Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

- By David Alfred Bywaters

ACROSS

1 Bonkers

5 Raucous animal

sound

9 Sambuca flavoring 14 Not up

15 Ire

16 Trio in the logo of a national motorists’ group 17 Flatfish family founders? 19 Acquires

20 Shirt with a slogan 21 “Metamorpho­ses”

poet

22 Mindless way to

learn

23 When doubled, a

German spa town 25 Barbershop levy? 26 Broadway

restaurant founder 28 Energizes 30 Upscale

32 Go bad

33 Pairs

37 NFL pass,

complete or not 38 Rabbit monopolizi­ng the entrance to the warren?

41 Fez or fedora 42 Pedi concerns 44 Day in Durango 45 N, in a TV content

warning 47 Directions 50 Laconic

51 Part in a Humpty Dumpty biopic? 54 Come to

56 Turf grippers 57 Die, e.g.

58 Pet’s attentiong­etter, perhaps 61 Great deal of, slangily 62 Mutant tree trunk with extraordin­ary powers? 64 Concerning 65 God with a quiver 66 Carrot (always) or stick (sometimes) 67 On edge

68 Used to be 69 Tavern array

DOWN

1 Final

2 Vowel-rich woodwind 3 Have a party, say 4 One was written on an urn 5 Valorous

6 Five stars, e.g. 7 Like fine Scotch 8 Fist-pumper’s cry 9 Sock pattern 10 Minimally distant 11 Jerk 12 One-night-a-year flier 13 County not far from London 18 Fashionabl­e 22 With 52-Down, paper since 1872 24 Sunday paper barrage 25 Friend of Tigger

26 “Go away!” 27 Choir voice 29 Mountain nymph 31 Mountain melodies 34 Draining effect 35 Equine eats 36 Eyelid problem 39 Triangle side, say

40 Site of unwanted suburban vegetation 43 Low cloud 46 Traffickin­g org. 48 Go around 49 Daze 51 Dazzling effect 52 See 22-Down 53 Mount 55 More than a little plump 57 Medical research objective 59 Natural soother 60 Dampens

62 Put in stitches 63 Product of Bali

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