Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Luxurious 6 Bubble tea insert 11 Sweet sandwich,

for short

14 A Marx brother 15 Small crown 16 Grammy winner

Corinne Bailey __ 17 Medical pro who avoids the rear of the ship? 19 Approximat­e fig. 20 Actor Mineo 21 Yarns

22 Key near Alt 23 Farmers market

buy

24 Rum cocktail 26 Medical pro who holds a pal’s hand in a tattoo parlor? 31 Actress Zellweger 32 Eucalyptus eater 33 Plant juice

36 Peak

37 The Good Book 38 Top-ranked 39 Sorrow

40 “What a pity” 41 Aerial

photograph­y craft 42 Medical pro who engineers hairpin turns?

45 ABCs

47 Plus

48 Big trade show 49 Noncommitt­al 51 Investigat­ive journalist __ B. Wells

54 Long of “Empire” 55 Medical pro who is a sick chess player? 58 Washington’s Sea__ Airport 59 “Cross my heart!” 60 Title holder 61 Estadio cheer 62 Lies for, maybe 63 Snap course

DOWN

1 Many profs

2 “The Secrets We Kept” novelist Prescott

3 River to the

Caspian 4 Sunblock letters 5 Quick, provocativ­e

opinion 6 Unexpected

smack?

7 Laundry brand 8 Old T-shirts,

maybe

9 “__ we good?” 10 Simple card game 11 In the not-toodistant future 12 Iraq port city 13 Actor who plays the Emperor in 2020’s “Mulan” 18 “The Persistenc­e of Memory” painter 22 Spain’s El __ 23 “Where creativity clicks” constructi­on toy 24 Slip-on shoe 25 Programmin­g

pioneer Lovelace 26 Sketch

27 Forfeited auto 28 “Please give me

some alone time” 29 Sour

30 Birds of prey that were once endangered 34 Basketball Hall of

Famer Donovan 35 Social equal 37 Bigwig

38 Best Picture

winner set in Iran 40 Jiff

41 Pathology study 43 __ Grande 44 Run-down area 45 Box lunch?

46 The first “A” in CAT

scan

49 Dreadful

50 Came to rest 51 Terse affirmatio­n 52 Turn down 53 Painter’s

calculatio­n 55 Genetic info

carrier

56 Director Reiner 57 Mani-pedi place

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