Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

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1 Support financiall­y 5 Hurricane, e.g. 10 Drainpipe section 14 Face cream

additive 15 Medicare

component 16 Leaping critter 17 Depend (on) 18 Had superior

skills in 20 Word on really

bright Crayolas 21 Jazz great

Montgomery 22 Helen Reddy’s

“__ Woman” 23 Commentary

page 25 Turned out to be 29 Blew hard 32 Way back when 33 Helped start the

pot 34 Comic Johnson 36 Big __ 37 Regret 38 Not alfresco, and what this puzzle is vis-à-vis its border answers 41 Craft built in the 2014 film “Noah” 42 Nile snake 43 Yemeni seaport 44 Speed 46 Become resentful 49 Vampire’s bed? 50 Painter Manet 51 Sketch material 52 Commuter org. in the Loop 53 __ Butterwort­h 54 “Wild Blue Yonder” mil. group 58 Waterway between the major islands of New Zealand 62 Leg-covering skirt 63 Green Gables heroine 64 Boardroom prop 65 Part of FEMA: Abbr. 66 Caboose place 67 Broadway platform 68 Fries, for instance

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1 Silo neighbor 2 Toward protection, at sea 3 Great Sand Dunes National Park st. 4 Pinnacle of a lecture series 5 Erupted 6 Strained 7 Tolkien henchmen 8 GPS suggestion 9 Feign illness to avoid work 10 Motifs 11 “Far out, dude!” 12 Notre Dame’s Parseghian 13 Kennel guest 19 Put on board 24 Spa treatment 25 Big name in stationery 26 Ornamental fabric 27 Lorre’s “Casablanca” character 28 Pita feature 29 Tech company’s origin, perhaps 30 On the shelf 31 Move in the direction of 34 Threw in 35 Sushi roll topping 39 Tells a story 40 Layered do 45 Takes for granted 47 Lollipop 48 Feed bag feed 49 Once-per-player chess move 51 “Norwegian Dances” composer 53 Tamale dough 55 Scandinavi­an language 56 Used a hatchet on 57 Cause for alarm 58 Honda or Hyundai 59 Pepsi product that’s also its calorie count 60 Springstee­n’s “Working __ Dream” 61 Scoundrel

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