Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

- By David Alfred Bywaters

ACROSS

1 Show anxiety, in a way

5 No good 11 Prankster’s projectile 14 Excited response to a cue 15 Pressed

16 Also 17 Iranian vocal improvisat­ion? 19 Primitive dwelling 20 Furniture cleaning brand

21 Bar __ 22 Assistant

23 Web address 24 Household employee’s fraudulent ruse? 26 Approve

29 Put into words 30 Preface to a conviction 31 Product warning

34 Sew up again 38 Nursery school air fresheners? 42 First name in black-and-white photos

43 Stash

44 Cabinet dept. 45 Born, in Brussels 47 Smidge, to a laddie

50 Poem that seemed awfully profound at the bar last night? 55 Realtor’s unit 56 Words of understand­ing 57 Shad product 58 Tabloid output 61 Catch

62 What optical character recognitio­n software often produces? 64 I problem? 65 Purpose 66 “This is terrible!” 67 Intl. Talk Like a Pirate Day month 68 Sudden reactions 69 Crucial things

DOWN

1 Plumbing item 2 “So be it!” 3 Casual pants 4 Make certain 5 Decree

6 Item near a sugar bowl, perhaps 7 Opera about an opera singer 8 Peruvian of old 9 Comes to realize 10 Summer CT clock setting 11 Moral principle

12 Big wheel in delis 13 27-Down’s victorious words 18 Hebrides unit 22 So far

24 Pokes (around) 25 Knitter’s need 26 Opera about an African princess 27 Gangster movie hero, perhaps 28 Sailor 32 Follower’s suffix 33 Displeased look 35 Sad song subject 36 Cogito __ sum 37 Car sticker amt. 39 Perfume with myrrh, say 40 Actor Guinness 41 Lamb’s dam 46 Roaming, like a knight 48 Palindromi­c Parisian pronoun 49 Performs adequately 50 Longs 51 Treatment 52 Jazz style 53 Vital vessel 54 Barbecue brand 58 Some NCOs 59 Wacko

60 First chimp in orbit

62 Base figs. 63 Small colonist

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10/18/19

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