Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Wine, with “the” 6 Athletic gripper

11 5 mL, in some

recipes

14 Big state

15 Believer in karma 16 Order from a stool,

maybe

17 Delighted 19 Cartoon collectibl­e 20 Back-combs

21 __ sock

23 Last one in,

competitiv­ely 26 Folklore cave

dwellers

27 Jipijapa hat,

familiarly

28 Call it a day 30 Stephen Hawking’s journalist daughter 31 Mouth-watering

reaction?

32 Forest female 35 Not online, briefly 36 Delighted

38 Bit of wordplay 39 Eastern principle 40 Theater parts 41 Listen to

42 Log-in need

44 The “P” in TAFKAP 46 “No doubt”

48 Kept from leaking,

in a way 49 Spun flax fabric 50 Sear and simmer 52 “__ dreaming?” 53 Delighted

58 Prefix with dairy or

fat

59 Math calculatio­ns 60 Mild oath 61 “Affirmativ­e,

cap’n”

62 Like survey questions with two boxes

63 Stick-on

decoration

DOWN

1 Trailblaze­r in the muscle car category

2 Gun for a race 3 Tool that’s swung 4 At some point during a trip, say 5 Great regard 6 Storage furniture 7 Margarita garnish 8 Ten-time all-star Slaughter

9 It may be about nothing

10 Sushi choice 11 Delighted

12 Be in a bee 13 Doesn’t measure up 18 “It __ familiar ring

to it”

22 Word on a French

passport

23 Took off

24 Dern or Linney 25 Delighted

26 Bank heist unit 28 One of the deadly

sins

29 Comics punch

lines?

31 Sandwich seller 33 Unit of perfume 34 Wrapped up 36 Packers home 37 Voldemort’s title 41 It’s unlimited with

some rentals 43 Take in

44 Forked over 45 Didn’t dawdle 46 Comedian Glazer 47 Longtime Shatner

co-star 48 Affirmativ­e

playground retort 50 Tourney passes 51 Horse of a certain

color

54 Old-timey

“before”

55 Ms. __-Man 56 Acronym for unabashed intimacy

57 DKNY competitor

 ?? By Stephanie Lesser ©2021 Tribune Content Agency 9/15/21 ??
By Stephanie Lesser ©2021 Tribune Content Agency 9/15/21

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