Crossword Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
1 Discontinue
5 ___ cake (dessert with a liquid chocolate core)
9 Skewered meat dish
14 Wander
15 “Victory is mine!”
16 Reply to “Grazie” 17 A ♭?
19 Feeling the need to scratch
20 Blanc who was known as “The Man of a Thousand Voices”
21 Tries not to be found
22 “Hello,” in Mandarin
23 Categorize
25 Give lip to
26 Where visitors take photos pretending to hold up a landmark 28 Not playing any songs, as a radio station
31 Rocker Lavigne
34 Offering from the miller or the cook, in Chaucer
36 Never Have I ___ (party game)
37 Shakespearean “Tsk!”
38 B ♭?
41 X–III
42 Berry rich in antioxidants (and vowels)
44 Accessory that may denote military rank
45 Deep chasm
47 Smallest unit of purchasing power, in an idiom
49 Start of a spell
51 Liquid-ate?
52 “You can say that again!”
56 High-end Honda 58 Pancakes sometimes served with caviar
61 Apt anagram of “yea”
62 Put forward
63 B ♯?
65 Speak one’s mind
66 Cereal crop
67 Gave the
go-ahead
68 Quick kisses
69 Occasion for blowing out candles, informally
70 Dudes
DOWN
1 Field of play?
2 Double Dutch equipment
3 Racetrack shapes
4 Pay-___-view
5 City ___ (place for a population sign)
6 Wowed
7 Botanical climber
8 Flik and Dot, in “A Bug’s Life”
9 Kind of cord or column
10 Skilled performer 11 E ♯?
12 Persian honorific
13 Fluctuate wildly
18 Skydiving or a ride on a roller coaster
24 Big name in nail polish
25 Whole host
27 Corroded
28 “Hi,” in Lanai
29 Lanai neckwear 30 Mother of Kim, Kylie and Kourtney
31 A ways away
32 The “V” of V.P.
33 Follow a composer’s notation ... or a hint to interpreting four clues in this puzzle
35 Show stoppers?
39 “Winning ___
everything” 40 Fictional land ruled by Aslan
43 Winter Olympics facility
46 Naughty 48 Fills with delight
50 Anonymous creator of a painting sold at auction that subsequently shredded itself 53 A kind of poem / Found within this crossword clue / Serendipity
54 “Sheesh!”
55 Tends to an
overgrown garden
56 Each
57 Make do
58 Amorphous shape
59 Hamperful
60 Smallest bit
64 Daily record