Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

- By Rachel Fabi

ACROSS

1 Keep an eye on 6 Early riser? 9 Folded fare 14 Vegan beauty

brand

15 Tax pro

16 Surname of Bo and

Sunny 17 “Despacito” singer

Luis

18 Tablet download 19 Taking a personal

day, say

20 Cube root of eight 21 When an album

drops, e.g. 24 46-Down Emmy

winner Gilda 26 Divest of wrapping

paper, perhaps 27 Decongest 29 “¡Hasta luego!” 31 “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” actress Little __ 32 Far from fresh 33 Spot for a soak 36 Big goal

38 “I wonder ... “39 Clean a spill 41 Taking a personal

day, say 42 Pungent bulb 44 Dig up

45 Chicken homes 46 Street __ 48 Edamame units 49 Food word that is plural in Italian but singular in English 51 Chad Michael Murray teen drama set in North Carolina

54 Brief “I can’t unhear

that”

57 Rock icon Smith who wrote the memoir “Just Kids” 58 Crossed (out) 59 Golden beer 61 Scandal-plagued

energy company 62 Is for you? 63 Upscale Honda 64 “Nothing __!” 65 Shirt size: Abbr. 66 Country on the Gulf

of Aden

DOWN

1 Drift on the breeze 2 Declare openly 3 *Staff symbol for a bassoon piece 4 Items in jewel cases

5 Coif

6 Beaufort __

7 Layer in which space stations orbit Earth, and what the answers to the starred clues literally have? 8 Cabbage in baechu kimchi 9 *Symphonic compositio­n that evokes another art form 10 Homes 11 Settlement­building game with hexagonal tiles

12 Exclude 13 Levelheade­d 22 Lang. of Canada 23 Planter contents 25 Penne __ vodka 27 Back up, on a PC 28 Foam toy brand 30 2017 Kendrick

Lamar album 32 Endorse as a

couple, in slang 33 *Wig adhesive 34 Fourth-down

play

35 Bonobos, e.g. 37 *Accessory that

changes color 40 Country northeast

of 66-Across 43 Bouquet

45 “The fabric of our lives,” per an ad slogan

46 NBC show with

Punkie Johnson 47 “A Few Figs From

Thistles” writer 48 __ dish

50 Helped

51 Piece with a view 52 Prefix with bot 53 LSAT, e.g.

55 Only

56 Country north of

40-Down

60 Pro

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