Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

- By Doug Peterson and Christina Iverson

ACROSS

1 Creature in the 2019 animated film “Abominable”

5 Break sharply

9 Owlet’s home

13 Smartphone border

14 Fine-tune over time

15 German spouse

16 Aquarium decoration

17 Kate Middleton, to Archie and Lilibet

18 Tree trimmer’s target

19 Items sold in a pop-up shop?

22 “Geez!”

23 “Insecure” actress/ writer Issa

24 Items sold in a pop-up shop?

32 Game with a numbered board

33 “The Fiddler of Dooney” poet

34 Actress Mendes

35 Stage award

36 Tigger’s creator

37 Home of Iowa State

38 Nemesis

39 Corral, as cattle

40 Floors

41 Items sold in a pop-up shop?

44 Post-ER place

45 Animated Olive 46 Items sold in a pop-up shop?

54 Many-axled vehicle

55 Lawn care brand

56 In base eight

57 “I Dream of Jeannie” star

58 Nefarious

59 Take one’s sweet time

60 Pizazz

61 Start of something big?

62 Give a hand?

DOWN

1 “Everything Everywhere All at Once” star Michelle

2 Old Testament scribe

3 One wearing a matching jersey

4 “None for me, thanks”

5 Layered style

6 Life or death

7 China __ McClain of “Black Lightning”

8 Sleeping spot for some dogs

9 TD caller

10 “The Devil in the White City” author Larson

11 __ Club: Costco rival

12 Oleo container

13 Email field 20 Tiny member of a collective

21 Big galoots

24 Party game “of unspeakabl­e fun”

25 Projecting window

26 Looking over

27 Shrine artifact

28 Sheryl Crow’s “All I __ Do”

29 Madagascar

primate

30 Makes true 31 Smart talk

32 Tip

36 Restaurant option

37 Had a farm-totable meal, say

39 Guitar accessory

40 Malicious trackers

42 Prep cook’s forte

43 Oft-pranked Simpsons character

46 Rey of the “Star Wars” films, for one

47 “Too true!” 48 Stellar explosion

49 Cereal whose flavors include grapity purple 50 Hindu spring festival

51 Tide alternativ­e

52 Surname at the O.K. Corral

53 Artful

54 “__ who?!”

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10/19/22

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