Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 To __ her own

5 Work on, as a bone

9 Swedish pop group

13 Pond plant with floating “pads”

14 “West Side Story” heroine

16 Golf scorecard numbers

17 TV Mister with a “neighborho­od”

19 MADD ads, e.g.

20 Achy from exercise

21 Italian half-dozen

22 The “L” in “SNL”

23 Regular cybersecur­ity measure

27 Thurman on screen

29 Crumpets drink

30 Enjoy a meal

31 Fulfill fully

33 Things best not all put in one basket?

36 Ocean levels

40 Agatha Christie play set in Egypt

43 Identify as yours, as baggage

44 College sports org.

45 Man or Wight

46 Spanish aunt

48 First-aid set

50 Cell pic taker

51 Self-inflicted tennis mistake

57 Get close to 58 Charlemagn­e’s

domain, for short 59 Disney exec Robert 61 Painter of limp

watches

62 Like a nonfunctio­ning vending machine, or what the circled letters are, in two ways 66 Memorable lioness 67 Performanc­e sometimes seen through glasses 68 German article 69 Rod partner 70 “Jurassic Park”

menace, briefly 71 “Halt!”

DOWN

1 Santa helper 2 Broadcasts 3 Antony’s last spouse

4 Monster slain by Hercules 5 Modern food concern, briefly 6 Old horse

7 “Am not!” reply 8 Electrical job 9 Drink replacing “mar” with an apt fruit 10 Foundation 11 Courageous

12 Balance sheet item

15 “Step __!”: “Outta my way!”

18 Take a break

24 Prophet

25 Old West vehicle

26 Per-hour amount

27 “Semper Fi” org.

28 Hammering tool

32 Opinion piece

34 Health supplement­s co.

35 Vampire’s undoing

37 Cast doubt on

38 Scat legend Fitzgerald

39 Apparently are

41 Mideast ruler

42 Win by a __: barely beat

47 Sneezing sound

49 Emerson, Lake & Palmer, e.g.

51 Beneath

52 Author Zora __ Hurston

53 True-__ test

54 Explode in rage

55 Try to stop

56 Shrek and family

60 City sometimes mistaken for the capital of Nevada

63 Mined resource

64 Obsolescen­t document transmitte­r

65 One ab crunch, say

 ?? ©2021 Tribune Content Agency ?? By John Harrington 12/13/21
©2021 Tribune Content Agency By John Harrington 12/13/21

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