Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

- By Howard Barkin

ACROSS

1 Karaoke devices,

for short

5 Chip maker __-Lay

10 Big rig

14 Dept. of Labor div.

15 First name of Yankee manager Boone and Yankee slugger Judge

16 Mimicked

17 *Fried seafood

appetizer

19 Small container in

a chemistry lab

20 Stage hog

21 Blackjack cards

22 Frozen spike

24 Savanna antelopes

26 Emotionall­y

detached

27 *Sandwiches with

leafy exteriors

31 “Catch those

villains!”

34 Cooking vessels

35 Debtor’s letters

36 “We try harder”

car rental chain

37 Faceplante­d off a

skateboard, say

39 Unmitigate­d joy

40 Sleep stage letters

41 Pizazz

42 Bridge positions

43 *Starchy and eggy

dessert

47 Zero

48 Takes down, as a

flyer

52 Know-it-all’s taunt

54 Fashion monthly

55 Canyon edge

56 Love, in Spanish

57 Budget option at a fast-food joint that the answers to the starred clues could all belong to?

60 Walking aid

61 Initial stage

62 Contribute­s

63 Hoops long shot

64 Honking birds

65 Luxurious

DOWN

1 Chewy rice cake

2 Ramadan faith

3 Tourney winner

4 “You Send Me” singer Cooke

5 Big shot with big bucks

6 Least likely to be found

7 Colorful eye part

8 Spinning toy

9 Like a cellphone in a theater, hopefully

10 Knight in shining armor

11 Major faceplants

12 Brunch, e.g.

13 Inactive

18 Oregon capital

23 Dairy farm animals

25 Gastropub pours

26 Smoothie berry

28 Flip over

29 Maya Angelou, for

one

30 Seeks damages

from

31 Attire

32 Happily __ after

33 Chance to unwind and read a book, perhaps

37 Pack leader

38 Lacking slack

39 “Born This Way”

singer Lady __

41 Tense and irritable

42 Word near a maze

arrow

44 “Sabrina” actress

Hepburn

45 Airport serving the

D.C. area

46 Arriving after

curfew

49 Statement of faith

50 “It takes all __”

51 Flatten

52 Social finesse

53 “Doctor Zhivago”

actor Sharif

54 “What __ can I

say?”

58 Individual

59 Atlas page

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