executed, in Exodus

2 City near Venice 3 “Are you __ out?” 4 “Don’t take it so hard”

5 Take responsibi­lity for

6 Butter component 7 Kicks up one’s heels 8 Discuss ad nauseam

9 At any time 10 Vampire’s curfew 11 Comics dog that sounds like two letters 12 Bookish sort 13 Wichita-to-Memphis dir. 16 __ feeling

17 Big field in Silicon Valley 22 Cocktail word with a tilde 23 Texter’s “Chat soon” 24 Dispassion­ate type 25 UPC bar code developer 26 Travis of country music 27 Account 28 Square

29 Sit a spell 30 Catchall abbr. 31 Contradict­ory prefix 32 Marquee figure 36 Capote nickname 37 “Leave me alone!” 38 Chits

40 Roller coaster sounds 43 “Wait, what?” 44 Dot on a map 45 Disprove 47 Creator of an iconic bear 48 Understood 49 Musician’s suffix 50 X-rated stuff 51 __ sapiens 52 Surmountin­g 53 Pre-euro currency 55 Slightly 56 Critical-care ctrs. 57 Chop (off ) 58 Number of World Series wins for the Astros

 ?? By Jeffrey Wechsler ?? 5/7/21
By Jeffrey Wechsler 5/7/21

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