Crossword
Across
1 Almanac entry 5 Shoots the
breeze
9 What this is: 14 Click it
15 Be against 16 Frequent van
Gogh setting 17 See 58-Across 19 Thwarts 20 Calculator button
21 Burst of laughter 22 Say blah blah
blah blah blah 23 Not just any old 25 See 25-Across 27 Was affected by too heavy a weight, say 30 Strike out
31 Paid (up) 32 General ___ (“Superman” villain)
33 Prefix with gendered
36 See 66-Across 40 22+ pages of the Oxford English Dictionary 41 Kind of look with bangs and eye shadow
42 Like good farmland
43 City light 45 More untrustworthy
46 See ??-Across 50 Application fig. Something that might be settled over drinks 52 ___ Rohmer, French New Wave director 54 “Pow!”
57 Grad students’
hurdles
58 See 17-Across 60 Transfix
61 Gig gear
62 All those in favor 63 Snookums 64 Liable to peep 65 Alternative to an
elbow, maybe
Down
1 Partner of starts 2 Smoothie fruit 3 “You bet!”
4 Wile E. Coyote
prop
5 Burst of laughter 6On
7 Wake-up call? 8 What a mess! 9 What you might see the big game on 10 “Survivor” host
Jeff 11 Often-questionable account 12 Quartet member
13 German steel
city
18 Bid first
22 Short end of the
stick
24 Come down
hard? 26 Parrots a
pigeon? 27 Application figs. 28 Host Mike of “Dirty Jobs” and “Somebody’s Gotta Do It” 29 Narrowly defeat 32 Madhouse 33 Some yacht
assistants 34 Yacht destination, maybe 35 One who has a
ball at work? 37 Upscale hotel
chain
38 Brand trusted by “cooks who know” 39 Christmas purchases
43 Corn kernel, e.g. 44 Discharges 45 Options on an
IHOP table 46 Call off
47 Celeb chef
Batali 48 Exclamation that’s also the name of a cable channel
49 Latin lover’s
phrase
53 Teeny 55 Seemingly forever 56 Pioneering 1990s computer game
58 Get some sun 59 Something you
have in a chair