Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

- By Justin Daneau

ACROSS

1 Apple discard

5 Cash dispensers

9 Edinburgh

resident

13 Highest point

14 Metal corrosion

15 Novelist Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature

16 Where to watch

pillars and frames?

19 Profession­al org. 20 Big name in

ridesharin­g

21 Observe

22 “Rugrats” dad

24 “Almost Famous”

director Cameron

26 Low-scoring tie

29 Guzzles (down)

32 Serious hwy. crime

33 One-sixth of an inch, to a typesetter

35 Uncommon

36 Where to watch Stonehenge and Big Ben?

40 Bengay target

41 Smell

42 Ultrasound goop

43 “Onwards!”

46 Put a hex on

48 Play idly, as a

guitar

50 Stitching target

51 “Frankly,” in texts

53 Coup d’__: sudden

regime change

55 Modern creatures that are technicall­y dinosaurs

59 Where to watch tracks and tunnels?

62 Facts and figs.

63 Egg on

64 Volcano on Sicily

65 “The Martian”

actor Damon

66 Writes the wrong

ZIP code, say

67 Filter (through)

DOWN

1 Spanish house

2 Magnum __:

masterpiec­e

3 Gym sets, briefly

4 Tell-all news story

5 Flight update abbr.

6 Ballet skirt

7 “The Beat With Ari Melber” broadcaste­r

8 Has the wheel

9 Female pig

10 From a short

distance, with “at”

11 Big, mean giant

12 Help oneself to

17 Ocean floor dwellers with many arms

18 Sci-fi film with light

cycles

23 Aussie colleges

25 Wave a red flag at

26 Postal scale unit

27 Workforce during

the wee hours

28 Amazon gadget activated by saying “Alexa”

30 Set loose

31 Unload for cash

32 Start a card game

34 Rock band with the album “Powerage”

37 “__ we forget”

38 Length of many

TV dramas

39 Joyful Spanish

shout

44 Mushroomed

45 Power

interrupti­on

47 Treats with petty

malice

49 City hall bigwig

51 Barbershop

request

52 “Dirty John” actor

Eric

54 Ruler of imperialis­t

Russia

56 Solemn

observance

57 “All finished!”

58 One of the Rice

Krispies trio 60 “Thanks a __!”

61 QB stats

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