DAILY CROSSWORD

TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015

ACROSS

1 Fallback strategy (2

wds.) 6 Fruit tree 10 Zwieback 14 Tybalt's slayer 15 Auel heroine 16 Offshore 17 Mountaineer's tool

(2 wds.) 18 Beatles' hit 20 Word in a recipe 21 Tenet 23 Blues street in

Memphis 24 Novelist -- Grey 25 Pecs' partners 26 Fossil resins 29 Side by side 34 Causes distress 35 Yawned 36 Vocalist -- Sumac 37 Essay byline 38 Ran easily 39 Unhearing 40 Ingested 41 Dangerous woman 42 "Shut up!" (2 wds.) 43 Widely scattered 45 Reef builders 46 Estuary 47 Tea clipper 48 Seer's deck 51 Skyrockets 53 Kimono accessory 56 Waves 58 Gentles 60 Pledge 61 P&L gurus 62 Sports venue 63 Lodge 64 Cuba, to Castro 65 Flax product

DOWN

1 Stiffly formal 2 Focal points 3 Visa rival 4 Teachers' org. 5 Freight movers 6 Check endorser 7 Ogled 8 In addition 9 Chinese zodiac animal 10 Least common 11 Meat-grading org. 12 Close securely 13 Ms. Ballard 19 Flowed back 22 HMO staffers 24 Catherine -- -Jones 25 Grew older 26 In the future 27 Vitamin lead-in 28 To the point 29 Not live 30 Sign on a door 31 Veld scavenger 32 PC message 33 Rides the rapids 35 Bloodshed 38 Mona -39 Pub missile 41 Hotel offering 42 Beachfront 44 Bubbling 45 Many a URL ender 47 -- nova 48 Low cards 49 At the drop of -- -50 Gam or Rudner 51 Ray gun blasts 52 Hyalite, in geology 53 Shaman's quest 54 Nota -55 This -- -- outrage! 57 201, to Cato 59 Jackie's tycoon