Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

- By Paul Steinberg and Karen Steinberg

ACROSS

1 Salinger title girl who says, “I prefer stories about squalor”

5 Spanish “other” 9 Las Vegas WNBA

team

13 Dress up like 14 French endearment that means “cabbage” 15 Pound the

pavement? 16 *External

troublemak­er

19 __ Pueblo, New

Mexico 20 PowerPoint unit 21 Brewpub fave 22 Bubble bath sigh 23 *Prized possession 26 More spread out 28 Dice game

29 Tech journalist

Swisher 30 Vegetable in aloo

matar

32 Craft project initials 33 *Camera attachment for a panorama

38 Acne treatment

brand

39 Lout

40 Indie rock’s __ Kiley 42 Passport mark 45 Make damp 47 *Space-saving option for overnight guests 51 Frustratin­g groove 52 “One more sleep”

time

53 Gushing reviews 54 “__ You Babe” 56 “Remember what you were about to say,” and what the answers to the starred clues literally do 60 “Hamilton” Tony winner Renée __ Goldsberry 61 Dance move 62 Stink 63 Cambodian

currency

64 Picks up a Bug, say 65 Edit menu option

DOWN

1 Self-importance 2 Lefty

3 Spy played by Greta Garbo

4 Big petrol seller 5 Med. condition that may be treated with Paxil

6 Alter ego of “Batman” villain Lorelei Circe 7 Explorer Amundsen

8 Saul Bellow’s “The Adventures of __ March”

9 __ moment’s notice 10 Crumbly Mexican

cheese

11 Hybrid music

genre

12 Wets with a hose 15 Lettering guide 17 Web access cos. 18 Wyo. neighbor 22 Query

24 Get even with 25 Laundry room

appliances 27 Semicircul­ar

antenna housing 31 Before now 32 Author who wrote

on Friday? 34 One-sided, in legal proceeding­s 35 Meaty Moroccan

dish

36 Much of the

atmosphere 37 Did some

digging 41 Toronto’s prov. 42 Feminine pair 43 Copenhagen’s __

Gardens 44 Antarctic penguin 46 Prefix with -pathic 48 “Hush, ya big

baby!” 49 Nautical “Halt!” 50 BTS hit “__ Come” 55 Ashram adviser 57 Broadband letters 58 Some PCs 59 Ref’s ruling

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©2023 Tribune Content Agency 2/9/23

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