LOCAL Houston | The City Guide FEBRUARY 2016 | Page 74

CROSSWORD
By Scott Ward

Across
1. Deluge
6. Protect
11. Banned insecticide
14. Africa's largest city
15. Soothe
16. Dublin's land (abbr.)
17. TNT crime drama with Kelly Seigler
playing herself
19. Tool for a confident crossword solver
20. Rock's Kings of ___
21. Insecticide brand
22. Young man
23. Not quite closed
25. Horn section
27. Large book
28. Detective
30. Something said in a quiet voice
32. 6th sense
33. Distinctive flair
35. Laundromat purchase
36. Key role at NASA, for which Christen
Mastracchio is training
39. St. Louis NFL team that is now moving
to Los Angeles
41. See the sights
42. Legendary princess irritant
45. Capital of Taiwan
47. Fish hawks
49. Afflictions
50. Gregorian ___
53. Metal-bearing rocks
54. Boston’s Liberty Tree, for one
55. Catches a glimpse of
56. Charged atoms
58. Gambling cube with 21 pips
59. AMC zombie drama featuring Major
Dodson
63. Japanese currency
64. Shoelace tip
65. Mail carrier's beat
66. Winter hours in D.C.
67. Cat calls
68. German industrial city

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1. Govt. broadcasting watchdog
2. Language similar to Thai
3. Lantern for a hurricane
4. Picks from the menu
5. Karate school
6. You might step on it to go faster
7. Part of UHF
8. Pseudonym
9. Certain bias
10. Like some blonde hair
11. Scholarly sheepskin
12. Imagine
13. Easy to chew
18. Dismantle with a wrench
23. Birthday card subject
24. Au ___ (how a French dip is served)
26. Back part
27. Fox or turkey step
29. "Siddhartha" author
31. Seize control of
34. ''__ so fast!''

36. Roadies carry them
37. Lunch hour for many
38. Capital of Texas
39. Public meetings in support of a
person or cause
40. Malady
42. Greek hero who beheaded Medusa
43. CBS symbol
44. Beast of burden
45. Hippie wear
46. Pleistocene period
48. Sonata parts
51. Nametag word
52. Off-kilter
55. Participated in the first leg of a
triathlon
57. Fairy tale fiend
60. Possessive without an apostrophe
61. Broke bread
62. Hibernation location

JANUARY 2016 Solution