Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Cuts off

5 Member of a strict

Jewish sect 10 Artistic Chinese

dynasty

14 Ohio’s Great Lake 15 Justice Kagan 16 Egg-shaped 17 Ancient mariner’s

fear

19 Flexible mineral

sheet

20 Persuade with

flattery

21 Fossil resins 23 “Beowulf,” poemwise

24 Rubs the wrong

way?

25 Chain reaction

requiremen­t 29 Stagecoach puller 30 Allied gp. since

1948

31 Dangerous snakes 35 Antipollut­ion org. 36 Hit, as a fly 40 Alphabetic­ally first of two Hawaiian maunas

41 Like some coll.

courses

43 Gp. getting many

returns in April 44 Regular’s bar

order, with “the” 46 Nation that promotes its people’s economic and social prosperity 50 Malicious rumors 53 “Do __ others ... ” 54 Judge, e.g.

55 Like faces at a fireworks display 59 “Dream on!” 60 Meditation goal hinted at by this puzzle’s circles 62 Wander 63 Close-knit group 64 Fairway club 65 Didn’t dillydally 66 Act with excessive passion

67 The Big Apple, in addresses

DOWN

1 Make-do amount? 2 Two-tone cookie 3 Chanteuse Edith 4 Six-line stanzas 5 Brave

6 Llama relative 7 Ooze

8 Quaint stopover 9 Sortable informatio­n source 10 Kenya’s major port 11 Like Wrigley Field’s walls 12 Mother-of-pearl 13 Water or wine vessel 18 Catches sight of 22 Dash in a spice rack?

24 Amo, amas, __ 25 “Moonstruck” star 26 Weapon in Clue 27 Baghdad’s land 28 Gobs of 32 Arctic seabird 33 __ moss 34 Markdown event 37 Whole-grain food 38 Pound sounds 39 Quarrel 42 Towered over 45 Preserve using barrels, as wine 47 Bard’s “before” 48 Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s “Watcher” __ Giles

49 Main course 50 Burns a bit 51 Legendary fabulist 52 Easily deceived 55 “Go back” PC command

56 __ a one: none 57 Supply-anddemand subj. 58 Reject as false 61 “The Deer Hunter” war zone, for short

 ?? By Paul Coulter ?? 4/15/19
By Paul Coulter 4/15/19

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