Crossword

Across

1 Even trade 5 Nile predator, briefly 9 Class with masks? 14 Next in line 15 Promise 16 18th-century mathematician who introduced the function 17 Designer Gucci

18 Nick at ___ 19 One-named singer who won the 2016 Album of the Year 20 “Sorry I’m in your space, it’s an actress thing,” said ___ 23 Shirt that might have a crew neck, informally 24 Scottish cap 25 The Raven

writer’s monogram 28 “Don’t interrupt me on my radio show,” said ___

32 “It gets better” spot, e.g., in brief 34 DiCaprio, to fans 35 Prefix with galactic and spatial 36 Works to get 39 Lion’s prey 41 Easily fooled 42 Unit of bacon 43 Lennon’s widow 45 ___-Mex 46 “Gotta run, pop concert calls,” said ___ 51 Turn-___ 52 Gravestone letters

53 Govt. org. with a drone registry program 54 “Right to the point: You’re beautiful, it’s true,” said ___ 60 Advocated 63 Tea type 64 Three, in Berlin 65 Mecca resident 66 Drying oven 67 Harvest, as crops

68 “A man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin,” per H. L. Mencken 69 Rice wine 70 Longings

Down

1 Carpet style 2 Word said three times before “What have we here?!” 3 Assistant 4 On the double 5 Hide

6 Inner part of a racetrack 7 Palindromic boy’s name 8 Treasure holders 9 Request for a hand 10 Inspiring 1993 movie about a Notre Dame football team walk-on 11 Lager relative 12 Comical Brooks

13 “All we ___ saying is give peace a chance” 21 Just-made 22 Munch on 25 Thing that exists 26 Drug whose generic name is naproxen 27 Measuring cup material 28 Truman and others

29 Rule laid down by a commission: Abbr. 30 “What should I ___?” 31 Material in strands 32 Sauce with pine nuts

33 The Great Tempter 37 Zero, in soccer 38 Occasional 40 Prefix with -versal

44 Not connected to a computer network 47 Pacific ___ 48 What stars are in the night sky 49 Letter after sigma

50 Tom who coached the Dallas Cowboys for 29 years 54 Revered Star Wars figure 55 Actor LaBeouf 56 Illegal pitching motion 57 Logician’s chart 58 Not stand completely straight 59 Nervousness that causes a golfer to miss an easy putt, with “the” 60 Golden State sch.

61 & 62 Sci-fi weapon