Edited by will shortz
ACROSS
1 Match, as subject and verb 6 Newspaper held in low esteem 9 Cigar milder than a maduro
14 Top of an espresso
15 Novelist Umberto
16 Swing by unannounced
17 Things that may fly around saloons 18 France’s Académie ___ Beaux-arts 19 Gives deep massage therapy
20 Old Spice alternative
21 Violinist Zimbalist
23 Only president who was also a chief justice
24 Film school deg.
25 “Whew! What a tiring day!” 27 Padre’s hermana
28 Tackle, for one
30 Slicing, as through water
32 Part of a cello that supports the instrument on the floor
33 Make right, perhaps in a not-so-right way
34 Complete … as suggested by four symmetrical pairs of Down answers in this puzzle
38 Burn black
41 Layered cake
42 Group that votes together
46 A lowercase “f” on a blue background, for Facebook
47 Like Delta Force forces
48 She said “Little boy, gonna make you a man,” in a Kinks song
49 Princess of Avalor, on a Disney show 51 One of the Three Stooges
52 Cares for, as a garden
53 New Deal prez
54 Airport screening org.
56 Cheer repeated before “sis-boom-bah!” 58 Astronomers’ std.
59 “I Am … ___ Fierce,” #1 Beyoncé album 61 ___ Park, Calif.
63 Plays (around)
65 Curvy
67 Started eating
68 Magic Johnson’s 10,141 69 Ten-gallon hat 70 Cry of disbelief
DOWN
1 Good-natured
2 Mythical beast that’s half lion and half
eagle
3 Edmond ___, “Cyrano de Bergerac”
playwright
4 James who sang “At Last”
5 Canadian interjections
6 Distinctively colored freshwater fish 7 Bitter
8 What “it” is supposed to do
9 Y course
10 Rioter’s spoils
11 H.S. course often covering the
“Aeneid”
12 Making up variations on a theme 13 Performing live, say
21 Send off, as rays
22 Sea cow
25 One who might become a fiancée 26 Record for later, in a way 29 Screenwriter Nora
31 Flimsy, as an excuse
35 Stuffed grape leaves
36 Half a sextet
37 Member of the weasel family
38 Pitch setter
39 Waits for a better offer, say
40 Game box info
43 Like friends not seen for years 44 Antebellum Dixie
45 People are asked to sign it after an accident
50 1896 Olympics locale 52 Hush-hush org.
55 Tell
57 Many Pennsylvania Dutch speakers 60 Typical “Key & Peele” segment 62 Dark time in France
63 E.R. workers
64 Second part of the sign of the cross, symbolically
65 Glimpsed 66 Indianapolis-to-atlanta dir.