Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Moving at a snail’s

pace

5 Wedding invite

enclosures 10 “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Oscar winner Michelle 14 Campaign staffer 15 Not as sweet 16 Event with demos 17 Watch straps 19 A-line line

20 Ed Asner’s “Elf”

role

21 Outdoor gear coop

22 Go by bike

23 __ and cheese 25 Baja vacation spot,

familiarly 27 Chardonnay­based wine

33 Too clever __ 35 Many a Mideast

native

36 “You Only Love Me”

singer Rita

37 Oboe insert

38 TV spot seller 40 Eurasia’s __

Mountains 41 Paddle kin 42 Continenta­l

currency

43 Many a chalet 45 Reverse chin lock, for one

48 Poker stake 49 __ Center: Chicago

skyscraper

50 Old photo finish 53 Pa

55 Quai d’Orsay’s river 60 Zero-shaped 61 Verbose, and what the circled letters in this puzzle literally are?

63 Modest meal 64 Accurately pitched 65 University list-

maker

66 Vehicle pulled by

huskies

67 Data for

sabermetri­cians 68 Singer-songwriter

Bareilles

DOWN

1 Tree topplers 2 Italian 42-Across predecesso­r 3 Norse god played by Anthony Hopkins

4 “__ Side Story” 5 Barbecue bone 6 Hard to find 7 Climbing plant 8 Spa menu item 9 Next year’s alums 10 “Who else would I be talking to?” 11 Corp. bigwig 12 Fall birthstone 13 “__ Front”: Kristin Hannah novel about a military family

18 Sri Lankan language 22 Bygone NYC punk venue

24 Guilty 26 Indigenous people of Colorado and Wyoming

27 “__ was I?” 28 Owned 29 Noble rank below viscount 30 U.S./Canada defense letters 31 Small drink 32 New Haven university 33 Forehead 34 Calendar interval 39 Dehydrated 40 Link letters 42 Sicilian peak 44 “Despacito” singer

Luis

46 Breezed (through) 47 Thingamaji­g 50 Blubbers 51 Malicious 52 Mushroom spread 54 Paquin of “The Irishman” 56 Wraps up 57 Concept

58 In the area 59 Novelist Ferber 61 Mil. officers 62 OED entries

 ?? By Alan Olschwang ??
By Alan Olschwang

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