Houston Chronicle

DAILY CROSSWORD

- By Annemarie Brethauer and Katie Hale

ACROSS

1 Lean

5 Comedian profiled in “Last Man Standing” 9 Member-owned

shop

13 “Because Freedom Can’t Protect Itself” org.

14 Abbr. on an ESPN

ticker

15 Home country of Olympian Pita Taufatofua 16 Low-alcohol brews 18 Something to

gain?

19 Random

comments online? 21 TV planet on which people age backward

22 “Make sense?” 23 Sydney’s st.

26 Was more than

superficia­l

28 Red choice 31 “Sorry, can’t make

it”

35 “We’ll Meet Again”

singer Lynn

36 Feed

37 Before, previously 38 Burton of “Reading

Rainbow” 39 Profess

40 Finally learns about 42 Kind of filler 44 Maroon 5’s “__ Will

Be Loved” 45 Service call? 46 Blue choice 49 Many times o’er 51 Unnamed

informant 57 Treats, as a winter

road

58 Catering

production? 59 Healing plants 60 “Make sense?” 61 Some leafcutter­s 62 Catherine who is one of the six in Broadway’s “Six” 63 Fed. IDs 64 Blue-bottled vodka

DOWN

1 Lean

2 Brand with Blue Lemonade and Blue Vanilla flavors 3 “You __ me!” 4 Lead-in for jet or prop

5 Prepare to scare, with “on”

6 Big name in gaming monitors 7 “Jude the Obscure” author

8 Role for Sudeikis 9 Saves

10 Bona fide 11 Scary figure 12 Picks up a bill, or

hands a bill 15 Tantalize

17 Frame

20 Some British

parents

23 Battery acronym 24 Show one’s face,

maybe 25 Medium also known as aquarelle

27 Jane Lynch series 29 Give a skilled

delivery 30 Allegorica­l cards 32 Ben or Jerry,

notably 33 25-Down, e.g. 34 Wit’s end?

38 Try to protect, in a

way

40 T. Rex rock style 41 “Is that so?” 43 Vast chasm 47 Rises into view 48 Warthog pair 50 Low winds 51 Urgent letters 52 Character voiced by Moira Kelly and Beyoncé

53 Read quickly 54 Putrid

55 Lincoln or Jackson 56 Crafts site

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