Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Logician Turing 5 15-Across protagonis­t

11 HMO group

14 Try out, briefly 15 1986 sci-fi sequel 16 Exist

17 Give it the old college try 19 Spray __

20 It’s no exit 21 Start of a cheer 22 Await judgment 23 Woman in the Book of Ruth 24 Sailing pronoun 25 “Much appreciate­d,” in Munich 26 Aligned 27 Benchmarks on the way to mastery 29 Pigs out (on) 30 One may be rolled out in a stadium 31 Plenty 32 Lip-thrusting look 33 N.Y.C. part 34 Make even smoother 37 N.W.A rapper __-E 38 Posed 41 “Please don’t expect any more from me” 43 Comedian Daniel 44 Start of an old latenight intro 45 Daybreak deity 46 “It’s __ than I thought” 47 Nothing like wetlands 48 Screech __ 49 Garden of Eden protector 50 Carpet feature 51 See 40-Down 53 Phillies’ div. 54 Effective deal maker 55 Amazes

56 Eight minutes of the average sitcom 57 Puts up 58 “Hey, you!”

DOWN

1 Expand, as a residence 2 Conductor Bernstein 3 Lovey-dovey 4 Generic

5 Filing aid

6 Down with something 7 Mrs. Lovett’s business in Broadway’s “Sweeney Todd” 8 Imposed

9 NBA center __

Kanter 10 Fashion initials 11 Purple shade 12 Like a bar free-forall 13 Emailers

18 Old U.K. record label 22 Luxury watch brand __ Philippe 24 Database function 25 Rail against 27 Catalonian architect Antoni __ 28 See 12-Down 30 “Hamilton” got 11 32 Trimmed 33 Orange tubers 34 “Rude Boy” singer 35 May birthstone 36 1981 Bill Murray military comedy 37 Small-headed? 38 Sad subjects 39 Takes over the duties of

40 With 51-Across, Sinatra classic, and a hint to completing three puzzle answers 42 What diets and beautician­s may promise, with “a” 43 It covers the end of the foot

46 “__ cares!” 48 Nobel Peace Prize city

49 Hubs: Abbr. 51 German I

52 Fore site?

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