Crossword

ACROSS

1 Rock bands’ boxes 5 Iron

10 Combustible heap 14 Sped

15 Yogurt- and- cucum

ber dip

16 “Ratatouille” rat 17 Where brownies

bake

18 ___ tube ( water

slide ride) 19 Trouble- free state 20 Girl/ pooch duo in a

2002 film

23 Start of a self- help

book title 24 Garlicky mayon

naise

27 Smack, as a skeeter 28 2000 film about a

boy and his pooch 32 Labor Day’s mo. 34 Assistance

35 Corn units

36 Regal sphere 39 Accept, as a special

delivery

42 NBA legend Ming 43 Saints’ home,

briefly

45 Sister with a rosary 46 Knock sharply 48 Tightly united 51 Obama immigra

tion policy, briefly 54 Wed secretly 55 Modern museum

question

58 Fictional restaurateur played by Kate Winslet and Joan Crawford

62 Use a wooden

spoon

64 Relation such as

20: 21

65 Tilt

66 Window part

67 D. C.’ s National Zoo

has 163 of them 68 Give temporarily 69 Fruits used for

chewy cookies 70 Parents of goslings 71 Greek god of war

DOWN

1 It may surround a lagoon

2 Flicks

3 Like bench training? 4 Ladies of La Paz 5 Cursive alternative 6 Completely unpredictable

7 German for “one” 8 “Ignore that

change,” in a proof 9 Wrapped Indian

garment

10 Spot- on

11 “Sure, I guess” 12 B& B units 13 Hurricane center 21 Starts a poker pot 22 Game where some

one is “it”

25 Former Italian cur

rency

26 ___ facto

29 One- named Greek

keyboardist

30 “What’s the ___?” (“So what?”) 31 Stinky cheese feature

33 Strawberry ice

cream’s color

36 A single time

37 “Jelly” or “sausage”

follower

38 Word that means “flourishing,” with or without its second letter 40 Caulking implement 41 Diameter halves 44 Is ambitious 47 Kneecap

49 Jellied fish in a Brit

ish dish

50 Spruces up

52 Life’s work

53 Far from general

knowledge 56 Presume, informally 57 Watches, like a bar 59 With 60- Down, Ru

Paul’s competition 60 See 59- Down

61 To be, to Camus 62 Tanning letters 63 ___ chi