CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Skilled

6 What’s more

10 “Once ___ a time …”

14 “___ got a deal for you!”

15 Apply, as plaster

16 Repellent

17 First of a series of sci-fi movies starring Sigourney Weaver

18 10:1, for example

19 Computer command for the errorprone

20 Actor who has hosted the Oscars nine times, a number second only to Bob Hope

23 Something stubbed 24 Powerful explosive 28 Baseball’s ___ Joe DiMaggio

32 Watchdog org.?

34 Wrath

35 Sound of danger

36 He played Gomez in 1991’s “The Addams Family”

38 Prefix with -zoic

39 Tube-shaped pasta

40 Geese formations 41 Comic actor who was an original cast member of SCTV

43 Swiss capital, to French speakers

44 India pale ___

45 Affectedly creative

46 Wild animals

47 Club Med, for one

49 The “f” of fwiw

50 Beginning of a rom-com … or a description of 20-, 36- and 41-Across?

57 In fine fettle

60 College in New Rochelle, N.Y.

61 Bert’s pal on “Sesame Street”

62 Word of woe

63 Thumbs-down votes

64 Repeated short bits in jazz

65 Agree (with)

66 Itsy-bitsy biter

67 Units of nautical speed

DOWN

1 Melville captain

2 Limp watch painter

3 Satanic

4 Rind

5 Dickens lad who says “God bless us every one!”

6 Worship

7 ___ Gaga

8 Soap bubbles

9 ___ course (part of boot camp)

10 Throat dangler

11 Wrestling win

12 Outdated

13 & 21 Military hawk

22 Key of Beethoven’s Symphony No.

7: Abbr.

25 Many flooring installers

26 Show the ropes to

27 Alternatives to purchases

28 Preserves preserver

29 World Cup chant

30 Mascara is applied to them

31 1982 Disney film

32 Devastating hurricane of 2012

33 Pint-size 36 $2,000, if you land on Boardwalk with a hotel

37 Iris’s place

39 Spring break activity in Miami Beach or Cabo

42 Beloved, in “Rigoletto”

43 Crazy

46 Web crawler

48 Way overweight

49 Thanksgiving meal 51 Haunted house sound

52 New Age singer from Ireland

53 ___ and bear it

54 Help desk offering

55 Fissure

56 What 1 is to 2 and 2 is to 3

57 Journey to Mecca

58 “Aladdin” prince

59 Chemist’s workplace