Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

- By Kevin Conway

ACROSS

1 Sports headwear retailer 5 Joplin’s “Me and Bobby __” 10 Charlie Brown’s “Darn!” 14 Comic strip dog 15 Variety 16 Poetic black 17 Lawyer’s missing text? 19 Prepare to fly, maybe 20 Type of battery 21 Coherent 22 Offer from one unwilling to negotiate? 25 Chicago Outfit gangster 27 One for the road 28 Be flexible 29 Saves up 34 Hot __ 35 Calendar period that 17-, 22-, 44and 54-Across are celebratin­g? 36 Wooden shoe sailor 37 Create opportunit­ies 40 First owner of the expansion Los Angeles Angels 42 Travel prefix with méxico and perú 43 Monks’ homes 44 Military directive? 49 Spring time 50 Support 53 Makeshift blade 54 Another name for the five-second rule of dropped food? 56 Group of online pages 57 Of past times 58 Garage sale term 59 Tributes in verse 60 Greet with howls, as the moon 61 Restaurant menu heading

DOWN

1 Showgirl of song 2 Worshipped object 3 Modern capacity measure 4 Put on, as a high shelf 5 Bad intentions 6 Street organ feature 7 “Oliver Twist” food 8 Warning service co-coordinate­d by FEMA 9 Part of a needle 10 Investment gains 11 Old calculator­s 12 Like guilt-trippers, say 13 Nasty 18 He played Dirty Harry 21 Women’s links gp. 23 __ Park, Colorado 24 Actuary’s specialty 25 Army gear, briefly 26 Take __: swim 29 Pass out 30 Always, to a poet 31 Put between 32 “Finding __”: 2016 sequel 33 Dreyer’s, east of the Rockies 35 Loughlin of “Full House” 38 Indigenes 39 Lenovo rival 40 Egyptian president __ Fattah el-Sisi 41 Ride available via mobile app 43 Passionate 44 Bartolo in “The Barber of Seville,” e.g. 45 Ladybug’s lunch 46 Overdone 47 Half a stringed instrument 48 Southend-__ 51 “Already taken care of ” 52 Fabled loch 54 Flash __ 55 Old ending for “Motor”

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