Crossword

Across 1 ___ of the Apostles 5 Ending with neo- or proto10 Pushing conventional limits 14 Blade in the pen 15 Strip of fabric used for trimming 16 Low ground, poetically 17 Rock’s ___ Inch Nails 18 Habitual customer’s order, with “the” 19 Clothes presser 20 Layers of sherry-soaked torte, homemade custard and fruit served chilled in a giant stem glass 23 Dreadlocked ones, informally 24 Comical “Dame” 25 “Kilroy ___ here” 28 Give off, as vibes 30 Summary 32 ___-December

romance 35 Ice cream and sponge topped with meringue and placed in a very hot oven for a few minutes 38 Oodles 40 Singer with the site imagine-peace .com 41 Boxer Max 42 Steamed-for-hours, aged-for-months concoction of treacle, brandy, fruit and spices, set afire and served at Christmas 47 Fabric purchase: Abbr 48 Teacher’s plan 49 Uncles, in Acapulco 51 ___ contact 52 Units of resistance 55 Ham-handed 59 What a chef might call each dessert featured in this puzzle, literally or figuratively 62 Command-Z command 64 Actress Watts 65 Kardashian matriarch 66 Fool 67 Latches (onto) 68 Land of Blarney 69 Ones who are splitsville 70 Lauder of cosmetics 71 “Phooey!” Down 1 Ed of Up 2 Set traditionally handed down to an eldest daughter 3 Tiny bell sounds 4 Willowy 5 German

kingdom of old 6 Growing

luxuriantly 7 Severe and short, as an illness 8 Glass fragment 9 Gates of philanthropy 10 Voldemort-like 11 “Hesitating to mention it, but …” 12 Mop & ___ 13 Itch 21 da-DAH 22 Pass’s opposite 26 “___ and answered” (courtroom objection) 27 Constellation units 29 Walloped to win the bout, in brief 31 Chew the fat 32 Sugar ___ 33 Locale for urban trash cans 34 Sam Cooke’s first #1 hit 36 Come to a close 37 “I dare you!” 39 Designs with ® symbols: Abbr 43 Lowdown, in slang 44 Drive mad 45 Salade ___ 46 Club game 50 Lollipop 53 “Square” things, ideally 54 “Git!” 56 West Side Story seamstress 57 Mini, eg 58 Positive RSVPs 60 Error report? 61 J. Lo’s daughter with a palindromic name 62 Manipulate 63 Kill,

as an idea