Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Home on the range 6 Hardly wimpy 11 Film watcher’s channel

14 Take the honey and run 15 “Encore!” 16 Évian water 17 *Power outage standbys 19 Digital readout, for short

20 Up the creek

21 “I, Claudius” star Jacobi

23 RSVP part

24 *“I don’t care if you made plans, cancel them” 28 Airplane assignment 31 Escape 32 Man-to-man defense alternativ­e 33 Treat like a dog? 35 Place for a “ped” to cross 38 Bobbsey girl 39 *Morally upright person

43 __-fi

44 Big rig 45 Bandleader Lombardo 46 Beanery sign 48 Ticker tape letters? 50 Award adjective 53 *Stretch between two Bushes

57 “Huh!?”

59 __ squash 60 Language spoken by Jesus 63 Bygone airline 64 Ballpark brushback, perhaps ... and a hint to each set of circled letters 67 Rock’s Fleetwood __

68 Code name 69 Driving instructor’s urgent reminder 70 “Hometown Proud” supermarke­t chain 71 Weapon with a hilt 72 Fills completely

DOWN

1 TV host Philbin 2 “Jagged Little Pill” co-songwriter Morissette 3 Old register key 4 They report to sgts.

5 Pile 6 Barbie’s company 7 Get on in years 8 Aries or Taurus 9 Like many yoga practition­ers 10 Beginning 11 Ringer in la casa 12 Wool coat that is often plaid

13 Something to chew 18 Holiday quaff 22 Cartoonist Chast 25 Source of increased government revenue 26 Overlook 27 Common base 29 Auto financing abbr. 30 Afternoon affairs 34 Even score 36 Pester

37 Pub __: casual fare 39 Rascal 40 Bolivian border lake

41 Fed. agents 42 Deli choice 43 Brief time 47 __-Caps: candy 49 Marked for the class

51 Go after, as a fly 52 “The Masked Singer” judge Robin

54 Cuts back 55 Currently airing 56 “All bets __ off ” 58 Flu symptoms 61 LAPD alerts 62 Actress Sorvino 63 Texter’s “No more details!” 65 Sellout letters 66 Leb. neighbor

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