Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Sampras of tennis 5 Biological pouches 9 Monastery leader 14 Door-to-door cosmetics company

15 Folksy Guthrie 16 Lose one’s cool completely 17 *Half of a twopiece suit

19 Tossed in a chip 20 Devious sort

21 “__ the matter?” 23 General with a Chinese dish namedfor him 24 Village cousin 26 Beer after a shot 30 Actress Anderson 31 *Indian spiced

drink

32 Mental giant 35 Like gloomy skies 37 Garr of “Tootsie” 38 Cotton thread 39 In need of a towel 40 Blue eyes, e.g. 41 Italian sparkling

wine

42 Dolts

43 Get a newtenant

for

44 *Winter Olympics

squad

46 “So that’s it!” 48 Oppressive ruler 49 Grab with a

toothpick

50 Old ultrafast plane,

briefly 53 Popular search

engine

55 Light humor 57 Colgate rival 60 Stop a fight ... and a hint to a literal feature of the answers to starred clues

62 Burnett with a namesakeGo­lden Globe

63 Checklist

component 64 Barn topper

65 At that place 66 Anklebones 67 Cogito-sumlink

DOWN

1 Blue Ribbon brewer 2 Lesseroftw­o__ 3 Planned 2020 Olympics city 4 Oklahomaci­ty NNWof Oklahoma City

5 Ho Chi Minh City,

formerly 6 Museum display 7 Class cutup 8 Lastyear’sfrosh 9 Mysteryawa­rd namedfor a British writer 10 *Miniature garden grower

11 Flier that sleeps upside-down 12 Reveal, to a poet 13 Danson of TV 18 Nary a soul 22 Needing a

rubdown 25 DomedNativ­e American dwelling

27 Make off with 28 Like awolf’s howl 29 Singer Bonnie 30 *“American

Crime” actress 31 Keep tabs on a

tabby

32 Leave the launching pad, with “off” 33 Foolhardy

34 Up and about 36 Slo-mo reviewer 40 “Jeopardy!” host 42 Sworn statement 45 Make possible 47 Italian submeat 49 Not exactly,

informally 50 Shankar’s strings 51 Bitten by bees 52 Versatile blood

donor 54 “Inmemoriam”

bio

56 “__ le roi!” 57 Costume-buying

mo. 58 Cheerword 59 “All bets __ off” 61 Fish that swims

backwards

 ?? By Gail Grabowski and Bruce Venzke ©2020 Tribune Content Agency ??
By Gail Grabowski and Bruce Venzke ©2020 Tribune Content Agency

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