Crossword

ACROSS

1 One who is done

for

6 Really messy room 9 Water balloon

sound

14 Smell of holiday cookies, for instance

15 ___ moment

16 Wear down 17 Common drying agent in packaging ( see letters 6 to 8 in this answer) 19 Admit to knowing 20 Combined, as funds 21 Rings out

23 End of an ultima

tum

24 Kimono sash

26 Get ready to eat a

kid’s meal?

30 Civil rights activist

Ruby

31 Waste little by little

( 6 to 8)

33 Ukrainian port

34 “Your highness” 35 Fellow associate 38 Like owls’ feet 41 Word within

“Miami- Dade” 42 Cowardly

44 Toronto is on its

shore ( 4 to 6)

47 Stir in

50 What a go- getter is

often full of 51 Eavesdropping org. 52 City in northwestern

Pennsylvania

53 Less constrained 55 Certain unpopular collector 57 California/ Nevada resort area, informally 60 Millenniums, for instance ... or a hint to the hidden words in 17-, 31- and 44- Across

62 Says with convic

tion

63 Unduly

64 Tubular pasta 65 Beginnings of ideas 66 20 dispenser 67 More cunning

DOWN

1 Sounded shocked 2 Yankee’s Baltimore rival

3 Win- win 4 “J’accuse...!” writer Zola

5 Drive very fast 6 What old mattresses do 7 Maximally unpleasant situation 8 University where the Clintons met 9 Vendor

10 Spring training time 11 Realtor’s bare

bones offering 12 Brouhaha

13 Highest point value

for a Scrabble tile 18 Placed on a pedes

tal

22 Dined

25 Split in two 27 Romulus or Remus 28 Arctic or snowshoe

animal

29 Gave the once- over 31 Medication- approv

ing org.

32 Turkic people

( STRATA anagram) 33 Catalog insert 35 NASCAR legend

Yarborough

36 Saudi Arabia neigh

bor

37 Karaoke need,

informally

39 Fly a plane

40 Sign of summer? 43 Went wild

45 Fiona in “Shrek,”

for one

46 December 31, briefly 47 Big name in Italian

fashion

48 Senator Feinstein 49 More tightly packed 52 Kick out of school 54 Jones or James of

jazz

56 Snakes by the Nile 57 Playground game with a lot of running

58 Usually broad road:

Abbr.

59 That sow

61 Eve, for Cain and

Abel