Crossword

Across

1 Commonly

sprained joint 6 Smurf with a white beard 10 Sounds when settling into a hot bath 14 Good name for a dyslexic neurosurgeon? 15 Each

16 Four Corners state 17 Clothing store event to get rid of excess merchandise 19 Sitarist Shankar 20 French writer who refused the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature

21 Evita of “Evita” 22 Government agency charged with protecting the first family 24 Tolerate 26 Prefix with -phyte 27 Participate in a prizefight 28 Nursery rhyme character who met a pieman 36 Old Russian autocrat 38 Prank 39 Steakhouse specification 40 In the near future 43 Word before sells or cells 44 Exclamation on “The Simpsons” 45 Admission of defeat 47 Brooke Shields sitcom set at a trendy magazine 54 “Hurray!” or “Olé!” 55 Really small, informally 56 Destruction 57 Nightclub singer who was given the nickname “Buddha” by Frank Sinatra 61 Strong desire 62 ___ Stanley Gardner of detective fiction 63 Christmas carols

64 Hot Chocolate or Vanilla Fudge 65 Professional org. 66 Plumber’s device

Down

1 “Washboard” muscles 2 Org. opposed by Everytown for Gun Safety 3 Common Korean surname 4 Expired, as a

membership 5 Intertwines 6 Cut’s partner in

word processing 7 Separately 8 Firehouse fixtures 9 Orangutan, for

one

10 Bye at the French Open? 11 Company that created Pong 12 Destruction 13 Bootblack’s job 18 Drop the ball 21 Air Force One passenger: Abbr. 22 Schoolteacher’s wake-up time, perhaps 23 First month of el año

24 Basic facts 25 Nincompoop 29 Billionaire Carl 30 Last full month of spring 31 Second addendum to a letter, for short 32 Summer zodiac sign

33 One who works with bricks 34 Bonanza discoveries 35 Barbershop call 37 Blushed or flushed 41 Active person 42 Popular Japanese cars 46 Applies, as a thick coat of paint 47 Second-stringer 48 Communications officer on the Enterprise 49 Condescend (to) 50 Distance units in astron. 51 Shouts 52 Commonest craps roll 53 Prefix with cellular

57 Where the buoys are 58 Affirmative vote

59 Jan. honoree 60 NNW’s

opposite